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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 31
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing Java 33 39 35
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.61% 6.60% 4.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.15% 26.35% 21.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 25
10th Percentile £400 £438 £425
25th Percentile £405 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% -22.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £523 £500 £725
90th Percentile £673 - £771
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +197.30%

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 156 148 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.07% 25.04% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 98 112
10th Percentile £373 £280 £313
25th Percentile £423 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £496
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.19% +10.17%
75th Percentile £575 £508 £628
90th Percentile £725 £623 £699
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £492
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.73% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.55% +123.35%
West Midlands median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +136.86%

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 6 September 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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) AWS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) GitHub
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.06%) AWS KMS
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) OCI
5 2 (6.06%) Route 53
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (39.39%) MongoDB
2 5 (15.15%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Power BI
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.09%) Metadata
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
2 5 (15.15%) Maven
2 5 (15.15%) SonarQube
3 4 (12.12%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) Mockito
3 4 (12.12%) REST Assured
3 4 (12.12%) Selenium
3 4 (12.12%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (6.06%) Gatling
4 2 (6.06%) JUnit
5 1 (3.03%) Hudson
General
1 14 (42.42%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Publishing
5 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Developer
2 13 (39.39%) Java Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Senior
3 9 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 6 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Administrator
5 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) SAP Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Scrum Master
7 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (36.36%) Kafka
1 12 (36.36%) REST
1 12 (36.36%) Spring
2 11 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 7 (21.21%) Node.js
4 4 (12.12%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (12.12%) Playwright
4 4 (12.12%) Spring Cloud
5 3 (9.09%) JSON
5 3 (9.09%) SLSA
5 3 (9.09%) SOAP
5 3 (9.09%) Terraform
5 3 (9.09%) Web Services
5 3 (9.09%) YAML
6 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.06%) JAX-RS
6 2 (6.06%) JPA
6 2 (6.06%) RESTful
6 2 (6.06%) Spring Batch
6 2 (6.06%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Blog
1 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 17 (51.52%) DevOps
3 15 (45.45%) Microservices
4 14 (42.42%) Agile
5 10 (30.30%) TDD
5 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
6 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 8 (24.24%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (18.18%) BDD
8 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 6 (18.18%) Scrum
9 5 (15.15%) Coaching
9 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (15.15%) Design Patterns
9 5 (15.15%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (12.12%) Data Engineering
10 4 (12.12%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 4 (12.12%) C#
2 4 (12.12%) Kotlin
2 4 (12.12%) SQL
3 3 (9.09%) Groovy
3 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) C
5 1 (3.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 8 (24.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Grafana
2 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Sonatype
2 2 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (6.06%) Splunk
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) SAP