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 £479, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 123 121
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 134 48 69
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.17% 1.46% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% 1.56% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 34 63
10th Percentile £361 £380 £324
25th Percentile £406 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +0.95% -12.50%
75th Percentile £570 £563 £625
90th Percentile £700 £588 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.00 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £83.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.13
% change year-on-year - +35.06% -34.75%

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 5,677 3,079 4,385
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 93.56% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,451 2,029 2,750
10th Percentile £300 £232 £263
25th Percentile £393 £367 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £572 £553 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 164 394
10th Percentile £17.13 £12.87 £11.02
25th Percentile £25.49 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.94 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.73% +29.71% -36.76%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.19 £45.97
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.56 £60.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £31.35 £36.50
% change year-on-year +49.94% -14.12% -17.64%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +14 80 £476 -10.28% 7
Yorkshire -26 42 £481 -8.33% 12
North East -6 17 £513 +34.87% 17
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 77 (57.46%) Agile
3 72 (53.73%) Microservices
4 60 (44.78%) Spring
5 54 (40.30%) Spring Boot
6 48 (35.82%) CI/CD
7 47 (35.07%) Test Automation
8 46 (34.33%) Kubernetes
9 45 (33.58%) TDD
10 43 (32.09%) AWS
11 36 (26.87%) Docker
12 33 (24.63%) Security Cleared
13 31 (23.13%) Azure
14 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (21.64%) BDD
15 29 (21.64%) RESTful
16 27 (20.15%) DevOps
16 27 (20.15%) Git
17 26 (19.40%) SC Cleared
18 24 (17.91%) Software Engineering
19 23 (17.16%) JavaScript
19 23 (17.16%) SQL
20 22 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
21 21 (15.67%) AngularJS
21 21 (15.67%) GitLab
21 21 (15.67%) SDLC
22 20 (14.93%) Linux
22 20 (14.93%) Pair Programming
23 19 (14.18%) API Development
23 19 (14.18%) Containerisation

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 (2.99%) Confluence
2 2 (1.49%) JBoss
3 1 (0.75%) Camunda
3 1 (0.75%) Mule
3 1 (0.75%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.09%) AWS
2 31 (23.13%) Azure
3 18 (13.43%) GitHub
4 17 (12.69%) GCP
5 10 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.72%) OpenShift
7 6 (4.48%) Apigee
7 6 (4.48%) Serverless
8 5 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.99%) GitHub Copilot
10 3 (2.24%) Cloud Run
10 3 (2.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.24%) Kong
11 2 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.49%) HTTP
1 2 (1.49%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.18%) MongoDB
1 19 (14.18%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.70%) Relational Database
3 8 (5.97%) MySQL
3 8 (5.97%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.99%) Redis
5 3 (2.24%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.24%) Hazelcast
5 3 (2.24%) RDBMS
5 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (20.15%) Git
2 21 (15.67%) GitLab
3 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.70%) JIRA
5 12 (8.96%) Mockito
6 9 (6.72%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.22%) JUnit
8 5 (3.73%) Maven
9 4 (2.99%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.99%) Gradle
10 3 (2.24%) Cypress.io
10 3 (2.24%) Mocha
10 3 (2.24%) Snyk
11 2 (1.49%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.49%) Postman
12 1 (0.75%) Eclipse
12 1 (0.75%) Gatling
12 1 (0.75%) Selenium
12 1 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 49 (36.57%) Public Sector
2 23 (17.16%) Finance
3 15 (11.19%) Social Skills
4 11 (8.21%) Banking
5 7 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Automotive
6 1 (0.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (44.78%) Spring
2 54 (40.30%) Spring Boot
3 29 (21.64%) RESTful
4 21 (15.67%) AngularJS
5 19 (14.18%) Kafka
5 19 (14.18%) React
6 18 (13.43%) Node.js
7 16 (11.94%) REST
8 13 (9.70%) JAX-RS
8 13 (9.70%) OAuth
8 13 (9.70%) OAuth2
9 10 (7.46%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (6.72%) HTML
10 9 (6.72%) JWT
11 7 (5.22%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.22%) Quarkus
12 6 (4.48%) Spring MVC
13 5 (3.73%) CSS
13 5 (3.73%) Jest
13 5 (3.73%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.97%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.99%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.75%) ASIC
6 1 (0.75%) NHS
6 1 (0.75%) Replication
6 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (14.93%) Linux
2 17 (12.69%) Unix
3 12 (8.96%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.24%) AIX
5 2 (1.49%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.46%) Agile
2 72 (53.73%) Microservices
3 48 (35.82%) CI/CD
4 47 (35.07%) Test Automation
5 45 (33.58%) TDD
6 30 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (21.64%) BDD
8 27 (20.15%) DevOps
9 24 (17.91%) Software Engineering
10 22 (16.42%) Full-Stack Development
11 21 (15.67%) SDLC
12 20 (14.93%) Pair Programming
13 19 (14.18%) API Development
13 19 (14.18%) Containerisation
14 17 (12.69%) Code Quality
15 16 (11.94%) Continuous Deployment
16 15 (11.19%) Scrum
17 14 (10.45%) Event-Driven
18 13 (9.70%) Front End Development
18 13 (9.70%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 134 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (17.16%) JavaScript
2 23 (17.16%) SQL
3 16 (11.94%) Kotlin
4 9 (6.72%) TypeScript
5 4 (2.99%) Python
6 2 (1.49%) Ruby
6 2 (1.49%) Scala
7 1 (0.75%) Bash
7 1 (0.75%) Groovy
7 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (24.63%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.72%) Degree
4 8 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.45%) QA
2 6 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.99%) ISO 20022
3 4 (2.99%) PSD2
3 4 (2.99%) SEPA
4 2 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 36 (26.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (34.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.19%) Terraform
3 10 (7.46%) Argo
4 5 (3.73%) Grafana
5 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.75%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.75%) Kiali
Vendors
1 10 (7.46%) Oracle
2 8 (5.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.22%) Red Hat
4 6 (4.48%) Okta
4 6 (4.48%) Virgin Media
5 3 (2.24%) Splunk
6 2 (1.49%) ForgeRock
7 1 (0.75%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.75%) Google
7 1 (0.75%) OpenAI