Java Developer Contracts in Leeds

Java Developer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Java Developer daily rate in Leeds is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 52 57
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 29 26 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.34% 2.61% 3.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.65% 2.73% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 55
10th Percentile - £450 £506
25th Percentile £425 £491 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile £528 £700 £700
90th Percentile £546 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +35.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 623 953 1,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.59% 97.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 650 1,140
10th Percentile £304 £293 £220
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% -1.24% +7.69%
75th Percentile £574 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -6.86% -1.92% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 8 16
10th Percentile £18.17 £18.50 £16.06
25th Percentile £19.50 £19.21 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.25 £21.31 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.18% -0.88% -5.49%
75th Percentile £48.75 £22.63 £25.56
90th Percentile - £35.23 £34.07
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £21.01 £21.25
% change year-on-year +30.91% -1.14% +21.43%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Leeds

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Leeds

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Leeds

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Leeds

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 15 November 2024, Java 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 Leeds region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (75.86%) SC Cleared
2 22 (75.86%) Security Cleared
2 22 (75.86%) AWS
3 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
4 18 (62.07%) AWS Certification
4 18 (62.07%) BDD
4 18 (62.07%) AngularJS
5 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
6 15 (51.72%) Jenkins
7 13 (44.83%) Gherkin
7 13 (44.83%) AWS Certified Developer
7 13 (44.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (44.83%) Application Security
7 13 (44.83%) Front End Development
8 9 (31.03%) TDD
9 7 (24.14%) Spring
10 6 (20.69%) Git
10 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
10 6 (20.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (20.69%) Linux
10 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
11 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (17.24%) JUnit
11 5 (17.24%) SQL
11 5 (17.24%) MySQL
11 5 (17.24%) Jasmine
11 5 (17.24%) Bash
11 5 (17.24%) Confluence
11 5 (17.24%) Cucumber

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 5 (17.24%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (75.86%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Slack
3 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.90%) Serverless
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.45%) Azure
5 1 (3.45%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Apache Cassandra
1 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.24%) MySQL
2 5 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (51.72%) Jenkins
2 6 (20.69%) Git
3 5 (17.24%) Cucumber
3 5 (17.24%) Jasmine
3 5 (17.24%) JIRA
3 5 (17.24%) JUnit
General
1 4 (13.79%) Finance
2 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.90%) Retail
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (62.07%) AngularJS
2 13 (44.83%) Gherkin
3 7 (24.14%) Spring
4 5 (17.24%) RESTful
4 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
4 5 (17.24%) Swagger
5 4 (13.79%) OpenAPI
5 4 (13.79%) Spring Security
6 3 (10.34%) Spring Batch
7 2 (6.90%) React
8 1 (3.45%) Dropwizard
8 1 (3.45%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.45%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
2 18 (62.07%) BDD
3 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
4 13 (44.83%) Application Security
4 13 (44.83%) Front End Development
4 13 (44.83%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (31.03%) TDD
6 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) API Design
7 5 (17.24%) Coaching
7 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) OWASP
7 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 4 (13.79%) Kernel Tuning
8 4 (13.79%) Microservices
8 4 (13.79%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) Bash
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.45%) Perl
3 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (75.86%) SC Cleared
1 22 (75.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (62.07%) AWS Certification
3 13 (44.83%) AWS Certified Developer
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Google
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle
1 1 (3.45%) SAP
1 1 (3.45%) Virgin Media