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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 26 25
Rank change year-on-year -19 -1 +24
Contract jobs citing Java 31 30 36
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.37% 5.50% 5.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.68% 24.79% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 25
10th Percentile £400 £413 £411
25th Percentile £405 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £511 £500 £713
90th Percentile £547 - £765
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +3.16% -13.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - - £40.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +197.30%

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 143 121 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.56% 22.20% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 83 112
10th Percentile £325 £251 £314
25th Percentile £411 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £625
90th Percentile £679 £565 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £460 £488
% change year-on-year +1.96% -5.64% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - - £40.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.60%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £50.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year +16.00% -10.11% +125.89%

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 August 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 1 (3.23%) Apache
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
1 1 (3.23%) OpenStack
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Amazon S3
3 8 (25.81%) Azure
4 7 (22.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (22.58%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (22.58%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (19.35%) AWS KMS
5 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) Route 53
6 5 (16.13%) GitHub
6 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
7 4 (12.90%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (9.68%) Serverless
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (3.23%) OCI
10 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) MongoDB
1 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (19.35%) DynamoDB
3 5 (16.13%) Power BI
4 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.45%) Metadata
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.81%) Git
2 8 (25.81%) Maven
2 8 (25.81%) Mockito
2 8 (25.81%) SonarQube
3 6 (19.35%) JUnit
4 4 (12.90%) GitLab
4 4 (12.90%) REST Assured
4 4 (12.90%) Selenium
4 4 (12.90%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (6.45%) DbUnit
5 2 (6.45%) Gatling
5 2 (6.45%) jMock
6 1 (3.23%) Hudson
General
1 13 (41.94%) Public Sector
2 5 (16.13%) Banking
2 5 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Developer
2 14 (45.16%) Java Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Lead
4 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Senior Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Principal Test Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (45.16%) REST
2 12 (38.71%) Spring
3 11 (35.48%) Spring Boot
4 10 (32.26%) Node.js
5 8 (25.81%) ActiveMQ
5 8 (25.81%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (22.58%) Kafka
6 7 (22.58%) SOAP
6 7 (22.58%) Web Services
7 6 (19.35%) AngularJS
7 6 (19.35%) Hibernate
7 6 (19.35%) JPA
7 6 (19.35%) Spring Batch
7 6 (19.35%) Spring Integration
8 4 (12.90%) Playwright
8 4 (12.90%) RESTful
9 2 (6.45%) JAX-RS
9 2 (6.45%) React
9 2 (6.45%) SLSA
9 2 (6.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Blog
1 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 17 (54.84%) DevOps
2 17 (54.84%) Microservices
3 13 (41.94%) Agile
4 11 (35.48%) TDD
5 8 (25.81%) Scrum
6 7 (22.58%) Architectural Patterns
6 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 6 (19.35%) BDD
7 6 (19.35%) BPMN
7 6 (19.35%) Containerisation
7 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
8 5 (16.13%) Design Patterns
9 4 (12.90%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) Python
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) Groovy
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.23%) C
5 1 (3.23%) C++
5 1 (3.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 15 (48.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Postfix
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.45%) Sonatype
2 2 (6.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) Zscaler