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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 38 56
Rank change year-on-year -10 +18 -28
Contract jobs citing Java 33 25 18
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.99% 4.05% 2.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.64% 13.74% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 15
10th Percentile £416 £425 £280
25th Percentile £463 £439 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £675
90th Percentile £574 £605 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -8.26%

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 211 182 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.51% 29.45% 25.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 116 148
10th Percentile £360 £358 £259
25th Percentile £442 £425 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £640 £575
90th Percentile £641 £700 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +0.05% +11.11% -14.29%
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 £34.25
% change year-on-year +109.47% -30.31% +55.68%

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 7 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 (30.30%) Apache
2 5 (15.15%) Confluence
3 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (9.09%) Apache Pig
5 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (3.03%) Apache Geronimo
6 1 (3.03%) Apache ServiceMix
6 1 (3.03%) IIS
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
6 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
6 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.12%) AWS KMS
4 4 (12.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub
6 2 (6.06%) Route 53
6 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.06%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) FTP
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
1 2 (6.06%) SMTP
1 2 (6.06%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 5 (15.15%) Data Mining
2 5 (15.15%) MongoDB
2 5 (15.15%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (12.12%) Apache Hive
3 4 (12.12%) BigQuery
3 4 (12.12%) Power BI
4 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.03%) Big Data
6 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 7 (21.21%) JIRA
3 6 (18.18%) Git
3 6 (18.18%) JUnit
4 3 (9.09%) JMeter
4 3 (9.09%) Maven
4 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 2 (6.06%) DbUnit
5 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) jMock
5 2 (6.06%) Mockito
5 2 (6.06%) REST Assured
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (6.06%) Toad
5 2 (6.06%) Vagrant
6 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (3.03%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (3.03%) TestNG
General
1 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Publishing
5 1 (3.03%) Retail Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Developer
2 10 (30.30%) Java Developer
3 8 (24.24%) Data Engineer
3 8 (24.24%) Lead
4 5 (15.15%) Lead Data Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Data Scientist
6 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Calypso Developer
7 2 (6.06%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Real Time Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) SAP Test Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (27.27%) Kafka
2 7 (21.21%) Spring
3 4 (12.12%) Apache Beam
3 4 (12.12%) Gherkin
3 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.09%) Node.js
4 3 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (6.06%) ADO
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (6.06%) Hibernate
5 2 (6.06%) JPA
5 2 (6.06%) Middleware
5 2 (6.06%) PowerMock
5 2 (6.06%) REST
5 2 (6.06%) SOAP
5 2 (6.06%) Spring Batch
5 2 (6.06%) Spring Integration
5 2 (6.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
1 5 (15.15%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.12%) Clustering
3 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.06%) Derivative
3 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
3 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (6.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (36.36%) Test Automation
2 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 9 (27.27%) DevOps
4 8 (24.24%) Analytics
4 8 (24.24%) Microservices
5 7 (21.21%) Data Science
5 7 (21.21%) Machine Learning
6 6 (18.18%) TDD
7 5 (15.15%) Agile
7 5 (15.15%) BDD
7 5 (15.15%) Data Collection
7 5 (15.15%) GitOps
7 5 (15.15%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.15%) Visualisation
7 5 (15.15%) Workflow
8 4 (12.12%) Cloud Security
8 4 (12.12%) Data Munging
8 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
8 4 (12.12%) Linear Algebra
8 4 (12.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) SQL
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 7 (21.21%) Scala
4 3 (9.09%) Groovy
5 2 (6.06%) Perl
5 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.06%) VB
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) SLA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.06%) DFS Replication
2 2 (6.06%) Postfix
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) HP ALM
4 2 (6.06%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Google
1 5 (15.15%) Oracle
1 5 (15.15%) Splunk
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) Ariba
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
4 2 (6.06%) Calypso
4 2 (6.06%) HP
4 2 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (3.03%) Sonatype
5 1 (3.03%) TIBCO