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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 125 110
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 131 41 70
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.95% 1.20% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 1.29% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 34 65
10th Percentile £389 £338 £368
25th Percentile £425 £364 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £419 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -20.24% -12.50%
75th Percentile £619 £545 £600
90th Percentile £738 £549 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £61.88
% change year-on-year +8.33% -3.03% -14.66%

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 6,148 3,182 4,500
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 93.48% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,627 2,103 2,727
10th Percentile £313 £254 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -5.13% -2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £668
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 172 458
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.75 £11.12
25th Percentile £25.49 £13.97 £13.23
Median hourly rate £45.56 £22.14 £23.48
Median % change year-on-year +105.76% -5.69% -13.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.53 £47.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £73.70 £67.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +5 67 £505 +9.19% 11
Yorkshire -21 46 £481 -6.10% 9
North East -9 20 £569 +49.67% 8
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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.

1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 76 (58.02%) Agile
3 67 (51.15%) Microservices
4 53 (40.46%) Spring
5 46 (35.11%) CI/CD
6 45 (34.35%) Spring Boot
7 43 (32.82%) Kubernetes
8 41 (31.30%) Test Automation
9 39 (29.77%) AWS
10 38 (29.01%) TDD
11 34 (25.95%) DevOps
12 31 (23.66%) Docker
13 29 (22.14%) Software Engineering
14 28 (21.37%) BDD
14 28 (21.37%) JavaScript
14 28 (21.37%) SQL
15 27 (20.61%) Azure
16 26 (19.85%) Security Cleared
17 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
17 25 (19.08%) RESTful
18 24 (18.32%) SC Cleared
19 23 (17.56%) React
20 21 (16.03%) API Development
20 21 (16.03%) Git
21 20 (15.27%) Full-Stack Development
21 20 (15.27%) Kafka
21 20 (15.27%) REST
22 19 (14.50%) AngularJS
22 19 (14.50%) GitHub
22 19 (14.50%) Jenkins

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 (3.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.53%) JBoss
2 2 (1.53%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.76%) Camunda
3 1 (0.76%) Mule
3 1 (0.76%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.77%) AWS
2 27 (20.61%) Azure
3 19 (14.50%) GitHub
4 16 (12.21%) GCP
5 10 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (7.63%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.82%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.05%) Apigee
7 4 (3.05%) Cloud Run
7 4 (3.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (3.05%) Kong
7 4 (3.05%) Serverless
8 3 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.53%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.53%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.53%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.50%) MongoDB
2 18 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.63%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.58%) Redis
6 4 (3.05%) Hazelcast
6 4 (3.05%) MySQL
6 4 (3.05%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (16.03%) Git
2 19 (14.50%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.45%) JIRA
4 13 (9.92%) Mockito
5 12 (9.16%) GitLab
6 9 (6.87%) SonarQube
7 8 (6.11%) JUnit
8 7 (5.34%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.82%) Gradle
9 5 (3.82%) Maven
10 4 (3.05%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.05%) Snyk
11 2 (1.53%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.53%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.53%) Flyway
11 2 (1.53%) git-flow
11 2 (1.53%) Liquibase
11 2 (1.53%) Mocha
12 1 (0.76%) Gatling
12 1 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (29.01%) Public Sector
2 27 (20.61%) Finance
3 20 (15.27%) Banking
4 16 (12.21%) Social Skills
5 9 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.82%) Front Office
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Automotive
9 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (40.46%) Spring
2 45 (34.35%) Spring Boot
3 25 (19.08%) RESTful
4 23 (17.56%) React
5 20 (15.27%) Kafka
5 20 (15.27%) REST
6 19 (14.50%) AngularJS
7 12 (9.16%) HTML
7 12 (9.16%) OAuth
7 12 (9.16%) OAuth2
8 11 (8.40%) Node.js
9 10 (7.63%) JAX-RS
9 10 (7.63%) JWT
10 9 (6.87%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (6.11%) JPA
11 8 (6.11%) Quarkus
12 7 (5.34%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (5.34%) Redux
12 7 (5.34%) Spring Cloud
13 5 (3.82%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.16%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.11%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.82%) Equities
4 5 (3.82%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.53%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.76%) NHS
7 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.76%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.50%) Linux
2 16 (12.21%) Unix
3 11 (8.40%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.29%) AIX
4 3 (2.29%) VMS
5 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (58.02%) Agile
2 67 (51.15%) Microservices
3 46 (35.11%) CI/CD
4 41 (31.30%) Test Automation
5 38 (29.01%) TDD
6 34 (25.95%) DevOps
7 29 (22.14%) Software Engineering
8 28 (21.37%) BDD
9 25 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (16.03%) API Development
11 20 (15.27%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (14.50%) Scrum
13 18 (13.74%) Event-Driven
13 18 (13.74%) SDLC
14 16 (12.21%) Pair Programming
15 15 (11.45%) Continuous Deployment
15 15 (11.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 14 (10.69%) Containerisation
16 14 (10.69%) Front End Development
17 13 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 131 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (21.37%) JavaScript
2 28 (21.37%) SQL
3 17 (12.98%) Kotlin
4 12 (9.16%) TypeScript
5 5 (3.82%) C#
6 3 (2.29%) Python
7 2 (1.53%) PromQL
7 2 (1.53%) Ruby
8 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Scala
8 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.05%) Degree
5 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.69%) QA
2 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.29%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.29%) PSD2
3 3 (2.29%) SEPA
4 2 (1.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (23.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (32.82%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.45%) Terraform
3 12 (9.16%) Argo
4 7 (5.34%) Grafana
4 7 (5.34%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.53%) Ansible
5 2 (1.53%) Consul
5 2 (1.53%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.76%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.76%) Istio
6 1 (0.76%) Kiali
6 1 (0.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (6.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.34%) Oracle
4 6 (4.58%) Okta
5 2 (1.53%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.53%) Solace
6 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.76%) Google
6 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.76%) Splunk
6 1 (0.76%) Virgin Media