Java Developer Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Java Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Java Developer daily rate in the West Midlands is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 93 106
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 30 26 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.41% 1.37% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.47% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 11
10th Percentile £350 £443 £413
25th Percentile £499 £500 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -6.78% +11.32%
75th Percentile - £702 £700
90th Percentile £536 £763 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% -6.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,893 1,763 1,797
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.91% 92.84% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,226 1,107 1,233
10th Percentile £257 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £595
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 67 65
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.43 £15.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £14.86 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -1.30% +25.79%
75th Percentile £33.91 £30.99 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +39.11%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West 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 West Midlands.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Java Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Java Developer
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 November 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
Birmingham -11 18 £500 -9.09% 1
Shropshire - 11 £514 - 1
Solihull - 1 - -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 November 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 West Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 23 (76.67%) Microservices
3 21 (70.00%) JUnit
4 18 (60.00%) Spring
5 15 (50.00%) SDLC
6 14 (46.67%) Gherkin
6 14 (46.67%) MongoDB
7 13 (43.33%) Agile
8 12 (40.00%) Kafka
9 11 (36.67%) AWS
9 11 (36.67%) Scrum
10 10 (33.33%) GitLab
10 10 (33.33%) Spring Boot
10 10 (33.33%) TDD
11 9 (30.00%) Git
11 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
12 8 (26.67%) JPA
12 8 (26.67%) Maven
12 8 (26.67%) SQL
13 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (23.33%) Docker
13 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
13 7 (23.33%) Mockito
13 7 (23.33%) REST
13 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
13 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
14 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
14 6 (20.00%) Grafana
14 6 (20.00%) JSON
14 6 (20.00%) Open Source

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) JBoss
1 2 (6.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (13.33%) AWS KMS
3 4 (13.33%) Route 53
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (13.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (70.00%) JUnit
2 10 (33.33%) GitLab
3 9 (30.00%) Git
4 8 (26.67%) Maven
5 7 (23.33%) Mockito
6 5 (16.67%) Selenium
7 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
7 4 (13.33%) SonarQube
8 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (10.00%) DbUnit
8 3 (10.00%) jMock
9 2 (6.67%) Eclipse
9 2 (6.67%) IntelliJ
General
1 10 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (13.33%) Retail Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Finance
6 2 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (60.00%) Spring
2 14 (46.67%) Gherkin
3 12 (40.00%) Kafka
4 10 (33.33%) Spring Boot
5 8 (26.67%) JPA
6 7 (23.33%) Hibernate
6 7 (23.33%) REST
7 6 (20.00%) JSON
7 6 (20.00%) RESTful
7 6 (20.00%) SOAP
8 5 (16.67%) HTML
9 4 (13.33%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
9 4 (13.33%) Playwright
9 4 (13.33%) React
9 4 (13.33%) Spring Batch
9 4 (13.33%) Spring Integration
9 4 (13.33%) Web Services
10 3 (10.00%) GraalVM
10 3 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Microservices
2 15 (50.00%) SDLC
3 13 (43.33%) Agile
4 11 (36.67%) Scrum
5 10 (33.33%) TDD
6 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 6 (20.00%) Open Source
9 5 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 5 (16.67%) DevOps
9 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 4 (13.33%) Data Protection
10 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 3 (10.00%) Change Management
11 3 (10.00%) Coaching
11 3 (10.00%) Kanban
11 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
11 3 (10.00%) OO
11 3 (10.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (26.67%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Scala
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) WCAG
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Grafana
2 4 (13.33%) Kibana
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) webMethods