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 £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 97 150
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 -75
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 104 71 50
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.29% 1.79% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.49% 1.94% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 56 42
10th Percentile £355 £373 £426
25th Percentile £400 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -9.55% -18.81%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £619
90th Percentile £680 £603 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £635
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.51% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £67.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% -11.26%

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 4,170 3,653 4,558
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.02% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,797 1,994 3,092
10th Percentile £213 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £552 £575 £593
90th Percentile £654 £650 £673
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 222 216
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £29.89 £27.14
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +10.11% +35.70%
75th Percentile £51.02 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 0 50 £430 -4.44% 9
Yorkshire -30 44 £650 +40.54% 7
North East -7 11 £500 +17.65% 4
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 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.

1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (64.42%) Microservices
3 49 (47.12%) Agile
4 47 (45.19%) TDD
5 45 (43.27%) Spring Boot
6 42 (40.38%) Test Automation
7 41 (39.42%) Spring
8 35 (33.65%) Linux
9 34 (32.69%) BDD
10 33 (31.73%) AWS
11 32 (30.77%) CI/CD
12 31 (29.81%) Kafka
13 30 (28.85%) Unix
14 29 (27.88%) Security Cleared
14 29 (27.88%) SQL
15 26 (25.00%) Git
16 25 (24.04%) Continuous Deployment
16 25 (24.04%) Mockito
17 24 (23.08%) SC Cleared
18 23 (22.12%) Kubernetes
18 23 (22.12%) MongoDB
19 22 (21.15%) JAX-RS
19 22 (21.15%) Jenkins
19 22 (21.15%) JUnit
19 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
19 22 (21.15%) React
20 21 (20.19%) DevOps
20 21 (20.19%) Pair Programming
21 20 (19.23%) Docker
21 20 (19.23%) Mac OS X

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 (3.85%) JBoss
1 4 (3.85%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.96%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.73%) AWS
2 18 (17.31%) Azure
3 10 (9.62%) GitHub
4 5 (4.81%) Azure AKS
4 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.81%) GCP
4 5 (4.81%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.88%) Apigee
5 3 (2.88%) Serverless
6 2 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.96%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (0.96%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (0.96%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) HTTP
1 3 (2.88%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (22.12%) MongoDB
2 11 (10.58%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.81%) MySQL
4 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.88%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.92%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.96%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 26 (25.00%) Git
2 25 (24.04%) Mockito
3 22 (21.15%) Jenkins
3 22 (21.15%) JUnit
4 17 (16.35%) GitLab
4 17 (16.35%) JIRA
5 9 (8.65%) Cucumber
5 9 (8.65%) Maven
6 8 (7.69%) Gradle
6 8 (7.69%) Postman
6 8 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (5.77%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.88%) Selenium
9 2 (1.92%) Log4j
9 2 (1.92%) Subversion
10 1 (0.96%) Ant
10 1 (0.96%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.96%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 25 (24.04%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.58%) Finance
3 9 (8.65%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.69%) Banking
5 7 (6.73%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.96%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (43.27%) Spring Boot
2 41 (39.42%) Spring
3 31 (29.81%) Kafka
4 22 (21.15%) JAX-RS
4 22 (21.15%) React
5 20 (19.23%) RESTful
6 19 (18.27%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (18.27%) REST
7 9 (8.65%) Hibernate
7 9 (8.65%) JSON
8 8 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.69%) Node.js
9 7 (6.73%) jQuery
10 6 (5.77%) JMS
11 5 (4.81%) HTML
11 5 (4.81%) Jest
11 5 (4.81%) JPA
11 5 (4.81%) POJO
11 5 (4.81%) Spring Cloud
11 5 (4.81%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.96%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.65%) Linux
2 30 (28.85%) Unix
3 20 (19.23%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.96%) Android
5 1 (0.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (64.42%) Microservices
2 49 (47.12%) Agile
3 47 (45.19%) TDD
4 42 (40.38%) Test Automation
5 34 (32.69%) BDD
6 32 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 25 (24.04%) Continuous Deployment
8 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (20.19%) DevOps
9 21 (20.19%) Pair Programming
10 18 (17.31%) Containerisation
11 13 (12.50%) API Development
11 13 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (12.50%) Responsive Web Design
11 13 (12.50%) Web Design
12 12 (11.54%) SDLC
13 11 (10.58%) Web Development
14 10 (9.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 10 (9.62%) Unit Testing
15 9 (8.65%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 104 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (27.88%) SQL
3 9 (8.65%) JavaScript
3 9 (8.65%) Python
4 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.92%) Bash
5 2 (1.92%) C
5 2 (1.92%) C++
6 1 (0.96%) C#
6 1 (0.96%) Clojure
6 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (27.88%) Security Cleared
2 24 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.77%) Degree
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.50%) QA
2 6 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.81%) ISO 20022
3 5 (4.81%) PSD2
3 5 (4.81%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (22.12%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.81%) Terraform
3 2 (1.92%) Ansible
3 2 (1.92%) Argo
4 1 (0.96%) Grafana
4 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (12.50%) Oracle
2 6 (5.77%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.88%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.88%) Splunk
3 3 (2.88%) Veracode
3 3 (2.88%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.96%) Perforce