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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 34 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 -22
Contract jobs citing Java 33 35 19
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.51% 4.83% 2.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.65% 17.95% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 26 13
10th Percentile £409 £438 £271
25th Percentile £463 £500 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £613 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% +22.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £722 £700
90th Percentile £521 £770 -
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 187 195 165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.58% 26.93% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 125 133
10th Percentile £314 £340 £265
25th Percentile £403 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £638 £648
90th Percentile £627 £712 £698
West Midlands median daily rate £509 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.80% +8.70% -8.91%
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 9 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 10 (30.30%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Apache
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Pig
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (6.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.03%) IIS
4 1 (3.03%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 11 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (30.30%) Amazon Glacier
3 10 (30.30%) AWS KMS
3 10 (30.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.06%) Azure
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) DNS
1 10 (30.30%) Firewall
1 10 (30.30%) FTP
1 10 (30.30%) HTTP
1 10 (30.30%) SMTP
1 10 (30.30%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (21.21%) MongoDB
3 6 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 6 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 5 (15.15%) Data Mining
5 4 (12.12%) Apache Hive
5 4 (12.12%) Power BI
6 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.03%) Big Data
7 1 (3.03%) DataStage
7 1 (3.03%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) JIRA
2 12 (36.36%) Git
2 12 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 10 (30.30%) Vagrant
4 7 (21.21%) JUnit
5 3 (9.09%) GitLab
6 2 (6.06%) Toad
General
1 14 (42.42%) Public Sector
2 8 (24.24%) Banking
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Finance
6 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Java Developer
3 7 (21.21%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.06%) Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Calypso Developer
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) Kafka
2 7 (21.21%) Gherkin
3 6 (18.18%) Spring
4 4 (12.12%) XML
5 2 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (3.03%) HTML
6 1 (3.03%) JSON
6 1 (3.03%) Middleware
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (3.03%) REST
6 1 (3.03%) RESTful
6 1 (3.03%) SOAP
6 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Replication
2 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
2 5 (15.15%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (6.06%) Derivative
4 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Linux
1 12 (36.36%) Windows
2 10 (30.30%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (30.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) DevOps
1 11 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (30.30%) Change Management
2 10 (30.30%) Cloud Security
2 10 (30.30%) Configuration Management
2 10 (30.30%) Patch Management
2 10 (30.30%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (27.27%) Microservices
4 8 (24.24%) SDLC
5 7 (21.21%) Data Science
5 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
6 5 (15.15%) Data Collection
6 5 (15.15%) Data Protection
6 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
7 4 (12.12%) Data Munging
7 4 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
7 4 (12.12%) Decision-Making
7 4 (12.12%) Linear Algebra
7 4 (12.12%) Naive Bayes
7 4 (12.12%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) Python
2 11 (33.33%) SQL
3 10 (30.30%) Groovy
3 10 (30.30%) Perl
3 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
4 7 (21.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 10 (30.30%) Active Directory
2 10 (30.30%) DFS Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Grafana
1 10 (30.30%) Prometheus
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.12%) Splunk
3 2 (6.06%) Ariba
3 2 (6.06%) Calypso
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Oracle
3 2 (6.06%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Pega