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 £476, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 124 118
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 133 44 66
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.08% 1.33% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.27% 1.42% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 34 60
10th Percentile £375 £380 £369
25th Percentile £420 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +0.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £570 £560 £610
90th Percentile £700 £588 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £83.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year - +15.56% -23.73%

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 5,865 3,093 4,308
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 93.36% 93.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,529 2,045 2,713
10th Percentile £313 £233 £263
25th Percentile £400 £368 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.79% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £582
90th Percentile £653 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 167 401
10th Percentile £17.00 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £25.49 £16.13 £12.53
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +104.08% +17.96% -30.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.92
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.73% -17.97%

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 May 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 May 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 +5 75 £476 -10.19% 14
Yorkshire -23 46 £450 -14.29% 15
North East -12 17 £450 +18.42% 9
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 74 (55.64%) Agile
3 70 (52.63%) Microservices
4 59 (44.36%) Spring
5 50 (37.59%) Spring Boot
6 47 (35.34%) CI/CD
7 44 (33.08%) AWS
7 44 (33.08%) Test Automation
8 43 (32.33%) Kubernetes
9 42 (31.58%) TDD
10 33 (24.81%) Docker
11 31 (23.31%) Azure
12 29 (21.80%) BDD
12 29 (21.80%) DevOps
12 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (21.05%) Security Cleared
14 27 (20.30%) Software Engineering
15 26 (19.55%) SQL
16 25 (18.80%) JavaScript
16 25 (18.80%) RESTful
17 24 (18.05%) SC Cleared
18 23 (17.29%) Git
19 21 (15.79%) AngularJS
19 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
19 21 (15.79%) SDLC
20 20 (15.04%) Kafka
20 20 (15.04%) Kotlin
20 20 (15.04%) MongoDB
21 19 (14.29%) Jenkins
21 19 (14.29%) Linux

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 4 (3.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
3 1 (0.75%) Mule
3 1 (0.75%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.08%) AWS
2 31 (23.31%) Azure
3 17 (12.78%) GCP
3 17 (12.78%) GitHub
4 10 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (6.77%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.51%) Apigee
7 5 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.76%) Serverless
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.01%) Cloud Run
8 4 (3.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (3.01%) Kong
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.50%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Firewall
1 1 (0.75%) HTTP
1 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.04%) MongoDB
2 17 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.27%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.51%) Redis
6 5 (3.76%) MySQL
7 4 (3.01%) Hazelcast
7 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
8 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (17.29%) Git
2 19 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.53%) GitLab
4 15 (11.28%) JIRA
5 11 (8.27%) Mockito
6 9 (6.77%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.26%) JUnit
8 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket
8 6 (4.51%) Maven
9 5 (3.76%) Gradle
10 4 (3.01%) Snyk
11 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.50%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.50%) Mocha
13 1 (0.75%) Gatling
13 1 (0.75%) Jaeger
13 1 (0.75%) Postman
13 1 (0.75%) Selenium
13 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (34.59%) Public Sector
2 23 (17.29%) Finance
3 15 (11.28%) Social Skills
4 13 (9.77%) Banking
5 9 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Automotive
6 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (44.36%) Spring
2 50 (37.59%) Spring Boot
3 25 (18.80%) RESTful
4 21 (15.79%) AngularJS
5 20 (15.04%) Kafka
6 19 (14.29%) React
7 18 (13.53%) REST
8 17 (12.78%) Node.js
9 13 (9.77%) OAuth
9 13 (9.77%) OAuth2
10 11 (8.27%) HTML
10 11 (8.27%) JAX-RS
11 9 (6.77%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (6.77%) JWT
12 7 (5.26%) Quarkus
13 6 (4.51%) JPA
14 5 (3.76%) CSS
14 5 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (3.76%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (3.76%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.27%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.02%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.75%) ASIC
6 1 (0.75%) NHS
6 1 (0.75%) Replication
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.29%) Linux
2 16 (12.03%) Unix
3 11 (8.27%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.26%) AIX
5 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (55.64%) Agile
2 70 (52.63%) Microservices
3 47 (35.34%) CI/CD
4 44 (33.08%) Test Automation
5 42 (31.58%) TDD
6 29 (21.80%) BDD
6 29 (21.80%) DevOps
6 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (20.30%) Software Engineering
8 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (15.79%) SDLC
9 19 (14.29%) Pair Programming
10 18 (13.53%) API Development
11 17 (12.78%) Event-Driven
12 16 (12.03%) Containerisation
12 16 (12.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 15 (11.28%) Continuous Deployment
13 15 (11.28%) Scrum
14 13 (9.77%) Front End Development
14 13 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (19.55%) SQL
3 25 (18.80%) JavaScript
4 20 (15.04%) Kotlin
5 9 (6.77%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.01%) Python
7 2 (1.50%) Ruby
7 2 (1.50%) Scala
8 1 (0.75%) Bash
8 1 (0.75%) Groovy
8 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.53%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.01%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.01%) PSD2
3 4 (3.01%) SEPA
4 2 (1.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (24.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (32.33%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.03%) Terraform
3 11 (8.27%) Argo
4 6 (4.51%) Grafana
4 6 (4.51%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.75%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.75%) Istio
5 1 (0.75%) Kiali
5 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (6.77%) Oracle
2 8 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.51%) Okta
4 6 (4.51%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.50%) Splunk
6 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) OpenAI