Java Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Java
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Halifax citing Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	12	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Java	3	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax	6.52%	-	-
As % of the Programming Languages category	17.65%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£384	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£393	-	-
75^th Percentile	£401	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
West Yorkshire median daily rate	£450	£575	£500
% change year-on-year	-21.74%	+15.00%	-16.67%

All Programming Languages
Halifax

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

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing coding skills	17	5	3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Halifax	36.96%	16.13%	50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	5	1	3
10^th Percentile	-	-	£523
25^th Percentile	£356	-	£594
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£393	£600	£725
Median % change year-on-year	-34.58%	-17.24%	+119.70%
75^th Percentile	£523	-	£738
90^th Percentile	£524	-	-
West Yorkshire median daily rate	£478	£500	£498
% change year-on-year	-4.50%	+0.50%	-0.50%

Java Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

Java Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing Java.

Java Hourly Rate Trend in Halifax

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing Java.

Java Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax

For the 6 months to 5 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Java also mentioned 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 Halifax region citing Java.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	BeanShell	66.7%	2
1	RBAC	66.7%	2
1	SailPoint	66.7%	2
1	Workflow	66.7%	2
5	API Development	33.3%	1
5	API Testing	33.3%	1
5	Architectural Patterns	33.3%	1
5	BDD	33.3%	1
5	CI/CD	33.3%	1
5	Cloud Run	33.3%	1
5	CSS	33.3%	1
5	CSS3	33.3%	1
5	DevOps	33.3%	1
5	DevSecOps	33.3%	1
5	Docker	33.3%	1
5	Event-Driven	33.3%	1
5	Event-Driven Architecture	33.3%	1
5	Full-Stack Development	33.3%	1
5	GCP	33.3%	1
5	Git	33.3%	1
5	Google	33.3%	1
5	Google Kubernetes Engine	33.3%	1
5	HTML	33.3%	1
5	HTML5	33.3%	1
5	JavaScript	33.3%	1
5	Kubernetes	33.3%	1
5	Mentoring	33.3%	1
5	Microservices	33.3%	1
5	Observability	33.3%	1
5	Quarkus	33.3%	1

Java Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	BeanShell	66.7%	2
2	JavaScript	33.3%	1
2	TypeScript	33.3%	1