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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 108 124
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 128 55 58
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.13% 1.71% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 1.83% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 38 51
10th Percentile £358 £380 £311
25th Percentile £420 £404 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +0.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £570 £563 £615
90th Percentile £730 £591 £638
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 £57.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.13
% change year-on-year - +35.06% -35.83%

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 5,554 3,006 4,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 93.47% 92.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,449 2,007 2,790
10th Percentile £275 £230 £256
25th Percentile £388 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -3.13% -4.00%
75th Percentile £563 £557 £575
90th Percentile £650 £645 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 157 390
10th Percentile £17.98 £12.90 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.44 £16.50 £12.53
Median hourly rate £45.46 £24.59 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +84.91% +24.48% -35.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £45.87
90th Percentile £78.35 £79.49 £57.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.21
% change year-on-year +38.46% -5.00% -21.59%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +15 80 £475 -10.38% 13
Yorkshire -36 35 £495 -5.71% 6
North East -8 18 £500 +31.58% 15
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 April 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.

1 128 (100.00%) Java
2 70 (54.69%) Agile
3 69 (53.91%) Microservices
4 58 (45.31%) Spring
5 55 (42.97%) Spring Boot
6 49 (38.28%) TDD
7 44 (34.38%) Test Automation
8 42 (32.81%) AWS
8 42 (32.81%) Kubernetes
9 40 (31.25%) CI/CD
10 36 (28.13%) Docker
11 34 (26.56%) Security Cleared
12 33 (25.78%) BDD
13 29 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (22.66%) RESTful
14 27 (21.09%) SC Cleared
15 26 (20.31%) Azure
16 25 (19.53%) Git
17 22 (17.19%) AngularJS
17 22 (17.19%) DevOps
17 22 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
17 22 (17.19%) Pair Programming
17 22 (17.19%) SDLC
18 20 (15.63%) JavaScript
18 20 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
18 20 (15.63%) Software Engineering
19 19 (14.84%) GitLab
19 19 (14.84%) Node.js
19 19 (14.84%) React
20 18 (14.06%) Containerisation

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 2 (1.56%) JBoss
2 1 (0.78%) Camunda
2 1 (0.78%) Mule
2 1 (0.78%) Mule ESB
2 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.81%) AWS
2 26 (20.31%) Azure
3 10 (7.81%) GCP
3 10 (7.81%) GitHub
4 9 (7.03%) OpenShift
5 7 (5.47%) Serverless
6 6 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.91%) Apigee
7 5 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.13%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.34%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.34%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.56%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon Bedrock
11 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECR
11 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.13%) HTTP
1 4 (3.13%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.28%) MongoDB
3 10 (7.81%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.03%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.25%) MySQL
6 3 (2.34%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (19.53%) Git
2 19 (14.84%) GitLab
3 13 (10.16%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.16%) Mockito
4 9 (7.03%) JIRA
4 9 (7.03%) SonarQube
5 7 (5.47%) JUnit
6 4 (3.13%) Postman
7 3 (2.34%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.34%) Mocha
8 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.56%) Maven
9 1 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.78%) Gatling
9 1 (0.78%) Gradle
9 1 (0.78%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.78%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.78%) Selenium
9 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 18 (14.06%) Finance
3 11 (8.59%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (45.31%) Spring
2 55 (42.97%) Spring Boot
3 29 (22.66%) RESTful
4 22 (17.19%) AngularJS
5 19 (14.84%) Node.js
5 19 (14.84%) React
6 17 (13.28%) Kafka
7 16 (12.50%) JAX-RS
7 16 (12.50%) REST
8 11 (8.59%) ActiveMQ
9 10 (7.81%) OAuth
9 10 (7.81%) OAuth2
10 9 (7.03%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.47%) Quarkus
12 6 (4.69%) HTML
12 6 (4.69%) JWT
12 6 (4.69%) Spring MVC
13 5 (3.91%) CSS
13 5 (3.91%) JSON
13 5 (3.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.78%) ASIC
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.78%) NHS
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.06%) Linux
1 18 (14.06%) Unix
2 12 (9.38%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (54.69%) Agile
2 69 (53.91%) Microservices
3 49 (38.28%) TDD
4 44 (34.38%) Test Automation
5 40 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 33 (25.78%) BDD
7 29 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (17.19%) DevOps
8 22 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (17.19%) Pair Programming
8 22 (17.19%) SDLC
9 20 (15.63%) Software Engineering
10 18 (14.06%) Containerisation
11 17 (13.28%) Code Quality
11 17 (13.28%) Continuous Deployment
12 15 (11.72%) Scrum
13 14 (10.94%) API Design
13 14 (10.94%) API Development
14 13 (10.16%) Front End Development
14 13 (10.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 128 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (15.63%) JavaScript
3 16 (12.50%) SQL
4 10 (7.81%) Kotlin
5 9 (7.03%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.13%) Python
7 2 (1.56%) Ruby
7 2 (1.56%) Scala
8 1 (0.78%) Bash
8 1 (0.78%) Groovy
8 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 27 (21.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.59%) Degree
4 9 (7.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (7.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.94%) QA
2 6 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.13%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.13%) PSD2
3 4 (3.13%) SEPA
4 2 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (28.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (32.81%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.81%) Terraform
3 7 (5.47%) Argo
4 2 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) Ansible
5 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.78%) Kiali
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (7.81%) Oracle
2 7 (5.47%) Red Hat
2 7 (5.47%) Virgin Media
3 6 (4.69%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.91%) Splunk
5 3 (2.34%) Okta
6 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.78%) OpenAI