Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North of England is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 96 126
Rank change year-on-year +1 +30 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 89 72 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.25% 1.76% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.91% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 67 58
10th Percentile £347 £375 £476
25th Percentile £400 £401 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -18.37% +6.52%
75th Percentile £610 £550 £700
90th Percentile £675 £625 -
England median daily rate £530 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -15.20% -3.85% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,651 3,768 4,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.99% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,386 2,172 3,235
10th Percentile £250 £276 £263
25th Percentile £366 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £644 £672 £675
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 242 204
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.18 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.58 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.58 £32.50 £24.66
Median % change year-on-year -30.54% +31.82% +16.46%
75th Percentile £48.56 £49.69 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £70.00 £63.22
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £44.75
% change year-on-year -46.77% +5.58% +69.89%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
North West +14 48 £430 -16.71% 7
Yorkshire -19 38 £638 +27.50% 17
North East -5 4 £488 +17.47% 2
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, 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 North of England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 89 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (66.29%) Microservices
3 47 (52.81%) Agile
4 43 (48.31%) TDD
5 39 (43.82%) Spring
5 39 (43.82%) Spring Boot
6 35 (39.33%) Kafka
7 33 (37.08%) Linux
8 32 (35.96%) SQL
8 32 (35.96%) Test Automation
9 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
9 28 (31.46%) Unix
9 28 (31.46%) JUnit
10 27 (30.34%) Mockito
10 27 (30.34%) BDD
10 27 (30.34%) React
11 26 (29.21%) AWS
12 24 (26.97%) Security Cleared
13 23 (25.84%) Jenkins
13 23 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (24.72%) Public Sector
14 22 (24.72%) DevOps
15 21 (23.60%) MongoDB
15 21 (23.60%) Continuous Deployment
15 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
16 20 (22.47%) Git
17 18 (20.22%) Pair Programming
17 18 (20.22%) JIRA
17 18 (20.22%) Mac OS X
18 17 (19.10%) ActiveMQ

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (5.62%) JBoss
1 5 (5.62%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.12%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.21%) AWS
2 14 (15.73%) Azure
3 10 (11.24%) GitHub
4 5 (5.62%) Azure AKS
4 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.62%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.37%) GCP
6 2 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.25%) Serverless
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.12%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.12%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.12%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.60%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.24%) NoSQL
2 10 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.87%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.49%) MySQL
5 3 (3.37%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (31.46%) JUnit
2 27 (30.34%) Mockito
3 23 (25.84%) Jenkins
4 20 (22.47%) Git
5 18 (20.22%) JIRA
6 16 (17.98%) GitLab
7 13 (14.61%) Gradle
8 11 (12.36%) Maven
9 9 (10.11%) Cucumber
9 9 (10.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (5.62%) Postman
10 5 (5.62%) SonarQube
11 4 (4.49%) Liquibase
11 4 (4.49%) Selenium
12 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
12 3 (3.37%) Subversion
13 2 (2.25%) IntelliJ
13 2 (2.25%) Log4j
14 1 (1.12%) NetBeans
14 1 (1.12%) NUnit
General
1 22 (24.72%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.73%) Finance
3 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Social Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Electronics
6 4 (4.49%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.49%) Marketing
6 4 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (43.82%) Spring
1 39 (43.82%) Spring Boot
2 35 (39.33%) Kafka
3 27 (30.34%) React
4 17 (19.10%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (19.10%) JAX-RS
4 17 (19.10%) REST
4 17 (19.10%) RESTful
5 7 (7.87%) jQuery
5 7 (7.87%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.74%) Hibernate
6 6 (6.74%) JSON
6 6 (6.74%) Node.js
7 5 (5.62%) JMS
7 5 (5.62%) JPA
7 5 (5.62%) POJO
7 5 (5.62%) SOAP
7 5 (5.62%) Swagger
7 5 (5.62%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 33 (37.08%) Linux
2 28 (31.46%) Unix
3 18 (20.22%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.12%) Android
5 1 (1.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (66.29%) Microservices
2 47 (52.81%) Agile
3 43 (48.31%) TDD
4 32 (35.96%) Test Automation
5 28 (31.46%) CI/CD
6 27 (30.34%) BDD
7 23 (25.84%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (24.72%) DevOps
9 21 (23.60%) Continuous Deployment
10 18 (20.22%) Pair Programming
11 17 (19.10%) Containerisation
12 14 (15.73%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (14.61%) Responsive Web Design
13 13 (14.61%) Web Design
14 11 (12.36%) API Development
14 11 (12.36%) Migration
14 11 (12.36%) Web Development
15 9 (10.11%) SDLC
15 9 (10.11%) Software Engineering
15 9 (10.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 89 (100.00%) Java
2 32 (35.96%) SQL
3 10 (11.24%) Python
4 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.62%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.37%) Bash
8 2 (2.25%) C
8 2 (2.25%) C++
9 1 (1.12%) C#
9 1 (1.12%) Clojure
9 1 (1.12%) Groovy
9 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) Degree
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.36%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.49%) ISO 20022
3 4 (4.49%) PSD2
3 4 (4.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 16 (17.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (19.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
2 2 (2.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.12%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Control-M
3 1 (1.12%) Grafana
3 1 (1.12%) Istio
3 1 (1.12%) Kiali
3 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) Oracle
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.49%) SAP
3 3 (3.37%) Veracode
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.12%) Perforce
5 1 (1.12%) Splunk
5 1 (1.12%) xMatters