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 £540, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 96 100
Rank change year-on-year -34 +4 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 142 89 72
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.87% 2.23% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 2.41% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 69 67
10th Percentile £403 £347 £375
25th Percentile £450 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -2.00% -18.37%
75th Percentile £647 £610 £550
90th Percentile £738 £675 £625
England median daily rate £550 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +3.77% -15.20% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £67.25 - -
75th Percentile £70.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -8.21% -

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 6,981 3,696 3,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 92.47% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,058 2,417 2,190
10th Percentile £313 £250 £275
25th Percentile £406 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 218 241
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.00 £15.17
25th Percentile £25.00 £17.30 £17.44
Median hourly rate £42.00 £22.45 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.12% -30.94% +31.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £49.28 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.30 £70.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +76.76% -45.54% +3.20%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 59 £488 -23.53% 6
North West -34 55 £570 +32.56% 16
North East -15 30 £569 +16.67% 21
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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.

1 142 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (60.56%) Agile
3 70 (49.30%) Microservices
4 58 (40.85%) CI/CD
5 57 (40.14%) Spring
6 50 (35.21%) Spring Boot
7 48 (33.80%) Kubernetes
7 48 (33.80%) Software Engineering
8 47 (33.10%) Test Automation
9 45 (31.69%) AWS
10 40 (28.17%) DevOps
11 39 (27.46%) SC Cleared
11 39 (27.46%) Security Cleared
12 31 (21.83%) Kafka
13 30 (21.13%) Scrum
13 30 (21.13%) SDLC
14 29 (20.42%) Docker
14 29 (20.42%) MongoDB
14 29 (20.42%) TDD
15 28 (19.72%) JavaScript
16 26 (18.31%) AngularJS
17 25 (17.61%) Jenkins
17 25 (17.61%) RESTful
17 25 (17.61%) SQL
18 23 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
19 22 (15.49%) BDD
19 22 (15.49%) QA
19 22 (15.49%) React
20 21 (14.79%) Azure
20 21 (14.79%) GCP

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 (4.93%) Confluence
2 5 (3.52%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.70%) Camunda
3 1 (0.70%) CMS
3 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.70%) JBoss
3 1 (0.70%) Mule
3 1 (0.70%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.69%) AWS
2 21 (14.79%) Azure
2 21 (14.79%) GCP
2 21 (14.79%) GitHub
3 18 (12.68%) OpenShift
4 10 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.52%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (3.52%) Apigee
5 5 (3.52%) Cloud Run
5 5 (3.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (3.52%) Kong
6 4 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.41%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.70%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.70%) Serverless
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.42%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.45%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.04%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.93%) Redis
6 5 (3.52%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.52%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.11%) MySQL
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (17.61%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.38%) Git
3 16 (11.27%) SonarQube
4 14 (9.86%) JIRA
4 14 (9.86%) Mockito
5 8 (5.63%) GitLab
5 8 (5.63%) Gradle
5 8 (5.63%) Maven
6 7 (4.93%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.93%) JUnit
7 5 (3.52%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.82%) Snyk
9 2 (1.41%) Flyway
9 2 (1.41%) git-flow
9 2 (1.41%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.70%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.70%) Jaeger
General
1 27 (19.01%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.61%) Finance
2 25 (17.61%) Public Sector
3 20 (14.08%) Banking
4 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.93%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.23%) Front Office
7 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.41%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Automotive
8 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Military
8 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Police
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (40.14%) Spring
2 50 (35.21%) Spring Boot
3 31 (21.83%) Kafka
4 26 (18.31%) AngularJS
5 25 (17.61%) RESTful
6 22 (15.49%) React
7 18 (12.68%) REST
8 16 (11.27%) HTML
9 15 (10.56%) OAuth
10 14 (9.86%) JWT
10 14 (9.86%) Quarkus
10 14 (9.86%) Terraform
11 11 (7.75%) JPA
11 11 (7.75%) OAuth2
12 10 (7.04%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (6.34%) JAX-RS
13 9 (6.34%) Node.js
14 8 (5.63%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (5.63%) Redux
15 7 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.34%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.23%) Equities
4 6 (4.23%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.23%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.70%) NHS
7 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.15%) Linux
2 11 (7.75%) Unix
3 4 (2.82%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.11%) AIX
5 2 (1.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (60.56%) Agile
2 70 (49.30%) Microservices
3 58 (40.85%) CI/CD
4 48 (33.80%) Software Engineering
5 47 (33.10%) Test Automation
6 40 (28.17%) DevOps
7 30 (21.13%) Scrum
7 30 (21.13%) SDLC
8 29 (20.42%) TDD
9 23 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (15.49%) BDD
11 20 (14.08%) Event-Driven
12 19 (13.38%) API Development
12 19 (13.38%) Front End Development
12 19 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (12.68%) Sprint Planning
14 17 (11.97%) DevSecOps
15 16 (11.27%) Containerisation
15 16 (11.27%) Observability
15 16 (11.27%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 142 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (19.72%) JavaScript
3 25 (17.61%) SQL
4 16 (11.27%) Kotlin
5 12 (8.45%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.23%) C#
7 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.11%) Python
8 2 (1.41%) PromQL
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (27.46%) SC Cleared
1 39 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.34%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.23%) Degree
4 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.49%) QA
2 5 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (20.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (33.80%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.38%) Argo
3 9 (6.34%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.63%) Grafana
5 2 (1.41%) Ansible
5 2 (1.41%) Consul
5 2 (1.41%) Control-M
5 2 (1.41%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
6 1 (0.70%) Kiali
6 1 (0.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (9.86%) Red Hat
2 9 (6.34%) Oracle
3 6 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.23%) Okta
4 2 (1.41%) ForgeRock
4 2 (1.41%) Google
4 2 (1.41%) Solace
5 1 (0.70%) Adobe
5 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.70%) Splunk