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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 123 112
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 142 52 71
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.00% 1.39% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 1.49% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 45 65
10th Percentile £400 £321 £372
25th Percentile £421 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -13.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £588
90th Percentile £738 £548 £650
England median daily rate £540 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +1.65% -11.46% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £62.00 - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile £69.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +18.18% -20.00% -5.17%

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 6,542 3,489 4,406
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 92.97% 92.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,824 2,285 2,694
10th Percentile £313 £258 £263
25th Percentile £402 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £486
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -4.37% -2.75%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £640 £654
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 209 417
10th Percentile £17.14 £12.81 £11.11
25th Percentile £25.38 £16.25 £13.31
Median hourly rate £45.25 £22.63 £24.19
Median % change year-on-year +99.96% -6.45% +4.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £78.63 £75.88 £66.96
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -8.95%

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 July 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 July 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 -17 67 £510 +10.99% 9
Yorkshire -1 52 £481 -6.10% 5
North East -15 27 £569 +49.67% 8
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 142 (100.00%) Java
2 90 (63.38%) Agile
3 73 (51.41%) Microservices
4 53 (37.32%) Spring
5 49 (34.51%) CI/CD
6 47 (33.10%) Test Automation
7 46 (32.39%) Kubernetes
8 45 (31.69%) Spring Boot
9 44 (30.99%) TDD
10 39 (27.46%) AWS
11 36 (25.35%) DevOps
12 35 (24.65%) Security Cleared
13 34 (23.94%) BDD
14 33 (23.24%) SC Cleared
14 33 (23.24%) Software Engineering
15 32 (22.54%) Docker
16 28 (19.72%) Azure
16 28 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
17 27 (19.01%) JavaScript
17 27 (19.01%) SQL
18 26 (18.31%) MongoDB
19 25 (17.61%) RESTful
20 24 (16.90%) Kafka
20 24 (16.90%) React
21 23 (16.20%) Scrum
21 23 (16.20%) SDLC
22 22 (15.49%) API Development
23 21 (14.79%) AngularJS
23 21 (14.79%) Linux
24 20 (14.08%) Git

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 5 (3.52%) Confluence
2 3 (2.11%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.70%) Camunda
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.70%) JBoss
3 1 (0.70%) Mule
3 1 (0.70%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.46%) AWS
2 28 (19.72%) Azure
3 17 (11.97%) GCP
3 17 (11.97%) GitHub
4 13 (9.15%) OpenShift
5 8 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.82%) Apigee
7 4 (2.82%) Cloud Run
7 4 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (2.82%) Kong
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.41%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.41%) Serverless
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (18.31%) MongoDB
2 18 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.04%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.23%) Redis
5 5 (3.52%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.82%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.82%) MySQL
6 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Git
1 20 (14.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.27%) Mockito
3 15 (10.56%) JIRA
4 12 (8.45%) SonarQube
5 10 (7.04%) GitLab
6 7 (4.93%) Bitbucket
7 5 (3.52%) Gradle
7 5 (3.52%) JUnit
7 5 (3.52%) Maven
8 4 (2.82%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.82%) Snyk
9 2 (1.41%) Flyway
9 2 (1.41%) git-flow
9 2 (1.41%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
General
1 39 (27.46%) Public Sector
2 27 (19.01%) Finance
3 22 (15.49%) Banking
4 19 (13.38%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.93%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.23%) Front Office
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Automotive
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (37.32%) Spring
2 45 (31.69%) Spring Boot
3 25 (17.61%) RESTful
4 24 (16.90%) Kafka
4 24 (16.90%) React
5 21 (14.79%) AngularJS
6 15 (10.56%) REST
7 13 (9.15%) HTML
7 13 (9.15%) JAX-RS
7 13 (9.15%) OAuth
8 12 (8.45%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (8.45%) OAuth2
9 11 (7.75%) JWT
9 11 (7.75%) Quarkus
10 9 (6.34%) Node.js
10 9 (6.34%) Redux
11 8 (5.63%) JPA
12 7 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (4.23%) CSS
14 5 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.75%) Product Ownership
3 9 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.63%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.23%) Equities
5 6 (4.23%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) NHS
8 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Replication
8 1 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.79%) Linux
2 19 (13.38%) Unix
3 13 (9.15%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.11%) AIX
4 3 (2.11%) VMS
5 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (63.38%) Agile
2 73 (51.41%) Microservices
3 49 (34.51%) CI/CD
4 47 (33.10%) Test Automation
5 44 (30.99%) TDD
6 36 (25.35%) DevOps
7 34 (23.94%) BDD
8 33 (23.24%) Software Engineering
9 28 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (16.20%) Scrum
10 23 (16.20%) SDLC
11 22 (15.49%) API Development
12 20 (14.08%) Pair Programming
13 19 (13.38%) Event-Driven
14 18 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (11.97%) Continuous Deployment
16 16 (11.27%) Containerisation
16 16 (11.27%) Front End Development
17 15 (10.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 15 (10.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 142 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (19.01%) JavaScript
2 27 (19.01%) SQL
3 16 (11.27%) Kotlin
4 11 (7.75%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.23%) C#
6 3 (2.11%) Python
7 2 (1.41%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.41%) PromQL
7 2 (1.41%) Ruby
8 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.24%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.82%) Degree
5 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.68%) QA
2 6 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.11%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.11%) PSD2
3 3 (2.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (22.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (32.39%) Kubernetes
2 15 (10.56%) Argo
2 15 (10.56%) Terraform
3 7 (4.93%) Grafana
3 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.41%) Ansible
4 2 (1.41%) Consul
4 2 (1.41%) Zipkin
5 1 (0.70%) Control-M
5 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.70%) Istio
5 1 (0.70%) Kiali
5 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (7.75%) Red Hat
2 9 (6.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.63%) Oracle
4 6 (4.23%) Okta
5 2 (1.41%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.41%) Solace
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe
6 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.70%) Google
6 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.70%) Splunk
6 1 (0.70%) Virgin Media