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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 31 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 -18
Contract jobs citing Java 41 35 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.82% 4.90% 3.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.97% 18.23% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 25 15
10th Percentile £448 £435 £360
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.96% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £500 £725 £700
90th Percentile £503 £771 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +197.30% -
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.90%

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 152 192 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.29% 26.85% 23.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 124 136
10th Percentile £300 £313 £283
25th Percentile £402 £381 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £650
90th Percentile £633 £696 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £55.50 £18.45
25th Percentile - £56.25 £18.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £57.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% +194.87% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £36.75
90th Percentile - £59.50 £46.95
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -11.11% +204.05% -58.89%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 21 September 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 and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 12 (29.27%) Confluence
2 3 (7.32%) Apache Pig
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.44%) IIS
3 1 (2.44%) nginx
3 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 21 (51.22%) AWS
2 20 (48.78%) Amazon S3
3 18 (43.90%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (41.46%) AWS KMS
5 15 (36.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (29.27%) Amazon ELB
6 12 (29.27%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (29.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (17.07%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (12.20%) Route 53
9 4 (9.76%) Power Platform
10 2 (4.88%) Serverless
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (2.44%) GitHub
11 1 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) DNS
1 12 (29.27%) Firewall
1 12 (29.27%) FTP
1 12 (29.27%) HTTP
1 12 (29.27%) SMTP
1 12 (29.27%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (43.90%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (24.39%) MongoDB
3 7 (17.07%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (14.63%) DynamoDB
5 5 (12.20%) Data Mining
6 4 (9.76%) Apache Hive
6 4 (9.76%) Hadoop
6 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
6 4 (9.76%) Power BI
7 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.44%) DataStage
8 1 (2.44%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 19 (46.34%) Git
1 19 (46.34%) Jenkins
2 15 (36.59%) JUnit
3 13 (31.71%) JIRA
4 12 (29.27%) Vagrant
5 6 (14.63%) GitLab
5 6 (14.63%) Maven
6 5 (12.20%) SonarQube
7 3 (7.32%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (7.32%) DbUnit
7 3 (7.32%) jMock
7 3 (7.32%) Mockito
General
1 20 (48.78%) Public Sector
2 8 (19.51%) Banking
3 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Retail Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (53.66%) Developer
2 21 (51.22%) Java Developer
3 12 (29.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (17.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (9.76%) Data Scientist
7 3 (7.32%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.88%) Lead Java Developer
9 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Security Architect
9 1 (2.44%) Senior
9 1 (2.44%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.44%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) Spring
2 12 (29.27%) Kafka
3 10 (24.39%) Gherkin
4 8 (19.51%) REST
4 8 (19.51%) Spring Boot
5 7 (17.07%) SOAP
5 7 (17.07%) Web Services
6 6 (14.63%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (14.63%) RESTful
7 5 (12.20%) Hibernate
7 5 (12.20%) JPA
7 5 (12.20%) Spring Batch
7 5 (12.20%) Spring Integration
8 3 (7.32%) AngularJS
8 3 (7.32%) Bootstrap
8 3 (7.32%) PowerMock
8 3 (7.32%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (4.88%) OAuth
9 2 (4.88%) XML
10 1 (2.44%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (29.27%) Replication
2 6 (14.63%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.20%) Algorithms
3 5 (12.20%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (9.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Linux
2 12 (29.27%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (29.27%) VMS
2 12 (29.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Microservices
2 17 (41.46%) DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) Cloud Security
4 12 (29.27%) Change Management
4 12 (29.27%) Configuration Management
4 12 (29.27%) Patch Management
4 12 (29.27%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (29.27%) SDLC
5 11 (26.83%) TDD
6 8 (19.51%) Agile
6 8 (19.51%) Test Automation
7 7 (17.07%) Scrum
8 5 (12.20%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.20%) Data Collection
8 5 (12.20%) Data Protection
8 5 (12.20%) Data Science
8 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
8 5 (12.20%) Visualisation
9 4 (9.76%) Containerisation
9 4 (9.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 12 (29.27%) Groovy
2 12 (29.27%) Perl
2 12 (29.27%) PowerShell
3 10 (24.39%) SQL
4 5 (12.20%) Scala
5 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (43.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.44%) OCP
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (2.44%) NIST
1 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (48.78%) Docker
2 12 (29.27%) Active Directory
2 12 (29.27%) DFS Replication
3 3 (7.32%) Postfix
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (36.59%) Grafana
1 15 (36.59%) Prometheus
2 12 (29.27%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.76%) Splunk
3 3 (7.32%) Atlassian
3 3 (7.32%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Pega