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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 28 34
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing Java 50 43 34
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.56% 7.00% 4.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.06% 27.56% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 39 25
10th Percentile £400 £413 £435
25th Percentile £438 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% -21.92% -7.41%
75th Percentile £535 £500 £725
90th Percentile £738 £502 £771
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -6.38%

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 161 156 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.89% 25.41% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 101 119
10th Percentile £375 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £540 £584
90th Percentile £733 £633 £702
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -40.00% +66.67%
West Midlands median hourly rate £39.15 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.70% +5.26% +156.76%

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 6 October 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 3 (6.00%) Apache
1 3 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) AWS
2 7 (14.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (12.00%) Azure
4 5 (10.00%) GitHub
5 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (6.00%) GCP
6 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.00%) AWS KMS
7 2 (4.00%) OCI
7 2 (4.00%) Route 53
7 2 (4.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.00%) Power BI
3 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.00%) GitLab
3 4 (8.00%) Git
3 4 (8.00%) Maven
3 4 (8.00%) Mockito
3 4 (8.00%) REST Assured
3 4 (8.00%) Selenium
3 4 (8.00%) Serenity BDD
3 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.00%) Gatling
4 2 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.00%) Hudson
General
1 16 (32.00%) Public Sector
2 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Publishing
6 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (50.00%) Developer
2 21 (42.00%) Senior
3 20 (40.00%) Java Developer
4 13 (26.00%) Senior Developer
5 10 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Java Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Lead
6 6 (12.00%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Java Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Databricks Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Lead Test Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Python Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) Spring
2 16 (32.00%) Spring Boot
3 15 (30.00%) Kafka
4 13 (26.00%) REST
5 7 (14.00%) Node.js
6 4 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (8.00%) Playwright
6 4 (8.00%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (6.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (6.00%) JPA
7 3 (6.00%) SOAP
7 3 (6.00%) Web Services
8 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.00%) JAX-RS
8 2 (4.00%) JSON
8 2 (4.00%) React
8 2 (4.00%) RESTful
8 2 (4.00%) Spring Batch
8 2 (4.00%) Terraform
8 2 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) Blog
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (36.00%) DevOps
2 18 (36.00%) Microservices
2 18 (36.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (32.00%) Agile
3 16 (32.00%) TDD
4 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (22.00%) Test Automation
6 10 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.00%) Scrum
8 6 (12.00%) AI
8 6 (12.00%) Analytics
8 6 (12.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (12.00%) BDD
8 6 (12.00%) Coaching
8 6 (12.00%) Data Engineering
8 6 (12.00%) Event-Driven
8 6 (12.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) Kotlin
3 8 (16.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 4 (8.00%) C#
6 3 (6.00%) Scala
7 2 (4.00%) Groovy
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.00%) C
8 1 (2.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (52.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (46.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Grafana
1 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (6.00%) Databricks
2 2 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (4.00%) Sonatype
2 2 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) IBM
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) SAP