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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -17
Contract jobs citing Java 36 15 22
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.22% 2.70% 2.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.22% 9.62% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 19
10th Percentile £418 £444 £298
25th Percentile £463 £477 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -21.74%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £675
90th Percentile £575 £590 -
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £477 £475
% change year-on-year +1.94% +0.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 - £17.50

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 209 156 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.47% 28.06% 25.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 102 149
10th Percentile £325 £354 £259
25th Percentile £425 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £576 £645 £575
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £487 £450
% change year-on-year +2.67% +8.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £20.24 £50.00
% change year-on-year +186.56% -59.52% +127.27%

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 24 February 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 10 (27.78%) Apache
2 5 (13.89%) Apache Spark
3 4 (11.11%) Confluence
4 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Geronimo
5 1 (2.78%) Apache Pig
5 1 (2.78%) Apache ServiceMix
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.78%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.78%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Azure
3 8 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (19.44%) AWS KMS
4 7 (19.44%) GCP
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (16.67%) Route 53
6 4 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (8.33%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.56%) GitHub
8 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 2 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (2.78%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) FTP
1 1 (2.78%) HTTP
1 1 (2.78%) SMTP
1 1 (2.78%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 5 (13.89%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
4 4 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 4 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.56%) Apache Hive
6 2 (5.56%) Data Mining
6 2 (5.56%) Power BI
7 1 (2.78%) Big Data
7 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.78%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.78%) JUnit
3 9 (25.00%) Git
4 7 (19.44%) Maven
4 7 (19.44%) SonarQube
5 6 (16.67%) JIRA
5 6 (16.67%) Mockito
6 4 (11.11%) DbUnit
6 4 (11.11%) jMock
7 3 (8.33%) JMeter
8 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (5.56%) GitLab
8 2 (5.56%) REST Assured
8 2 (5.56%) Selenium
8 2 (5.56%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (5.56%) Toad
9 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.78%) Gatling
9 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.67%) Banking
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Publishing
5 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 16 (44.44%) Java Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Lead
4 7 (19.44%) Data Engineer
5 6 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Senior
7 2 (5.56%) Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Calypso Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Data Scientist
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Real Time Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) SAP Test Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Spring
2 9 (25.00%) Kafka
2 9 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 7 (19.44%) Node.js
3 7 (19.44%) Spring Cloud
4 6 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 6 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 6 (16.67%) JPA
4 6 (16.67%) REST
4 6 (16.67%) SOAP
4 6 (16.67%) Spring Batch
4 6 (16.67%) Spring Integration
4 6 (16.67%) Web Services
5 4 (11.11%) Apache Beam
5 4 (11.11%) Gherkin
5 4 (11.11%) PowerMock
6 3 (8.33%) RESTful
7 2 (5.56%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (5.56%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (11.11%) Clustering
3 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.56%) Derivative
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
2 3 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
2 12 (33.33%) DevOps
2 12 (33.33%) Microservices
2 12 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 10 (27.78%) TDD
4 9 (25.00%) Agile
5 7 (19.44%) Analytics
6 6 (16.67%) BPMN
6 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 6 (16.67%) Scrum
6 6 (16.67%) Workflow
7 5 (13.89%) BDD
7 5 (13.89%) GitOps
7 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
7 5 (13.89%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (11.11%) Change Data Capture
8 4 (11.11%) Data Science
8 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 4 (11.11%) Observability
8 4 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) SQL
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Scala
4 3 (8.33%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Groovy
5 2 (5.56%) VB
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Perl
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
4 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) SLA
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
2 4 (11.11%) Postfix
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.78%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Grafana
2 6 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) HP ALM
3 2 (5.56%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Jaspersoft
2 5 (13.89%) Google
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Atlassian
3 4 (11.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.33%) Splunk
5 2 (5.56%) Ariba
5 2 (5.56%) Calypso
5 2 (5.56%) HP
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.78%) Sonatype
6 1 (2.78%) TIBCO