Java Contracts in Leeds

Java
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 20 23
Rank change year-on-year -19 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 21 56 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.52% 7.01% 7.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.28% 23.73% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 42 65
10th Percentile £431 £394 £425
25th Percentile £500 £440 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -1.14% +6.80%
75th Percentile £775 £625 £650
90th Percentile £780 £673 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £56.63
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £75.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £66.25

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 171 236 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 36.77% 29.54% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 173 305
10th Percentile £325 £300 £412
25th Percentile £405 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £588 £600
90th Percentile £703 £648 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - +169.23%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Leeds

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Java in Leeds

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Leeds

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Leeds

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Slack
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (47.62%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (47.62%) MongoDB
2 10 (47.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Cucumber
1 8 (38.10%) Git
1 8 (38.10%) Jasmine
1 8 (38.10%) JIRA
1 8 (38.10%) JUnit
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Postman
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) GitLab
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Java Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Senior
4 8 (38.10%) Senior Developer
4 8 (38.10%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Java Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.52%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) QA Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior SQL Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Spring Boot
2 10 (47.62%) Spring
3 9 (42.86%) Spring Security
4 8 (38.10%) RESTful
4 8 (38.10%) Spring Batch
5 7 (33.33%) Swagger
6 6 (28.57%) OpenAPI
7 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 1 (4.76%) .NET
8 1 (4.76%) Gherkin
8 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Linux
2 10 (47.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) BDD
1 13 (61.90%) TDD
2 11 (52.38%) Microservices
2 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
2 11 (52.38%) Technical Leadership
3 10 (47.62%) Mentoring
3 10 (47.62%) Test Automation
4 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 9 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 8 (38.10%) Coaching
5 8 (38.10%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (33.33%) API Design
6 7 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (33.33%) Kernel Tuning
6 7 (33.33%) OWASP
7 6 (28.57%) Operational Stability
8 5 (23.81%) High Availability
8 5 (23.81%) Integration Testing
9 4 (19.05%) Cloud Security
9 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 10 (47.62%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Google