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 £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 98 147
Rank change year-on-year -8 +49 -65
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 106 73 48
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.31% 1.87% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 2.03% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 57 40
10th Percentile £353 £373 £436
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -9.55% -20.40%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £625
90th Percentile £679 £609 £700
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.35% -14.23% -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 4,209 3,600 4,488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 91.98% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,825 1,960 3,033
10th Percentile £213 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £593
90th Percentile £653 £650 £672
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 219 212
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.46 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £18.02 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.44 £30.00 £27.90
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +7.53% +39.50%
75th Percentile £51.14 £48.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -13.04% +53.33%

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 19 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 19 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 52 £428 -5.00% 7
Yorkshire -34 44 £650 +36.84% 8
North East -3 11 £500 +17.65% 5
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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.

1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (65.09%) Microservices
3 51 (48.11%) Agile
4 49 (46.23%) TDD
5 47 (44.34%) Spring Boot
6 44 (41.51%) Test Automation
7 43 (40.57%) Spring
8 35 (33.02%) Linux
9 34 (32.08%) BDD
9 34 (32.08%) CI/CD
10 33 (31.13%) AWS
11 31 (29.25%) Kafka
12 30 (28.30%) Security Cleared
12 30 (28.30%) Unix
13 29 (27.36%) SQL
14 28 (26.42%) Git
15 25 (23.58%) Continuous Deployment
15 25 (23.58%) Kubernetes
15 25 (23.58%) Mockito
16 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (22.64%) SC Cleared
17 23 (21.70%) MongoDB
18 22 (20.75%) Docker
18 22 (20.75%) JAX-RS
18 22 (20.75%) Jenkins
18 22 (20.75%) JUnit
18 22 (20.75%) React
18 22 (20.75%) RESTful
19 21 (19.81%) DevOps
19 21 (19.81%) Pair Programming

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 (3.77%) JBoss
1 4 (3.77%) Tomcat
2 3 (2.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.94%) CMS
3 1 (0.94%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.13%) AWS
2 18 (16.98%) Azure
3 12 (11.32%) GitHub
4 5 (4.72%) Azure AKS
4 5 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.72%) GCP
4 5 (4.72%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.83%) Apigee
5 3 (2.83%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (2.83%) Serverless
6 2 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.94%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (0.94%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) HTTP
1 3 (2.83%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.70%) MongoDB
2 11 (10.38%) NoSQL
3 10 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.60%) MySQL
4 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.83%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 28 (26.42%) Git
2 25 (23.58%) Mockito
3 22 (20.75%) Jenkins
3 22 (20.75%) JUnit
4 19 (17.92%) GitLab
5 17 (16.04%) JIRA
6 9 (8.49%) Cucumber
6 9 (8.49%) Maven
7 8 (7.55%) Gradle
7 8 (7.55%) Postman
7 8 (7.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (5.66%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.83%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.83%) Selenium
10 2 (1.89%) Log4j
10 2 (1.89%) Subversion
11 1 (0.94%) Ant
11 1 (0.94%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.94%) NUnit
11 1 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (24.53%) Public Sector
2 11 (10.38%) Finance
3 9 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.55%) Banking
5 7 (6.60%) Social Skills
6 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (44.34%) Spring Boot
2 43 (40.57%) Spring
3 31 (29.25%) Kafka
4 22 (20.75%) JAX-RS
4 22 (20.75%) React
4 22 (20.75%) RESTful
5 19 (17.92%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (17.92%) REST
6 11 (10.38%) Hibernate
7 9 (8.49%) JSON
8 8 (7.55%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.55%) Node.js
9 7 (6.60%) jQuery
10 6 (5.66%) JMS
11 5 (4.72%) JPA
11 5 (4.72%) POJO
11 5 (4.72%) Spring Cloud
11 5 (4.72%) Spring MVC
11 5 (4.72%) Spring Security
11 5 (4.72%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.89%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.02%) Linux
2 30 (28.30%) Unix
3 20 (18.87%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.94%) Android
5 1 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (65.09%) Microservices
2 51 (48.11%) Agile
3 49 (46.23%) TDD
4 44 (41.51%) Test Automation
5 34 (32.08%) BDD
5 34 (32.08%) CI/CD
6 25 (23.58%) Continuous Deployment
7 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (19.81%) DevOps
8 21 (19.81%) Pair Programming
9 20 (18.87%) Containerisation
10 15 (14.15%) API Development
11 13 (12.26%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (12.26%) Responsive Web Design
11 13 (12.26%) Web Design
12 12 (11.32%) SDLC
13 11 (10.38%) Web Development
14 10 (9.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
14 10 (9.43%) Unit Testing
15 9 (8.49%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 106 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (27.36%) SQL
3 9 (8.49%) JavaScript
3 9 (8.49%) Python
4 4 (3.77%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.89%) Bash
5 2 (1.89%) C
5 2 (1.89%) C++
6 1 (0.94%) C#
6 1 (0.94%) Clojure
6 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.55%) Degree
5 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.72%) ISO 20022
3 5 (4.72%) PSD2
3 5 (4.72%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (20.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (23.58%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.72%) Terraform
3 2 (1.89%) Ansible
3 2 (1.89%) Argo
4 1 (0.94%) Grafana
4 1 (0.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (13.21%) Oracle
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.83%) Splunk
3 3 (2.83%) Veracode
3 3 (2.83%) Virgin Media
4 1 (0.94%) Perforce