Java Contracts in Birmingham

Java
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 38 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Java 15 23 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.90% 3.13% 4.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 12.43% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 28
10th Percentile £423 £319 £425
25th Percentile £453 £398 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -23.40% +17.50%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £700
90th Percentile £581 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.62% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - £40.20 -
25th Percentile - £40.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +197.30% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.91 £55.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -38.35% +197.30% -68.10%

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 120 185 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 23.21% 25.14% 25.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 142 146
10th Percentile £357 £234 £313
25th Percentile £425 £311 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £513
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -20.00% +13.89%
75th Percentile £640 £575 £688
90th Percentile £700 £656 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £40.20 £21.70
25th Percentile £47.50 £40.50 £24.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +64.74% -
75th Percentile £52.50 £56.25 £75.63
90th Percentile - - £98.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £57.50 £29.32
% change year-on-year -50.99% +96.13% +67.53%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Snowflake
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
5 1 (6.67%) Route 53
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
2 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Maven
2 4 (26.67%) JUnit
2 4 (26.67%) Mockito
3 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) Gradle
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Ant
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (6.67%) DbUnit
4 1 (6.67%) jMock
4 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Integration Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Spring
2 5 (33.33%) REST
2 5 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (33.33%) SOAP
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (20.00%) J2EE
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (13.33%) EDI
5 2 (13.33%) IDoc
5 2 (13.33%) JDBC
5 2 (13.33%) Kafka
5 2 (13.33%) XSLT
6 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
6 1 (6.67%) JPA
6 1 (6.67%) OAuth
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (6.67%) Spring Batch
6 1 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) TDD
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Microservices
2 4 (26.67%) Project Management
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) API Management
4 2 (13.33%) B2B
4 2 (13.33%) BDD
4 2 (13.33%) BPMN
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Workshops
4 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (13.33%) Web Development
5 1 (6.67%) Biometrics
5 1 (6.67%) Data Security
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) ABAP
3 2 (13.33%) Groovy
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) COBOL
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SAP Certification
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) OCP
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Databricks
1 3 (20.00%) Virgin Media
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Sybase