Lead Java Developer Contracts in Birmingham

Lead Java Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Java Developer daily rate in Birmingham.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 61 74
Rank change year-on-year +12 +13 -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 1 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.19% 0.78% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.84% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £538 -
25th Percentile - £625 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year - +13.04% -
75th Percentile - £675 £588
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £539 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -17.06% +13.04% +6.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Lead Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in Birmingham

Lead Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Java Developer in Birmingham

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) jMock
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito

Lead Java Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (100.00%) DbUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) jMock
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) PowerMock
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Jaspersoft