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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 97 134
Rank change year-on-year -18 +37 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 117 66 60
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.31% 1.95% 1.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.51% 2.11% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 44 51
10th Percentile £362 £380 £413
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -10.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £600
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £56.50 - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £39.00 £59.68
% change year-on-year +53.85% -34.65% -17.97%

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 4,659 3,128 4,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 92.43% 93.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,052 1,873 3,045
10th Percentile £213 £230 £263
25th Percentile £370 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £470 £476
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -1.16% -4.90%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £582
90th Percentile £650 £656 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 292 139 358
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.18 £11.77
25th Percentile £21.29 £17.44 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.22 £27.13 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.65% +29.17% -19.23%
75th Percentile £57.63 £40.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £69.25 £56.31
England median hourly rate £30.11 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% - -3.19%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +6 59 £450 -16.28% 14
Yorkshire -38 46 £598 +16.59% 11
North East -8 18 £488 +28.29% 4
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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.

1 117 (100.00%) Java
2 73 (62.39%) Microservices
3 56 (47.86%) Agile
3 56 (47.86%) Spring Boot
4 55 (47.01%) Spring
5 52 (44.44%) Test Automation
6 51 (43.59%) TDD
7 42 (35.90%) AWS
8 41 (35.04%) Security Cleared
9 39 (33.33%) BDD
10 38 (32.48%) CI/CD
11 36 (30.77%) Kubernetes
12 34 (29.06%) Docker
13 32 (27.35%) SC Cleared
14 29 (24.79%) Linux
14 29 (24.79%) Unix
15 28 (23.93%) Pair Programming
16 26 (22.22%) Azure
16 26 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
16 26 (22.22%) Git
17 25 (21.37%) Kafka
18 24 (20.51%) JAX-RS
19 23 (19.66%) Containerisation
19 23 (19.66%) Mockito
19 23 (19.66%) MongoDB
19 23 (19.66%) RESTful
20 22 (18.80%) Mac OS X
21 21 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
22 20 (17.09%) ActiveMQ
22 20 (17.09%) GitLab

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 1 (0.85%) JBoss
1 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 42 (35.90%) AWS
2 26 (22.22%) Azure
3 10 (8.55%) GitHub
4 8 (6.84%) GCP
5 6 (5.13%) Serverless
6 5 (4.27%) Apigee
6 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.27%) OpenShift
7 4 (3.42%) Azure AKS
7 4 (3.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.85%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.42%) HTTP
1 4 (3.42%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (19.66%) MongoDB
2 14 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.40%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.55%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.98%) MySQL
6 3 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.71%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (22.22%) Git
2 23 (19.66%) Mockito
3 20 (17.09%) GitLab
4 11 (9.40%) Jenkins
5 9 (7.69%) JUnit
6 8 (6.84%) JIRA
7 6 (5.13%) Postman
8 5 (4.27%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.42%) Gradle
9 4 (3.42%) Maven
10 3 (2.56%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.56%) Mocha
11 2 (1.71%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.71%) Log4j
11 2 (1.71%) Subversion
12 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.85%) Selenium
12 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (34.19%) Public Sector
2 17 (14.53%) Finance
3 11 (9.40%) Banking
4 6 (5.13%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (47.86%) Spring Boot
2 55 (47.01%) Spring
3 25 (21.37%) Kafka
4 24 (20.51%) JAX-RS
5 23 (19.66%) RESTful
6 20 (17.09%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (14.53%) REST
8 15 (12.82%) Node.js
9 13 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 12 (10.26%) React
11 9 (7.69%) Hibernate
12 7 (5.98%) JMS
13 6 (5.13%) JSON
13 6 (5.13%) OAuth
13 6 (5.13%) OAuth2
13 6 (5.13%) Spring Cloud
13 6 (5.13%) Spring Security
14 5 (4.27%) JWT
14 5 (4.27%) Spring MVC
15 4 (3.42%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) ASIC
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.79%) Linux
1 29 (24.79%) Unix
2 22 (18.80%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.39%) Microservices
2 56 (47.86%) Agile
3 52 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 51 (43.59%) TDD
5 39 (33.33%) BDD
6 38 (32.48%) CI/CD
7 28 (23.93%) Pair Programming
8 26 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
9 23 (19.66%) Containerisation
10 21 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (16.24%) DevOps
12 18 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (14.53%) SDLC
14 15 (12.82%) Software Engineering
15 14 (11.97%) Responsive Web Design
15 14 (11.97%) Web Design
16 12 (10.26%) API Development
16 12 (10.26%) Unit Testing
17 11 (9.40%) API Design
17 11 (9.40%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 117 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (16.24%) SQL
3 10 (8.55%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.98%) Kotlin
4 7 (5.98%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.56%) Bash
6 2 (1.71%) Python
6 2 (1.71%) Ruby
7 1 (0.85%) Clojure
7 1 (0.85%) Groovy
7 1 (0.85%) Scala
7 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (35.04%) Security Cleared
2 32 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.40%) QA
2 7 (5.98%) ISO 20022
2 7 (5.98%) PSD2
2 7 (5.98%) SEPA
3 5 (4.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (29.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.69%) Terraform
3 5 (4.27%) Argo
4 2 (1.71%) Grafana
5 1 (0.85%) Ansible
5 1 (0.85%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (10.26%) Oracle
2 8 (6.84%) Virgin Media
3 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.13%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.42%) Splunk