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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 38 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Java 28 13 27
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.15% 2.50% 3.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.64% 10.24% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 20
10th Percentile £421 £444 £302
25th Percentile £463 £477 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -21.74%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £605
90th Percentile £579 £583 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £477 £525
% change year-on-year +1.26% -9.14% -4.55%
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 - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 179 127 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.13% 24.42% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 92 141
10th Percentile £325 £318 £259
25th Percentile £413 £411 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £420
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +20.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £575
90th Percentile £623 £700 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £477 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.32% +5.56% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - £47.50 £40.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +87.60%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £60.57 £20.24 £57.50
% change year-on-year +199.25% -64.80% +127.72%

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 9 April 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 8 (28.57%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) Confluence
3 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.57%) Apache Geronimo
5 1 (3.57%) Apache ServiceMix
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (3.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (3.57%) WebLogic
5 1 (3.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) SAP FI
2 1 (3.57%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon SQS
4 6 (21.43%) AWS KMS
4 6 (21.43%) Route 53
5 5 (17.86%) GCP
6 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (10.71%) Cloud Composer
7 3 (10.71%) Snowflake
8 2 (7.14%) GitHub
8 2 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (3.57%) BrowserStack
9 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (3.57%) Serverless
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (21.43%) DynamoDB
3 4 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.14%) Metadata
5 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.57%) Power BI
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 8 (28.57%) Maven
2 8 (28.57%) SonarQube
3 7 (25.00%) JUnit
4 6 (21.43%) Git
4 6 (21.43%) Mockito
5 5 (17.86%) JIRA
6 4 (14.29%) DbUnit
6 4 (14.29%) jMock
7 3 (10.71%) JMeter
8 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
8 2 (7.14%) Selenium
8 2 (7.14%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (7.14%) Toad
9 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
9 1 (3.57%) Gatling
9 1 (3.57%) GitLab
9 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 12 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Publishing
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 12 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 9 (32.14%) Lead
4 5 (17.86%) Data Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Real Time Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Node.js
1 8 (28.57%) Spring
1 8 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 7 (25.00%) REST
2 7 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
3 6 (21.43%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (21.43%) AngularJS
3 6 (21.43%) Hibernate
3 6 (21.43%) JPA
3 6 (21.43%) SOAP
3 6 (21.43%) Spring Batch
3 6 (21.43%) Spring Integration
3 6 (21.43%) Web Services
4 5 (17.86%) Kafka
5 4 (14.29%) Apache Beam
5 4 (14.29%) PowerMock
6 3 (10.71%) RESTful
7 2 (7.14%) JSON
7 2 (7.14%) XML
7 2 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (42.86%) DevOps
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Microservices
4 8 (28.57%) TDD
5 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (25.00%) Workflow
6 6 (21.43%) BPMN
6 6 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 6 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (21.43%) Scrum
7 5 (17.86%) BDD
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.86%) GitOps
7 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
8 4 (14.29%) Biometrics
8 4 (14.29%) Kanban
8 4 (14.29%) Low Latency
8 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) SQL
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Groovy
4 2 (7.14%) VB
5 1 (3.57%) C
5 1 (3.57%) C++
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) SLA
3 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Postfix
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Grafana
2 6 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) HP ALM
3 2 (7.14%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Jaspersoft
1 6 (21.43%) Oracle
2 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 4 (14.29%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) SAP
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.14%) Ariba
4 2 (7.14%) HP
4 2 (7.14%) Sonatype
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.57%) Zscaler