Developer Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Developer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £484, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 216 112 131
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 15.58% 15.18% 15.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.65% 15.75% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 85 112
10th Percentile £362 £375 £359
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £561
90th Percentile £596 £675 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £478 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.05% +2.63% -13.64%

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,297 711 787
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.58% 96.34% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 463 500
10th Percentile £325 £285 £340
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 20 37
10th Percentile £16.13 - £17.18
25th Percentile £16.62 £22.14 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.77 £63.75 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year -59.58% +163.65% +27.26%
75th Percentile £28.25 £81.25 £38.75
90th Percentile £43.75 - £48.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £22.00
% change year-on-year +16.40% +0.64% +7.32%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Developer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Developer
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in West Yorkshire

Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Developer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Developer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. 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
Leeds -1 168 £500 -0.10% 80
Bradford - 40 £450 - 3
Huddersfield -5 2 £506 -3.57% 2
Keighley - 2 £473 -
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 15 September 2026, Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 66 (30.56%) Agile
2 63 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 59 (27.31%) AWS
4 57 (26.39%) SQL
5 55 (25.46%) Python
6 45 (20.83%) Security Cleared
7 41 (18.98%) SC Cleared
8 40 (18.52%) Java
9 35 (16.20%) DevOps
10 30 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (13.43%) Data Warehouse
12 28 (12.96%) React
12 28 (12.96%) Terraform
13 27 (12.50%) Docker
13 27 (12.50%) Microservices
14 26 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (12.04%) JavaScript
15 25 (11.57%) Kafka
15 25 (11.57%) Software Engineering
15 25 (11.57%) Test Automation
16 24 (11.11%) Analytics
16 24 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 24 (11.11%) Serverless
16 24 (11.11%) Spring Boot
16 24 (11.11%) SQL Server
17 23 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
17 23 (10.65%) Spring
17 23 (10.65%) TypeScript
18 22 (10.19%) Microsoft
19 21 (9.72%) Oracle

Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 2 (0.93%) CMS
1 2 (0.93%) Confluence
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.46%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.46%) nginx
2 1 (0.46%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.46%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (27.31%) AWS
2 24 (11.11%) Serverless
3 20 (9.26%) Azure
4 19 (8.80%) GitHub
5 18 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 15 (6.94%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (4.63%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (4.63%) GCP
7 10 (4.63%) OpenShift
8 9 (4.17%) PowerApps
9 8 (3.70%) Cloud Run
10 7 (3.24%) Copilot Studio
10 7 (3.24%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (2.78%) Apigee
11 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.78%) Azure Functions
12 5 (2.31%) Azure AI
12 5 (2.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (2.31%) Kong
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.43%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 12 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 10 (4.63%) Tableau
5 8 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 7 (3.24%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.78%) Power BI
7 6 (2.78%) Redis
8 5 (2.31%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.31%) Hazelcast
8 5 (2.31%) RDBMS
9 4 (1.85%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.85%) OLAP
9 4 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.39%) Metadata
10 3 (1.39%) MySQL
10 3 (1.39%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (7.87%) Jenkins
2 15 (6.94%) Git
3 10 (4.63%) Gradle
4 7 (3.24%) GitLab
5 6 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (2.31%) Maven
7 4 (1.85%) Mockito
7 4 (1.85%) Snyk
8 2 (0.93%) JIRA
9 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.46%) Gatling
9 1 (0.46%) Hudson
9 1 (0.46%) JUnit
General
1 50 (23.15%) Public Sector
2 43 (19.91%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.19%) Finance
4 13 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.78%) Law
6 5 (2.31%) Banking
7 4 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.85%) Retail
8 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.39%) Games
8 3 (1.39%) Social Science
9 2 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.96%) React
1 28 (12.96%) Terraform
2 25 (11.57%) Kafka
3 24 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 23 (10.65%) Spring
5 15 (6.94%) CSS
5 15 (6.94%) HTML
5 15 (6.94%) REST
6 14 (6.48%) Redux
6 14 (6.48%) RESTful
7 13 (6.02%) Vue
8 12 (5.56%) .NET
9 10 (4.63%) Flask
9 10 (4.63%) Hibernate
9 10 (4.63%) Node.js
9 10 (4.63%) OAuth
10 9 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (3.70%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.78%) JPA
12 6 (2.78%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.35%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 15 (6.94%) NHS
4 11 (5.09%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.39%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.46%) CMDB
10 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.85%) Linux
1 4 (1.85%) Unix
2 3 (1.39%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.39%) Mac OS X
3 1 (0.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (30.56%) Agile
2 63 (29.17%) CI/CD
3 35 (16.20%) DevOps
4 30 (13.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (12.50%) Microservices
6 26 (12.04%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (11.57%) Software Engineering
7 25 (11.57%) Test Automation
8 24 (11.11%) Analytics
8 24 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (10.65%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (9.26%) SDLC
11 19 (8.80%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (8.80%) Observability
12 18 (8.33%) Code Quality
12 18 (8.33%) Data Modelling
13 17 (7.87%) ETL
14 16 (7.41%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (7.41%) TDD
15 14 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 57 (26.39%) SQL
2 55 (25.46%) Python
3 40 (18.52%) Java
4 26 (12.04%) JavaScript
5 23 (10.65%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.02%) C#
7 10 (4.63%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.24%) T-SQL
9 5 (2.31%) Ruby
9 5 (2.31%) Scala
10 3 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.39%) PHP
11 2 (0.93%) Go
11 2 (0.93%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.46%) ABAP
12 1 (0.46%) Bash
12 1 (0.46%) Bicep
12 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 45 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.39%) Degree
4 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.93%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.24%) QA
3 7 (3.24%) WCAG
4 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (0.93%) HL7
System Software
1 27 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.17%) Control-M
3 6 (2.78%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.31%) Argo
4 5 (2.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 22 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.72%) Oracle
3 15 (6.94%) SAP
4 9 (4.17%) Foundry
5 8 (3.70%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.85%) Cerner
8 3 (1.39%) Brio
9 2 (0.93%) Databricks
9 2 (0.93%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.93%) Google
9 2 (0.93%) Okta
10 1 (0.46%) Adobe
10 1 (0.46%) Sitecore