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 £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 128 100
Rank change year-on-year +13 -28 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 143 49 72
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.98% 1.25% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 1.36% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 41 67
10th Percentile £400 £313 £373
25th Percentile £450 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.16% -9.10% -16.67%
75th Percentile £647 £545 £581
90th Percentile £738 £551 £643
England median daily rate £540 £531 £600
% change year-on-year +1.65% -11.46% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.25 - £83.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% -3.45%

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 6,647 3,615 3,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 92.57% 92.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,868 2,338 2,442
10th Percentile £313 £255 £263
25th Percentile £405 £368 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -5.10% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £582
90th Percentile £675 £640 £666
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 226 304
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.82 £11.46
25th Percentile £25.49 £17.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.32 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.66% -17.35% +16.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.83 £49.06
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.79 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -25 62 £550 +20.35% 5
Yorkshire 0 54 £490 +8.89% 4
North East -18 29 £625 +64.47% 7
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 143 (100.00%) Java
2 92 (64.34%) Agile
3 77 (53.85%) Microservices
4 50 (34.97%) CI/CD
5 49 (34.27%) Spring
5 49 (34.27%) Test Automation
6 44 (30.77%) Kubernetes
6 44 (30.77%) TDD
7 43 (30.07%) Spring Boot
8 36 (25.17%) AWS
8 36 (25.17%) BDD
8 36 (25.17%) DevOps
8 36 (25.17%) Software Engineering
9 34 (23.78%) Security Cleared
10 33 (23.08%) SC Cleared
11 28 (19.58%) Docker
11 28 (19.58%) Kafka
11 28 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (18.88%) JavaScript
12 27 (18.88%) MongoDB
13 26 (18.18%) RESTful
14 25 (17.48%) Scrum
15 24 (16.78%) Azure
15 24 (16.78%) React
16 23 (16.08%) AngularJS
16 23 (16.08%) SQL
17 22 (15.38%) Jenkins
17 22 (15.38%) Linux
18 21 (14.69%) SDLC
19 20 (13.99%) API Development

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 6 (4.20%) Confluence
2 5 (3.50%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.70%) Camunda
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.70%) JBoss
3 1 (0.70%) Mule
3 1 (0.70%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.17%) AWS
2 24 (16.78%) Azure
3 19 (13.29%) GCP
3 19 (13.29%) GitHub
4 15 (10.49%) OpenShift
5 9 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.80%) Apigee
7 4 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.80%) Cloud Run
7 4 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (2.80%) Kong
8 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.40%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.40%) Serverless
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.88%) MongoDB
2 17 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.29%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.90%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.20%) Redis
6 4 (2.80%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.80%) MySQL
6 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.59%) Mockito
3 16 (11.19%) Git
4 13 (9.09%) JIRA
4 13 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.90%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.90%) GitLab
6 6 (4.20%) Gradle
7 5 (3.50%) JUnit
7 5 (3.50%) Maven
8 4 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.80%) Snyk
9 2 (1.40%) Flyway
9 2 (1.40%) git-flow
9 2 (1.40%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
General
1 37 (25.87%) Public Sector
2 25 (17.48%) Finance
3 23 (16.08%) Social Skills
4 19 (13.29%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.20%) Front Office
8 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.40%) Law
8 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Automotive
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.70%) Marketing
9 1 (0.70%) Police
9 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (34.27%) Spring
2 43 (30.07%) Spring Boot
3 28 (19.58%) Kafka
4 26 (18.18%) RESTful
5 24 (16.78%) React
6 23 (16.08%) AngularJS
7 15 (10.49%) ActiveMQ
7 15 (10.49%) JAX-RS
7 15 (10.49%) OAuth
8 13 (9.09%) HTML
8 13 (9.09%) JWT
9 12 (8.39%) OAuth2
9 12 (8.39%) Quarkus
9 12 (8.39%) REST
10 9 (6.29%) JPA
10 9 (6.29%) Node.js
11 8 (5.59%) Redux
12 7 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (4.20%) CSS
13 6 (4.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 10 (6.99%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.59%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.20%) Equities
5 6 (4.20%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.70%) NHS
8 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.38%) Linux
2 20 (13.99%) Unix
3 12 (8.39%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.10%) AIX
5 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (64.34%) Agile
2 77 (53.85%) Microservices
3 50 (34.97%) CI/CD
4 49 (34.27%) Test Automation
5 44 (30.77%) TDD
6 36 (25.17%) BDD
6 36 (25.17%) DevOps
6 36 (25.17%) Software Engineering
7 28 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (17.48%) Scrum
9 21 (14.69%) SDLC
10 20 (13.99%) API Development
10 20 (13.99%) Event-Driven
11 19 (13.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (13.29%) Pair Programming
12 18 (12.59%) Continuous Deployment
13 17 (11.89%) Containerisation
13 17 (11.89%) Front End Development
14 15 (10.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 15 (10.49%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 143 (100.00%) Java
2 27 (18.88%) JavaScript
3 23 (16.08%) SQL
4 16 (11.19%) Kotlin
5 10 (6.99%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.20%) C#
7 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.10%) Python
8 2 (1.40%) PromQL
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (23.78%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.50%) Degree
5 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.29%) QA
2 6 (4.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (19.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.19%) Argo
3 14 (9.79%) Terraform
4 8 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.90%) Grafana
6 2 (1.40%) Ansible
6 2 (1.40%) Consul
6 2 (1.40%) Control-M
6 2 (1.40%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.70%) Istio
7 1 (0.70%) Kiali
7 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (8.39%) Red Hat
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.90%) Oracle
3 6 (4.20%) Okta
4 2 (1.40%) ForgeRock
4 2 (1.40%) Google
4 2 (1.40%) Solace
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe
5 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.70%) Splunk
5 1 (0.70%) Virgin Media