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 £492, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 94 128
Rank change year-on-year -8 +34 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 114 68 54
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.40% 2.00% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.61% 2.17% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 48 46
10th Percentile £366 £405 £419
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -10.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £625
90th Percentile £678 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £585 £619
% change year-on-year -10.26% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £39.00 £63.42
% change year-on-year +47.44% -38.51% -14.59%

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 4,366 3,138 4,309
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 92.16% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 1,811 2,860
10th Percentile £213 £225 £270
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £567 £588
90th Percentile £644 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 149 231
10th Percentile £16.63 £15.22 £13.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £17.13
Median hourly rate £38.00 £24.18 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year +57.15% -14.56% +25.78%
75th Percentile £56.69 £38.75 £46.91
90th Percentile £70.73 £61.00 £63.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -22.22% +28.57%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 58 £446 -22.43% 6
Yorkshire -44 45 £638 +41.67% 7
North East -3 15 £488 +14.71% 2
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 January 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.

1 114 (100.00%) Java
2 68 (59.65%) Microservices
3 52 (45.61%) Spring Boot
4 51 (44.74%) Spring
5 49 (42.98%) Test Automation
6 48 (42.11%) Agile
7 47 (41.23%) TDD
8 38 (33.33%) AWS
8 38 (33.33%) BDD
9 36 (31.58%) Security Cleared
10 34 (29.82%) CI/CD
11 32 (28.07%) Kubernetes
12 31 (27.19%) Linux
13 29 (25.44%) Docker
14 28 (24.56%) SC Cleared
14 28 (24.56%) Unix
15 26 (22.81%) Kafka
16 25 (21.93%) Continuous Deployment
16 25 (21.93%) Pair Programming
17 24 (21.05%) JAX-RS
17 24 (21.05%) MongoDB
18 23 (20.18%) Azure
18 23 (20.18%) Containerisation
18 23 (20.18%) Git
18 23 (20.18%) Mockito
19 21 (18.42%) Mac OS X
19 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
20 20 (17.54%) ActiveMQ
20 20 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
20 20 (17.54%) SQL

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 (0.88%) JBoss
1 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.33%) AWS
2 23 (20.18%) Azure
3 9 (7.89%) GitHub
4 6 (5.26%) GCP
4 6 (5.26%) Serverless
5 5 (4.39%) Apigee
5 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (4.39%) Azure AKS
5 5 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.51%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.88%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) HTTP
1 4 (3.51%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 13 (11.40%) NoSQL
3 12 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.02%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.14%) MySQL
6 3 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.75%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 23 (20.18%) Git
1 23 (20.18%) Mockito
2 17 (14.91%) GitLab
3 13 (11.40%) Jenkins
4 12 (10.53%) JUnit
5 9 (7.89%) Postman
6 7 (6.14%) JIRA
7 5 (4.39%) Gradle
8 4 (3.51%) Maven
8 4 (3.51%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.63%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.63%) Mocha
10 2 (1.75%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.75%) Log4j
10 2 (1.75%) Subversion
11 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.88%) Selenium
11 1 (0.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 15 (13.16%) Finance
3 8 (7.02%) Banking
4 6 (5.26%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (45.61%) Spring Boot
2 51 (44.74%) Spring
3 26 (22.81%) Kafka
4 24 (21.05%) JAX-RS
5 20 (17.54%) ActiveMQ
6 18 (15.79%) RESTful
7 14 (12.28%) AngularJS
7 14 (12.28%) REST
8 13 (11.40%) React
9 12 (10.53%) Node.js
10 9 (7.89%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.89%) JSON
11 6 (5.26%) JMS
11 6 (5.26%) jQuery
11 6 (5.26%) OAuth
11 6 (5.26%) OAuth2
11 6 (5.26%) Spring MVC
11 6 (5.26%) Spring Security
12 5 (4.39%) Spring Cloud
12 5 (4.39%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) ASIC
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (27.19%) Linux
2 28 (24.56%) Unix
3 21 (18.42%) Mac OS X
4 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (59.65%) Microservices
2 49 (42.98%) Test Automation
3 48 (42.11%) Agile
4 47 (41.23%) TDD
5 38 (33.33%) BDD
6 34 (29.82%) CI/CD
7 25 (21.93%) Continuous Deployment
7 25 (21.93%) Pair Programming
8 23 (20.18%) Containerisation
9 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (17.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (16.67%) DevOps
12 14 (12.28%) Responsive Web Design
12 14 (12.28%) Web Design
13 13 (11.40%) API Development
13 13 (11.40%) Unit Testing
14 12 (10.53%) SDLC
14 12 (10.53%) Software Engineering
14 12 (10.53%) Web Development
15 10 (8.77%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 114 (100.00%) Java
2 20 (17.54%) SQL
3 9 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.14%) Kotlin
5 4 (3.51%) Python
5 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (0.88%) C
7 1 (0.88%) C++
7 1 (0.88%) Clojure
7 1 (0.88%) Groovy
7 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.88%) Scala
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 28 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (8.77%) Degree
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
3 6 (5.26%) ISO 20022
3 6 (5.26%) PSD2
3 6 (5.26%) SEPA
4 2 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (25.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Terraform
3 4 (3.51%) Argo
4 2 (1.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.75%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Oracle
2 8 (7.02%) Virgin Media
3 5 (4.39%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.51%) Splunk
5 2 (1.75%) Microsoft