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 £522, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 104 95
Rank change year-on-year -34 -9 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 134 91 78
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.73% 2.18% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.37% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 71 70
10th Percentile £406 £358 £375
25th Percentile £450 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +5.41% -21.28%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £614
England median daily rate £541 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +3.10% -12.50% -7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £69.75 £64.25 £68.75
% change year-on-year +8.56% -6.55% +1.85%

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 7,072 3,841 3,827
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.16% 91.82% 92.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,037 2,546 2,097
10th Percentile £313 £217 £263
25th Percentile £406 £369 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% -2.62% -3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £567 £575
90th Percentile £675 £671 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 738 217 233
10th Percentile £14.46 £13.51 £15.25
25th Percentile £23.47 £17.48 £18.00
Median hourly rate £41.06 £22.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.42% -30.37% +19.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.79 £70.00
England median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -6.89%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -25 54 £488 -25.00% 7
North West -44 53 £522 +21.40% 7
North East -13 29 £625 +28.21% 4
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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.

1 134 (100.00%) Java
2 78 (58.21%) Agile
3 63 (47.01%) Microservices
4 52 (38.81%) CI/CD
5 51 (38.06%) Spring
6 49 (36.57%) AWS
6 49 (36.57%) Test Automation
7 48 (35.82%) Spring Boot
8 47 (35.07%) Software Engineering
9 45 (33.58%) Kubernetes
10 38 (28.36%) SC Cleared
10 38 (28.36%) Security Cleared
11 37 (27.61%) DevOps
12 29 (21.64%) Scrum
13 28 (20.90%) Kafka
13 28 (20.90%) SDLC
14 26 (19.40%) Jenkins
14 26 (19.40%) MongoDB
15 25 (18.66%) Docker
15 25 (18.66%) GitHub
16 24 (17.91%) AngularJS
17 23 (17.16%) QA
17 23 (17.16%) SQL
18 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
19 21 (15.67%) TDD
20 20 (14.93%) Argo
20 20 (14.93%) GCP
20 20 (14.93%) REST
21 19 (14.18%) Front End Development
21 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving

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 11 (8.21%) Confluence
2 4 (2.99%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.75%) CMS
3 1 (0.75%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 49 (36.57%) AWS
2 25 (18.66%) GitHub
3 20 (14.93%) GCP
4 18 (13.43%) OpenShift
5 17 (12.69%) Azure
6 10 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.73%) Apigee
8 5 (3.73%) Cloud Run
8 5 (3.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (3.73%) Kong
9 3 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.49%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.49%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.75%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.75%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.40%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (7.46%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.72%) Relational Database
5 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
5 6 (4.48%) Redis
6 5 (3.73%) Hazelcast
7 4 (2.99%) Neo4j
8 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.75%) MySQL
9 1 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (19.40%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.94%) Git
2 16 (11.94%) SonarQube
3 14 (10.45%) JIRA
4 12 (8.96%) Mockito
5 9 (6.72%) Maven
6 8 (5.97%) Bitbucket
6 8 (5.97%) Gradle
7 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.22%) GitLab
8 6 (4.48%) JUnit
9 4 (2.99%) Snyk
10 2 (1.49%) Flyway
10 2 (1.49%) Gatling
10 2 (1.49%) git-flow
10 2 (1.49%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 31 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.66%) Public Sector
3 21 (15.67%) Banking
3 21 (15.67%) Finance
4 12 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.48%) Front Office
7 2 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.49%) Law
8 1 (0.75%) Automotive
8 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Marketing
8 1 (0.75%) Military
8 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Police
8 1 (0.75%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (38.06%) Spring
2 48 (35.82%) Spring Boot
3 28 (20.90%) Kafka
4 24 (17.91%) AngularJS
5 20 (14.93%) REST
6 18 (13.43%) RESTful
7 16 (11.94%) React
8 14 (10.45%) Quarkus
9 13 (9.70%) HTML
9 13 (9.70%) OAuth
10 12 (8.96%) JWT
10 12 (8.96%) Terraform
11 9 (6.72%) JPA
11 9 (6.72%) OAuth2
12 8 (5.97%) Redux
13 7 (5.22%) ActiveMQ
13 7 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (4.48%) JAX-RS
14 6 (4.48%) Node.js
14 6 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.94%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.48%) Equities
3 6 (4.48%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.73%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.99%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.72%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Unix
3 3 (2.24%) AIX
4 2 (1.49%) macOS
5 1 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (58.21%) Agile
2 63 (47.01%) Microservices
3 52 (38.81%) CI/CD
4 49 (36.57%) Test Automation
5 47 (35.07%) Software Engineering
6 37 (27.61%) DevOps
7 29 (21.64%) Scrum
8 28 (20.90%) SDLC
9 21 (15.67%) TDD
10 19 (14.18%) Front End Development
10 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (14.18%) Sprint Planning
11 18 (13.43%) DevSecOps
11 18 (13.43%) Event-Driven
12 16 (11.94%) API Development
12 16 (11.94%) Sprint Review
12 16 (11.94%) Unit Testing
13 15 (11.19%) BDD
14 14 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (10.45%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 134 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (17.16%) SQL
3 22 (16.42%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.43%) Kotlin
5 11 (8.21%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.48%) C#
7 2 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.49%) PromQL
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) Python
8 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (28.36%) SC Cleared
1 38 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.99%) Degree
4 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.16%) QA
2 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (18.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (33.58%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.93%) Argo
3 11 (8.21%) Grafana
4 9 (6.72%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.49%) Ansible
5 2 (1.49%) Consul
5 2 (1.49%) Control-M
5 2 (1.49%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.75%) Istio
6 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (11.19%) Red Hat
2 7 (5.22%) Oracle
3 5 (3.73%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.99%) Google
4 4 (2.99%) Okta
5 2 (1.49%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.49%) Solace
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe