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 27 April 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 116 118
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 137 52 72
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.23% 1.59% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 1.70% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 36 65
10th Percentile £358 £380 £337
25th Percentile £403 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +0.48% -8.70%
75th Percentile £570 £563 £625
90th Percentile £708 £588 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £58.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £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 5,671 3,052 4,455
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 93.53% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,493 2,027 2,796
10th Percentile £283 £230 £263
25th Percentile £390 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £477
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £568 £560 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £672
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 161 395
10th Percentile £17.94 £13.00 £11.03
25th Percentile £25.49 £16.50 £12.53
Median hourly rate £45.46 £24.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.91% +22.93% -34.51%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.75 £80.59 £60.00
England median hourly rate £45.56 £31.76 £35.96
% change year-on-year +43.44% -11.68% -19.25%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 81 £475 -10.38% 10
Yorkshire -39 42 £488 -7.14% 8
North East -6 19 £500 +31.58% 12
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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.

1 137 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (56.20%) Agile
3 75 (54.74%) Microservices
4 59 (43.07%) Spring
5 56 (40.88%) Spring Boot
6 50 (36.50%) Test Automation
7 49 (35.77%) TDD
8 47 (34.31%) CI/CD
9 46 (33.58%) AWS
9 46 (33.58%) Kubernetes
10 37 (27.01%) Docker
11 35 (25.55%) Security Cleared
12 33 (24.09%) BDD
13 30 (21.90%) RESTful
14 29 (21.17%) Azure
14 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (20.44%) SC Cleared
16 27 (19.71%) Git
17 24 (17.52%) DevOps
18 23 (16.79%) AngularJS
18 23 (16.79%) JavaScript
18 23 (16.79%) SDLC
19 22 (16.06%) Full-Stack Development
19 22 (16.06%) Pair Programming
19 22 (16.06%) Software Engineering
20 21 (15.33%) Linux
21 20 (14.60%) GitLab
21 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
21 20 (14.60%) SQL
22 19 (13.87%) 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 4 (2.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.46%) JBoss
3 1 (0.73%) Camunda
3 1 (0.73%) Mule
3 1 (0.73%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.73%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.73%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.58%) AWS
2 29 (21.17%) Azure
3 16 (11.68%) GCP
4 15 (10.95%) GitHub
5 10 (7.30%) OpenShift
6 7 (5.11%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (5.11%) Serverless
7 6 (4.38%) Apigee
8 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.46%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.46%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.73%) Amazon Bedrock
12 1 (0.73%) Amazon ECR
12 1 (0.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) HTTP
1 4 (2.92%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.73%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (13.14%) MongoDB
3 12 (8.76%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.57%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.84%) MySQL
6 3 (2.19%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.46%) Redis
8 1 (0.73%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (19.71%) Git
2 20 (14.60%) GitLab
3 17 (12.41%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.49%) JIRA
4 13 (9.49%) Mockito
5 10 (7.30%) SonarQube
6 7 (5.11%) JUnit
7 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 4 (2.92%) Postman
8 3 (2.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.19%) Maven
8 3 (2.19%) Mocha
9 2 (1.46%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.46%) Gradle
10 1 (0.73%) Gatling
10 1 (0.73%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.73%) Selenium
10 1 (0.73%) Snyk
10 1 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (35.77%) Public Sector
2 22 (16.06%) Finance
3 14 (10.22%) Social Skills
4 10 (7.30%) Banking
5 6 (4.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (43.07%) Spring
2 56 (40.88%) Spring Boot
3 30 (21.90%) RESTful
4 23 (16.79%) AngularJS
5 19 (13.87%) Node.js
5 19 (13.87%) React
6 18 (13.14%) Kafka
7 16 (11.68%) JAX-RS
7 16 (11.68%) REST
8 12 (8.76%) OAuth
8 12 (8.76%) OAuth2
9 11 (8.03%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (6.57%) Hibernate
10 9 (6.57%) HTML
11 8 (5.84%) JWT
11 8 (5.84%) Quarkus
12 6 (4.38%) Spring MVC
13 5 (3.65%) CSS
13 5 (3.65%) JSON
13 5 (3.65%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.84%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.11%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.92%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (0.73%) ASIC
5 1 (0.73%) NHS
5 1 (0.73%) Replication
5 1 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.33%) Linux
2 18 (13.14%) Unix
3 12 (8.76%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.19%) AIX
5 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (56.20%) Agile
2 75 (54.74%) Microservices
3 50 (36.50%) Test Automation
4 49 (35.77%) TDD
5 47 (34.31%) CI/CD
6 33 (24.09%) BDD
7 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (17.52%) DevOps
9 23 (16.79%) SDLC
10 22 (16.06%) Full-Stack Development
10 22 (16.06%) Pair Programming
10 22 (16.06%) Software Engineering
11 19 (13.87%) API Development
11 19 (13.87%) Containerisation
12 18 (13.14%) Code Quality
13 17 (12.41%) Continuous Deployment
14 16 (11.68%) Scrum
15 14 (10.22%) API Design
15 14 (10.22%) Front End Development
15 14 (10.22%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 137 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (16.79%) JavaScript
3 20 (14.60%) SQL
4 15 (10.95%) Kotlin
5 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.92%) Python
7 2 (1.46%) Ruby
7 2 (1.46%) Scala
8 1 (0.73%) Bash
8 1 (0.73%) Groovy
8 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 28 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.03%) Degree
4 9 (6.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (6.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.95%) QA
2 6 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.92%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.92%) PSD2
3 4 (2.92%) SEPA
4 2 (1.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (27.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (33.58%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.76%) Terraform
3 9 (6.57%) Argo
4 3 (2.19%) Grafana
5 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.73%) Ansible
6 1 (0.73%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.73%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.73%) Kiali
Vendors
1 10 (7.30%) Oracle
2 8 (5.84%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.11%) Microsoft
4 6 (4.38%) Virgin Media
5 5 (3.65%) Splunk
6 4 (2.92%) Okta
7 1 (0.73%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.73%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.73%) Google
7 1 (0.73%) OpenAI