Java Developer Contracts in Manchester

Java Developer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Developer daily rate in Manchester is £525 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 69 91 63
Rank change year-on-year +22 -28 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 28 18 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 1.01% 3.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.05% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 73
10th Percentile £418 £482 £465
25th Percentile £506 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +6.52% +17.95%
75th Percentile £609 £672 £675
90th Percentile £653 £700 £688
North West median daily rate £525 £550 £569
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.30% +19.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £83.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £83.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,378 1,708 2,569
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.56% 96.06% 97.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 1,271 1,999
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.56% +12.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £661
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 48 61
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +12.50% +23.23%
75th Percentile £63.13 £40.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
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 Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Manchester

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Salford +3 1 £425 -39.29% 2
Java Developer
North West

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

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 Manchester region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (89.29%) Spring
3 20 (71.43%) Agile
4 19 (67.86%) Spring Boot
5 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
5 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
6 15 (53.57%) AWS
7 14 (50.00%) JPA
7 14 (50.00%) REST
7 14 (50.00%) Hibernate
7 14 (50.00%) Microservices
7 14 (50.00%) Front End Development
8 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
9 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
9 9 (32.14%) JUnit
9 9 (32.14%) TDD
9 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
9 9 (32.14%) Git
10 8 (28.57%) Spring Security
10 8 (28.57%) Observability
11 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
11 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
11 7 (25.00%) High Availability
11 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
11 7 (25.00%) Docker
12 6 (21.43%) DevOps
12 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
12 6 (21.43%) Low Latency
12 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
12 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
1 9 (32.14%) JUnit
2 4 (14.29%) GitLab
3 3 (10.71%) Maven
3 3 (10.71%) Mockito
4 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (89.29%) Spring
2 19 (67.86%) Spring Boot
3 14 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 14 (50.00%) JPA
3 14 (50.00%) REST
4 8 (28.57%) Spring Security
5 6 (21.43%) React
6 3 (10.71%) Kafka
7 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (7.14%) Node.js
7 2 (7.14%) WireMock
8 1 (3.57%) HTML
8 1 (3.57%) JAX-RS
8 1 (3.57%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 3 (10.71%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.71%) Derivative
3 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
1 5 (17.86%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 14 (50.00%) Microservices
3 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 9 (32.14%) TDD
5 8 (28.57%) Observability
6 7 (25.00%) High Availability
6 7 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (21.43%) DevOps
7 6 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (21.43%) Low Latency
7 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 6 (21.43%) Scrum
8 5 (17.86%) Design Patterns
8 5 (17.86%) OOP
9 4 (14.29%) Multithreading
9 4 (14.29%) OO
9 4 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
10 3 (10.71%) Containerisation
10 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) TypeScript
3 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (60.71%) SC Cleared
1 17 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform