Java SE Contracts in the West Midlands

Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE, JSE)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Java SE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java SE over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Java SE 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.074% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
England median daily rate £391 - £729
% change year-on-year - - +16.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

Java SE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 223 260 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.60% 13.57% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 189 242
10th Percentile £385 £310 £363
25th Percentile £419 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £662
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -0.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 0
10th Percentile - £14.21 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £33.50 -
Median hourly rate £33.91 £39.96 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.14% - -
75th Percentile - £55.31 -
90th Percentile - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -26.92% +30.33%

Java SE
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Java SE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java SE in the West Midlands

Java SE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java SE in the West Midlands

Java SE
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 SE within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
Solihull - 1 £420 - 1
Java SE
England

Java SE
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 1 (100.00%) JBoss
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Java Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Java Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes