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 £522, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 107 97
Rank change year-on-year -26 -10 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 134 92 76
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.75% 2.23% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 2.43% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 72 68
10th Percentile £402 £358 £375
25th Percentile £450 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £491 £463
Median % change year-on-year +6.31% +6.16% -22.92%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £616
England median daily rate £550 £530 £600
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.75 £64.25 £68.75
% change year-on-year +8.56% -6.55% -

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 6,978 3,779 3,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 91.72% 92.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,992 2,491 2,093
10th Percentile £313 £235 £263
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% -3.56% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £561 £575
90th Percentile £675 £671 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 214 233
10th Percentile £14.53 £13.41 £15.22
25th Percentile £23.75 £17.39 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.06 £24.81 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.48% -23.66% +44.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.69 £50.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.79 £70.72
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -36 55 £540 +25.58% 15
Yorkshire -21 52 £475 -26.92% 9
North East -16 29 £568 +16.41% 17
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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.

1 134 (100.00%) Java
2 80 (59.70%) Agile
3 65 (48.51%) Microservices
4 55 (41.04%) CI/CD
5 51 (38.06%) Spring
6 50 (37.31%) Test Automation
7 48 (35.82%) AWS
7 48 (35.82%) Software Engineering
8 46 (34.33%) Kubernetes
8 46 (34.33%) Spring Boot
9 40 (29.85%) SC Cleared
9 40 (29.85%) Security Cleared
10 39 (29.10%) DevOps
11 28 (20.90%) Kafka
11 28 (20.90%) Scrum
11 28 (20.90%) SDLC
12 27 (20.15%) Docker
12 27 (20.15%) Jenkins
12 27 (20.15%) MongoDB
13 24 (17.91%) GitHub
14 23 (17.16%) AngularJS
14 23 (17.16%) QA
14 23 (17.16%) TDD
15 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
15 22 (16.42%) SQL
16 20 (14.93%) REST
17 19 (14.18%) Argo
17 19 (14.18%) Event-Driven
17 19 (14.18%) GCP
17 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving

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 9 (6.72%) Confluence
2 5 (3.73%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.75%) JBoss
3 1 (0.75%) Mule
3 1 (0.75%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.82%) AWS
2 24 (17.91%) GitHub
3 19 (14.18%) GCP
4 18 (13.43%) Azure
5 17 (12.69%) OpenShift
6 11 (8.21%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.73%) Apigee
8 5 (3.73%) Cloud Run
8 5 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.73%) Kong
9 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.49%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.49%) Serverless
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.15%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.46%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.48%) Redis
6 5 (3.73%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.49%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.75%) MySQL
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (20.15%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.94%) Git
2 16 (11.94%) SonarQube
3 12 (8.96%) JIRA
3 12 (8.96%) Mockito
4 9 (6.72%) Maven
5 8 (5.97%) Cucumber
5 8 (5.97%) GitLab
5 8 (5.97%) Gradle
6 7 (5.22%) Bitbucket
6 7 (5.22%) JUnit
7 4 (2.99%) Snyk
8 2 (1.49%) Flyway
8 2 (1.49%) Gatling
8 2 (1.49%) git-flow
8 2 (1.49%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.75%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 31 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.15%) Public Sector
3 22 (16.42%) Finance
4 20 (14.93%) Banking
5 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.22%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.48%) Front Office
8 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.49%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Automotive
9 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.75%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Police
9 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (38.06%) Spring
2 46 (34.33%) Spring Boot
3 28 (20.90%) Kafka
4 23 (17.16%) AngularJS
5 20 (14.93%) REST
6 18 (13.43%) RESTful
7 17 (12.69%) React
8 14 (10.45%) Quarkus
9 13 (9.70%) OAuth
9 13 (9.70%) Terraform
10 12 (8.96%) HTML
10 12 (8.96%) JWT
11 9 (6.72%) JPA
11 9 (6.72%) Node.js
11 9 (6.72%) OAuth2
12 8 (5.97%) Redux
13 7 (5.22%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (4.48%) JAX-RS
14 6 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.69%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.48%) Equities
3 6 (4.48%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.75%) NHS
8 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.46%) Linux
2 8 (5.97%) Unix
3 3 (2.24%) AIX
4 2 (1.49%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (59.70%) Agile
2 65 (48.51%) Microservices
3 55 (41.04%) CI/CD
4 50 (37.31%) Test Automation
5 48 (35.82%) Software Engineering
6 39 (29.10%) DevOps
7 28 (20.90%) Scrum
7 28 (20.90%) SDLC
8 23 (17.16%) TDD
9 19 (14.18%) Event-Driven
9 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (14.18%) Sprint Planning
10 18 (13.43%) Front End Development
11 17 (12.69%) DevSecOps
12 16 (11.94%) BDD
12 16 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (11.94%) Observability
12 16 (11.94%) Sprint Review
12 16 (11.94%) Unit Testing
13 15 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 134 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
2 22 (16.42%) SQL
3 16 (11.94%) Kotlin
4 12 (8.96%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.48%) C#
6 3 (2.24%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.49%) PromQL
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) Python
8 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (29.85%) SC Cleared
1 40 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (3.73%) Degree
4 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.16%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (20.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (34.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.18%) Argo
3 10 (7.46%) Grafana
4 9 (6.72%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.49%) Ansible
5 2 (1.49%) Consul
5 2 (1.49%) Control-M
5 2 (1.49%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.75%) Istio
6 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (10.45%) Red Hat
2 8 (5.97%) Oracle
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.99%) Google
4 4 (2.99%) Okta
5 2 (1.49%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.49%) Solace
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe
6 1 (0.75%) OpenAI