Java Contracts in Yorkshire

Java
England > Yorkshire

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 21 28
Rank change year-on-year -30 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 55 123 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.41% 7.16% 5.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.18% 25.10% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 86 86
10th Percentile £390 £392 £450
25th Percentile £461 £453 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% -8.33% +16.50%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £688
90th Percentile £603 £650 £700
England median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £53.85
25th Percentile - £61.25 £56.63
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +1.55%

All Programming Languages
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 388 490 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.14% 28.54% 26.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 331 381
10th Percentile £333 £300 £375
25th Percentile £400 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £600 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £31.53 £52.50 £21.31
25th Percentile £31.62 £58.13 £37.33
Median hourly rate £33.11 £62.50 £49.12
Median % change year-on-year -47.02% +27.25% +88.91%
75th Percentile £66.51 £63.75 £57.94
90th Percentile £85.74 - £63.75
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Yorkshire

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Java in Yorkshire

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Yorkshire

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in Yorkshire

Java
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
South Yorkshire -15 32 £525 +3.55% 72
West Yorkshire -24 23 £475 -13.64% 181
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (7.27%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) CMS
2 2 (3.64%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.27%) GitHub
2 13 (23.64%) AWS
3 10 (18.18%) GCP
4 7 (12.73%) Azure
5 5 (9.09%) CloudBees
6 2 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.64%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.64%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (3.64%) dbt
6 2 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.82%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.82%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) BigQuery
1 7 (12.73%) MongoDB
1 7 (12.73%) MySQL
1 7 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.64%) Bigtable
4 2 (3.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.64%) Hazelcast
4 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 24 (43.64%) Jenkins
2 21 (38.18%) Git
3 18 (32.73%) Selenium
4 15 (27.27%) Maven
5 13 (23.64%) Postman
6 12 (21.82%) GitLab
6 12 (21.82%) JIRA
7 10 (18.18%) Cucumber
8 9 (16.36%) IntelliJ
9 7 (12.73%) JUnit
10 6 (10.91%) Cypress.io
10 6 (10.91%) JMeter
10 6 (10.91%) REST Assured
10 6 (10.91%) TestNG
11 4 (7.27%) Gradle
11 4 (7.27%) HP UFT
11 4 (7.27%) SonarQube
12 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
12 3 (5.45%) Jaeger
12 3 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Finance
4 2 (3.64%) Banking
5 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (34.55%) Developer
2 11 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (18.18%) Lead
4 7 (12.73%) Tester
5 6 (10.91%) Architect
5 6 (10.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Lead Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Automation Tester
6 4 (7.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.45%) Test Manager
8 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) GCP Architect
8 2 (3.64%) QA Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.00%) Node.js
2 10 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 7 (12.73%) React
4 6 (10.91%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.91%) Jest
4 6 (10.91%) Playwright
4 6 (10.91%) Spring
5 5 (9.09%) .NET
5 5 (9.09%) Kafka
6 4 (7.27%) RESTful
7 3 (5.45%) CSS
7 3 (5.45%) HTML
8 2 (3.64%) gRPC
9 1 (1.82%) Apache CXF
9 1 (1.82%) CSS3
9 1 (1.82%) Dropwizard
9 1 (1.82%) Gherkin
9 1 (1.82%) JAX-RS
9 1 (1.82%) REST
9 1 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Unix
2 4 (7.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) CI/CD
2 24 (43.64%) Test Automation
3 23 (41.82%) TDD
4 20 (36.36%) Agile
5 17 (30.91%) Microservices
6 16 (29.09%) DevOps
7 14 (25.45%) BDD
7 14 (25.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 11 (20.00%) API Testing
9 8 (14.55%) Code Quality
10 7 (12.73%) Architectural Design
10 7 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (12.73%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
10 7 (12.73%) Test Strategy
11 6 (10.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.91%) Scrum
11 6 (10.91%) SDLC
11 6 (10.91%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 13 (23.64%) Python
3 10 (18.18%) Kotlin
3 10 (18.18%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) Shell Script
5 5 (9.09%) Groovy
6 3 (5.45%) Bash
7 2 (3.64%) ANSI SQL
7 2 (3.64%) Go
7 2 (3.64%) PHP
7 2 (3.64%) Ruby
7 2 (3.64%) Scala
7 2 (3.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 11 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (32.73%) QA
2 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.91%) WCAG
3 1 (1.82%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (30.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.91%) Grafana
3 5 (9.09%) Control-M
4 3 (5.45%) Istio
4 3 (5.45%) Kiali
4 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.45%) Terraform
5 1 (1.82%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) Google
3 3 (5.45%) AppDynamics
3 3 (5.45%) Splunk
3 3 (5.45%) xMatters
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace