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 22 October 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 99 119
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 91 71 74
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.14% 1.75% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 1.90% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 63 60
10th Percentile £358 £374 £450
25th Percentile £400 £413 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £550 £700
90th Percentile £680 £605 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% -

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 3,898 3,731 4,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 92.01% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,590 2,023 3,202
10th Percentile £230 £263 £263
25th Percentile £370 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £567 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 228 216
10th Percentile £13.85 £15.32 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.88 £18.00 £17.75
Median hourly rate £24.81 £32.50 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% +18.83% +29.19%
75th Percentile £47.78 £49.06 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.40 £70.00 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.61% +59.17%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 +9 47 £430 -14.00% 11
Yorkshire -19 39 £650 +35.06% 9
North East -8 6 £488 +14.71% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, 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 91 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (64.84%) Microservices
3 44 (48.35%) Agile
4 42 (46.15%) TDD
5 39 (42.86%) Spring Boot
6 36 (39.56%) Linux
6 36 (39.56%) Spring
6 36 (39.56%) Test Automation
7 31 (34.07%) Unix
8 30 (32.97%) BDD
8 30 (32.97%) Kafka
9 29 (31.87%) SQL
10 28 (30.77%) AWS
11 27 (29.67%) CI/CD
12 24 (26.37%) Continuous Deployment
12 24 (26.37%) Mockito
13 23 (25.27%) JUnit
13 23 (25.27%) React
14 22 (24.18%) MongoDB
14 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (24.18%) Security Cleared
15 21 (23.08%) Git
16 20 (21.98%) Mac OS X
17 19 (20.88%) DevOps
17 19 (20.88%) Pair Programming
17 19 (20.88%) SC Cleared
18 18 (19.78%) ActiveMQ
18 18 (19.78%) JAX-RS
18 18 (19.78%) Jenkins
18 18 (19.78%) JIRA

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 (5.49%) JBoss
1 5 (5.49%) Tomcat
2 3 (3.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) CMS
3 1 (1.10%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.77%) AWS
2 17 (18.68%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) GitHub
4 5 (5.49%) Azure AKS
4 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.49%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.10%) npm
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (24.18%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.99%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (4.40%) MySQL
5 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Mockito
2 23 (25.27%) JUnit
3 21 (23.08%) Git
4 18 (19.78%) Jenkins
4 18 (19.78%) JIRA
5 14 (15.38%) GitLab
6 10 (10.99%) Maven
7 9 (9.89%) Cucumber
7 9 (9.89%) Gradle
7 9 (9.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (5.49%) Postman
8 5 (5.49%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.30%) Selenium
10 2 (2.20%) Log4j
10 2 (2.20%) Subversion
11 1 (1.10%) Ant
11 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
11 1 (1.10%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 20 (21.98%) Public Sector
2 11 (12.09%) Finance
3 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.10%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 36 (39.56%) Spring
3 30 (32.97%) Kafka
4 23 (25.27%) React
5 18 (19.78%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (19.78%) JAX-RS
5 18 (19.78%) REST
6 17 (18.68%) RESTful
7 7 (7.69%) jQuery
7 7 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
8 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.59%) JMS
8 6 (6.59%) JSON
8 6 (6.59%) Node.js
9 5 (5.49%) Hibernate
9 5 (5.49%) HTML
9 5 (5.49%) JPA
9 5 (5.49%) POJO
9 5 (5.49%) SOAP
9 5 (5.49%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.49%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 36 (39.56%) Linux
2 31 (34.07%) Unix
3 20 (21.98%) Mac OS X
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.10%) Android
5 1 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (64.84%) Microservices
2 44 (48.35%) Agile
3 42 (46.15%) TDD
4 36 (39.56%) Test Automation
5 30 (32.97%) BDD
6 27 (29.67%) CI/CD
7 24 (26.37%) Continuous Deployment
8 22 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (20.88%) DevOps
9 19 (20.88%) Pair Programming
10 16 (17.58%) Containerisation
11 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (14.29%) Responsive Web Design
11 13 (14.29%) Web Design
12 11 (12.09%) API Development
12 11 (12.09%) Web Development
13 10 (10.99%) SDLC
14 9 (9.89%) Unit Testing
14 9 (9.89%) User Acceptance Testing
15 8 (8.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 91 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (31.87%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
3 9 (9.89%) Python
4 5 (5.49%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.30%) Bash
6 2 (2.20%) C
6 2 (2.20%) C++
7 1 (1.10%) C#
7 1 (1.10%) Clojure
7 1 (1.10%) Groovy
7 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (24.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.20%) Degree
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) ISO 20022
3 5 (5.49%) PSD2
3 5 (5.49%) SEPA
System Software
1 15 (16.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.40%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Argo
3 1 (1.10%) Control-M
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (1.10%) Istio
3 1 (1.10%) Kiali
3 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Oracle
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.30%) Veracode
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.20%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.10%) Perforce
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk
5 1 (1.10%) xMatters