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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 98 130
Rank change year-on-year -12 +32 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 124 64 61
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.39% 1.90% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 2.06% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 42 52
10th Percentile £363 £380 £413
25th Percentile £418 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -12.20% -21.15%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £599 £636
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £39.00 £60.76
% change year-on-year +66.67% -35.81% -16.19%

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 4,761 3,105 4,609
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.38% 93.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,111 1,879 2,974
10th Percentile £220 £230 £262
25th Percentile £375 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £470 £476
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -1.31% -4.75%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £582
90th Percentile £650 £656 £669
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 138 359
10th Percentile £15.85 £15.22 £11.77
25th Percentile £21.46 £18.03 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.31 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.28% +30.06% -21.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.62 £56.14
England median hourly rate £31.36 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.41% - -6.67%

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 12 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 12 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 +12 62 £450 -16.28% 12
Yorkshire -36 49 £611 +19.27% 19
North East -7 19 £488 +28.29% 5
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 80 (64.52%) Microservices
3 65 (52.42%) Agile
4 60 (48.39%) Test Automation
5 59 (47.58%) TDD
6 55 (44.35%) Spring Boot
7 54 (43.55%) Spring
8 45 (36.29%) BDD
9 43 (34.68%) Security Cleared
10 42 (33.87%) AWS
11 38 (30.65%) CI/CD
12 36 (29.03%) Kubernetes
12 36 (29.03%) Linux
12 36 (29.03%) Unix
13 34 (27.42%) Pair Programming
13 34 (27.42%) SC Cleared
14 33 (26.61%) Continuous Deployment
14 33 (26.61%) Docker
15 29 (23.39%) Kafka
15 29 (23.39%) MongoDB
16 28 (22.58%) JAX-RS
17 27 (21.77%) Mac OS X
17 27 (21.77%) Mockito
18 26 (20.97%) Azure
18 26 (20.97%) Git
19 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
20 23 (18.55%) ActiveMQ
20 23 (18.55%) RESTful
21 22 (17.74%) Containerisation
22 20 (16.13%) 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 (0.81%) JBoss
1 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 42 (33.87%) AWS
2 26 (20.97%) Azure
3 10 (8.06%) GitHub
4 8 (6.45%) GCP
5 6 (4.84%) OpenShift
5 6 (4.84%) Serverless
6 5 (4.03%) Apigee
6 5 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.42%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (2.42%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.81%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) HTTP
1 4 (3.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.39%) MongoDB
2 15 (12.10%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.87%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.06%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.45%) MySQL
6 3 (2.42%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (21.77%) Mockito
2 26 (20.97%) Git
3 20 (16.13%) GitLab
4 11 (8.87%) Jenkins
5 8 (6.45%) JIRA
5 8 (6.45%) JUnit
6 6 (4.84%) SonarQube
7 5 (4.03%) Postman
8 4 (3.23%) Gradle
8 4 (3.23%) Maven
9 3 (2.42%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.42%) Mocha
10 2 (1.61%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.61%) Log4j
10 2 (1.61%) Subversion
11 1 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.81%) Selenium
11 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (36.29%) Public Sector
2 17 (13.71%) Finance
3 11 (8.87%) Banking
4 6 (4.84%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.81%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.81%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (44.35%) Spring Boot
2 54 (43.55%) Spring
3 29 (23.39%) Kafka
4 28 (22.58%) JAX-RS
5 23 (18.55%) ActiveMQ
5 23 (18.55%) RESTful
6 17 (13.71%) REST
7 15 (12.10%) Node.js
8 13 (10.48%) AngularJS
9 11 (8.87%) React
10 9 (7.26%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.65%) JMS
12 6 (4.84%) OAuth
12 6 (4.84%) OAuth2
12 6 (4.84%) Spring Cloud
12 6 (4.84%) Spring Security
13 5 (4.03%) JSON
13 5 (4.03%) JWT
13 5 (4.03%) Quarkus
13 5 (4.03%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.26%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) ASIC
8 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.03%) Linux
1 36 (29.03%) Unix
2 27 (21.77%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (64.52%) Microservices
2 65 (52.42%) Agile
3 60 (48.39%) Test Automation
4 59 (47.58%) TDD
5 45 (36.29%) BDD
6 38 (30.65%) CI/CD
7 34 (27.42%) Pair Programming
8 33 (26.61%) Continuous Deployment
9 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (17.74%) Containerisation
11 19 (15.32%) DevOps
12 18 (14.52%) Responsive Web Design
12 18 (14.52%) SDLC
12 18 (14.52%) Web Design
13 16 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (12.90%) Software Engineering
14 15 (12.10%) Web Development
15 13 (10.48%) API Development
16 12 (9.68%) Unit Testing
17 11 (8.87%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 124 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (15.32%) SQL
3 10 (8.06%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.65%) Kotlin
4 7 (5.65%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.42%) Bash
6 2 (1.61%) Python
6 2 (1.61%) Ruby
7 1 (0.81%) Clojure
7 1 (0.81%) Groovy
7 1 (0.81%) Scala
7 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.42%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (7.26%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) QA
2 7 (5.65%) ISO 20022
2 7 (5.65%) PSD2
2 7 (5.65%) SEPA
3 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (26.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (29.03%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.26%) Terraform
3 6 (4.84%) Argo
4 2 (1.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.81%) Ansible
5 1 (0.81%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (9.68%) Oracle
2 8 (6.45%) Virgin Media
3 7 (5.65%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.84%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.23%) Splunk