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 £533, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 135 95
Rank change year-on-year +21 -40 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 145 51 76
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.98% 1.30% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.15% 1.40% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 43 71
10th Percentile £400 £313 £374
25th Percentile £450 £358 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.89% -8.10% -16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £545 £575
90th Percentile £738 £560 £638
England median daily rate £540 £530 £604
% change year-on-year +1.89% -12.18% -7.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -21.43% -3.45%

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 6,732 3,634 3,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 92.44% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,914 2,337 2,369
10th Percentile £311 £253 £263
25th Percentile £403 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £463 £493
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -6.19% -1.40%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £580
90th Percentile £675 £638 £670
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 231 282
10th Percentile £17.00 £12.82 £11.47
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.30 £16.58
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.32 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.45% -25.62% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £46.65 £51.90
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.79 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -32 60 £550 +20.35% 2
Yorkshire +1 57 £490 -2.00% 5
North East - 30 £625 - 10
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 August 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.

1 145 (100.00%) Java
2 91 (62.76%) Agile
3 75 (51.72%) Microservices
4 51 (35.17%) Test Automation
5 50 (34.48%) CI/CD
6 46 (31.72%) Spring
7 44 (30.34%) TDD
8 43 (29.66%) Kubernetes
9 40 (27.59%) Spring Boot
10 36 (24.83%) BDD
10 36 (24.83%) Security Cleared
11 35 (24.14%) DevOps
11 35 (24.14%) SC Cleared
12 34 (23.45%) AWS
12 34 (23.45%) Software Engineering
13 29 (20.00%) Kafka
13 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (19.31%) JavaScript
14 28 (19.31%) MongoDB
15 25 (17.24%) Docker
15 25 (17.24%) Scrum
16 24 (16.55%) RESTful
16 24 (16.55%) SQL
17 23 (15.86%) AngularJS
17 23 (15.86%) Linux
17 23 (15.86%) SDLC
18 22 (15.17%) Jenkins
18 22 (15.17%) React
19 21 (14.48%) Azure
19 21 (14.48%) Unix

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 7 (4.83%) Confluence
2 5 (3.45%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.69%) Camunda
3 1 (0.69%) CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.69%) JBoss
3 1 (0.69%) Mule
3 1 (0.69%) Mule ESB
3 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (23.45%) AWS
2 21 (14.48%) Azure
3 19 (13.10%) GCP
3 19 (13.10%) GitHub
4 16 (11.03%) OpenShift
5 8 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (2.76%) Apigee
7 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.76%) Cloud Run
7 4 (2.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (2.76%) Kong
8 2 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.38%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.38%) Serverless
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.31%) MongoDB
2 16 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.21%) Relational Database
4 8 (5.52%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.14%) Redis
6 4 (2.76%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.76%) MySQL
6 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
7 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (15.17%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.41%) Mockito
3 16 (11.03%) Git
4 14 (9.66%) JIRA
4 14 (9.66%) SonarQube
5 7 (4.83%) Bitbucket
6 6 (4.14%) GitLab
6 6 (4.14%) Gradle
7 5 (3.45%) Maven
8 4 (2.76%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.76%) JUnit
8 4 (2.76%) Snyk
9 2 (1.38%) Flyway
9 2 (1.38%) git-flow
9 2 (1.38%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.69%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.69%) Gatling
10 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.69%) Jaeger
General
1 36 (24.83%) Public Sector
2 25 (17.24%) Finance
3 24 (16.55%) Social Skills
4 18 (12.41%) Banking
5 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.83%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.14%) Front Office
8 2 (1.38%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.38%) Law
8 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (31.72%) Spring
2 40 (27.59%) Spring Boot
3 29 (20.00%) Kafka
4 24 (16.55%) RESTful
5 23 (15.86%) AngularJS
6 22 (15.17%) React
7 16 (11.03%) ActiveMQ
7 16 (11.03%) JAX-RS
8 15 (10.34%) OAuth
9 14 (9.66%) HTML
10 13 (8.97%) JWT
10 13 (8.97%) Quarkus
11 12 (8.28%) OAuth2
11 12 (8.28%) REST
12 9 (6.21%) JPA
12 9 (6.21%) Node.js
13 8 (5.52%) Redux
14 7 (4.83%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (4.14%) CSS
15 6 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.83%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (4.14%) Equities
5 6 (4.14%) Fixed Income
5 6 (4.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (4.14%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.86%) Linux
2 21 (14.48%) Unix
3 12 (8.28%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.07%) AIX
5 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (62.76%) Agile
2 75 (51.72%) Microservices
3 51 (35.17%) Test Automation
4 50 (34.48%) CI/CD
5 44 (30.34%) TDD
6 36 (24.83%) BDD
7 35 (24.14%) DevOps
8 34 (23.45%) Software Engineering
9 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (17.24%) Scrum
11 23 (15.86%) SDLC
12 20 (13.79%) API Development
12 20 (13.79%) Pair Programming
13 19 (13.10%) Continuous Deployment
13 19 (13.10%) Event-Driven
14 18 (12.41%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (11.72%) Front End Development
16 16 (11.03%) Sprint Planning
17 15 (10.34%) Containerisation
17 15 (10.34%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 145 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (19.31%) JavaScript
3 24 (16.55%) SQL
4 18 (12.41%) Kotlin
5 9 (6.21%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.14%) C#
7 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.07%) Python
8 2 (1.38%) PromQL
9 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 35 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.14%) Degree
5 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.10%) QA
2 5 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 25 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 43 (29.66%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.72%) Argo
3 13 (8.97%) Terraform
4 8 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.83%) Grafana
6 2 (1.38%) Ansible
6 2 (1.38%) Consul
6 2 (1.38%) Control-M
6 2 (1.38%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.69%) Kiali
7 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (8.97%) Red Hat
2 7 (4.83%) Oracle
3 6 (4.14%) Okta
4 5 (3.45%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.38%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.38%) Google
5 2 (1.38%) Solace
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe
6 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) Virgin Media