Java Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Java Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Java Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 105 137
Rank change year-on-year +19 +32 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Java Engineer 10 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.69% 0.34% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.36% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile £455 £421 £610
25th Percentile £500 £433 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -18.08% +60.49%
75th Percentile £575 £659 £700
90th Percentile £620 £676 £744
North West median daily rate £525 £533 £650
% change year-on-year -1.41% -18.08% +60.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 £40.59 -
% change year-on-year +72.46% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 1,388 1,687 2,557
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.40% 95.96% 97.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 1,261 1,986
10th Percentile £313 £313 £229
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 45 60
10th Percentile £12.14 £14.41 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.41 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £20.71 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +30.40% +4.84% +16.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £37.50 £34.06
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.60 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +13.43% +16.00% +38.45%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Manchester

Java Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Java Engineer in Manchester

Java Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Engineer in Manchester

Java Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Engineer in Manchester

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 10 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 - 1 £425 -
Java Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 2024, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) PHP
4 4 (40.00%) Data Security
5 3 (30.00%) MySQL
5 3 (30.00%) Spring
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (30.00%) React
6 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Runbook
6 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (10.00%) JPA
7 1 (10.00%) Android
7 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (10.00%) Scala
7 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (10.00%) Azure

Java Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) HBase
2 1 (10.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) React
1 3 (30.00%) Spring
1 3 (30.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (10.00%) Dagger
3 1 (10.00%) GWT
3 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (10.00%) JPA
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Retrofit
3 1 (10.00%) RxJava
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Security
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (40.00%) Data Security
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Runbook
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) DAMA
5 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (10.00%) Observability
5 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (10.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian