Java Contracts in Sheffield

Java
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 21 23
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -8
Contract jobs citing Java 43 40 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.58% 9.76% 7.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.86% 27.97% 26.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 30 21
10th Percentile £345 £368 £450
25th Percentile £387 £400 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £506 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% -15.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £528 £550 £700
90th Percentile £605 £638 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £506 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -15.67% +14.29%

All Programming Languages
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 228 143 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 40.21% 34.88% 27.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 96 69
10th Percentile £319 £400 £400
25th Percentile £379 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +10.09%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £675
90th Percentile £612 £645 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -8.57% -8.70% +9.52%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Sheffield

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Sheffield

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Sheffield

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Sheffield

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) CICS
2 2 (4.65%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.65%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Pig
3 1 (2.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 22 (51.16%) GCP
2 19 (44.19%) AWS
3 18 (41.86%) GitHub
4 9 (20.93%) Azure
5 6 (13.95%) Serverless
6 5 (11.63%) CloudBees
7 4 (9.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.33%) FCoE
2 1 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.33%) LAN
2 1 (2.33%) Multicast
2 1 (2.33%) NAS
2 1 (2.33%) SAN
2 1 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) NoSQL
2 5 (11.63%) BigQuery
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.98%) MongoDB
3 3 (6.98%) MySQL
4 2 (4.65%) Hazelcast
4 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (58.14%) Jenkins
2 18 (41.86%) Git
3 7 (16.28%) Gradle
4 6 (13.95%) Liquibase
5 5 (11.63%) GitLab
5 5 (11.63%) JIRA
5 5 (11.63%) JUnit
5 5 (11.63%) Selenium
6 4 (9.30%) Android Studio
7 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
7 3 (6.98%) HP UFT
7 3 (6.98%) IntelliJ
7 3 (6.98%) Jaeger
7 3 (6.98%) Maven
8 2 (4.65%) TestNG
9 1 (2.33%) CircleCI
9 1 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (18.60%) Finance
1 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Banking
2 6 (13.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.30%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.65%) Police
5 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Developer
2 12 (27.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Android Developer
4 4 (9.30%) Architect
4 4 (9.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Technical Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.23%) RESTful
2 6 (13.95%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (13.95%) React
3 5 (11.63%) .NET
3 5 (11.63%) REST
4 4 (9.30%) JSON
4 4 (9.30%) Spring
5 3 (6.98%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.98%) CSS
5 3 (6.98%) HTML
5 3 (6.98%) Node.js
5 3 (6.98%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.65%) gRPC
6 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.65%) Jest
6 2 (4.65%) Kafka
6 2 (4.65%) LDAP
6 2 (4.65%) Middleware
7 1 (2.33%) HTML5
7 1 (2.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.93%) Cloud Native
2 7 (16.28%) Public Cloud
3 5 (11.63%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.65%) Clustering
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Mainframe
5 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.65%) Replication
6 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.33%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Android
3 3 (6.98%) Unix
4 2 (4.65%) Solaris
4 2 (4.65%) Windows
4 2 (4.65%) zOS
5 1 (2.33%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) CI/CD
2 26 (60.47%) DevOps
3 19 (44.19%) Agile
4 16 (37.21%) Microservices
5 15 (34.88%) Software Engineering
6 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (27.91%) TDD
7 11 (25.58%) Continuous Delivery
7 11 (25.58%) Design Patterns
8 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
8 10 (23.26%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (23.26%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (20.93%) Architectural Patterns
9 9 (20.93%) Non-Functional Testing
10 8 (18.60%) Software Delivery
10 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
11 7 (16.28%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (13.95%) Computer Science
12 6 (13.95%) Cost Optimisation
12 6 (13.95%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 19 (44.19%) Python
2 14 (32.56%) Kotlin
3 13 (30.23%) JavaScript
4 8 (18.60%) Go
5 7 (16.28%) Shell Script
6 5 (11.63%) Bash
6 5 (11.63%) Groovy
6 5 (11.63%) SQL
7 2 (4.65%) PHP
7 2 (4.65%) Ruby
7 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.65%) KVM
2 2 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.33%) NFS
3 1 (2.33%) SRDF
3 1 (2.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (2.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 17 (39.53%) Kubernetes
2 15 (34.88%) Terraform
3 13 (30.23%) Grafana
4 12 (27.91%) Ansible
5 10 (23.26%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.98%) Control-M
6 3 (6.98%) Istio
6 3 (6.98%) Kiali
7 1 (2.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (27.91%) Google
2 10 (23.26%) Splunk
3 5 (11.63%) Oracle
4 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.98%) xMatters
5 2 (4.65%) Cisco
5 2 (4.65%) EMC
5 2 (4.65%) F5
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.65%) NetApp
5 2 (4.65%) VMware
6 1 (2.33%) IBM
6 1 (2.33%) Pure Storage