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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 98 93
Rank change year-on-year -25 -5 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 144 89 72
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.88% 2.23% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 2.42% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 71 68
10th Percentile £403 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.67% -2.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £647 £598 £550
90th Percentile £738 £675 £625
England median daily rate £550 £530 £625
% change year-on-year +3.77% -15.20% -2.91%
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 7,010 3,678 3,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 92.34% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,111 2,398 2,227
10th Percentile £313 £251 £279
25th Percentile £406 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £587
90th Percentile £675 £643 £675
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 655 218 246
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.00 £15.20
25th Percentile £24.79 £17.30 £18.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.60 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.03% -30.45% +44.25%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%

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 10 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 10 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 58 £481 -23.00% 4
North West -44 58 £570 +30.29% 10
North East -19 30 £569 +16.67% 15
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 144 (100.00%) Java
2 86 (59.72%) Agile
3 72 (50.00%) Microservices
4 59 (40.97%) Spring
5 58 (40.28%) CI/CD
6 52 (36.11%) Spring Boot
7 48 (33.33%) Kubernetes
7 48 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 47 (32.64%) AWS
9 46 (31.94%) Software Engineering
10 40 (27.78%) DevOps
10 40 (27.78%) Security Cleared
11 39 (27.08%) SC Cleared
12 32 (22.22%) SDLC
13 31 (21.53%) Kafka
13 31 (21.53%) TDD
14 30 (20.83%) Scrum
15 29 (20.14%) Docker
15 29 (20.14%) MongoDB
16 28 (19.44%) JavaScript
17 26 (18.06%) AngularJS
18 25 (17.36%) Jenkins
18 25 (17.36%) RESTful
18 25 (17.36%) SQL
19 24 (16.67%) BDD
19 24 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
20 22 (15.28%) Event-Driven
20 22 (15.28%) React
21 21 (14.58%) Azure
21 21 (14.58%) 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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 5 (3.47%) 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
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.64%) AWS
2 21 (14.58%) Azure
2 21 (14.58%) GCP
2 21 (14.58%) GitHub
3 18 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 10 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (3.47%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (3.47%) Apigee
5 5 (3.47%) Cloud Run
5 5 (3.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (3.47%) Kong
6 4 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.39%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.69%) Serverless
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.14%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 10 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 7 (4.86%) Redis
6 5 (3.47%) Hazelcast
6 5 (3.47%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.47%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.08%) MySQL
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 25 (17.36%) Jenkins
2 19 (13.19%) Git
3 16 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 14 (9.72%) JIRA
4 14 (9.72%) Mockito
5 8 (5.56%) GitLab
5 8 (5.56%) Gradle
5 8 (5.56%) Maven
6 7 (4.86%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.86%) JUnit
7 5 (3.47%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.78%) Snyk
9 2 (1.39%) Flyway
9 2 (1.39%) git-flow
9 2 (1.39%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.69%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.69%) Gatling
10 1 (0.69%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.69%) Jaeger
General
1 27 (18.75%) Finance
1 27 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 20 (13.89%) Banking
4 11 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.86%) Investment Banking
6 6 (4.17%) Front Office
7 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (0.69%) Automotive
8 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.69%) Marketing
8 1 (0.69%) Military
8 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.69%) Police
8 1 (0.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (40.97%) Spring
2 52 (36.11%) Spring Boot
3 31 (21.53%) Kafka
4 26 (18.06%) AngularJS
5 25 (17.36%) RESTful
6 22 (15.28%) React
7 18 (12.50%) REST
8 17 (11.81%) OAuth
9 16 (11.11%) HTML
10 14 (9.72%) JWT
10 14 (9.72%) Quarkus
10 14 (9.72%) Terraform
11 13 (9.03%) OAuth2
12 11 (7.64%) JPA
13 10 (6.94%) ActiveMQ
14 9 (6.25%) JAX-RS
14 9 (6.25%) Node.js
15 8 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
15 8 (5.56%) Redux
16 7 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.17%) Equities
4 6 (4.17%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.39%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) NHS
7 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.03%) Linux
2 11 (7.64%) Unix
3 4 (2.78%) Mac OS X
4 3 (2.08%) AIX
5 2 (1.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (59.72%) Agile
2 72 (50.00%) Microservices
3 58 (40.28%) CI/CD
4 48 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 46 (31.94%) Software Engineering
6 40 (27.78%) DevOps
7 32 (22.22%) SDLC
8 31 (21.53%) TDD
9 30 (20.83%) Scrum
10 24 (16.67%) BDD
10 24 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (15.28%) Event-Driven
12 19 (13.19%) API Development
12 19 (13.19%) Front End Development
13 18 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
14 17 (11.81%) DevSecOps
14 17 (11.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 16 (11.11%) Containerisation
15 16 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 144 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (19.44%) JavaScript
3 25 (17.36%) SQL
4 19 (13.19%) Kotlin
5 12 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 6 (4.17%) C#
7 3 (2.08%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.08%) Python
8 2 (1.39%) PromQL
9 1 (0.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 39 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (4.17%) Degree
5 4 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.58%) QA
2 5 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 29 (20.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.19%) Argo
3 9 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.56%) Grafana
5 2 (1.39%) Ansible
5 2 (1.39%) Consul
5 2 (1.39%) Control-M
5 2 (1.39%) Zipkin
6 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.69%) Istio
6 1 (0.69%) Kiali
6 1 (0.69%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (9.72%) Red Hat
2 9 (6.25%) Oracle
3 6 (4.17%) Okta
4 5 (3.47%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.39%) ForgeRock
5 2 (1.39%) Google
5 2 (1.39%) Solace
6 1 (0.69%) Adobe
6 1 (0.69%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.69%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.69%) Splunk