Java Developer Contracts in the North of England

Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Java Developer daily rate in the North of England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2024.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 138 73
Rank change year-on-year +42 -65 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 69 53 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.94% 1.15% 3.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.23% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 44 179
10th Percentile £410 £416 £473
25th Percentile £425 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -20.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £700
90th Percentile £600 £650 £720
England median daily rate £590 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -5.68% -7.41% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £73.25
% change year-on-year -38.08% -11.26% +3.90%

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 3,281 4,312 6,620
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 93.31% 94.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,889 2,891 4,722
10th Percentile £230 £270 £238
25th Percentile £366 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £573 £594 £594
90th Percentile £656 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 206 209
10th Percentile £15.26 £15.48 £10.20
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £15.83
Median hourly rate £24.50 £29.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% +37.21% +22.86%
75th Percentile £42.50 £46.18 £45.05
90th Percentile £63.50 £61.99 £66.14
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.21 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% +39.11% +62.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Java Developer 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 21 December 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer 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 21 December 2024. 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
Yorkshire +32 39 £450 -18.18% 3
North West +19 23 £575 +24.32% 9
North East -3 7 £425 -10.05% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 December 2024, 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 69 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (43.48%) SC Cleared
2 30 (43.48%) Security Cleared
3 29 (42.03%) AWS
4 28 (40.58%) Spring
5 27 (39.13%) BDD
5 27 (39.13%) CI/CD
6 26 (37.68%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (36.23%) Spring Boot
8 23 (33.33%) Microservices
8 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 22 (31.88%) TDD
10 21 (30.43%) AngularJS
11 19 (27.54%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (27.54%) Docker
11 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
12 18 (26.09%) AWS Certification
12 18 (26.09%) SQL
13 17 (24.64%) Jenkins
14 16 (23.19%) MongoDB
14 16 (23.19%) Linux
14 16 (23.19%) Public Sector
15 15 (21.74%) Finance
15 15 (21.74%) Software Engineering
15 15 (21.74%) JUnit
15 15 (21.74%) Apache Cassandra
16 14 (20.29%) MySQL
16 14 (20.29%) Front End Development
17 13 (18.84%) Application Security
17 13 (18.84%) Containerisation

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 10 (14.49%) Confluence
2 5 (7.25%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.03%) AWS
2 10 (14.49%) Cloud Computing
3 9 (13.04%) Slack
4 6 (8.70%) Azure
5 5 (7.25%) GCP
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub
6 2 (2.90%) Serverless
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.45%) npm
7 1 (1.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (1.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.54%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (23.19%) MongoDB
3 15 (21.74%) Apache Cassandra
4 14 (20.29%) MySQL
5 4 (5.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.35%) DB2
6 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.45%) Data Mart
8 1 (1.45%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Jenkins
2 15 (21.74%) JUnit
3 13 (18.84%) Git
4 12 (17.39%) JIRA
5 10 (14.49%) Cucumber
5 10 (14.49%) Jasmine
6 3 (4.35%) Maven
7 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.45%) Babel
7 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.45%) Gatling
7 1 (1.45%) GitLab
7 1 (1.45%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.45%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.45%) webpack
General
1 16 (23.19%) Public Sector
2 15 (21.74%) Finance
3 6 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Military
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.45%) Billing
6 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (40.58%) Spring
2 25 (36.23%) Spring Boot
3 21 (30.43%) AngularJS
4 13 (18.84%) Gherkin
5 12 (17.39%) RESTful
6 11 (15.94%) Spring Security
7 10 (14.49%) Spring Batch
8 9 (13.04%) Swagger
9 8 (11.59%) OpenAPI
10 6 (8.70%) Node.js
10 6 (8.70%) React
11 3 (4.35%) Guice
11 3 (4.35%) Hibernate
12 2 (2.90%) Dropwizard
12 2 (2.90%) HTML
12 2 (2.90%) JPA
12 2 (2.90%) Micronaut
12 2 (2.90%) Spring MVC
13 1 (1.45%) JWT
13 1 (1.45%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (7.25%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.90%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.45%) Derivative
4 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.45%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.19%) Linux
2 12 (17.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.13%) BDD
1 27 (39.13%) CI/CD
2 26 (37.68%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (33.33%) Microservices
3 23 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 22 (31.88%) TDD
5 15 (21.74%) Software Engineering
6 14 (20.29%) Front End Development
7 13 (18.84%) Application Security
7 13 (18.84%) Containerisation
8 11 (15.94%) SDLC
9 10 (14.49%) Continuous Delivery
9 10 (14.49%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (13.04%) Agile
10 9 (13.04%) API Design
10 9 (13.04%) Kernel Tuning
10 9 (13.04%) Mentoring
10 9 (13.04%) OWASP
10 9 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (11.59%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 69 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (26.09%) SQL
3 12 (17.39%) Bash
4 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.35%) Python
6 1 (1.45%) C#
6 1 (1.45%) Perl
6 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (43.48%) SC Cleared
1 30 (43.48%) Security Cleared
2 18 (26.09%) AWS Certification
3 13 (18.84%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (5.80%) Degree
5 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) GDPR
1 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.45%) QA
1 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (27.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.45%) Podman
2 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (10.14%) Virgin Media
2 6 (8.70%) Oracle
3 5 (7.25%) Google
4 3 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) Murex
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Solace