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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 102 119
Rank change year-on-year -36 +17 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 102 59 64
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.78% 1.81% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.93% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 41 56
10th Percentile £358 £380 £311
25th Percentile £402 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +6.06% -20.80%
75th Percentile £565 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £39.00 £48.13
% change year-on-year +66.67% -18.96% -33.62%

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 5,293 3,053 4,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 93.42% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,345 2,000 2,887
10th Percentile £256 £230 £256
25th Percentile £380 £363 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £557 £575
90th Percentile £646 £650 £670
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 151 396
10th Percentile £17.01 £13.00 £11.04
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.54 £12.75
Median hourly rate £45.46 £27.13 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% +30.60% -30.77%
75th Percentile £67.84 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.79 £78.75 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +11 68 £450 -17.20% 27
Yorkshire -52 25 £450 -14.29% 22
North East -11 14 £488 +21.12% 14
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 March 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.

1 102 (100.00%) Java
2 53 (51.96%) Microservices
3 51 (50.00%) Agile
3 51 (50.00%) Spring
4 50 (49.02%) Spring Boot
5 40 (39.22%) TDD
6 37 (36.27%) Test Automation
7 35 (34.31%) AWS
8 33 (32.35%) Kubernetes
9 31 (30.39%) CI/CD
10 29 (28.43%) Docker
11 27 (26.47%) Security Cleared
12 25 (24.51%) BDD
13 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (21.57%) Azure
14 22 (21.57%) Git
15 21 (20.59%) RESTful
16 20 (19.61%) SC Cleared
17 18 (17.65%) Pair Programming
17 18 (17.65%) SDLC
18 17 (16.67%) GitLab
19 16 (15.69%) DevOps
19 16 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
20 15 (14.71%) Node.js
20 15 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
21 14 (13.73%) Continuous Deployment
21 14 (13.73%) Linux
21 14 (13.73%) REST
21 14 (13.73%) Software Engineering
21 14 (13.73%) Unix

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 (0.98%) JBoss
1 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 35 (34.31%) AWS
2 22 (21.57%) Azure
3 8 (7.84%) GitHub
4 6 (5.88%) GCP
4 6 (5.88%) OpenShift
4 6 (5.88%) Serverless
5 5 (4.90%) Apigee
6 4 (3.92%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.92%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.96%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.96%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.98%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.92%) HTTP
1 4 (3.92%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (12.75%) MongoDB
3 8 (7.84%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.88%) MySQL
6 3 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) Git
2 17 (16.67%) GitLab
3 10 (9.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.80%) Mockito
4 6 (5.88%) JIRA
4 6 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 5 (4.90%) JUnit
6 4 (3.92%) Postman
7 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.94%) Mocha
8 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.96%) Gradle
8 2 (1.96%) Maven
9 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.98%) Selenium
9 1 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (42.16%) Public Sector
2 15 (14.71%) Finance
3 9 (8.82%) Banking
3 9 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 1 (0.98%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (0.98%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (50.00%) Spring
2 50 (49.02%) Spring Boot
3 21 (20.59%) RESTful
4 15 (14.71%) Node.js
5 14 (13.73%) REST
6 13 (12.75%) AngularJS
6 13 (12.75%) JAX-RS
7 12 (11.76%) Kafka
7 12 (11.76%) React
8 8 (7.84%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (7.84%) Hibernate
8 8 (7.84%) OAuth
8 8 (7.84%) OAuth2
9 6 (5.88%) Spring MVC
10 5 (4.90%) Quarkus
11 4 (3.92%) Jest
11 4 (3.92%) JSON
11 4 (3.92%) JWT
11 4 (3.92%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (3.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.86%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.92%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.98%) ASIC
6 1 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.73%) Linux
1 14 (13.73%) Unix
2 10 (9.80%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.96%) VMS
4 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (51.96%) Microservices
2 51 (50.00%) Agile
3 40 (39.22%) TDD
4 37 (36.27%) Test Automation
5 31 (30.39%) CI/CD
6 25 (24.51%) BDD
7 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.65%) Pair Programming
8 18 (17.65%) SDLC
9 16 (15.69%) DevOps
9 16 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (13.73%) Continuous Deployment
10 14 (13.73%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.75%) API Design
11 13 (12.75%) Containerisation
12 12 (11.76%) Code Quality
13 11 (10.78%) Scrum
14 9 (8.82%) API Development
14 9 (8.82%) Computer Science
14 9 (8.82%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 102 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 12 (11.76%) SQL
3 10 (9.80%) Kotlin
4 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.96%) Python
5 2 (1.96%) Ruby
6 1 (0.98%) Bash
6 1 (0.98%) Groovy
6 1 (0.98%) Scala
6 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.82%) Degree
4 7 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) QA
2 5 (4.90%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.92%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.92%) PSD2
3 4 (3.92%) SEPA
4 2 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (28.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (32.35%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.88%) Argo
2 6 (5.88%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.98%) Ansible
4 1 (0.98%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (7.84%) Oracle
1 8 (7.84%) Virgin Media
2 5 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.90%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.92%) Splunk