Java Contracts in Birmingham

Java
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 41 37
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Java 32 21 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.03% 2.71% 4.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.81% 11.60% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 26
10th Percentile £444 £370 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £675 £700
90th Percentile £575 £704 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +4.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £40.20 -
25th Percentile - £40.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +197.30% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +197.30% -68.18%

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 129 181 219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.29% 23.39% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 134 148
10th Percentile £308 £259 £304
25th Percentile £425 £313 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £423 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -13.33% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £657
90th Percentile £694 £654 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile - £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +64.74% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Birmingham

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 6 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 14 (43.75%) Amazon S3
3 13 (40.63%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (37.50%) AWS KMS
5 10 (31.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (21.88%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (18.75%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (18.75%) Amazon Glacier
7 6 (18.75%) Route 53
7 6 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (12.50%) Snowflake
9 2 (6.25%) GCP
10 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (3.13%) Azure
10 1 (3.13%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (3.13%) OCI
10 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) DNS
1 6 (18.75%) Firewall
1 6 (18.75%) FTP
1 6 (18.75%) HTTP
1 6 (18.75%) SMTP
1 6 (18.75%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (40.63%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (31.25%) MongoDB
3 8 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (21.88%) DynamoDB
5 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
6 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.13%) Big Data
7 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.13%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 16 (50.00%) JUnit
2 14 (43.75%) Git
2 14 (43.75%) Jenkins
3 10 (31.25%) Maven
4 7 (21.88%) Mockito
5 6 (18.75%) JIRA
5 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
5 6 (18.75%) Vagrant
6 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
6 4 (12.50%) DbUnit
6 4 (12.50%) GitLab
6 4 (12.50%) jMock
7 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
7 3 (9.38%) Gradle
8 1 (3.13%) Ant
General
1 14 (43.75%) Public Sector
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Banking
4 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Financial Institution
5 3 (9.38%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Developer
1 21 (65.63%) Java Developer
2 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (50.00%) Spring
2 10 (31.25%) RESTful
3 9 (28.13%) Kafka
3 9 (28.13%) Spring Boot
4 8 (25.00%) REST
4 8 (25.00%) SOAP
4 8 (25.00%) Web Services
5 7 (21.88%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (21.88%) Gherkin
6 6 (18.75%) Hibernate
6 6 (18.75%) JPA
6 6 (18.75%) Spring Batch
6 6 (18.75%) Spring Integration
7 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 4 (12.50%) Bootstrap
7 4 (12.50%) PowerMock
7 4 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (3.13%) Mustache
8 1 (3.13%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Replication
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
2 3 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (18.75%) VMS
2 6 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Microservices
2 14 (43.75%) TDD
3 12 (37.50%) DevOps
4 9 (28.13%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) Scrum
5 8 (25.00%) SDLC
6 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security
7 6 (18.75%) Change Management
7 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (18.75%) Patch Management
7 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (15.63%) BDD
8 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 4 (12.50%) Kanban
9 4 (12.50%) Open Source
10 3 (9.38%) CI/CD
11 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
11 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) SQL
2 9 (28.13%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) Groovy
3 6 (18.75%) Perl
3 6 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Security Cleared
2 12 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (3.13%) OCP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Docker
2 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) DFS Replication
3 4 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Grafana
1 10 (31.25%) Prometheus
2 7 (21.88%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 4 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
3 3 (9.38%) Virgin Media
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Sybase