Java Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Java
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 17 13
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Java 66 73 70
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 6.33% 10.78% 10.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.30% 30.04% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 57
10th Percentile £400 £400 £425
25th Percentile £406 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +1.55% -13.83%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £585
90th Percentile £595 £715 £600
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -9.52% +1.55% -13.83%

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 296 243 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 28.41% 35.89% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 143 184
10th Percentile £350 £365 £333
25th Percentile £413 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 £574 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.50
25th Percentile £17.75 - £31.88
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.71%
75th Percentile £19.25 - £49.38
90th Percentile - - £53.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.00 - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.78%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Java job vacancy trend in Leeds

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Leeds over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Leeds

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Java

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.52%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) AWS
2 18 (27.27%) GitHub
3 15 (22.73%) Azure
4 14 (21.21%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (15.15%) OpenShift
6 8 (12.12%) GCP
7 7 (10.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (7.58%) Apigee
8 5 (7.58%) Cloud Run
8 5 (7.58%) Kong
9 2 (3.03%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.03%) Vertex AI
10 1 (1.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.52%) BrowserStack
10 1 (1.52%) Google Play
10 1 (1.52%) OCI
10 1 (1.52%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 7 (10.61%) Relational Database
2 7 (10.61%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 5 (7.58%) Hazelcast
4 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.58%) RDBMS
4 5 (7.58%) Redis
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.52%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.52%) Metadata
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (19.70%) GitLab
3 11 (16.67%) Maven
4 10 (15.15%) Gradle
5 9 (13.64%) Git
5 9 (13.64%) Selenium
6 7 (10.61%) Cucumber
6 7 (10.61%) Gatling
7 5 (7.58%) Postman
7 5 (7.58%) SoapUI
8 4 (6.06%) REST Assured
8 4 (6.06%) Serenity BDD
8 4 (6.06%) Snyk
9 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
9 3 (4.55%) JIRA
10 2 (3.03%) Ant
10 2 (3.03%) Mockito
10 2 (3.03%) Subversion
11 1 (1.52%) JUnit
11 1 (1.52%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.70%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.12%) Finance
4 4 (6.06%) Banking
4 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Games
5 3 (4.55%) Retail
6 2 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Legal
6 2 (3.03%) Military
7 1 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 36 (54.55%) Developer
2 22 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 17 (25.76%) Senior
4 14 (21.21%) Senior Developer
5 10 (15.15%) Senior Java Developer
5 10 (15.15%) Software Developer
6 8 (12.12%) Lead
7 7 (10.61%) Backend Developer
7 7 (10.61%) Senior Backend Developer
8 6 (9.09%) Test Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Lead Test Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Software Engineer
10 4 (6.06%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
11 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 3 (4.55%) Technical Leader
12 2 (3.03%) Automation Tester
12 2 (3.03%) Java Engineer
12 2 (3.03%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (45.45%) Kafka
2 26 (39.39%) Spring Boot
3 25 (37.88%) Spring
4 13 (19.70%) Terraform
5 12 (18.18%) React
6 10 (15.15%) Hibernate
6 10 (15.15%) Playwright
7 9 (13.64%) Redux
8 8 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (10.61%) REST
10 6 (9.09%) JPA
10 6 (9.09%) OAuth
11 5 (7.58%) Apache Avro
11 5 (7.58%) JWT
11 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
11 5 (7.58%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (7.58%) Protocol Buffers
11 5 (7.58%) Spring WebFlux
11 5 (7.58%) WireMock
12 4 (6.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 6 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.55%) Sports Betting
3 2 (3.03%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.03%) Android
1 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.52%) Mac OS X
2 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (51.52%) CI/CD
2 28 (42.42%) DevOps
3 26 (39.39%) Agile
4 25 (37.88%) Test Automation
5 21 (31.82%) Microservices
6 19 (28.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (24.24%) Software Engineering
8 11 (16.67%) Observability
9 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.64%) Technical Debt
11 8 (12.12%) AI
11 8 (12.12%) BDD
11 8 (12.12%) Code Quality
11 8 (12.12%) Mentoring
11 8 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (10.61%) Coaching
12 7 (10.61%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
13 6 (9.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.79%) Python
1 19 (28.79%) SQL
2 9 (13.64%) PL/SQL
2 9 (13.64%) Scala
2 9 (13.64%) TypeScript
3 4 (6.06%) Kotlin
4 2 (3.03%) BeanShell
4 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.52%) Go
5 1 (1.52%) Groovy
5 1 (1.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 23 (34.85%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (37.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Control-M
3 8 (12.12%) Prometheus
4 7 (10.61%) Grafana
5 5 (7.58%) Argo
5 5 (7.58%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle
2 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.55%) Google
3 3 (4.55%) IBM
3 3 (4.55%) Splunk
4 2 (3.03%) ForgeRock
4 2 (3.03%) Okta
5 1 (1.52%) Apple
5 1 (1.52%) Databricks
5 1 (1.52%) New Relic
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) Sonatype