Senior Java Developer Contracts in Leeds

Senior Java Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Java Developer daily rate in Leeds is £790, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 62 89
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Java Developer 8 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.72% 0.13% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 0.14% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £782 - -
25th Percentile £785 £575 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £790 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year +31.67% +6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £795 £625 £669
90th Percentile £798 - £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £790 £600 £563
% change year-on-year +31.67% +6.67% -2.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Senior Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings that featured Senior Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Java Developer in Leeds

Senior Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Java Developer in Leeds

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Senior Java Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
1 8 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
1 8 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Batch
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Security
2 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
3 6 (75.00%) JIRA
3 6 (75.00%) JUnit
3 6 (75.00%) Jasmine
3 6 (75.00%) Kernel Tuning
3 6 (75.00%) RESTful
3 6 (75.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (75.00%) Git
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery

Senior Java Developer Skill Set
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 5 (62.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Slack
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 8 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
1 8 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 6 (75.00%) Git
1 6 (75.00%) Jasmine
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
1 6 (75.00%) JUnit
General
1 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) Spring
1 8 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Batch
2 7 (87.50%) Spring Security
3 6 (75.00%) RESTful
4 5 (62.50%) OpenAPI
4 5 (62.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) BDD
1 8 (100.00%) TDD
2 7 (87.50%) Containerisation
2 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 7 (87.50%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) Kernel Tuning
4 5 (62.50%) API Design
4 5 (62.50%) Coaching
4 5 (62.50%) Integration Testing
4 5 (62.50%) Mentoring
4 5 (62.50%) Operational Stability
4 5 (62.50%) OWASP
4 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
5 4 (50.00%) High Availability
6 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
7 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Bash
1 8 (100.00%) Java
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes