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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 86 127
Rank change year-on-year -16 +41 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 121 73 58
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.49% 2.19% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 2.37% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 52 50
10th Percentile £363 £389 £411
25th Percentile £414 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -19.23%
75th Percentile £598 £547 £619
90th Percentile £675 £599 £650
England median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.40% -11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £39.00 £61.84
% change year-on-year +53.85% -36.93% -16.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 4,482 3,081 4,457
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.07% 92.25% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,973 1,785 2,933
10th Percentile £213 £232 £265
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -5.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £573 £588
90th Percentile £644 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 138 282
10th Percentile £16.31 £15.22 £12.14
25th Percentile £20.44 £17.58 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.68 £25.63 £28.65
Median % change year-on-year +62.62% -10.54% +27.33%
75th Percentile £56.69 £40.81 £46.91
90th Percentile £69.29 £65.95 £63.75
England median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.28
% change year-on-year -18.16% -13.10% +15.07%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Java Developer job vacancy trend 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 20 January 2026.

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 20 January 2026. 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 +12 61 £450 -18.18% 9
Yorkshire -39 48 £625 +38.89% 13
North East -3 18 £488 +14.71%
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 20 January 2026, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 70 (57.85%) Microservices
3 57 (47.11%) Spring
4 56 (46.28%) Spring Boot
5 52 (42.98%) Test Automation
6 51 (42.15%) Agile
7 49 (40.50%) TDD
8 43 (35.54%) AWS
9 39 (32.23%) Kubernetes
9 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
10 38 (31.40%) BDD
11 37 (30.58%) CI/CD
12 35 (28.93%) Docker
13 31 (25.62%) Linux
13 31 (25.62%) SC Cleared
14 28 (23.14%) Unix
15 27 (22.31%) Pair Programming
16 26 (21.49%) Azure
16 26 (21.49%) Kafka
17 25 (20.66%) Continuous Deployment
17 25 (20.66%) Git
18 24 (19.83%) Containerisation
18 24 (19.83%) JAX-RS
18 24 (19.83%) MongoDB
19 23 (19.01%) Mockito
19 23 (19.01%) SQL
20 22 (18.18%) DevOps
20 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
21 21 (17.36%) Full-Stack Development
21 21 (17.36%) Mac OS X

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (0.83%) JBoss
1 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.54%) AWS
2 26 (21.49%) Azure
3 9 (7.44%) GitHub
4 7 (5.79%) GCP
5 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.96%) Serverless
6 5 (4.13%) Apigee
6 5 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.13%) Azure AKS
6 5 (4.13%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.31%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.48%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.83%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) HTTP
1 4 (3.31%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (19.83%) MongoDB
2 14 (11.57%) NoSQL
2 14 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.79%) MySQL
5 3 (2.48%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.65%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 25 (20.66%) Git
2 23 (19.01%) Mockito
3 19 (15.70%) GitLab
4 13 (10.74%) Jenkins
5 12 (9.92%) JUnit
6 9 (7.44%) JIRA
6 9 (7.44%) Postman
7 5 (4.13%) Gradle
7 5 (4.13%) SonarQube
8 4 (3.31%) Maven
9 3 (2.48%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.48%) Mocha
10 2 (1.65%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.65%) Log4j
10 2 (1.65%) Subversion
11 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.83%) Selenium
11 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (32.23%) Public Sector
2 18 (14.88%) Finance
3 11 (9.09%) Banking
4 5 (4.13%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.83%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (47.11%) Spring
2 56 (46.28%) Spring Boot
3 26 (21.49%) Kafka
4 24 (19.83%) JAX-RS
5 20 (16.53%) ActiveMQ
5 20 (16.53%) RESTful
6 16 (13.22%) REST
7 15 (12.40%) AngularJS
8 14 (11.57%) Node.js
8 14 (11.57%) React
9 9 (7.44%) Hibernate
9 9 (7.44%) JSON
10 8 (6.61%) JMS
11 6 (4.96%) jQuery
11 6 (4.96%) OAuth
11 6 (4.96%) OAuth2
11 6 (4.96%) Spring Cloud
11 6 (4.96%) Spring MVC
11 6 (4.96%) Spring Security
12 5 (4.13%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.44%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.44%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (5.79%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) ASIC
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.62%) Linux
2 28 (23.14%) Unix
3 21 (17.36%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) Android
5 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.85%) Microservices
2 52 (42.98%) Test Automation
3 51 (42.15%) Agile
4 49 (40.50%) TDD
5 38 (31.40%) BDD
6 37 (30.58%) CI/CD
7 27 (22.31%) Pair Programming
8 25 (20.66%) Continuous Deployment
9 24 (19.83%) Containerisation
10 22 (18.18%) DevOps
10 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (17.36%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (12.40%) SDLC
12 15 (12.40%) Unit Testing
13 14 (11.57%) Responsive Web Design
13 14 (11.57%) Web Design
14 13 (10.74%) API Development
14 13 (10.74%) Software Engineering
15 11 (9.09%) Web Development
16 10 (8.26%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 121 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (19.01%) SQL
3 9 (7.44%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.79%) Kotlin
5 6 (4.96%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.31%) Python
7 3 (2.48%) Bash
8 2 (1.65%) Ruby
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) C++
9 1 (0.83%) Clojure
9 1 (0.83%) Groovy
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (32.23%) Security Cleared
2 31 (25.62%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (8.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.26%) Degree
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) QA
2 8 (6.61%) ISO 20022
2 8 (6.61%) PSD2
2 8 (6.61%) SEPA
3 7 (5.79%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (28.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (32.23%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.44%) Terraform
3 5 (4.13%) Argo
4 2 (1.65%) Ansible
4 2 (1.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (12.40%) Oracle
2 8 (6.61%) Virgin Media
3 6 (4.96%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.31%) Splunk
5 3 (2.48%) Microsoft