Backend Developer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Backend Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Backend Developer daily rate in Leeds is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Backend Developer 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.74% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £510 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 889 456 731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.37% 97.64% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 304 459
10th Percentile £331 £263 £313
25th Percentile £419 £375 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -7.11%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 17
10th Percentile - £31.53 £11.49
25th Percentile £14.25 £31.62 £12.25
Median hourly rate £19.17 £33.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.10% +145.26% -40.00%
75th Percentile £44.75 £66.51 £18.27
90th Percentile £74.00 £85.74 £48.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.66 £22.14 £15.37
% change year-on-year +15.88% +44.09% -28.53%

Backend Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Backend Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Backend Developer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Backend Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Backend Developer job vacancies in Leeds

Backend Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 29 May 2026, Backend 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 Leeds region featuring Backend Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) Kafka
2 6 (85.71%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (85.71%) Spring
3 5 (71.43%) Cloud Run
3 5 (71.43%) GCP
3 5 (71.43%) Git
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Validation
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (57.14%) Apache Avro
4 4 (57.14%) Apigee
4 4 (57.14%) Argo
4 4 (57.14%) Functional Programming
4 4 (57.14%) GitHub
4 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (57.14%) GitLab
4 4 (57.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (57.14%) Gradle
4 4 (57.14%) Grafana
4 4 (57.14%) Hazelcast
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
4 4 (57.14%) JPA
4 4 (57.14%) JWT

Backend Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Run
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon SQS
2 4 (57.14%) Apigee
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (57.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 4 (57.14%) Kong
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Hazelcast
1 4 (57.14%) MongoDB
1 4 (57.14%) RDBMS
1 4 (57.14%) Redis
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Gradle
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) Maven
2 4 (57.14%) Snyk
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) RabbitMQ
1 6 (85.71%) Spring
2 4 (57.14%) Apache Avro
2 4 (57.14%) JPA
2 4 (57.14%) JWT
2 4 (57.14%) OAuth
2 4 (57.14%) OAuth2
2 4 (57.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (57.14%) Protocol Buffers
2 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
2 4 (57.14%) Spring WebFlux
2 4 (57.14%) WireMock
3 2 (28.57%) GraphQL
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Validation
4 4 (57.14%) Functional Programming
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Observability
4 4 (57.14%) OWASP
4 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
4 4 (57.14%) SOLID
4 4 (57.14%) Storage Management
4 4 (57.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
5 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
6 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 1 (14.29%) API Development
7 1 (14.29%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Argo
2 4 (57.14%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
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