Java Developer Contracts in the Midlands

Java Developer
England > Midlands

The median Java Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 138 152
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 -35
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 20 25 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.73% 0.72% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.76% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 40
10th Percentile £357 £498 £368
25th Percentile £441 £500 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £538
90th Percentile - - £581
England median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +8.70%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £48.13 £73.75 £58.00
% change year-on-year -34.75% +27.16% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,522 3,270 4,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.54% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 2,299 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £224 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +3.66% +14.56%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 130 179
10th Percentile £11.84 £11.98 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.13 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.38 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.80 £60.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
West Midlands +29 17 £475 -32.14% 5
East Midlands +5 3 £511 -20.58% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (50.00%) Spring
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 9 (45.00%) Microservices
4 7 (35.00%) Finance
5 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (30.00%) Degree
5 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (25.00%) BDD
6 5 (25.00%) Data Structures
6 5 (25.00%) OO
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) TDD
7 4 (20.00%) Python
7 4 (20.00%) SOA
7 4 (20.00%) DevOps
7 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (20.00%) React
7 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (20.00%) Multithreading
7 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
8 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (15.00%) AWS
8 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) Spring
2 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (20.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.00%) Kafka
5 1 (5.00%) Guice
5 1 (5.00%) Java EE
5 1 (5.00%) SAML
5 1 (5.00%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.00%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
1 9 (45.00%) Microservices
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (25.00%) BDD
3 5 (25.00%) OO
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) TDD
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) SOA
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) OOP
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) OOD
7 1 (5.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) ION Trading