Java Contracts in the Midlands

Java
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 63 45
Rank change year-on-year +26 -18 -14
Contract jobs citing Java 82 71 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.28% 2.58% 4.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.19% 11.49% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 53 115
10th Percentile £277 £331 £440
25th Percentile £367 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £575 £648 £700
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile - £25.34 -
25th Percentile - £33.88 £18.25
Median hourly rate £33.91 £40.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.27% +118.92% -13.95%
75th Percentile - £55.63 £18.75
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.73% -1.92% +5.69%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 477 618 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.92% 22.42% 27.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 447 697
10th Percentile £275 £260 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £563
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £540 £565
% change year-on-year -2.78% -4.42% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 15
10th Percentile £16.46 £22.42 £20.24
25th Percentile £17.60 £27.38 £24.31
Median hourly rate £20.24 £51.78 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +55.10% -4.61%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £60.13 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £61.84
% change year-on-year +0.40% +1.07% +23.68%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the Midlands

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 +14 48 £500 -4.76% 110
East Midlands +18 34 £397 -12.13% 74
Java
England

Java
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 6 (7.32%) Apache Spark
1 6 (7.32%) Confluence
2 5 (6.10%) WebLogic
3 3 (3.66%) Apache
4 2 (2.44%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.22%) NetWeaver
5 1 (1.22%) SAP EP
Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Maya
1 3 (3.66%) NUKE
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Exstream
2 2 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.22%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.02%) AWS
2 15 (18.29%) Amazon S3
3 11 (13.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 9 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (10.98%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (10.98%) Serverless
5 7 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
6 6 (7.32%) AWS KMS
6 6 (7.32%) Azure
6 6 (7.32%) Route 53
7 5 (6.10%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.88%) GCP
9 3 (3.66%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (3.66%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (3.66%) OCI
9 3 (3.66%) PaaS
9 3 (3.66%) SaaS
10 2 (2.44%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.41%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (13.41%) DynamoDB
2 10 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
4 7 (8.54%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.32%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (7.32%) Big Data
5 6 (7.32%) Hadoop
5 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.88%) Apache Hive
6 4 (4.88%) HBase
6 4 (4.88%) Impala
6 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.66%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.22%) Aerospike
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (28.05%) Jenkins
2 18 (21.95%) Maven
3 16 (19.51%) JUnit
4 12 (14.63%) Mockito
5 11 (13.41%) Cucumber
5 11 (13.41%) Selenium
6 8 (9.76%) JIRA
7 6 (7.32%) Git
7 6 (7.32%) GitLab
8 5 (6.10%) Gradle
8 5 (6.10%) SonarQube
9 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.66%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (3.66%) DbUnit
9 3 (3.66%) IntelliJ
9 3 (3.66%) jMock
10 2 (2.44%) HP UFT
10 2 (2.44%) LoadRunner
10 2 (2.44%) NetBeans
10 2 (2.44%) Subversion
General
1 18 (21.95%) Finance
1 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 12 (14.63%) Banking
3 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.98%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Automotive
5 4 (4.88%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.66%) Games
6 3 (3.66%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.22%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.22%) Electronics
7 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (39.02%) Developer
2 21 (25.61%) Java Developer
3 13 (15.85%) Architect
4 11 (13.41%) Senior
5 8 (9.76%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 5 (6.10%) Lead
6 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.10%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Analyst
8 3 (3.66%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Junior
8 3 (3.66%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (3.66%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.66%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.61%) Spring
2 20 (24.39%) Spring Boot
3 18 (21.95%) HTML
4 15 (18.29%) Hibernate
4 15 (18.29%) REST
5 14 (17.07%) Web Services
6 13 (15.85%) RESTful
7 11 (13.41%) CSS
7 11 (13.41%) Kafka
7 11 (13.41%) SOAP
8 9 (10.98%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (10.98%) AngularJS
9 8 (9.76%) J2EE
9 8 (9.76%) JPA
10 7 (8.54%) Bootstrap
10 7 (8.54%) jQuery
10 7 (8.54%) React
10 7 (8.54%) Spring Integration
11 5 (6.10%) Django
11 5 (6.10%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.32%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.88%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.66%) Animation
4 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.22%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.22%) CCTV
6 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Life Science
6 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.54%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Unix
3 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (2.44%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) Agile
2 31 (37.80%) Microservices
3 22 (26.83%) CI/CD
4 21 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (19.51%) DevOps
5 16 (19.51%) Scrum
5 16 (19.51%) TDD
5 16 (19.51%) Test Automation
6 11 (13.41%) Containerisation
6 11 (13.41%) ETL
7 10 (12.20%) BDD
8 8 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (9.76%) SDLC
9 7 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (8.54%) Front End Development
9 7 (8.54%) Risk Management
9 7 (8.54%) Software Engineering
10 6 (7.32%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.32%) Kanban
10 6 (7.32%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.46%) SQL
2 20 (24.39%) Python
3 18 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.54%) Scala
5 5 (6.10%) C#
5 5 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.88%) ABAP
6 4 (4.88%) C++
6 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.66%) Groovy
7 3 (3.66%) Ruby
7 3 (3.66%) Tcl
8 2 (2.44%) C
8 2 (2.44%) COBOL
8 2 (2.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.44%) R
9 1 (1.22%) Bash
9 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 4 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.66%) CISSP
5 3 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (3.66%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.22%) HND
7 1 (1.22%) ISEB
7 1 (1.22%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.22%) OCP
7 1 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.41%) QA
2 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.22%) NIST
5 1 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (25.61%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.88%) Postfix
3 1 (1.22%) HDFS
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (19.51%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.88%) Grafana
2 4 (4.88%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.44%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.44%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (1.22%) Rancher
5 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Oracle
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.10%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (6.10%) SAP
4 3 (3.66%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.66%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) OpenText
4 3 (3.66%) Splunk
4 3 (3.66%) Veracode
4 3 (3.66%) Virgin Media
5 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (2.44%) VMware
6 1 (1.22%) Ariba
6 1 (1.22%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.22%) HP
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) Sybase
6 1 (1.22%) webMethods