Java Developer Contracts in Cheshire

Java Developer
North West > Cheshire

The median Java Developer daily rate in Cheshire is £339 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 46 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 8 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.49% 2.36% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 2.59% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 3
10th Percentile £308 - £345
25th Percentile £311 £525 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £339 £550 £464
Median % change year-on-year -38.45% +18.53% +19.90%
75th Percentile £373 £575 £482
90th Percentile £376 - £493
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.30% +19.74%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 514 464 518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 91.34% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 313 286
10th Percentile £282 £278 £192
25th Percentile £375 £400 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 26 30
10th Percentile £13.49 £14.13 £12.48
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.66 £25.57 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.28% +14.18% +11.25%
75th Percentile £39.44 £35.00 £33.51
90th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £59.18
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year +9.65% +24.48% +33.89%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Cheshire

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Cheshire

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Cheshire

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -6 7 £311 -43.45%
Java Developer
North West

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Java EE
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) OO
2 4 (50.00%) Log4j
2 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Open Source
2 4 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (50.00%) Mule
2 4 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 4 (50.00%) Liquibase
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Kanban
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) API Development

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Fieldglass
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Liquibase
1 4 (50.00%) Log4j
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (50.00%) Java EE
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 4 (50.00%) OO
1 4 (50.00%) Open Source
1 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Development
2 2 (25.00%) Kanban
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft