Java Developer Contracts in the West Midlands

Java Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Java Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 131 131
Rank change year-on-year +38 0 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 17 16 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 0.66% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.70% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 35
10th Percentile £351 £520 £365
25th Percentile £450 £563 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £515
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +35.92% +20.33%
75th Percentile £675 - £540
90th Percentile - - £584
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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,758 2,299 3,483
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 94.65% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 1,586 2,548
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 71 85
10th Percentile £11.97 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.05 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.50 £26.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 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
Birmingham +13 17 £475 -32.14% 5
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 West Midlands 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 the West 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 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