Java Contracts in South Yorkshire

Java
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 22 25 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Java 27 34 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 7.24% 7.44% 4.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.61% 23.94% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 21
10th Percentile £398 £395 £463
25th Percentile £490 £413 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £700
90th Percentile £596 £628 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.52%

All Programming Languages
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 131 142 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 35.12% 31.07% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 93 96
10th Percentile £370 £400 £381
25th Percentile £448 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £445 £594
Median % change year-on-year +16.54% -25.05% +25.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £619 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in South Yorkshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in South Yorkshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in South Yorkshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in South Yorkshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -7 19 £520 -1.00% 16
Java
Yorkshire

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (14.81%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (44.44%) GitHub
2 6 (22.22%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) CloudBees
4 3 (11.11%) AWS
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.70%) Azure
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) BigQuery
1 4 (14.81%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.41%) Hazelcast
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) Git
2 12 (44.44%) Jenkins
3 9 (33.33%) JIRA
3 9 (33.33%) Selenium
4 8 (29.63%) IntelliJ
4 8 (29.63%) Maven
5 4 (14.81%) Cucumber
5 4 (14.81%) Gradle
5 4 (14.81%) HP UFT
5 4 (14.81%) JUnit
5 4 (14.81%) Postman
6 2 (7.41%) Jaeger
7 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (7.41%) Banking
2 2 (7.41%) Finance
2 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Tester
5 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Lead
7 3 (11.11%) Automation Tester
7 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Lead Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Test Manager
8 2 (7.41%) Manual Tester
8 2 (7.41%) QA Manual Tester
8 2 (7.41%) QA Tester
9 1 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead Java Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) Spring Boot
2 6 (22.22%) Spring
3 5 (18.52%) Node.js
3 5 (18.52%) React
4 4 (14.81%) Jest
5 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.11%) CSS
5 3 (11.11%) HTML
5 3 (11.11%) Kafka
6 2 (7.41%) .NET
6 2 (7.41%) gRPC
7 1 (3.70%) CSS3
7 1 (3.70%) HTML5
7 1 (3.70%) JPA
7 1 (3.70%) jQuery
7 1 (3.70%) MyBatis
7 1 (3.70%) RESTful
7 1 (3.70%) Spring MVC
7 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) TDD
2 12 (44.44%) Agile
2 12 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (37.04%) DevOps
3 10 (37.04%) Test Automation
4 8 (29.63%) BDD
4 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 8 (29.63%) Code Quality
4 8 (29.63%) Microservices
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Software Delivery
5 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
6 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
6 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
6 5 (18.52%) Test Strategy
7 4 (14.81%) Due Diligence
7 4 (14.81%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) JavaScript
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 7 (25.93%) Kotlin
4 5 (18.52%) Shell Script
5 4 (14.81%) Groovy
5 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 2 (7.41%) PHP
6 2 (7.41%) Ruby
7 1 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (40.74%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Grafana
3 2 (7.41%) Control-M
3 2 (7.41%) Istio
3 2 (7.41%) Kiali
3 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Google
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) AppDynamics
3 2 (7.41%) Splunk
3 2 (7.41%) xMatters
4 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace