Java Developer Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Java Developer
West Midlands > Solihull

The median Java Developer daily rate in Solihull is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
26 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 14.52% 15.38% -
As % of the Job Titles category 14.52% 15.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £410 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £475 £430 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £455 £606
% change year-on-year +8.24% -24.95% +5.43%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Solihull

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Solihull. 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 Solihull with a recognized job title 62 26 109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 97.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 17 40
10th Percentile £246 £169 £213
25th Percentile £397 £263 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £415 £375
Median % change year-on-year +21.69% +10.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £573 £480 £441
90th Percentile £780 £529 £626
West Midlands median daily rate £494 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.25% +5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £11.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 - £11.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.02%
75th Percentile - - £11.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.14 £20.92 £22.50
% change year-on-year +20.18% -7.04% +26.98%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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 Solihull.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Solihull

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Solihull

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

For the 6 months to 26 February 2026, 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 Solihull region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
3 6 (66.67%) Hibernate
3 6 (66.67%) JPA
3 6 (66.67%) Microservices
3 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (66.67%) REST
3 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (66.67%) SOAP
3 6 (66.67%) Spring
3 6 (66.67%) Spring Batch
3 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 6 (66.67%) Spring Integration
3 6 (66.67%) Web Services
4 5 (55.56%) ActiveMQ
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
4 5 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
4 5 (55.56%) Atlassian
4 5 (55.56%) AWS
4 5 (55.56%) AWS KMS
4 5 (55.56%) BDD
4 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 5 (55.56%) DbUnit
4 5 (55.56%) Docker

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
1 5 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) AWS KMS
1 5 (55.56%) Route 53
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) DbUnit
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
1 5 (55.56%) jMock
1 5 (55.56%) JUnit
1 5 (55.56%) Maven
1 5 (55.56%) Mockito
1 5 (55.56%) SonarQube
2 3 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Hibernate
1 6 (66.67%) JPA
1 6 (66.67%) REST
1 6 (66.67%) SOAP
1 6 (66.67%) Spring
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Batch
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Boot
1 6 (66.67%) Spring Integration
1 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
2 5 (55.56%) PowerMock
2 5 (55.56%) Spring Cloud
3 4 (44.44%) Node.js
4 3 (33.33%) Bootstrap
4 3 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) BDD
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Kanban
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
2 5 (55.56%) TDD
3 4 (44.44%) Biometrics
3 4 (44.44%) BPMN
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Open Source
5 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Database Tuning
5 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Atlassian
1 5 (55.56%) Jaspersoft
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