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 13 May 2026.

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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 116 116
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 133 49 68
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.15% 1.49% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 1.60% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 35 62
10th Percentile £361 £380 £375
25th Percentile £405 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% +0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £570 £563 £625
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 £48.13
% change year-on-year - +35.06% -34.75%

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 5,672 3,070 4,326
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 93.65% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,440 2,029 2,697
10th Percentile £304 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £365 £388
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 £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 409 165 397
10th Percentile £17.00 £12.82 £11.04
25th Percentile £25.49 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.50 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +104.08% +18.13% -32.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.00 £62.50
England median hourly rate £46.80 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.00% -20.00% -14.88%

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 13 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 13 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 +14 79 £476 -10.19% 9
Yorkshire -27 42 £463 -11.90% 5
North East -8 17 £450 +18.42% 13
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 76 (57.14%) Agile
3 72 (54.14%) Microservices
4 60 (45.11%) Spring
5 52 (39.10%) Spring Boot
6 48 (36.09%) CI/CD
7 46 (34.59%) Test Automation
8 45 (33.83%) Kubernetes
8 45 (33.83%) TDD
9 44 (33.08%) AWS
10 35 (26.32%) Docker
11 31 (23.31%) Azure
11 31 (23.31%) Security Cleared
12 30 (22.56%) BDD
12 30 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (21.05%) RESTful
14 27 (20.30%) DevOps
15 25 (18.80%) Git
15 25 (18.80%) SC Cleared
15 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
16 23 (17.29%) JavaScript
16 23 (17.29%) SQL
17 21 (15.79%) AngularJS
17 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
17 21 (15.79%) SDLC
18 20 (15.04%) Kafka
18 20 (15.04%) Linux
18 20 (15.04%) MongoDB
18 20 (15.04%) Pair Programming
19 19 (14.29%) GitLab

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
4 16 (12.03%) GitHub
5 9 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (6.77%) OpenShift
6 6 (4.51%) Apigee
7 5 (3.76%) Serverless
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.01%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.01%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.26%) Cloud Run
9 3 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.26%) Kong
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) HTTP
1 2 (1.50%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.04%) MongoDB
2 19 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.26%) MySQL
6 5 (3.76%) Redis
7 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.26%) Hazelcast
7 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (18.80%) Git
2 19 (14.29%) GitLab
3 18 (13.53%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.77%) JIRA
5 12 (9.02%) Mockito
6 9 (6.77%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.26%) JUnit
8 5 (3.76%) Maven
9 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket
9 4 (3.01%) Gradle
10 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.26%) Snyk
11 2 (1.50%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.50%) Mocha
11 2 (1.50%) Postman
12 1 (0.75%) Gatling
12 1 (0.75%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.75%) Selenium
12 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 48 (36.09%) Public Sector
2 23 (17.29%) Finance
3 15 (11.28%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.02%) Banking
5 8 (6.02%) 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 60 (45.11%) Spring
2 52 (39.10%) Spring Boot
3 28 (21.05%) RESTful
4 21 (15.79%) AngularJS
5 20 (15.04%) Kafka
6 19 (14.29%) React
7 17 (12.78%) Node.js
7 17 (12.78%) REST
8 13 (9.77%) JAX-RS
8 13 (9.77%) OAuth
8 13 (9.77%) OAuth2
9 10 (7.52%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (6.77%) HTML
10 9 (6.77%) JWT
11 7 (5.26%) Quarkus
12 6 (4.51%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.76%) CSS
13 5 (3.76%) JPA
13 5 (3.76%) Spring Cloud
13 5 (3.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.52%) 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 20 (15.04%) Linux
2 17 (12.78%) Unix
3 12 (9.02%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.26%) AIX
5 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (57.14%) Agile
2 72 (54.14%) Microservices
3 48 (36.09%) CI/CD
4 46 (34.59%) Test Automation
5 45 (33.83%) TDD
6 30 (22.56%) BDD
6 30 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (20.30%) DevOps
8 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
9 21 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
9 21 (15.79%) SDLC
10 20 (15.04%) Pair Programming
11 18 (13.53%) API Development
11 18 (13.53%) Containerisation
12 16 (12.03%) Continuous Deployment
12 16 (12.03%) Event-Driven
13 15 (11.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 15 (11.28%) Scrum
14 14 (10.53%) Code Quality
15 13 (9.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (17.29%) JavaScript
2 23 (17.29%) SQL
3 17 (12.78%) Kotlin
4 9 (6.77%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.01%) Python
6 2 (1.50%) Ruby
6 2 (1.50%) Scala
7 1 (0.75%) Bash
7 1 (0.75%) Groovy
7 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (23.31%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (6.02%) Degree
5 6 (4.51%) 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 35 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (33.83%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.28%) Terraform
3 10 (7.52%) Argo
4 5 (3.76%) Grafana
4 5 (3.76%) 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 10 (7.52%) Oracle
2 8 (6.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.51%) Okta
4 6 (4.51%) Virgin Media
5 3 (2.26%) Splunk
6 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.75%) Google
7 1 (0.75%) OpenAI