Developer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Developer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Developer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 2 3 3
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Developer 189 283 293
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.09% 17.81% 15.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 20.52% 18.21% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 240 252
10th Percentile £300 £412 £381
25th Percentile £397 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% +5.71%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £600
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £70.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 921 1,554 1,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 97.80% 97.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 1,082 1,324
10th Percentile £298 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £618 £560
90th Percentile £668 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 18 53
10th Percentile £11.75 £12.00 £10.29
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.81 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.34 £21.25 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +20.46% -18.86%
75th Percentile £29.25 £63.75 £21.88
90th Percentile £53.75 £70.00 £26.50
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.50 £20.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -29.27% +16.21% -9.54%

Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in West Yorkshire

Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Developer 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 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in West Yorkshire

Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer 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 12 May 2024. 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 0 174 £501 -4.67% 58
Bradford +4 4 £300 -42.86% 7
Halifax +2 1 £330 -37.14% 1
Ilkley - 1 £550 -
Huddersfield - 1 - - 3
Wakefield - 1 £300 -
Sowerby Bridge - 1 £330 -
Developer
Yorkshire

Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Developer in the job title.

1 40 (21.16%) JavaScript
2 37 (19.58%) SQL
3 35 (18.52%) AWS
4 33 (17.46%) Security Cleared
5 32 (16.93%) Python
5 32 (16.93%) Agile
6 29 (15.34%) Social Skills
7 28 (14.81%) Degree
7 28 (14.81%) SC Cleared
8 27 (14.29%) ServiceNow
9 25 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 24 (12.70%) Software Engineering
11 23 (12.17%) ITIL
11 23 (12.17%) Java
11 23 (12.17%) Azure
11 23 (12.17%) PayPal
11 23 (12.17%) Conversational UI
11 23 (12.17%) Chatbot
11 23 (12.17%) Code Quality
12 22 (11.64%) Data Modelling
13 20 (10.58%) .NET
13 20 (10.58%) C#
13 20 (10.58%) ITSM
14 19 (10.05%) TDD
14 19 (10.05%) Public Sector
15 17 (8.99%) Service Management
15 17 (8.99%) Web Services
16 16 (8.47%) CI/CD
16 16 (8.47%) Customer Service

Developer Skill Set
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 9 (4.76%) Drupal
2 7 (3.70%) CMS
2 7 (3.70%) Umbraco
3 6 (3.17%) Apache
4 2 (1.06%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.06%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) Kentico
5 1 (0.53%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 23 (12.17%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.53%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.52%) AWS
2 23 (12.17%) Azure
3 11 (5.82%) Serverless
4 9 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (4.23%) GitHub
6 5 (2.65%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.65%) SaaS
7 4 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.12%) Azure Functions
7 4 (2.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (2.12%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (1.59%) IaaS
8 3 (1.59%) PaaS
9 2 (1.06%) GCP
9 2 (1.06%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.53%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.53%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) HTTP
1 1 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 7 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.17%) Flink
5 4 (2.12%) InterSystems Cache
5 4 (2.12%) Redis
5 4 (2.12%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.59%) GIS
6 3 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.59%) Power BI
7 2 (1.06%) Power Query
7 2 (1.06%) Sisense
7 2 (1.06%) Spatial Data
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.70%) Git
2 6 (3.17%) JIRA
3 5 (2.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.12%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.59%) Mockito
6 2 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.53%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.53%) GitLab
7 1 (0.53%) gulp
7 1 (0.53%) JUnit
7 1 (0.53%) Maven
7 1 (0.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.53%) TestNG
7 1 (0.53%) TestRail
7 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.53%) Xcode
7 1 (0.53%) XCUITest
General
1 29 (15.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.05%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.65%) Finance
4 5 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.53%) Automotive
6 1 (0.53%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.58%) .NET
2 17 (8.99%) Web Services
3 15 (7.94%) HTML
4 10 (5.29%) AngularJS
5 9 (4.76%) Spring
5 9 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.23%) FastAPI
6 8 (4.23%) Node.js
6 8 (4.23%) React
7 6 (3.17%) .NET Core
7 6 (3.17%) .NET Framework
7 6 (3.17%) Flask
8 4 (2.12%) Blazor
8 4 (2.12%) CSS
8 4 (2.12%) SignalR
9 3 (1.59%) Kafka
9 3 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (1.59%) Next.js
9 3 (1.59%) SAML
10 2 (1.06%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 4 (2.12%) CMDB
3 2 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.53%) Genomics
4 1 (0.53%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.53%) mHealth
4 1 (0.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.35%) Apple iOS
2 11 (5.82%) Android
3 2 (1.06%) Linux
3 2 (1.06%) Mac OS X
3 2 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (16.93%) Agile
2 25 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (12.70%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (12.70%) Software Engineering
4 23 (12.17%) Code Quality
4 23 (12.17%) Conversational UI
4 23 (12.17%) ITIL
5 22 (11.64%) Data Modelling
6 20 (10.58%) ITSM
7 19 (10.05%) TDD
8 17 (8.99%) Service Management
9 16 (8.47%) CI/CD
9 16 (8.47%) Customer Service
10 15 (7.94%) Asset Management
10 15 (7.94%) IT Asset Management
10 15 (7.94%) Operations Management
10 15 (7.94%) Service Delivery
11 14 (7.41%) Full Stack Development
12 12 (6.35%) Analytics
12 12 (6.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (21.16%) JavaScript
2 37 (19.58%) SQL
3 32 (16.93%) Python
4 23 (12.17%) Java
5 20 (10.58%) C#
6 15 (7.94%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 9 (4.76%) Swift
8 6 (3.17%) Scala
9 5 (2.65%) ABAP
9 5 (2.65%) PHP
10 4 (2.12%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.12%) VB.NET
10 4 (2.12%) VBA
11 2 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.53%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 33 (17.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (14.81%) Degree
2 28 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.29%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.65%) QA
2 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (6.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.53%) Ansible
2 1 (0.53%) Grafana
2 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 23 (12.17%) PayPal
3 10 (5.29%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.23%) SAP
5 4 (2.12%) Google
6 3 (1.59%) Splunk
7 2 (1.06%) Ariba
7 2 (1.06%) ESRI
7 2 (1.06%) JDA
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle
7 2 (1.06%) RedPrairie
8 1 (0.53%) Okta
8 1 (0.53%) Salesforce