Java Contracts in the North West

Java
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 34 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 -14 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 143 171 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.36% 5.57% 7.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.80% 18.98% 22.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 130 244
10th Percentile £404 £411 £400
25th Percentile £442 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £635
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £588 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -3.01% +0.96% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 10
10th Percentile £45.88 £27.03 £31.58
25th Percentile £48.43 £33.95 £53.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £40.30 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -44.42% +65.71%
75th Percentile £74.50 £43.39 £80.13
90th Percentile £82.20 - £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% +15.04%

All Programming Languages
North West

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 656 901 1,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.60% 29.35% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 672 1,079
10th Percentile £325 £325 £315
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +23.46%
75th Percentile £542 £588 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 41
10th Percentile £39.25 £24.76 £14.25
25th Percentile £42.41 £37.78 £21.50
Median hourly rate £48.43 £44.05 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -11.47% +65.83%
75th Percentile £71.87 £56.68 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.45 £65.88 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.05
% change year-on-year - +22.43% +20.12%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North West

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North West

Java
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Manchester +9 103 £510 -12.75% 63
Cheshire -11 30 £489 -11.09% 8
Lancashire +11 9 £638 +21.43% 4
Cumbria - 1 £575 -
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (6.29%) Apache
1 9 (6.29%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.59%) Confluence
3 6 (4.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (2.80%) Mule
6 3 (2.10%) IIS
7 1 (0.70%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.70%) Camunda
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (5.59%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.10%) Maximo
3 1 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 73 (51.05%) AWS
2 19 (13.29%) Azure
3 9 (6.29%) Amazon S3
4 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (5.59%) Serverless
5 7 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (4.90%) Apigee
5 7 (4.90%) Kong
6 6 (4.20%) Snowflake
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (3.50%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (3.50%) SaaS
8 4 (2.80%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.10%) GCP
9 3 (2.10%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.40%) GitHub
11 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.70%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) FTP
1 5 (3.50%) HTTP
2 3 (2.10%) SSL
3 1 (0.70%) DNS
3 1 (0.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.69%) MongoDB
2 12 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.99%) MySQL
4 9 (6.29%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.90%) Big Data
5 7 (4.90%) OLAP
5 7 (4.90%) OLTP
6 6 (4.20%) Oracle OLAP
7 5 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.50%) SQLite
8 4 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (2.80%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.10%) DB2
9 3 (2.10%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (2.10%) HBase
9 3 (2.10%) Power BI
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (14.69%) Jenkins
1 21 (14.69%) JIRA
2 19 (13.29%) Git
3 14 (9.79%) Android Studio
4 12 (8.39%) JUnit
5 9 (6.29%) Mockito
6 8 (5.59%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.59%) GitLab
6 8 (5.59%) Selenium
7 4 (2.80%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.80%) JMeter
7 4 (2.80%) Liquibase
7 4 (2.80%) Log4j
7 4 (2.80%) Maven
7 4 (2.80%) Postman
8 3 (2.10%) Gatling
8 3 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (2.10%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.40%) TestCafe
9 2 (1.40%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.99%) Banking
3 17 (11.89%) Finance
4 16 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Public Speaking
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 67 (46.85%) Developer
2 35 (24.48%) Java Developer
3 25 (17.48%) Senior
4 18 (12.59%) Android Developer
4 18 (12.59%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Senior Developer
6 12 (8.39%) Architect
6 12 (8.39%) Data Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) Java Engineer
7 10 (6.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 9 (6.29%) Test Engineer
9 8 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.90%) AWS Architect
11 6 (4.20%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Full Stack Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
12 5 (3.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.50%) Lead
12 5 (3.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (30.77%) Spring
2 35 (24.48%) Spring Boot
3 28 (19.58%) RESTful
4 26 (18.18%) REST
5 24 (16.78%) React
6 18 (12.59%) Hibernate
6 18 (12.59%) Kafka
6 18 (12.59%) Node.js
6 18 (12.59%) Web Services
7 17 (11.89%) JPA
8 13 (9.09%) .NET
8 13 (9.09%) XML
9 9 (6.29%) J2EE
10 8 (5.59%) HTML
10 8 (5.59%) JSON
10 8 (5.59%) SOAP
10 8 (5.59%) Spring Security
11 7 (4.90%) AngularJS
11 7 (4.90%) IBM Integration Bus
11 7 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.59%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.90%) DataPower
4 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.10%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.10%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.10%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.40%) Derivative
7 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.70%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.70%) IoT
8 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.48%) Android
2 6 (4.20%) Unix
3 5 (3.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.80%) Linux
5 2 (1.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (44.76%) Agile
2 48 (33.57%) Microservices
3 33 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 31 (21.68%) CI/CD
5 29 (20.28%) Unit Testing
6 28 (19.58%) Test Automation
7 25 (17.48%) Design Patterns
8 23 (16.08%) DevOps
9 20 (13.99%) Scrum
10 19 (13.29%) OO
11 18 (12.59%) Android Development
11 18 (12.59%) Front End Development
12 13 (9.09%) Containerisation
12 13 (9.09%) SDLC
13 12 (8.39%) API Management
13 12 (8.39%) Data Pipeline
14 11 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
14 11 (7.69%) TDD
15 10 (6.99%) Observability
16 9 (6.29%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.48%) Python
2 20 (13.99%) Kotlin
3 18 (12.59%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.09%) C#
4 13 (9.09%) SQL
5 11 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 10 (6.99%) PHP
7 7 (4.90%) Scala
8 5 (3.50%) C
9 4 (2.80%) Groovy
9 4 (2.80%) Perl
10 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 35 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.39%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.20%) Degree
5 5 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.40%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.90%) QA
2 5 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) GDPR
5 1 (0.70%) Good Clinical Practice
5 1 (0.70%) GxP
5 1 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (9.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (11.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.29%) Terraform
3 6 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.10%) Grafana
5 2 (1.40%) Ansible
5 2 (1.40%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (9.09%) Oracle
2 10 (6.99%) IBM
3 7 (4.90%) TSYS
4 6 (4.20%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.50%) Informatica
5 5 (3.50%) Talend
6 3 (2.10%) Nintex
6 3 (2.10%) Pega
6 3 (2.10%) SAP
7 1 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.70%) Databricks
7 1 (0.70%) Google
7 1 (0.70%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.70%) Teradata