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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 124 94
Rank change year-on-year -7 -30 +35
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 140 60 75
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.87% 1.51% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.63% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 50 72
10th Percentile £407 £313 £371
25th Percentile £450 £372 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £469 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -5.25% -17.50%
75th Percentile £650 £545 £561
90th Percentile £738 £617 £649
England median daily rate £550 £530 £623
% change year-on-year +3.77% -14.86% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £69.50 - £83.00
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 6,863 3,678 3,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 92.34% 92.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,014 2,367 2,337
10th Percentile £309 £250 £283
25th Percentile £403 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £584
90th Percentile £675 £640 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 630 237 278
10th Percentile £16.99 £12.82 £11.38
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.30 £16.52
Median hourly rate £41.06 £22.32 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.98% -25.62% +22.37%
75th Percentile £70.00 £48.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.97 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +7.40%

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 August 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 19 August 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 -2 56 £489 -17.16% 5
North West -40 56 £550 +22.29% 10
North East -9 30 £625 +28.21% 15
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 August 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.

1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 85 (60.71%) Agile
3 69 (49.29%) Microservices
4 53 (37.86%) CI/CD
5 50 (35.71%) Spring
6 46 (32.86%) Kubernetes
7 45 (32.14%) Test Automation
8 44 (31.43%) Spring Boot
9 37 (26.43%) DevOps
9 37 (26.43%) Security Cleared
9 37 (26.43%) TDD
10 36 (25.71%) AWS
10 36 (25.71%) SC Cleared
10 36 (25.71%) Software Engineering
11 29 (20.71%) BDD
11 29 (20.71%) JavaScript
12 28 (20.00%) Docker
13 27 (19.29%) Scrum
14 26 (18.57%) Kafka
14 26 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (17.86%) Jenkins
15 25 (17.86%) SDLC
15 25 (17.86%) SQL
16 24 (17.14%) AngularJS
16 24 (17.14%) RESTful
17 23 (16.43%) Azure
17 23 (16.43%) MongoDB
18 22 (15.71%) React
19 21 (15.00%) GCP
20 20 (14.29%) Event-Driven

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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 5 (3.57%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.71%) Camunda
3 1 (0.71%) CMS
3 1 (0.71%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.71%) JBoss
3 1 (0.71%) Mule
3 1 (0.71%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.71%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (25.71%) AWS
2 23 (16.43%) Azure
3 21 (15.00%) GCP
4 20 (14.29%) GitHub
5 17 (12.14%) OpenShift
6 9 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.57%) Apigee
8 5 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.57%) Cloud Run
8 5 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.57%) Kong
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.43%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.43%) Serverless
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (16.43%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.86%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.00%) Redis
5 5 (3.57%) Hazelcast
5 5 (3.57%) RDBMS
5 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.14%) MySQL
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.57%) Git
3 15 (10.71%) Mockito
3 15 (10.71%) SonarQube
4 14 (10.00%) JIRA
5 8 (5.71%) GitLab
6 7 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 7 (5.00%) Gradle
6 7 (5.00%) Maven
7 6 (4.29%) JUnit
8 5 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 4 (2.86%) Snyk
10 2 (1.43%) Flyway
10 2 (1.43%) git-flow
10 2 (1.43%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.71%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.71%) Gatling
11 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.71%) Jaeger
General
1 30 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.14%) Finance
4 17 (12.14%) Banking
5 11 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.29%) Front Office
8 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.43%) Law
8 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Automotive
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
9 1 (0.71%) Military
9 1 (0.71%) Police
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (35.71%) Spring
2 44 (31.43%) Spring Boot
3 26 (18.57%) Kafka
4 24 (17.14%) AngularJS
4 24 (17.14%) RESTful
5 22 (15.71%) React
6 17 (12.14%) OAuth
7 16 (11.43%) HTML
8 15 (10.71%) REST
9 14 (10.00%) JWT
10 13 (9.29%) OAuth2
10 13 (9.29%) Quarkus
11 12 (8.57%) ActiveMQ
12 11 (7.86%) JAX-RS
12 11 (7.86%) JPA
13 9 (6.43%) Node.js
14 8 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (5.71%) Redux
15 7 (5.00%) CSS
15 7 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Cloud Native
1 13 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.43%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.29%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.29%) Equities
3 6 (4.29%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) NHS
7 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.71%) Linux
2 13 (9.29%) Unix
3 6 (4.29%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.14%) AIX
5 2 (1.43%) VMS
6 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (60.71%) Agile
2 69 (49.29%) Microservices
3 53 (37.86%) CI/CD
4 45 (32.14%) Test Automation
5 37 (26.43%) DevOps
5 37 (26.43%) TDD
6 36 (25.71%) Software Engineering
7 29 (20.71%) BDD
8 27 (19.29%) Scrum
9 26 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (17.86%) SDLC
11 20 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 19 (13.57%) API Development
13 18 (12.86%) Front End Development
13 18 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (12.14%) Sprint Planning
15 16 (11.43%) Containerisation
16 15 (10.71%) DevSecOps
16 15 (10.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 15 (10.71%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (20.71%) JavaScript
3 25 (17.86%) SQL
4 19 (13.57%) Kotlin
5 11 (7.86%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.29%) C#
7 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.14%) Python
8 2 (1.43%) PromQL
9 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 36 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.29%) Degree
5 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.29%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 28 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (32.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (12.86%) Argo
3 14 (10.00%) Terraform
4 9 (6.43%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.71%) Grafana
6 2 (1.43%) Ansible
6 2 (1.43%) Consul
6 2 (1.43%) Control-M
6 2 (1.43%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.71%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.71%) Istio
7 1 (0.71%) Kiali
7 1 (0.71%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (9.29%) Red Hat
2 9 (6.43%) Oracle
3 6 (4.29%) Okta
4 5 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.43%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.43%) Google
5 2 (1.43%) Solace
6 1 (0.71%) Adobe
6 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) Splunk
6 1 (0.71%) Virgin Media