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 23 October 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 90 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +44
Contract jobs requiring a Java Developer 34 26 16
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.72% 1.39% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.49% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 15
10th Percentile £350 £443 £410
25th Percentile £481 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile - £702 £700
90th Percentile £530 £763 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% -

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 1,768 1,743 1,880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.47% 93.01% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,105 1,286
10th Percentile £250 £220 £220
25th Percentile £391 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 60 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.58 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.67 £14.18 £17.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.80 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year +15.39% -1.80% +25.25%
75th Percentile £36.00 £32.26 £33.64
90th Percentile £50.00 £44.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.94
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.49% +58.63%

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 23 October 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 23 October 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 -8 22 £500 -9.09%
Shropshire - 8 £519 -
Solihull - 4 £500 -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 October 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 34 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (82.35%) Microservices
3 24 (70.59%) JUnit
4 23 (67.65%) Spring
5 18 (52.94%) Agile
6 17 (50.00%) TDD
7 16 (47.06%) AWS
7 16 (47.06%) Scrum
7 16 (47.06%) SDLC
7 16 (47.06%) Spring Boot
8 15 (44.12%) Git
9 14 (41.18%) Gherkin
10 13 (38.24%) Docker
10 13 (38.24%) Kafka
10 13 (38.24%) Maven
10 13 (38.24%) MongoDB
11 12 (35.29%) JPA
11 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (35.29%) REST
12 11 (32.35%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (32.35%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (32.35%) Amazon S3
12 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
12 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
12 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
12 11 (32.35%) SOAP
13 10 (29.41%) ActiveMQ
13 10 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (29.41%) Grafana

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 1 (2.94%) Apache
1 1 (2.94%) JBoss
1 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
1 1 (2.94%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 11 (32.35%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (32.35%) Amazon S3
3 10 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (20.59%) AWS KMS
4 7 (20.59%) Route 53
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (38.24%) MongoDB
2 12 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (32.35%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (29.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (23.53%) DynamoDB
6 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
7 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (70.59%) JUnit
2 15 (44.12%) Git
3 13 (38.24%) Maven
4 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
5 10 (29.41%) Mockito
6 9 (26.47%) GitLab
6 9 (26.47%) SonarQube
7 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (14.71%) DbUnit
7 5 (14.71%) jMock
8 4 (11.76%) Selenium
9 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
10 1 (2.94%) IntelliJ
General
1 10 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 9 (26.47%) Banking
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Retail Banking
5 3 (8.82%) Finance
6 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) Spring
2 16 (47.06%) Spring Boot
3 14 (41.18%) Gherkin
4 13 (38.24%) Kafka
5 12 (35.29%) JPA
5 12 (35.29%) REST
6 11 (32.35%) SOAP
7 10 (29.41%) ActiveMQ
8 9 (26.47%) Web Services
9 8 (23.53%) AngularJS
9 8 (23.53%) Hibernate
9 8 (23.53%) RESTful
10 7 (20.59%) Bootstrap
10 7 (20.59%) Spring Batch
10 7 (20.59%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (20.59%) Spring Integration
11 5 (14.71%) PowerMock
11 5 (14.71%) React
12 4 (11.76%) HTML
12 4 (11.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (14.71%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
2 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Microservices
2 18 (52.94%) Agile
3 17 (50.00%) TDD
4 16 (47.06%) Scrum
4 16 (47.06%) SDLC
5 9 (26.47%) Test Automation
6 8 (23.53%) Containerisation
6 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (23.53%) DevOps
7 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
7 7 (20.59%) Open Source
7 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.65%) BDD
9 5 (14.71%) Kanban
10 4 (11.76%) Data Protection
10 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
10 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 3 (8.82%) Coaching
11 3 (8.82%) OO
11 3 (8.82%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 9 (26.47%) SQL
3 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
2 5 (14.71%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Grafana
2 7 (20.59%) Prometheus
3 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.82%) Kibana
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Atlassian
1 5 (14.71%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) webMethods