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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 22 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 62 78 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.98% 5.97% 7.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.10% 26.17% 30.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 58 133
10th Percentile £425 £449 £492
25th Percentile £431 £500 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £600 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - £26.78 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -46.44% -
75th Percentile - - £52.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £26.78 £50.00
% change year-on-year - -46.44% -

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 247 298 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 31.79% 22.82% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 222 401
10th Percentile £351 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% +5.18%
75th Percentile £567 £625 £625
90th Percentile £647 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile - £17.38 £23.80
25th Percentile £26.25 £19.91 £27.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £21.31 £35.59
Median % change year-on-year +40.78% -40.12% +39.55%
75th Percentile £39.38 £25.58 £44.67
90th Percentile £49.50 £44.39 £49.37
Yorkshire median hourly rate £40.00 £21.31 £50.00
% change year-on-year +87.71% -57.38% +92.31%

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 31 October 2024.

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 31 October 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 +1 60 £500 -16.67% 13
Wakefield +7 1 £450 +63.64%
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 3 (4.84%) Apache
1 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.84%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 36 (58.06%) AWS
2 6 (9.68%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) GCP
3 3 (4.84%) Datadog
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.23%) Serverless
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.61%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.61%) DB2
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (35.48%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.13%) JUnit
3 7 (11.29%) Git
4 6 (9.68%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.45%) Selenium
6 3 (4.84%) JIRA
7 2 (3.23%) Postman
7 2 (3.23%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.61%) GitLab
8 1 (1.61%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.61%) JMeter
General
1 13 (20.97%) Finance
2 4 (6.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (1.61%) Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (54.84%) Developer
2 28 (45.16%) Java Developer
3 17 (27.42%) Full-Stack Developer
4 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 14 (22.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (11.29%) Senior
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Automation Tester
8 5 (8.06%) Test Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Tester
9 4 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Lead
9 4 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (3.23%) Java Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (1.61%) Investment Banking Java Developer
11 1 (1.61%) Java Automation Tester
11 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes Specialist
11 1 (1.61%) Lead DevOps
11 1 (1.61%) Test Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (38.71%) Gherkin
2 23 (37.10%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.06%) Spring
4 4 (6.45%) React
5 3 (4.84%) .NET
5 3 (4.84%) HTML
5 3 (4.84%) J2EE
5 3 (4.84%) JSP
5 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.84%) Swagger
5 3 (4.84%) XML
6 2 (3.23%) Playwright
7 1 (1.61%) AWS CDK
7 1 (1.61%) Dropwizard
7 1 (1.61%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.61%) JSON
7 1 (1.61%) Kafka
7 1 (1.61%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.61%) RESTful
7 1 (1.61%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Unix
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 24 (38.71%) Agile
2 24 (38.71%) CI/CD
3 17 (27.42%) Full-Stack Development
4 16 (25.81%) TDD
5 14 (22.58%) BDD
6 13 (20.97%) Front End Development
7 12 (19.35%) Application Security
8 11 (17.74%) Software Testing
9 10 (16.13%) Test Scripting
9 10 (16.13%) Unit Testing
10 9 (14.52%) DevOps
10 9 (14.52%) Kanban
10 9 (14.52%) Scrum
10 9 (14.52%) Software Delivery
10 9 (14.52%) Software Engineering
10 9 (14.52%) System Testing
11 6 (9.68%) Analytics
11 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
11 6 (9.68%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) JavaScript
2 8 (12.90%) TypeScript
3 6 (9.68%) SQL
4 5 (8.06%) Python
5 4 (6.45%) C
6 3 (4.84%) C#
6 3 (4.84%) C++
7 2 (3.23%) PHP
7 2 (3.23%) Scala
8 1 (1.61%) Bash
8 1 (1.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (41.94%) SC Cleared
1 26 (41.94%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.87%) AWS Certification
3 13 (20.97%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) QA
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.61%) HL7
2 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Kubernetes
1 5 (8.06%) Prometheus
2 3 (4.84%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) AppDynamics
1 3 (4.84%) Databricks
2 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
2 2 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (1.61%) Cognizant
3 1 (1.61%) Google
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.61%) Snow
3 1 (1.61%) Virgin Media