Java Developer Contracts 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 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 100 109
Rank change year-on-year +27 +9 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 34 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.20% 0.73% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.42% 0.80% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 11 21
10th Percentile £374 £413 £410
25th Percentile £425 - £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile - £675 £700
90th Percentile - £711 -
England median daily rate £531 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -11.46% -7.69% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £68.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% -5.17% +11.54%

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 1,403 1,883 2,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 91.10% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 1,274 1,494
10th Percentile £206 £250 £257
25th Percentile £360 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.83%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 136 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.91 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.22 £15.06
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.82% +19.07%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £54.88
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java Developer 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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java Developer 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 6 July 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 +19 21 £500 +11.11% 14
Solihull - 9 £420 -
Shropshire - 5 £438 - 3
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Java Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (76.47%) Spring
2 26 (76.47%) Microservices
3 24 (70.59%) JUnit
4 22 (64.71%) TDD
5 21 (61.76%) Agile
6 20 (58.82%) Maven
7 18 (52.94%) AWS
7 18 (52.94%) Docker
7 18 (52.94%) Jenkins
7 18 (52.94%) Spring Boot
8 17 (50.00%) Scrum
9 16 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
9 16 (47.06%) SOAP
9 16 (47.06%) REST
10 15 (44.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 15 (44.12%) Public Sector
10 15 (44.12%) SQL
10 15 (44.12%) ActiveMQ
11 14 (41.18%) JPA
11 14 (41.18%) Amazon S3
11 14 (41.18%) Web Services
12 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
12 13 (38.24%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (38.24%) RESTful
12 13 (38.24%) Git
12 13 (38.24%) Mockito
12 13 (38.24%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (38.24%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (38.24%) DevOps

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 18 (52.94%) AWS
2 14 (41.18%) Amazon S3
3 13 (38.24%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (38.24%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (26.47%) AWS KMS
4 9 (26.47%) Route 53
5 7 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) Azure
7 1 (2.94%) GCP
7 1 (2.94%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (47.06%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (44.12%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (38.24%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (32.35%) DynamoDB
5 10 (29.41%) MongoDB
6 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
7 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.94%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 24 (70.59%) JUnit
2 20 (58.82%) Maven
3 18 (52.94%) Jenkins
4 13 (38.24%) Git
4 13 (38.24%) Mockito
5 11 (32.35%) SonarQube
6 7 (20.59%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (20.59%) DbUnit
6 7 (20.59%) jMock
7 6 (17.65%) GitLab
8 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
8 3 (8.82%) Gradle
9 1 (2.94%) Ant
General
1 15 (44.12%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Finance
4 5 (14.71%) Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 3 (8.82%) Retail Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (76.47%) Spring
2 18 (52.94%) Spring Boot
3 16 (47.06%) REST
3 16 (47.06%) SOAP
4 15 (44.12%) ActiveMQ
5 14 (41.18%) JPA
5 14 (41.18%) Web Services
6 13 (38.24%) RESTful
7 12 (35.29%) Hibernate
8 11 (32.35%) AngularJS
8 11 (32.35%) Bootstrap
8 11 (32.35%) Spring Batch
8 11 (32.35%) Spring Integration
9 10 (29.41%) Spring Cloud
10 8 (23.53%) Kafka
11 7 (20.59%) Gherkin
11 7 (20.59%) PowerMock
12 2 (5.88%) Apache Camel
12 2 (5.88%) React
13 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.82%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Microservices
2 22 (64.71%) TDD
3 21 (61.76%) Agile
4 17 (50.00%) Scrum
5 13 (38.24%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) BDD
6 10 (29.41%) SDLC
7 9 (26.47%) Containerisation
7 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 8 (23.53%) Risk Management
9 7 (20.59%) Kanban
9 7 (20.59%) Open Source
10 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
12 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
13 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
13 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
14 2 (5.88%) Change Management
14 2 (5.88%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (44.12%) SQL
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 12 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 18 (52.94%) Docker
2 8 (23.53%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Grafana
1 10 (29.41%) Prometheus
2 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (20.59%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.94%) Sybase