Java Developer Contracts in Birmingham

Java Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Java Developer daily rate in Birmingham is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 17 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.27% 1.58% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.64% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 15
10th Percentile £351 £518 £365
25th Percentile £450 £563 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +33.33% +14.75%
75th Percentile £675 - £563
90th Percentile - - £640
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £700 £505
% change year-on-year -32.14% +38.61% +17.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £43.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.25 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 697 855 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 96.61% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 566 905
10th Percentile £254 £263 £225
25th Percentile £350 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +15.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 21
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +9.68%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Birmingham

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in Birmingham

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in Birmingham

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in Birmingham

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 Birmingham region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (58.82%) Spring
3 8 (47.06%) Microservices
4 7 (41.18%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) Finance
5 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
5 6 (35.29%) Degree
5 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
5 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
6 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
6 5 (29.41%) Data Structures
6 5 (29.41%) OO
7 4 (23.53%) Python
7 4 (23.53%) SOA
7 4 (23.53%) TDD
7 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
7 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
7 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
7 4 (23.53%) BDD
7 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
8 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
8 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
8 3 (17.65%) React
8 3 (17.65%) DevOps
8 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
8 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (17.65%) OOP

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) Spring
2 3 (17.65%) AngularJS
2 3 (17.65%) Hibernate
2 3 (17.65%) React
3 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Guice
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Structures
2 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
4 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Microservices
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) OO
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
5 4 (23.53%) Multithreading
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) SOA
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) TDD
6 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) OOP
7 2 (11.76%) E-Commerce
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
7 2 (11.76%) OOD
7 2 (11.76%) Scrum
8 1 (5.88%) Functional Programming
8 1 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) ION Trading