Java Contracts in the Midlands

Java
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 43 30
Rank change year-on-year -25 -13 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 69 154 290
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.51% 4.46% 5.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.22% 16.44% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 115 217
10th Percentile £328 £440 £381
25th Percentile £413 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +8.00% +22.70%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £540
90th Percentile £649 £700 £597
England median daily rate £575 £601 £600
% change year-on-year -4.25% +0.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £25.34 - -
25th Percentile £33.88 £18.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.92% -13.95% -
75th Percentile £55.63 £18.75 £22.75
90th Percentile £56.25 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +9.09%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 615 937 1,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.41% 27.16% 26.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 700 1,000
10th Percentile £260 £313 £315
25th Percentile £350 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +16.13%
75th Percentile £550 £557 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £625
England median daily rate £540 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -4.26% +2.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 19
10th Percentile £22.42 £20.24 £17.07
25th Percentile £27.38 £24.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.78 £33.39 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.10% -4.61% -9.68%
75th Percentile £58.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £60.13 £86.00 £45.34
England median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% +14.94%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the Midlands

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the Midlands

Java
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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 -24 47 £525 -4.55% 58
East Midlands +8 22 £489 -9.02% 16
Java
England

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.90%) Apache
2 2 (2.90%) CMS
2 2 (2.90%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.45%) SAS
3 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
2 5 (7.25%) Azure
3 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.45%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.59%) DHCP
1 8 (11.59%) DNS
1 8 (11.59%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.80%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.14%) Relational Database
2 6 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 6 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.80%) Big Data
3 4 (5.80%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.80%) Pentaho
3 4 (5.80%) Power BI
3 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.35%) MySQL
4 3 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.90%) Apache Hive
5 2 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.45%) Impala
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.25%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.80%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.80%) Git
4 3 (4.35%) JIRA
4 3 (4.35%) JUnit
4 3 (4.35%) Maven
4 3 (4.35%) Selenium
5 2 (2.90%) GitLab
5 2 (2.90%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.90%) TestNG
5 2 (2.90%) webpack
6 1 (1.45%) Ant
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.45%) Gradle
6 1 (1.45%) JMeter
6 1 (1.45%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (26.09%) Finance
2 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.90%) Law
6 1 (1.45%) Automotive
6 1 (1.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 31 (44.93%) Developer
2 20 (28.99%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.04%) Data Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Lead
5 7 (10.14%) Lead Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Lead Java Developer
5 7 (10.14%) Senior
6 6 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (5.80%) Architect
7 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.80%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 3 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
8 3 (4.35%) Security Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Security Project Manager
8 3 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) Spring
2 8 (11.59%) RESTful
3 7 (10.14%) React
4 5 (7.25%) Kafka
4 5 (7.25%) OpenAPI
4 5 (7.25%) RAML
4 5 (7.25%) Swagger
5 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.80%) SAML
6 3 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.35%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.35%) JSON
6 3 (4.35%) OAuth
6 3 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.35%) OpenID
6 3 (4.35%) REST
6 3 (4.35%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.90%) Apache Sling
7 2 (2.90%) Next.js
7 2 (2.90%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Data Structures
1 7 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.25%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.49%) Unix
1 10 (14.49%) Windows
2 9 (13.04%) Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (23.19%) Agile
2 10 (14.49%) Microservices
2 10 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.04%) CI/CD
3 9 (13.04%) Computer Science
3 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (11.59%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (11.59%) DevOps
4 8 (11.59%) ETL
4 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (11.59%) Virtual Environments
4 8 (11.59%) Visualisation
5 7 (10.14%) BDD
5 7 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (10.14%) Test Automation
6 6 (8.70%) Data Modelling
6 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
6 6 (8.70%) Scrum
6 6 (8.70%) Software Engineering
6 6 (8.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.33%) Python
2 14 (20.29%) SQL
3 13 (18.84%) C#
4 8 (11.59%) Scala
5 4 (5.80%) TypeScript
6 3 (4.35%) BeanShell
6 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.90%) C
7 2 (2.90%) C++
7 2 (2.90%) Perl
7 2 (2.90%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.90%) R
7 2 (2.90%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.45%) ABAP
8 1 (1.45%) Groovy
8 1 (1.45%) HiveQL
8 1 (1.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (13.04%) Degree
1 9 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.14%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.80%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.25%) NIST
2 4 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) QA
5 1 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (7.25%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (7.25%) VMware NSX
2 3 (4.35%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) OpenAM
2 3 (4.35%) OpenIDM
3 2 (2.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) SCCM
2 5 (7.25%) vCenter Server
3 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Informatica
2 5 (7.25%) Veeam
2 5 (7.25%) VMware
3 4 (5.80%) Talend
4 3 (4.35%) ForgeRock
4 3 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) Confluent
6 1 (1.45%) Denodo
6 1 (1.45%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.45%) JDA
6 1 (1.45%) SAP