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 18 March 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 103 117
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 100 59 66
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.77% 1.82% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.96% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 40 58
10th Percentile £358 £380 £311
25th Percentile £402 £414 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £483
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +8.81% -22.08%
75th Percentile £565 £578 £594
90th Percentile £688 £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% -33.85%

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 5,208 3,017 4,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 93.26% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 1,966 2,907
10th Percentile £255 £230 £250
25th Percentile £380 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £670
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 147 400
10th Percentile £17.19 £13.00 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.13 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.23 £27.50 £20.76
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% +32.50% -30.82%
75th Percentile £66.56 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.72 £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 18 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 18 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 +2 66 £460 -16.36% 22
Yorkshire -55 24 £450 -14.29% 19
North East -7 15 £488 +21.12% 11
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 100 (100.00%) Java
2 54 (54.00%) Microservices
3 49 (49.00%) Agile
3 49 (49.00%) Spring
3 49 (49.00%) Spring Boot
4 41 (41.00%) Test Automation
5 40 (40.00%) TDD
6 35 (35.00%) AWS
7 33 (33.00%) Kubernetes
8 30 (30.00%) CI/CD
8 30 (30.00%) Docker
9 27 (27.00%) Security Cleared
10 25 (25.00%) BDD
11 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (21.00%) Azure
12 21 (21.00%) Git
13 20 (20.00%) RESTful
13 20 (20.00%) SC Cleared
14 19 (19.00%) Pair Programming
15 18 (18.00%) GitLab
15 18 (18.00%) SDLC
16 17 (17.00%) Linux
16 17 (17.00%) Unix
17 16 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
18 15 (15.00%) DevOps
18 15 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
18 15 (15.00%) Node.js
19 14 (14.00%) Containerisation
19 14 (14.00%) JAX-RS
19 14 (14.00%) MongoDB

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 (1.00%) JBoss
1 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.00%) AWS
2 21 (21.00%) Azure
3 8 (8.00%) GitHub
4 6 (6.00%) GCP
4 6 (6.00%) OpenShift
4 6 (6.00%) Serverless
5 5 (5.00%) Apigee
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.00%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) HTTP
1 4 (4.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.00%) MongoDB
1 14 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 7 (7.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.00%) MySQL
5 3 (3.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (21.00%) Git
2 18 (18.00%) GitLab
3 11 (11.00%) Mockito
4 10 (10.00%) Jenkins
5 6 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.00%) JIRA
6 5 (5.00%) JUnit
7 4 (4.00%) Postman
8 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.00%) Mocha
9 2 (2.00%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.00%) Gradle
9 2 (2.00%) Maven
10 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.00%) Selenium
10 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (43.00%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.00%) Finance
3 9 (9.00%) Banking
4 8 (8.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.00%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (49.00%) Spring
1 49 (49.00%) Spring Boot
2 20 (20.00%) RESTful
3 15 (15.00%) Node.js
4 14 (14.00%) JAX-RS
4 14 (14.00%) REST
5 13 (13.00%) Kafka
6 12 (12.00%) AngularJS
7 11 (11.00%) React
8 9 (9.00%) ActiveMQ
9 8 (8.00%) Hibernate
9 8 (8.00%) OAuth
9 8 (8.00%) OAuth2
10 6 (6.00%) Spring MVC
11 5 (5.00%) Quarkus
12 4 (4.00%) Jest
12 4 (4.00%) JSON
12 4 (4.00%) JWT
12 4 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (4.00%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (7.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.00%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.00%) Mobile App
4 4 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.00%) ASIC
5 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.00%) Linux
1 17 (17.00%) Unix
2 12 (12.00%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (54.00%) Microservices
2 49 (49.00%) Agile
3 41 (41.00%) Test Automation
4 40 (40.00%) TDD
5 30 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 25 (25.00%) BDD
7 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (19.00%) Pair Programming
9 18 (18.00%) SDLC
10 16 (16.00%) Continuous Deployment
11 15 (15.00%) DevOps
11 15 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (14.00%) Containerisation
13 13 (13.00%) API Design
13 13 (13.00%) Software Engineering
14 11 (11.00%) Code Quality
15 10 (10.00%) API Development
15 10 (10.00%) Scrum
16 9 (9.00%) Computer Science
16 9 (9.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 100 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (11.00%) SQL
3 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (9.00%) Kotlin
5 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.00%) Ruby
7 1 (1.00%) Bash
7 1 (1.00%) Groovy
7 1 (1.00%) Python
7 1 (1.00%) Scala
7 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (9.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.00%) ISO 20022
3 4 (4.00%) PSD2
3 4 (4.00%) SEPA
4 2 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (33.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.00%) Terraform
3 6 (6.00%) Argo
4 2 (2.00%) Grafana
5 1 (1.00%) Ansible
5 1 (1.00%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Oracle
1 8 (8.00%) Virgin Media
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.00%) Splunk