Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Java Developer
England > Midlands

The median Java Developer daily rate in the Midlands is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 105 123
Rank change year-on-year -27 +18 +40
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 32 27 11
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.04% 1.08% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.16% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 10
10th Percentile £253 £445 £446
25th Percentile £270 £500 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £550 £675
Median % change year-on-year -25.45% -18.52% +33.00%
75th Percentile £500 £693 £700
90th Percentile £534 £763 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -7.41%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,759 2,333 2,518
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.26% 92.99% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 1,450 1,740
10th Percentile £216 £225 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 98 116
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.00 £14.19
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.38 £16.92
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.82 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% +19.10% +13.90%
75th Percentile £27.21 £32.13 £31.59
90th Percentile £40.25 £50.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the Midlands

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the Midlands

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -31 21 £500 -9.09% 3
East Midlands -7 11 £270 -48.57% 1
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (68.75%) Microservices
3 18 (56.25%) Spring
4 16 (50.00%) Spring Boot
5 15 (46.88%) JUnit
6 13 (40.63%) Agile
6 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
7 12 (37.50%) Kafka
7 12 (37.50%) MongoDB
7 12 (37.50%) SDLC
8 11 (34.38%) Test Automation
9 10 (31.25%) AWS
9 10 (31.25%) Gherkin
9 10 (31.25%) TDD
10 9 (28.13%) Git
10 9 (28.13%) GitLab
10 9 (28.13%) SQL
11 8 (25.00%) DevOps
11 8 (25.00%) NoSQL
12 7 (21.88%) Hibernate
12 7 (21.88%) HTML
12 7 (21.88%) Maven
12 7 (21.88%) RESTful
12 7 (21.88%) Scrum
12 7 (21.88%) Selenium
13 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
13 6 (18.75%) J2EE
13 6 (18.75%) JPA
13 6 (18.75%) JSON
13 6 (18.75%) Mockito

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (6.25%) Apache
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
1 2 (6.25%) JBoss
1 2 (6.25%) Mule
1 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.13%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 8 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
4 2 (6.25%) MariaDB
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (46.88%) JUnit
2 9 (28.13%) Git
2 9 (28.13%) GitLab
3 7 (21.88%) Maven
3 7 (21.88%) Selenium
4 6 (18.75%) Mockito
4 6 (18.75%) SonarQube
5 5 (15.63%) Cucumber
6 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
7 3 (9.38%) IntelliJ
7 3 (9.38%) JIRA
7 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (6.25%) Eclipse
9 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (34.38%) Banking
2 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (56.25%) Spring
2 16 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 12 (37.50%) Kafka
4 10 (31.25%) Gherkin
5 7 (21.88%) Hibernate
5 7 (21.88%) HTML
5 7 (21.88%) RESTful
6 6 (18.75%) J2EE
6 6 (18.75%) JPA
6 6 (18.75%) JSON
6 6 (18.75%) React
7 5 (15.63%) REST
8 4 (12.50%) Playwright
8 4 (12.50%) SOAP
8 4 (12.50%) Swagger
9 3 (9.38%) GraalVM
9 3 (9.38%) JDBC
9 3 (9.38%) OAuth2
9 3 (9.38%) RAML
9 3 (9.38%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Microservices
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 12 (37.50%) SDLC
4 11 (34.38%) Test Automation
5 10 (31.25%) TDD
6 8 (25.00%) DevOps
7 7 (21.88%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (15.63%) Software Engineering
10 4 (12.50%) Coaching
10 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 4 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (12.50%) Integration Testing
10 4 (12.50%) OO
10 4 (12.50%) Open Source
11 3 (9.38%) API Development
11 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (28.13%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Scala
4 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) WCAG
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Kibana
3 3 (9.38%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (9.38%) Checkmarx
1 3 (9.38%) Oracle
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Veracode
2 2 (6.25%) webMethods