Java Contracts in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing Java 266 370 501
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.75% 6.64% 7.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.20% 23.20% 22.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 281 371
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £443 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £625
90th Percentile £658 £700 £675
England median daily rate £593 £603 £600
% change year-on-year -1.58% +0.46% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 11
10th Percentile £45.88 £31.25 £32.25
25th Percentile £48.43 £37.80 £57.38
Median hourly rate £68.75 £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.31% -28.00% +76.47%
75th Percentile £74.00 £66.88 £79.25
90th Percentile £82.05 £70.00 £81.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £63.62
% change year-on-year -0.76% +2.96% +9.68%

All Programming Languages
North of England

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,198 1,595 2,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.88% 28.60% 31.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,166 1,684
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £403 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.54% +2.60% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 27 52
10th Percentile £37.56 £29.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £41.25 £38.90 £21.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.57 £43.59
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +13.72% +67.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £64.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £74.30 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year - +21.36% +20.74%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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 -2 136 £500 -9.09% 93
Yorkshire +6 119 £525 -8.70% 28
North East -22 11 £501 -11.42% 15
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (7.14%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.38%) Apache
2 9 (3.38%) Confluence
3 8 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (1.50%) Mule
6 3 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (1.13%) IIS
6 3 (1.13%) Jupyter
6 3 (1.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.38%) Alfresco
8 1 (0.38%) Camunda
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.38%) Site Server
Applications
1 8 (3.01%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.63%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.13%) Maximo
3 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.38%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 112 (42.11%) AWS
2 41 (15.41%) Azure
3 25 (9.40%) GCP
4 19 (7.14%) Serverless
5 16 (6.02%) Amazon S3
6 15 (5.64%) Cloud Computing
7 12 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (4.51%) GitHub
8 10 (3.76%) Apigee
9 7 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (2.63%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 7 (2.63%) Kong
10 6 (2.26%) Snowflake
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.88%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (1.88%) BrowserStack
11 5 (1.88%) SaaS
12 4 (1.50%) CloudBees
12 4 (1.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.01%) HTTP
2 6 (2.26%) SSL
3 5 (1.88%) FTP
4 4 (1.50%) Firewall
5 2 (0.75%) DNS
5 2 (0.75%) LAN
5 2 (0.75%) WAN
6 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.38%) NAS
6 1 (0.38%) Network Security
6 1 (0.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 25 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (7.89%) Relational Database
4 17 (6.39%) Big Data
5 15 (5.64%) MySQL
6 13 (4.89%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.51%) Hadoop
8 11 (4.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 11 (4.14%) SQL Server
9 10 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.38%) Data Lake
11 8 (3.01%) BigQuery
12 7 (2.63%) OLAP
12 7 (2.63%) OLTP
13 6 (2.26%) Oracle OLAP
14 5 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (1.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 43 (16.17%) Git
1 43 (16.17%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.90%) JUnit
2 29 (10.90%) Selenium
3 27 (10.15%) JIRA
4 13 (4.89%) Android Studio
4 13 (4.89%) JMeter
5 12 (4.51%) Mockito
6 11 (4.14%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.01%) GitLab
8 7 (2.63%) Maven
8 7 (2.63%) Postman
9 5 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.88%) Gatling
9 5 (1.88%) Liquibase
9 5 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.50%) Log4j
10 4 (1.50%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.13%) gulp
General
1 34 (12.78%) Social Skills
2 33 (12.41%) Public Sector
3 28 (10.53%) Finance
4 23 (8.65%) Banking
5 12 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.88%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.38%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.38%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (40.60%) Developer
2 63 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 35 (13.16%) Architect
4 28 (10.53%) Senior
5 22 (8.27%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.89%) Test Engineer
7 18 (6.77%) Android Developer
8 14 (5.26%) Lead
8 14 (5.26%) Tester
9 13 (4.89%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.89%) Java Engineer
9 13 (4.89%) Senior Developer
9 13 (4.89%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.51%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (4.51%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 10 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Senior Test Engineer
12 9 (3.38%) Automation Tester
13 8 (3.01%) AWS Architect
13 8 (3.01%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (24.81%) Spring
2 56 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 36 (13.53%) Kafka
3 36 (13.53%) React
3 36 (13.53%) RESTful
4 34 (12.78%) REST
5 27 (10.15%) Web Services
6 25 (9.40%) Hibernate
7 23 (8.65%) JPA
8 22 (8.27%) XML
9 21 (7.89%) Node.js
10 20 (7.52%) .NET
11 18 (6.77%) HTML
12 14 (5.26%) OAuth
13 13 (4.89%) JSON
14 12 (4.51%) AngularJS
14 12 (4.51%) J2EE
15 11 (4.14%) Gherkin
16 10 (3.76%) JWT
16 10 (3.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.89%) Mobile App
2 12 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 10 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.63%) DataPower
5 7 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.50%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.13%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.13%) Derivative
9 3 (1.13%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.75%) IoT
10 2 (0.75%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.90%) Android
2 20 (7.52%) Unix
3 17 (6.39%) Linux
4 8 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.63%) Mac OS X
5 7 (2.63%) Windows
6 3 (1.13%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.75%) zOS
8 1 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (46.24%) Agile
2 63 (23.68%) Microservices
3 61 (22.93%) Test Automation
4 51 (19.17%) CI/CD
5 50 (18.80%) DevOps
6 49 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 43 (16.17%) Unit Testing
8 42 (15.79%) Scrum
9 41 (15.41%) TDD
10 30 (11.28%) Containerisation
11 28 (10.53%) Data Modelling
12 26 (9.77%) Design Patterns
12 26 (9.77%) Front End Development
13 25 (9.40%) Full Stack Development
13 25 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (8.65%) Mentoring
14 23 (8.65%) SDLC
15 22 (8.27%) OO
16 20 (7.52%) BDD
16 20 (7.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 57 (21.43%) JavaScript
1 57 (21.43%) Python
2 34 (12.78%) SQL
3 25 (9.40%) TypeScript
4 21 (7.89%) Kotlin
5 17 (6.39%) C#
5 17 (6.39%) Scala
6 10 (3.76%) Groovy
6 10 (3.76%) PHP
7 9 (3.38%) C
8 6 (2.26%) Go
9 4 (1.50%) Perl
9 4 (1.50%) Ruby
9 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.13%) C++
10 3 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
11 1 (0.38%) Rust
11 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (20.68%) Security Cleared
2 50 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.76%) Degree
5 3 (1.13%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.40%) QA
2 17 (6.39%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.01%) WCAG
4 5 (1.88%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.88%) GDPR
5 4 (1.50%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.38%) GxP
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (13.53%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.38%) ACF2
3 1 (0.38%) IAG
3 1 (0.38%) RACF
3 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (12.78%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.27%) Terraform
3 11 (4.14%) Ansible
4 10 (3.76%) Grafana
5 6 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.13%) Kibana
6 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) Anchore
7 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.38%) Packer
7 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (7.52%) Google
2 17 (6.39%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.64%) Oracle
4 10 (3.76%) IBM
5 7 (2.63%) TSYS
6 5 (1.88%) Informatica
6 5 (1.88%) Talend
7 4 (1.50%) SAP
8 3 (1.13%) Adobe
8 3 (1.13%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.13%) Nintex
8 3 (1.13%) Pega
9 2 (0.75%) AVEVA
9 2 (0.75%) Databricks
9 2 (0.75%) ESRI
10 1 (0.38%) Ariba
10 1 (0.38%) Brio
10 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.38%) Teradata
10 1 (0.38%) VMware