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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 43
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing Java 37 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.04% 5.38% 2.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.16% 21.60% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 15
10th Percentile £400 £453 £339
25th Percentile £425 £475 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -24.37%
75th Percentile £550 - £675
90th Percentile £575 £575 -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -3.40% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - - £40.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 167 125 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.25% 24.90% 24.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 86 140
10th Percentile £325 £363 £259
25th Percentile £413 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £575
90th Percentile £621 £700 £651
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +1.41% +2.78% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - - £40.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.74%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £61.32 £33.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year +80.82% -41.03% +96.13%

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 8 June 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 8 (21.62%) Apache
2 4 (10.81%) Confluence
3 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.70%) Apache Geronimo
5 1 (2.70%) Apache ServiceMix
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (2.70%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.70%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.70%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) AWS
2 11 (29.73%) Azure
3 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (21.62%) AWS KMS
4 8 (21.62%) Route 53
5 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (16.22%) GitHub
6 5 (13.51%) GCP
7 4 (10.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (8.11%) Cloud Composer
8 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
8 3 (8.11%) Snowflake
9 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.70%) BrowserStack
10 1 (2.70%) Serverless
10 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (21.62%) DynamoDB
3 6 (16.22%) MongoDB
4 5 (13.51%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.81%) BigQuery
6 3 (8.11%) Power BI
7 2 (5.41%) Metadata
8 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.03%) Maven
2 10 (27.03%) SonarQube
3 9 (24.32%) Git
3 9 (24.32%) JUnit
4 8 (21.62%) Mockito
5 6 (16.22%) REST Assured
5 6 (16.22%) Selenium
5 6 (16.22%) Serenity BDD
6 5 (13.51%) GitLab
7 4 (10.81%) DbUnit
7 4 (10.81%) jMock
8 3 (8.11%) Gatling
8 3 (8.11%) JIRA
8 3 (8.11%) JMeter
9 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
10 1 (2.70%) Postman
General
1 15 (40.54%) Public Sector
2 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Publishing
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Developer
2 15 (40.54%) Java Developer
3 12 (32.43%) Lead
4 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Lead Data Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Lead Test Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Test Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Real Time Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.70%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.70%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) SAP Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (35.14%) Spring
2 12 (32.43%) REST
2 12 (32.43%) Spring Boot
3 11 (29.73%) Node.js
3 11 (29.73%) Spring Cloud
4 9 (24.32%) Kafka
4 9 (24.32%) SOAP
5 8 (21.62%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (21.62%) AngularJS
5 8 (21.62%) Hibernate
5 8 (21.62%) JPA
5 8 (21.62%) Spring Batch
5 8 (21.62%) Spring Integration
5 8 (21.62%) Web Services
6 5 (13.51%) Playwright
7 4 (10.81%) Apache Beam
7 4 (10.81%) PowerMock
7 4 (10.81%) RESTful
8 2 (5.41%) JSON
8 2 (5.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (10.81%) Clustering
3 2 (5.41%) Blog
3 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
2 20 (54.05%) DevOps
3 15 (40.54%) Microservices
4 12 (32.43%) Agile
5 10 (27.03%) TDD
6 9 (24.32%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
7 8 (21.62%) BPMN
7 8 (21.62%) Containerisation
7 8 (21.62%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (21.62%) Scrum
8 7 (18.92%) BDD
8 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
8 7 (18.92%) Workflow
9 6 (16.22%) Analytics
9 6 (16.22%) Biometrics
9 6 (16.22%) Kanban
9 6 (16.22%) Non-Functional Testing
9 6 (16.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) PL/SQL
4 2 (5.41%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) Groovy
4 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.41%) Kotlin
4 2 (5.41%) VB
5 1 (2.70%) C
5 1 (2.70%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (45.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
3 2 (5.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (5.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) Docker
2 4 (10.81%) Postfix
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Grafana
2 6 (16.22%) Terraform
3 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
4 2 (5.41%) HP ALM
4 2 (5.41%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (10.81%) Atlassian
2 4 (10.81%) Google
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) SAP
3 3 (8.11%) Splunk
4 2 (5.41%) HP
4 2 (5.41%) Sonatype
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.70%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.70%) Zscaler