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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 34 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +15 -19
Contract jobs citing Java 45 34 20
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.50% 4.82% 2.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.19% 17.62% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 14
10th Percentile £458 £435 £312
25th Percentile £463 £500 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £545
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.68% -0.91%
75th Percentile - £725 £700
90th Percentile £512 £771 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.41%

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 186 193 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.88% 27.34% 21.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 118 138
10th Percentile £316 £336 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £540 £617 £608
90th Percentile £624 £713 £691
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.10% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +207.69% -
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £33.93 £18.50
% change year-on-year +47.36% +83.41% -42.19%

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 18 November 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 12 (26.67%) Confluence
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Pig
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.22%) IIS
4 1 (2.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) AWS
2 18 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 17 (37.78%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (37.78%) AWS KMS
4 15 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (26.67%) Amazon ELB
5 12 (26.67%) Amazon Glacier
5 12 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (11.11%) Route 53
8 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.44%) Azure
9 2 (4.44%) GCP
9 2 (4.44%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.22%) GitHub
10 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) DNS
1 12 (26.67%) Firewall
1 12 (26.67%) FTP
1 12 (26.67%) HTTP
1 12 (26.67%) SMTP
1 12 (26.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (37.78%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (24.44%) MongoDB
3 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
4 6 (13.33%) Hadoop
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (11.11%) Data Mining
5 5 (11.11%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (8.89%) Apache Hive
6 4 (8.89%) Power BI
7 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (2.22%) Big Data
8 1 (2.22%) DataStage
8 1 (2.22%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 19 (42.22%) Git
1 19 (42.22%) Jenkins
2 16 (35.56%) JUnit
3 15 (33.33%) JIRA
4 12 (26.67%) Vagrant
5 6 (13.33%) GitLab
6 5 (11.11%) Maven
6 5 (11.11%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (6.67%) DbUnit
7 3 (6.67%) jMock
7 3 (6.67%) Mockito
8 2 (4.44%) Toad
General
1 20 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 11 (24.44%) Banking
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Retail Banking
4 4 (8.89%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 23 (51.11%) Developer
2 20 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 12 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Data Scientist
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
8 2 (4.44%) Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Java Developer
8 2 (4.44%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) SAP Test Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Senior
8 2 (4.44%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) Spring
2 12 (26.67%) Kafka
3 11 (24.44%) Gherkin
4 6 (13.33%) REST
4 6 (13.33%) RESTful
4 6 (13.33%) SOAP
4 6 (13.33%) Spring Boot
5 5 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 5 (11.11%) JPA
5 5 (11.11%) Spring Batch
5 5 (11.11%) Spring Integration
5 5 (11.11%) Web Services
6 4 (8.89%) XML
7 3 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.67%) Bootstrap
7 3 (6.67%) PowerMock
7 3 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (4.44%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.67%) Replication
2 6 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (11.11%) Algorithms
3 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.44%) Derivative
5 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) Linux
2 14 (31.11%) Windows
3 12 (26.67%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (26.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Microservices
2 16 (35.56%) DevOps
3 13 (28.89%) Test Automation
4 12 (26.67%) Change Management
4 12 (26.67%) Cloud Security
4 12 (26.67%) Configuration Management
4 12 (26.67%) Patch Management
4 12 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (26.67%) SDLC
5 10 (22.22%) TDD
6 7 (15.56%) Data Science
6 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
7 6 (13.33%) Agile
7 6 (13.33%) Data Protection
8 5 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.11%) Data Collection
8 5 (11.11%) Scrum
8 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
9 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
9 4 (8.89%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 20 (44.44%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 12 (26.67%) Groovy
3 12 (26.67%) Perl
3 12 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 7 (15.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
1 17 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) Docker
2 12 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 12 (26.67%) DFS Replication
3 3 (6.67%) Postfix
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Grafana
1 15 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 12 (26.67%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (8.89%) Splunk
3 3 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.44%) Ariba
4 2 (4.44%) Calypso
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) Pega