Java Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Java
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Java skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Java 53 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 16.31% 8.87% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.32% 28.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 35 9 0
10th Percentile £359 £430 -
25th Percentile £418 £434 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £435 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% - -
75th Percentile £514 £477 -
90th Percentile £559 £480 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -2.78%

All Programming Languages
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 164 39 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 50.46% 31.45% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 31 3
10th Percentile £412 £420 -
25th Percentile £455 £438 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £325
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +50.77% -39.59%
75th Percentile £537 £540 £444
90th Percentile £553 £567 £508
West Midlands median daily rate £509 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.80% +8.70% -8.91%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Java job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Java
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Java in Shropshire

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Java

Java
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Shropshire 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
Telford -3 50 £460 +5.75% 7
Java
West Midlands

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 12 (22.64%) WebLogic
2 8 (15.09%) Apache
2 8 (15.09%) JBoss
3 2 (3.77%) nginx
4 1 (1.89%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.89%) SAP EP
4 1 (1.89%) SAS
4 1 (1.89%) Tuxedo
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) AWS
2 8 (15.09%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (9.43%) Azure
4 3 (5.66%) Serverless
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.77%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) Kong
6 1 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) MongoDB
2 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.89%) Pentaho
4 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (32.08%) Git
2 16 (30.19%) JUnit
2 16 (30.19%) Selenium
3 10 (18.87%) GitLab
4 9 (16.98%) Cucumber
5 8 (15.09%) Eclipse
5 8 (15.09%) IntelliJ
6 7 (13.21%) Mockito
7 6 (11.32%) Maven
8 4 (7.55%) JIRA
9 3 (5.66%) Gatling
10 2 (3.77%) Toad
11 1 (1.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (1.89%) Postman
11 1 (1.89%) REST Assured
General
1 21 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Influencing Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (13.21%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Finance
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (32.08%) Developer
2 15 (28.30%) Java Engineer
3 11 (20.75%) Java Developer
4 9 (16.98%) Lead
4 9 (16.98%) Senior
5 5 (9.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 5 (9.43%) Lead Java Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) React Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.77%) QA Leader
8 2 (3.77%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (3.77%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (50.94%) Spring
2 18 (33.96%) JSON
2 18 (33.96%) Spring Boot
3 14 (26.42%) HTML
4 13 (24.53%) Playwright
5 12 (22.64%) React
5 12 (22.64%) XML
6 11 (20.75%) REST
6 11 (20.75%) SOAP
7 9 (16.98%) Hibernate
8 8 (15.09%) EJB
8 8 (15.09%) HTML5
8 8 (15.09%) J2EE
8 8 (15.09%) J2SE
8 8 (15.09%) Play Framework
9 7 (13.21%) Swagger
10 6 (11.32%) Gherkin
10 6 (11.32%) JPA
10 6 (11.32%) OAuth
10 6 (11.32%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) Unix
2 2 (3.77%) Linux
2 2 (3.77%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) Agile
1 24 (45.28%) Microservices
2 23 (43.40%) CI/CD
3 20 (37.74%) Scrum
4 16 (30.19%) Software Engineering
5 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (18.87%) DevOps
8 9 (16.98%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (16.98%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (16.98%) Mentoring
8 9 (16.98%) Software Testing
9 8 (15.09%) Coaching
9 8 (15.09%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (15.09%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (15.09%) Lean Software Development
9 8 (15.09%) Open Source
9 8 (15.09%) Test Automation
10 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) SQL
2 10 (18.87%) Scala
3 6 (11.32%) PL/SQL
4 5 (9.43%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) ABAP
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
6 1 (1.89%) C
6 1 (1.89%) COBOL
6 1 (1.89%) Groovy
6 1 (1.89%) Korn
6 1 (1.89%) Perl
6 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (41.51%) Security Cleared
2 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.77%) ISEB
4 2 (3.77%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) WCAG
2 4 (7.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.55%) QA
System Software
1 13 (24.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (33.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.09%) Kibana
2 8 (15.09%) Puppet
3 7 (13.21%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Oracle
2 11 (20.75%) webMethods
3 5 (9.43%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.66%) SAP
5 2 (3.77%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.77%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.77%) Splunk
6 1 (1.89%) Ariba
6 1 (1.89%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.89%) Denodo
6 1 (1.89%) Pega
6 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.89%) Talend
6 1 (1.89%) Trillium
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