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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 44 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -23
Contract jobs citing Java 35 17 19
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.12% 2.96% 2.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.91% 10.37% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 9 17
10th Percentile £418 £425 £289
25th Percentile £463 £453 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £675
90th Percentile £575 £585 -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -4.60% -9.09%

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 207 164 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.35% 28.52% 25.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 107 147
10th Percentile £325 £359 £259
25th Percentile £425 £419 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £578 £631 £575
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £489 £450
% change year-on-year +2.25% +8.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £53.75
% change year-on-year +186.56% -62.34% +144.32%

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 20 February 2026.

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 10 (28.57%) Apache
2 5 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Geronimo
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Pig
4 1 (2.86%) Apache ServiceMix
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) AWS
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon S3
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (14.29%) Route 53
6 4 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (8.57%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon Glacier
8 2 (5.71%) GitHub
8 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.71%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) FTP
1 2 (5.71%) HTTP
1 2 (5.71%) SMTP
1 2 (5.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (14.29%) DynamoDB
3 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 4 (11.43%) BigQuery
4 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
5 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.71%) Apache Hive
6 2 (5.71%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.71%) Power BI
7 1 (2.86%) Big Data
7 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (34.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.71%) Git
2 9 (25.71%) JUnit
3 7 (20.00%) JIRA
4 6 (17.14%) Maven
4 6 (17.14%) SonarQube
5 5 (14.29%) Mockito
6 4 (11.43%) DbUnit
6 4 (11.43%) jMock
7 3 (8.57%) JMeter
8 2 (5.71%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (5.71%) GitLab
8 2 (5.71%) REST Assured
8 2 (5.71%) Selenium
8 2 (5.71%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (5.71%) Toad
8 2 (5.71%) Vagrant
9 1 (2.86%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.86%) Gatling
9 1 (2.86%) Postman
General
1 12 (34.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (17.14%) Banking
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Publishing
5 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 14 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Lead
4 7 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Calypso Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Data Scientist
7 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Real Time Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) SAP Test Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
7 2 (5.71%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) Spring
2 9 (25.71%) Kafka
3 8 (22.86%) Spring Boot
4 6 (17.14%) Node.js
4 6 (17.14%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 5 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 5 (14.29%) JPA
5 5 (14.29%) REST
5 5 (14.29%) SOAP
5 5 (14.29%) Spring Batch
5 5 (14.29%) Spring Integration
5 5 (14.29%) Web Services
6 4 (11.43%) Apache Beam
6 4 (11.43%) Gherkin
6 4 (11.43%) PowerMock
7 3 (8.57%) RESTful
8 2 (5.71%) ADO
8 2 (5.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.43%) Clustering
3 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.71%) Derivative
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows
3 2 (5.71%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (5.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (34.29%) DevOps
2 12 (34.29%) Test Automation
3 11 (31.43%) Microservices
4 9 (25.71%) TDD
5 8 (22.86%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Analytics
7 6 (17.14%) Workflow
8 5 (14.29%) BDD
8 5 (14.29%) BPMN
8 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 5 (14.29%) GitOps
8 5 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 5 (14.29%) Scrum
9 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
9 4 (11.43%) Data Science
9 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.43%) Observability
9 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 4 (11.43%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) SQL
2 12 (34.29%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) Scala
4 3 (8.57%) Groovy
4 3 (8.57%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.71%) Perl
5 2 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.71%) VB
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (5.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.86%) Docker
2 4 (11.43%) Postfix
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.71%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Grafana
2 7 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.71%) Ansible
4 2 (5.71%) HP ALM
4 2 (5.71%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Google
1 5 (14.29%) Jaspersoft
1 5 (14.29%) Oracle
2 4 (11.43%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.43%) SAP
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.57%) Splunk
4 2 (5.71%) Ariba
4 2 (5.71%) Calypso
4 2 (5.71%) HP
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) Sonatype
5 1 (2.86%) TIBCO