Java SE Contracts in the Midlands

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Java SE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java SE over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java SE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.052% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
England median daily rate £391 - £729
% change year-on-year - - +16.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

Java SE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 327 385 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.99% 14.15% 17.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 271 455
10th Percentile £313 £275 £313
25th Percentile £391 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% - -
75th Percentile £575 £622 £588
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 0
10th Percentile £23.96 £10.90 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.16 -
Median hourly rate £30.71 £26.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.97% - -
75th Percentile £33.91 £39.98 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.33%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Java SE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java SE in the Midlands

Java SE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java SE in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Java SE in the Midlands

Java SE
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 SE within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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 - 1 £420 - 1
Java SE
England

Java SE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Java Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes