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 £489, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 127 112
Rank change year-on-year +8 -15 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 128 35 66
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.95% 1.06% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.13% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 29 62
10th Percentile £385 £376 £367
25th Percentile £420 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £581 £545 £597
90th Percentile £738 £563 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% -10.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +8.33% +6.67% -23.73%

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 6,040 3,095 4,414
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 93.39% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,566 2,047 2,722
10th Percentile £313 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.02% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £579
90th Percentile £669 £638 £670
England median daily rate £518 £517 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 166 438
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.76 £11.10
25th Percentile £25.49 £14.13 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.15 £22.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.96% -1.60% -20.61%
75th Percentile £70.00 £46.89 £47.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.38 £66.61
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.57 £37.75
% change year-on-year +52.21% -21.68% -16.11%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 67 £491 -7.43% 12
Yorkshire -23 46 £463 -11.90% 11
North East -17 19 £481 +26.64% 9
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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.

1 128 (100.00%) Java
2 75 (58.59%) Agile
3 67 (52.34%) Microservices
4 52 (40.63%) Spring
5 45 (35.16%) CI/CD
6 44 (34.38%) Spring Boot
7 42 (32.81%) Kubernetes
8 39 (30.47%) Test Automation
9 38 (29.69%) AWS
10 37 (28.91%) TDD
11 31 (24.22%) DevOps
11 31 (24.22%) Docker
12 28 (21.88%) BDD
12 28 (21.88%) SQL
13 27 (21.09%) Azure
13 27 (21.09%) JavaScript
13 27 (21.09%) Software Engineering
14 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
15 25 (19.53%) RESTful
16 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
17 22 (17.19%) Git
17 22 (17.19%) React
18 21 (16.41%) API Development
18 21 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
19 20 (15.63%) Kafka
19 20 (15.63%) MongoDB
20 19 (14.84%) AngularJS
20 19 (14.84%) GitHub
20 19 (14.84%) Jenkins

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 (3.13%) Confluence
2 2 (1.56%) JBoss
3 1 (0.78%) Camunda
3 1 (0.78%) Mule
3 1 (0.78%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.69%) AWS
2 27 (21.09%) Azure
3 19 (14.84%) GitHub
4 16 (12.50%) GCP
5 10 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (7.81%) OpenShift
6 5 (3.91%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (3.13%) Apigee
7 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.13%) Cloud Run
7 4 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (3.13%) Kong
7 4 (3.13%) Serverless
8 3 (2.34%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.56%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.56%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.63%) MongoDB
2 18 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.81%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.69%) Redis
6 4 (3.13%) Hazelcast
6 4 (3.13%) MySQL
6 4 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.34%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (17.19%) Git
2 19 (14.84%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.72%) JIRA
4 13 (10.16%) GitLab
4 13 (10.16%) Mockito
5 9 (7.03%) SonarQube
6 8 (6.25%) JUnit
7 7 (5.47%) Bitbucket
8 5 (3.91%) Gradle
8 5 (3.91%) Maven
9 4 (3.13%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.13%) Snyk
10 2 (1.56%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.56%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.56%) Flyway
10 2 (1.56%) git-flow
10 2 (1.56%) Liquibase
10 2 (1.56%) Mocha
11 1 (0.78%) Gatling
11 1 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 39 (30.47%) Public Sector
2 25 (19.53%) Finance
3 17 (13.28%) Banking
4 15 (11.72%) Social Skills
5 9 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.34%) Front Office
8 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Automotive
9 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (40.63%) Spring
2 44 (34.38%) Spring Boot
3 25 (19.53%) RESTful
4 22 (17.19%) React
5 20 (15.63%) Kafka
6 19 (14.84%) AngularJS
6 19 (14.84%) REST
7 12 (9.38%) HTML
7 12 (9.38%) Node.js
7 12 (9.38%) OAuth
7 12 (9.38%) OAuth2
8 10 (7.81%) JAX-RS
8 10 (7.81%) JWT
9 9 (7.03%) ActiveMQ
10 8 (6.25%) JPA
10 8 (6.25%) Quarkus
11 7 (5.47%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (5.47%) Spring Cloud
12 5 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (3.91%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.59%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.47%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.34%) Equities
5 3 (2.34%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) NHS
7 1 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.84%) Linux
2 16 (12.50%) Unix
3 11 (8.59%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.34%) AIX
5 2 (1.56%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (58.59%) Agile
2 67 (52.34%) Microservices
3 45 (35.16%) CI/CD
4 39 (30.47%) Test Automation
5 37 (28.91%) TDD
6 31 (24.22%) DevOps
7 28 (21.88%) BDD
8 27 (21.09%) Software Engineering
9 24 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (16.41%) API Development
10 21 (16.41%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (14.06%) Scrum
11 18 (14.06%) SDLC
12 17 (13.28%) Event-Driven
12 17 (13.28%) Pair Programming
13 15 (11.72%) Continuous Deployment
14 14 (10.94%) Containerisation
14 14 (10.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 14 (10.94%) Front End Development
15 13 (10.16%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 128 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (21.88%) SQL
3 27 (21.09%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.28%) Kotlin
5 10 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.34%) C#
6 3 (2.34%) Python
7 2 (1.56%) PromQL
7 2 (1.56%) Ruby
8 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.78%) Scala
8 1 (0.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.13%) Degree
5 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.94%) QA
2 6 (4.69%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.34%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.34%) PSD2
3 3 (2.34%) SEPA
4 2 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (24.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (32.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.94%) Terraform
3 12 (9.38%) Argo
4 7 (5.47%) Grafana
4 7 (5.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.56%) Ansible
5 2 (1.56%) Consul
5 2 (1.56%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.78%) Istio
6 1 (0.78%) Kiali
6 1 (0.78%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 8 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 7 (5.47%) Oracle
3 6 (4.69%) Okta
4 3 (2.34%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.56%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.56%) Solace
6 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.78%) Splunk