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 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 43 25 30
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 49 104 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.82% 6.16% 5.29%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.31% 23.53% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 78 85
10th Percentile £403 £375 £435
25th Percentile £493 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.52%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £775 £675 £700
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £56.63
25th Percentile - £61.25 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -
75th Percentile - £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +5.69%

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 320 442 600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 31.47% 26.17% 26.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 319 423
10th Percentile £350 £300 £395
25th Percentile £405 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £31.62 - £42.67
25th Percentile £44.87 £61.25 £47.40
Median hourly rate £91.05 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.68% - +126.98%
75th Percentile £101.14 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

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 May 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 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
South Yorkshire +3 27 £520 +6.62% 13
West Yorkshire -16 22 £550 - 69
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 11 (22.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) GitHub
2 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 7 (14.29%) GCP
3 7 (14.29%) Slack
4 6 (12.24%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (10.20%) CloudBees
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.04%) Azure
7 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.04%) SaaS
7 1 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) MySQL
1 14 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (26.53%) MongoDB
3 11 (22.45%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (8.16%) BigQuery
5 2 (4.08%) Hazelcast
6 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (46.94%) Git
2 18 (36.73%) JIRA
3 14 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 12 (24.49%) Cucumber
4 12 (24.49%) JUnit
4 12 (24.49%) Selenium
5 9 (18.37%) IntelliJ
5 9 (18.37%) Maven
6 8 (16.33%) Jasmine
7 7 (14.29%) Postman
8 4 (8.16%) Gradle
8 4 (8.16%) HP UFT
9 2 (4.08%) GitLab
9 2 (4.08%) Jaeger
10 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.04%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (18.37%) Public Sector
2 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (46.94%) Developer
2 17 (34.69%) Java Developer
3 10 (20.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (18.37%) Senior
5 8 (16.33%) Senior Developer
5 8 (16.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Lead
6 7 (14.29%) Tester
7 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Automation Tester
8 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Lead Developer
8 4 (8.16%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Java Engineer
9 3 (6.12%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.12%) Test Manager
10 2 (4.08%) Automation Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) Lead Java Engineer
10 2 (4.08%) QA Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.73%) Spring Boot
2 16 (32.65%) Spring
3 9 (18.37%) RESTful
3 9 (18.37%) Spring Security
4 8 (16.33%) Spring Batch
5 7 (14.29%) Swagger
6 6 (12.24%) OpenAPI
6 6 (12.24%) React
7 5 (10.20%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.20%) Node.js
8 4 (8.16%) Jest
9 3 (6.12%) .NET
9 3 (6.12%) CSS
9 3 (6.12%) HTML
9 3 (6.12%) Kafka
10 2 (4.08%) gRPC
11 1 (2.04%) Gherkin
11 1 (2.04%) MyBatis
11 1 (2.04%) Spring MVC
11 1 (2.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.53%) Linux
2 10 (20.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) TDD
2 21 (42.86%) BDD
2 21 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 19 (38.78%) Microservices
4 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
4 17 (34.69%) Software Engineering
5 16 (32.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (30.61%) Agile
7 12 (24.49%) Containerisation
7 12 (24.49%) Continuous Delivery
7 12 (24.49%) DevOps
8 11 (22.45%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (20.41%) Mentoring
10 8 (16.33%) Coaching
10 8 (16.33%) Code Quality
10 8 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (14.29%) API Design
11 7 (14.29%) Kernel Tuning
11 7 (14.29%) OWASP
12 6 (12.24%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) SQL
2 14 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 12 (24.49%) Bash
4 10 (20.41%) Python
5 7 (14.29%) Kotlin
6 5 (10.20%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.16%) Groovy
8 2 (4.08%) PHP
8 2 (4.08%) Ruby
9 1 (2.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (30.61%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.16%) Grafana
3 2 (4.08%) Control-M
3 2 (4.08%) Istio
3 2 (4.08%) Kiali
3 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
4 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Google
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
4 2 (4.08%) Splunk
4 2 (4.08%) xMatters
5 1 (2.04%) Dynatrace