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 £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 100 99
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 147 85 73
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.94% 2.15% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 2.32% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 68 69
10th Percentile £411 £345 £358
25th Percentile £450 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.51% -0.26% -21.60%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £550
90th Percentile £738 £675 £625
England median daily rate £550 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +3.77% -15.20% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.25 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% -

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 6,923 3,667 3,885
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 92.69% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,050 2,390 2,309
10th Percentile £313 £251 £285
25th Percentile £406 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £585
90th Percentile £675 £642 £675
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 639 223 271
10th Percentile £16.62 £13.00 £12.13
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.30 £16.58
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.32 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +90.45% -25.04% +11.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.79 £69.75
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +2.86%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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
Yorkshire -14 59 £489 -24.81% 7
North West -39 59 £570 +28.09% 12
North East -17 31 £625 +28.21% 16
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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.

1 147 (100.00%) Java
2 91 (61.90%) Agile
3 72 (48.98%) Microservices
4 60 (40.82%) Spring
5 58 (39.46%) CI/CD
6 53 (36.05%) Spring Boot
7 48 (32.65%) Kubernetes
7 48 (32.65%) Test Automation
8 47 (31.97%) AWS
9 46 (31.29%) Software Engineering
10 40 (27.21%) DevOps
10 40 (27.21%) Security Cleared
11 39 (26.53%) SC Cleared
12 35 (23.81%) TDD
13 32 (21.77%) Kafka
13 32 (21.77%) SDLC
14 31 (21.09%) Scrum
15 29 (19.73%) Docker
15 29 (19.73%) JavaScript
15 29 (19.73%) MongoDB
16 27 (18.37%) BDD
17 26 (17.69%) Jenkins
18 25 (17.01%) AngularJS
18 25 (17.01%) RESTful
18 25 (17.01%) SQL
19 24 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
20 22 (14.97%) Azure
20 22 (14.97%) Event-Driven
20 22 (14.97%) React
21 21 (14.29%) GCP

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 7 (4.76%) Confluence
2 5 (3.40%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.68%) Camunda
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.68%) JBoss
3 1 (0.68%) Mule
3 1 (0.68%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.68%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (31.97%) AWS
2 22 (14.97%) Azure
3 21 (14.29%) GCP
3 21 (14.29%) GitHub
4 18 (12.24%) OpenShift
5 10 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (3.40%) Apigee
7 5 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.40%) Cloud Run
7 5 (3.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (3.40%) Kong
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.36%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.36%) Serverless
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.73%) MongoDB
2 16 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.16%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.48%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.76%) Redis
6 5 (3.40%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.40%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.04%) MySQL
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (17.69%) Jenkins
2 20 (13.61%) Git
3 16 (10.88%) SonarQube
4 14 (9.52%) JIRA
4 14 (9.52%) Mockito
5 8 (5.44%) GitLab
5 8 (5.44%) Gradle
5 8 (5.44%) Maven
6 7 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.76%) JUnit
7 5 (3.40%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.72%) Snyk
9 2 (1.36%) Flyway
9 2 (1.36%) git-flow
9 2 (1.36%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.68%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.68%) Gatling
10 1 (0.68%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.68%) Jaeger
General
1 28 (19.05%) Public Sector
1 28 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 26 (17.69%) Finance
3 19 (12.93%) Banking
4 11 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.76%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.08%) Front Office
7 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.36%) Law
7 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Automotive
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.68%) Marketing
8 1 (0.68%) Military
8 1 (0.68%) Police
8 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (40.82%) Spring
2 53 (36.05%) Spring Boot
3 32 (21.77%) Kafka
4 25 (17.01%) AngularJS
4 25 (17.01%) RESTful
5 22 (14.97%) React
6 19 (12.93%) REST
7 17 (11.56%) OAuth
8 16 (10.88%) HTML
9 14 (9.52%) JWT
9 14 (9.52%) Quarkus
9 14 (9.52%) Terraform
10 13 (8.84%) OAuth2
11 11 (7.48%) JPA
12 10 (6.80%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (6.12%) JAX-RS
13 9 (6.12%) Node.js
14 8 (5.44%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (5.44%) Redux
15 7 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.08%) Equities
4 6 (4.08%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.68%) NHS
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.84%) Linux
2 11 (7.48%) Unix
3 4 (2.72%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.04%) AIX
5 2 (1.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (61.90%) Agile
2 72 (48.98%) Microservices
3 58 (39.46%) CI/CD
4 48 (32.65%) Test Automation
5 46 (31.29%) Software Engineering
6 40 (27.21%) DevOps
7 35 (23.81%) TDD
8 32 (21.77%) SDLC
9 31 (21.09%) Scrum
10 27 (18.37%) BDD
11 24 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (14.97%) Event-Driven
13 19 (12.93%) API Development
13 19 (12.93%) Front End Development
14 18 (12.24%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (12.24%) Sprint Planning
15 17 (11.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 16 (10.88%) Containerisation
16 16 (10.88%) DevSecOps
16 16 (10.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 147 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (19.73%) JavaScript
3 25 (17.01%) SQL
4 19 (12.93%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.48%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.08%) C#
7 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.04%) Python
8 2 (1.36%) PromQL
9 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 39 (26.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.08%) Degree
5 4 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.29%) QA
2 6 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.36%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (19.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (32.65%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.93%) Argo
3 9 (6.12%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.44%) Grafana
5 2 (1.36%) Ansible
5 2 (1.36%) Consul
5 2 (1.36%) Control-M
5 2 (1.36%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.68%) Istio
6 1 (0.68%) Kiali
6 1 (0.68%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (9.52%) Red Hat
2 9 (6.12%) Oracle
3 6 (4.08%) Okta
4 5 (3.40%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.36%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.36%) Google
5 2 (1.36%) Solace
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe
6 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.68%) Splunk