Java Contract Job Trends in East Yorkshire

Java
Yorkshire > East Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Yorkshire requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Java 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in East Yorkshire 5.13% - 8.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.05% - 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £575 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £625 - £425
90th Percentile £640 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £517
% change year-on-year +0.70% -3.29% -13.83%

All Programming Languages
East Yorkshire

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in East Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 19 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Yorkshire 24.36% 12.90% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £216 - £403
25th Percentile £263 - £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +34.62%
75th Percentile £550 - £594
90th Percentile £610 - £628
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £493 £507
% change year-on-year +1.42% -2.76% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £22.03 - -
25th Percentile £25.86 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £32.55 - £62.50
75th Percentile £38.93 - £63.75
90th Percentile £42.57 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 £62.40 £46.25
% change year-on-year -61.54% +34.92% +117.03%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in East Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Yorkshire.

Java job vacancy trend in East Yorkshire

Java
Daily Rate Trend in East Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Yorkshire citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in East Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
Hull - 4 £600 - 2
Java
Yorkshire

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Yorkshire 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:

General
1 3 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Discovery
2 1 (25.00%) User Research
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker