Java Contracts in West Yorkshire

Java
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 40 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 22 61 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.01% 6.11% 6.12%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.83% 23.19% 21.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 45 67
10th Percentile £438 £396 £425
25th Percentile £500 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £775 £625 £644
90th Percentile £780 £675 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £56.63
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate - - £66.25
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile - - £75.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £62.50 £66.25
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 263 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 33.94% 26.33% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 196 335
10th Percentile £325 £300 £403
25th Percentile £405 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £31.62 - £57.55
25th Percentile £44.87 - £61.25
Median hourly rate £91.05 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +169.23%
75th Percentile £101.14 - -
90th Percentile £102.00 - £74.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in West Yorkshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in West Yorkshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in West Yorkshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in West Yorkshire

Java
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 Java within the West 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
Leeds -19 21 £550 +1.15% 48
Java
Yorkshire

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 7 (31.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Slack
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 5 (22.73%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (45.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 10 (45.45%) MongoDB
2 10 (45.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Git
1 9 (40.91%) JIRA
2 8 (36.36%) Cucumber
2 8 (36.36%) Jasmine
2 8 (36.36%) JUnit
3 3 (13.64%) Postman
3 3 (13.64%) Selenium
4 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.55%) GitLab
5 1 (4.55%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.55%) Maven
5 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (31.82%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 9 (40.91%) Senior
4 8 (36.36%) Senior Developer
4 8 (36.36%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Java Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Java Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Leader
7 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (45.45%) Spring
3 9 (40.91%) Spring Security
4 8 (36.36%) RESTful
4 8 (36.36%) Spring Batch
5 7 (31.82%) Swagger
6 6 (27.27%) OpenAPI
7 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 1 (4.55%) .NET
8 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
8 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) BDD
1 13 (59.09%) TDD
2 11 (50.00%) Microservices
2 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (45.45%) Mentoring
4 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) Containerisation
5 8 (36.36%) Coaching
5 8 (36.36%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (31.82%) API Design
6 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (31.82%) Kernel Tuning
6 7 (31.82%) OWASP
7 6 (27.27%) Operational Stability
8 5 (22.73%) High Availability
8 5 (22.73%) Integration Testing
9 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
9 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 10 (45.45%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
System Software
1 10 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Google
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft