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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 84 107
Rank change year-on-year -26 +23 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 28 26 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.31% 1.38% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 1.48% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 7
10th Percentile £350 £443 £435
25th Percentile - £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +28.44%
75th Percentile - £702 -
90th Percentile £538 £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 1,909 1,757 1,754
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.00% 92.96% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,233 1,099 1,206
10th Percentile £251 £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 £603 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 68 64
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.68 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.32 £15.22 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.71 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year +6.07% +5.87% +26.38%
75th Percentile £34.12 £32.26 £35.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £45.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.11% +38.38%

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 27 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 27 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 -14 17 £500 -9.09% 1
Shropshire - 11 £514 - 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 28 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (75.00%) Microservices
3 19 (67.86%) JUnit
4 16 (57.14%) Spring
5 15 (53.57%) SDLC
6 14 (50.00%) Gherkin
6 14 (50.00%) MongoDB
7 12 (42.86%) Kafka
8 11 (39.29%) Agile
9 10 (35.71%) GitLab
10 9 (32.14%) AWS
10 9 (32.14%) Scrum
10 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
11 8 (28.57%) Spring Boot
11 8 (28.57%) TDD
12 7 (25.00%) Git
12 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
12 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
13 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
13 6 (21.43%) JPA
13 6 (21.43%) JSON
13 6 (21.43%) Maven
13 6 (21.43%) Mockito
13 6 (21.43%) SQL
14 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
14 5 (17.86%) Docker
14 5 (17.86%) Grafana
14 5 (17.86%) Hibernate
14 5 (17.86%) HTML
14 5 (17.86%) NoSQL

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 (7.14%) Apache
1 2 (7.14%) JBoss
1 2 (7.14%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (7.14%) AWS KMS
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.14%) Route 53
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 5 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
4 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (67.86%) JUnit
2 10 (35.71%) GitLab
3 7 (25.00%) Git
4 6 (21.43%) Maven
4 6 (21.43%) Mockito
5 5 (17.86%) Selenium
6 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
7 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (7.14%) DbUnit
7 2 (7.14%) Eclipse
7 2 (7.14%) IntelliJ
7 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
7 2 (7.14%) jMock
7 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (35.71%) Banking
2 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (14.29%) Retail Banking
6 3 (10.71%) Finance
7 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) Spring
2 14 (50.00%) Gherkin
3 12 (42.86%) Kafka
4 8 (28.57%) Spring Boot
5 6 (21.43%) JPA
5 6 (21.43%) JSON
6 5 (17.86%) Hibernate
6 5 (17.86%) HTML
6 5 (17.86%) REST
7 4 (14.29%) Playwright
7 4 (14.29%) React
7 4 (14.29%) RESTful
7 4 (14.29%) SOAP
8 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 3 (10.71%) GraalVM
8 3 (10.71%) JDBC
8 3 (10.71%) OAuth
8 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
8 3 (10.71%) OpenID
9 2 (7.14%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
1 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Microservices
2 15 (53.57%) SDLC
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
4 9 (32.14%) Scrum
4 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
5 8 (28.57%) TDD
6 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (17.86%) Open Source
7 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
8 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 4 (14.29%) DevOps
9 3 (10.71%) Change Management
9 3 (10.71%) Coaching
9 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
9 3 (10.71%) OO
9 3 (10.71%) OOD
9 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) WCAG
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Kibana
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (7.14%) webMethods