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 £476, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 April 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 103 125
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 118 56 58
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.00% 1.75% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.16% 1.87% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 39 50
10th Percentile £358 £380 £311
25th Percentile £407 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £620
90th Percentile £738 £600 £638
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 £57.50 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £83.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £67.50 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.13
% change year-on-year - +35.06% -33.62%

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 5,467 2,995 4,444
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,418 2,008 2,828
10th Percentile £263 £242 £255
25th Percentile £381 £363 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £560 £563 £575
90th Percentile £650 £645 £672
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 158 390
10th Percentile £17.96 £12.68 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £16.64 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.46 £24.54 £20.58
Median % change year-on-year +85.23% +19.24% -32.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £45.79 £45.88
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.30 £57.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.57%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +6 75 £450 -15.65% 22
Yorkshire -41 31 £495 -5.71% 15
North East -6 17 £513 +34.87% 14
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 April 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.

1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 63 (53.39%) Agile
2 63 (53.39%) Microservices
3 55 (46.61%) Spring
4 53 (44.92%) Spring Boot
5 47 (39.83%) TDD
6 42 (35.59%) Test Automation
7 38 (32.20%) AWS
8 37 (31.36%) Kubernetes
9 34 (28.81%) CI/CD
10 32 (27.12%) BDD
11 31 (26.27%) Docker
12 30 (25.42%) Security Cleared
13 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (22.88%) RESTful
15 25 (21.19%) Git
16 23 (19.49%) Azure
16 23 (19.49%) SC Cleared
17 21 (17.80%) AngularJS
17 21 (17.80%) Pair Programming
17 21 (17.80%) SDLC
18 20 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
19 18 (15.25%) GitLab
19 18 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (15.25%) React
20 17 (14.41%) JavaScript
20 17 (14.41%) Kafka
20 17 (14.41%) Linux
20 17 (14.41%) Software Engineering
20 17 (14.41%) 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 1 (0.85%) Camunda
1 1 (0.85%) JBoss
1 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 38 (32.20%) AWS
2 23 (19.49%) Azure
3 9 (7.63%) OpenShift
4 8 (6.78%) GCP
4 8 (6.78%) GitHub
5 6 (5.08%) Serverless
6 5 (4.24%) Apigee
6 5 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.39%) Amazon S3
7 4 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.39%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (2.54%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.69%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECR
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) HTTP
1 4 (3.39%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.56%) MongoDB
3 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.63%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.78%) MySQL
6 3 (2.54%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (21.19%) Git
2 18 (15.25%) GitLab
3 13 (11.02%) Mockito
4 10 (8.47%) Jenkins
5 9 (7.63%) JIRA
6 8 (6.78%) SonarQube
7 6 (5.08%) JUnit
8 4 (3.39%) Postman
9 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.54%) Mocha
10 2 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.69%) Maven
11 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.85%) Gradle
11 1 (0.85%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.85%) Selenium
11 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 45 (38.14%) Public Sector
2 16 (13.56%) Finance
3 10 (8.47%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.78%) Banking
5 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (46.61%) Spring
2 53 (44.92%) Spring Boot
3 27 (22.88%) RESTful
4 21 (17.80%) AngularJS
5 18 (15.25%) React
6 17 (14.41%) Kafka
7 16 (13.56%) JAX-RS
8 15 (12.71%) Node.js
8 15 (12.71%) REST
9 11 (9.32%) ActiveMQ
10 9 (7.63%) Hibernate
10 9 (7.63%) OAuth
10 9 (7.63%) OAuth2
11 7 (5.93%) Quarkus
12 6 (5.08%) HTML
12 6 (5.08%) Spring MVC
13 5 (4.24%) CSS
13 5 (4.24%) Jest
13 5 (4.24%) JWT
13 5 (4.24%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.63%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) ASIC
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.41%) Linux
1 17 (14.41%) Unix
2 12 (10.17%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.69%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (53.39%) Agile
1 63 (53.39%) Microservices
2 47 (39.83%) TDD
3 42 (35.59%) Test Automation
4 34 (28.81%) CI/CD
5 32 (27.12%) BDD
6 28 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (17.80%) Pair Programming
7 21 (17.80%) SDLC
8 20 (16.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (14.41%) Software Engineering
10 16 (13.56%) Continuous Deployment
10 16 (13.56%) DevOps
11 15 (12.71%) Code Quality
11 15 (12.71%) Scrum
12 14 (11.86%) API Design
12 14 (11.86%) Containerisation
13 12 (10.17%) API Development
13 12 (10.17%) Front End Development
13 12 (10.17%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 118 (100.00%) Java
2 17 (14.41%) JavaScript
3 14 (11.86%) SQL
4 10 (8.47%) Kotlin
5 8 (6.78%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.54%) Python
7 2 (1.69%) Ruby
8 1 (0.85%) Bash
8 1 (0.85%) Groovy
8 1 (0.85%) Scala
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.47%) Degree
4 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.93%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.17%) QA
2 5 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.39%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.39%) PSD2
3 4 (3.39%) SEPA
4 2 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (26.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (31.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.93%) Argo
2 7 (5.93%) Terraform
3 2 (1.69%) Grafana
4 1 (0.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (7.63%) Oracle
2 8 (6.78%) Virgin Media
3 7 (5.93%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.24%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.39%) Splunk
6 1 (0.85%) Okta