Java Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Java
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 33 52
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing Java 29 37 18
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.85% 5.37% 2.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.43% 19.27% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 13
10th Percentile £405 £438 £271
25th Percentile £463 £500 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +22.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £511 £722 £675
90th Percentile £538 £770 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -2.78%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 188 192 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.97% 27.87% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 120 135
10th Percentile £314 £350 £275
25th Percentile £402 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +15.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £648 £636
90th Percentile £633 £726 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £48.75 -
25th Percentile - £50.63 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% +182.05% -
75th Percentile - £58.13 £19.75
90th Percentile - £59.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £23.87 £18.50
% change year-on-year +109.47% +29.03% -15.91%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Java job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) Confluence
2 4 (13.79%) Apache
3 3 (10.34%) Apache Pig
3 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (3.45%) IIS
5 1 (3.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Amazon S3
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon ELB
3 7 (24.14%) Amazon Glacier
3 7 (24.14%) AWS KMS
3 7 (24.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Azure
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
1 7 (24.14%) Firewall
1 7 (24.14%) FTP
1 7 (24.14%) HTTP
1 7 (24.14%) SMTP
1 7 (24.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (24.14%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (20.69%) Hadoop
2 6 (20.69%) MongoDB
3 5 (17.24%) Data Mining
3 5 (17.24%) NoSQL
4 4 (13.79%) Apache Hive
4 4 (13.79%) Power BI
5 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.45%) Big Data
6 1 (3.45%) DataStage
6 1 (3.45%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) JIRA
2 9 (31.03%) Git
2 9 (31.03%) Jenkins
3 7 (24.14%) Vagrant
4 6 (20.69%) JUnit
5 3 (10.34%) GitLab
6 2 (6.90%) Toad
General
1 10 (34.48%) Public Sector
2 7 (24.14%) Banking
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Finance
6 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Java Developer
3 7 (24.14%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (24.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.90%) Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Calypso Developer
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Lead
7 1 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) Kafka
2 6 (20.69%) Gherkin
2 6 (20.69%) Spring
3 4 (13.79%) XML
4 2 (6.90%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (3.45%) JSON
5 1 (3.45%) Middleware
5 1 (3.45%) OAuth
5 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
5 1 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.45%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (3.45%) SOAP
5 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Replication
2 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
2 5 (17.24%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.90%) Derivative
4 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
1 9 (31.03%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (24.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Test Automation
2 8 (27.59%) DevOps
2 8 (27.59%) Microservices
3 7 (24.14%) Change Management
3 7 (24.14%) Cloud Security
3 7 (24.14%) Configuration Management
3 7 (24.14%) Data Science
3 7 (24.14%) Machine Learning
3 7 (24.14%) Patch Management
3 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (24.14%) SDLC
4 5 (17.24%) Data Collection
4 5 (17.24%) Data Protection
4 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
5 4 (13.79%) Analytics
5 4 (13.79%) Data Munging
5 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
5 4 (13.79%) Naive Bayes
5 4 (13.79%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) SQL
3 7 (24.14%) Groovy
3 7 (24.14%) Perl
3 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
3 7 (24.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) SC Cleared
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) Docker
2 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (24.14%) DFS Replication
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Grafana
1 7 (24.14%) Prometheus
1 7 (24.14%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.79%) Splunk
3 2 (6.90%) Ariba
3 2 (6.90%) Calypso
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Pega