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

 6 months to
24 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 30 50
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -24
Contract jobs citing Java 26 35 19
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.27% 5.41% 2.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.33% 18.52% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 25 16
10th Percentile £424 £425 £284
25th Percentile £463 £485 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £538 £713 £675
90th Percentile £571 £765 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £624
% change year-on-year - -19.81% +15.46%

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 195 189 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.53% 29.21% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 123 138
10th Percentile £382 £363 £260
25th Percentile £459 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £582 £650 £626
90th Percentile £645 £711 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% - -
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 24 January 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 5 (19.23%) Apache
2 4 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 4 (15.38%) Confluence
3 3 (11.54%) Apache Pig
4 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (3.85%) IIS
5 1 (3.85%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon Glacier
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 4 (15.38%) AWS KMS
2 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 4 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
1 4 (15.38%) FTP
1 4 (15.38%) HTTP
1 4 (15.38%) SMTP
1 4 (15.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 5 (19.23%) Data Mining
2 5 (19.23%) NoSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (15.38%) Apache Hive
3 4 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 4 (15.38%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) Big Data
5 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) OLTP
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 6 (23.08%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) Vagrant
4 3 (11.54%) JUnit
5 2 (7.69%) Toad
6 1 (3.85%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) JMeter
6 1 (3.85%) Maven
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Banking
3 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.85%) Publishing
6 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Developer
2 8 (30.77%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Data Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Data Scientist
4 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Calypso Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Kafka
1 4 (15.38%) Spring
2 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
2 3 (11.54%) XML
3 2 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (7.69%) JSON
3 2 (7.69%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) ADO
4 1 (3.85%) HTML
4 1 (3.85%) Middleware
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.85%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) SLSA
4 1 (3.85%) SOAP
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Algorithms
2 4 (15.38%) Replication
3 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.69%) Derivative
4 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (15.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
2 7 (26.92%) Data Science
2 7 (26.92%) DevOps
2 7 (26.92%) Machine Learning
3 6 (23.08%) Microservices
4 5 (19.23%) Analytics
4 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
4 5 (19.23%) Data Collection
4 5 (19.23%) Visualisation
5 4 (15.38%) Change Management
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 4 (15.38%) Data Munging
5 4 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 4 (15.38%) Linear Algebra
5 4 (15.38%) Naive Bayes
5 4 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Statistics
5 4 (15.38%) Support Vector Machines
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) SQL
3 7 (26.92%) Scala
4 5 (19.23%) Groovy
5 4 (15.38%) Perl
5 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 4 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) DFS Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Grafana
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) HP ALM
4 1 (3.85%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
1 4 (15.38%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) Ariba
3 2 (7.69%) Calypso
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) HP
4 1 (3.85%) Pega
4 1 (3.85%) Sonatype
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