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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 102 116
Rank change year-on-year -23 +14 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 101 60 68
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.84% 1.82% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 1.97% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 40 57
10th Percentile £358 £380 £398
25th Percentile £402 £414 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% -16.00%
75th Percentile £565 £578 £600
90th Percentile £630 £600 £638
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £57.00 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £64.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £39.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +66.67% -30.67% -22.41%

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 5,063 3,044 4,498
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.21% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,224 1,915 2,887
10th Percentile £230 £225 £256
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £555 £572 £575
90th Percentile £644 £650 £663
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 142 369
10th Percentile £16.78 £14.91 £11.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.26 £13.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £27.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% +32.40% -30.77%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £33.07
% change year-on-year -1.26% +7.20% -19.41%

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 March 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 March 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 0 63 £450 -18.18% 25
Yorkshire -61 27 £450 -14.29% 14
North East -5 16 £488 +21.12% 8
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 March 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.

1 101 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (60.40%) Microservices
3 52 (51.49%) Spring Boot
4 50 (49.50%) Spring
5 48 (47.52%) Agile
6 43 (42.57%) Test Automation
7 40 (39.60%) TDD
8 36 (35.64%) AWS
9 33 (32.67%) Kubernetes
10 32 (31.68%) CI/CD
11 31 (30.69%) Docker
12 28 (27.72%) Security Cleared
13 26 (25.74%) BDD
14 23 (22.77%) Azure
14 23 (22.77%) Git
15 22 (21.78%) Linux
15 22 (21.78%) Pair Programming
15 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (21.78%) RESTful
16 21 (20.79%) SC Cleared
16 21 (20.79%) Unix
17 19 (18.81%) Containerisation
17 19 (18.81%) Continuous Deployment
17 19 (18.81%) GitLab
18 17 (16.83%) JAX-RS
18 17 (16.83%) Kafka
18 17 (16.83%) MongoDB
19 16 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
19 16 (15.84%) Mac OS X
19 16 (15.84%) Mockito

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 (0.99%) JBoss
1 1 (0.99%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 36 (35.64%) AWS
2 23 (22.77%) Azure
3 8 (7.92%) GCP
3 8 (7.92%) GitHub
4 6 (5.94%) OpenShift
5 5 (4.95%) Apigee
5 5 (4.95%) Serverless
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.96%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.97%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.98%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon ECR
9 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) HTTP
1 4 (3.96%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.83%) MongoDB
2 13 (12.87%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.90%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.91%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.94%) MySQL
6 3 (2.97%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.98%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 23 (22.77%) Git
2 19 (18.81%) GitLab
3 16 (15.84%) Mockito
4 9 (8.91%) Jenkins
5 7 (6.93%) JUnit
6 6 (5.94%) JIRA
6 6 (5.94%) SonarQube
7 4 (3.96%) Gradle
7 4 (3.96%) Maven
7 4 (3.96%) Postman
8 3 (2.97%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.97%) Mocha
9 2 (1.98%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.98%) Log4j
9 2 (1.98%) Subversion
10 1 (0.99%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.99%) Selenium
10 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (42.57%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.84%) Finance
3 10 (9.90%) Banking
4 5 (4.95%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.99%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (51.49%) Spring Boot
2 50 (49.50%) Spring
3 22 (21.78%) RESTful
4 17 (16.83%) JAX-RS
4 17 (16.83%) Kafka
5 15 (14.85%) Node.js
6 14 (13.86%) REST
7 12 (11.88%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (11.88%) AngularJS
8 11 (10.89%) React
9 8 (7.92%) Hibernate
10 6 (5.94%) OAuth
10 6 (5.94%) OAuth2
10 6 (5.94%) Spring Cloud
11 5 (4.95%) JMS
11 5 (4.95%) Quarkus
11 5 (4.95%) Spring MVC
11 5 (4.95%) Spring Security
12 4 (3.96%) JSON
12 4 (3.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.90%) Onboarding
2 8 (7.92%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.94%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.95%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.98%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.99%) ASIC
7 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.78%) Linux
2 21 (20.79%) Unix
3 16 (15.84%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (60.40%) Microservices
2 48 (47.52%) Agile
3 43 (42.57%) Test Automation
4 40 (39.60%) TDD
5 32 (31.68%) CI/CD
6 26 (25.74%) BDD
7 22 (21.78%) Pair Programming
7 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (18.81%) Containerisation
8 19 (18.81%) Continuous Deployment
9 16 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (15.84%) SDLC
10 15 (14.85%) DevOps
10 15 (14.85%) Software Engineering
11 11 (10.89%) API Design
11 11 (10.89%) Code Quality
11 11 (10.89%) Responsive Web Design
11 11 (10.89%) Web Design
12 10 (9.90%) API Development
12 10 (9.90%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 101 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (14.85%) SQL
3 9 (8.91%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
5 6 (5.94%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.98%) Bash
6 2 (1.98%) Ruby
7 1 (0.99%) Groovy
7 1 (0.99%) Python
7 1 (0.99%) Scala
7 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (27.72%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (8.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (8.91%) Degree
5 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) QA
2 5 (4.95%) ISO 20022
2 5 (4.95%) PSD2
2 5 (4.95%) SEPA
3 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.98%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (30.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (32.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.91%) Terraform
3 6 (5.94%) Argo
4 2 (1.98%) Grafana
5 1 (0.99%) Ansible
5 1 (0.99%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (8.91%) Oracle
1 9 (8.91%) Virgin Media
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.94%) Red Hat
3 4 (3.96%) Splunk