Java Contracts in the West Midlands

Java
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 71 43
Rank change year-on-year +41 -28 -19
Contract jobs citing Java 88 42 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.92% 2.05% 4.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.92% 9.72% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 31 65
10th Percentile £400 £360 £420
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +4.15%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £700
90th Percentile £568 £675 -
England median daily rate £533 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.25% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 1
10th Percentile - £40.20 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £40.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +197.30% -68.18%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £67.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +3.05% +1.55%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 384 432 545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.82% 21.05% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 305 367
10th Percentile £269 £260 £313
25th Percentile £400 £345 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £700
England median daily rate £520 £543 £555
% change year-on-year -4.15% -2.25% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 8
10th Percentile £28.18 £36.36 £21.73
25th Percentile £33.91 £47.75 £23.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £29.32
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +96.13% -49.45%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £64.69
90th Percentile - £72.50 £98.25
England median hourly rate £56.75 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -12.02% +3.20% +19.05%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the West Midlands

Java
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 +20 31 £500 +11.11% 138
Warwickshire +17 24 £450 -26.53% 31
Shropshire +16 19 £513 - 54
Solihull - 11 £420 - 3
Staffordshire +2 2 £550 - 51
Herefordshire - 1 £525 - 1
Java
England

Java
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 7 (7.95%) Confluence
1 7 (7.95%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) JBoss
3 1 (1.14%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.14%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.14%) SAP EP
3 1 (1.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 17 (19.32%) Maya
2 11 (12.50%) NUKE
3 6 (6.82%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.14%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (36.36%) AWS
2 22 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 21 (23.86%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
5 15 (17.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 15 (17.05%) AWS KMS
6 10 (11.36%) Route 53
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (5.68%) Amazon Glacier
7 5 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.55%) Azure
8 4 (4.55%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.41%) OCI
9 3 (3.41%) Serverless
10 2 (2.27%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (2.27%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.27%) Boomi
10 2 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) DNS
1 5 (5.68%) Firewall
1 5 (5.68%) FTP
1 5 (5.68%) HTTP
1 5 (5.68%) SMTP
1 5 (5.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.86%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (17.05%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (13.64%) DynamoDB
4 12 (13.64%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.95%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.14%) Big Data
7 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.14%) DataStage
7 1 (1.14%) DB2
7 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.14%) QualityStage
7 1 (1.14%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.14%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 27 (30.68%) Jenkins
2 25 (28.41%) JUnit
3 23 (26.14%) Git
3 23 (26.14%) Maven
4 14 (15.91%) Mockito
5 11 (12.50%) SonarQube
6 8 (9.09%) JIRA
7 7 (7.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (7.95%) DbUnit
7 7 (7.95%) GitLab
7 7 (7.95%) jMock
8 5 (5.68%) Vagrant
9 4 (4.55%) Cucumber
10 3 (3.41%) Gradle
11 2 (2.27%) Selenium
12 1 (1.14%) Ant
12 1 (1.14%) ClearCase
12 1 (1.14%) JBehave
12 1 (1.14%) SoapUI
12 1 (1.14%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (28.41%) Public Sector
2 21 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
4 17 (19.32%) Automotive
4 17 (19.32%) Games
5 12 (13.64%) Finance
6 8 (9.09%) Banking
7 6 (6.82%) Aerospace
8 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.41%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (46.59%) Developer
2 35 (39.77%) Java Developer
3 17 (19.32%) Senior
4 16 (18.18%) Lead
5 8 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Lead Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Lead Java Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.68%) AWS Developer
8 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Applications Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Security Architect
11 2 (2.27%) Automation Test Analyst
11 2 (2.27%) Python Developer
11 2 (2.27%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (36.36%) Spring
2 21 (23.86%) Spring Boot
3 20 (22.73%) HTML
4 19 (21.59%) CSS
4 19 (21.59%) Django
4 19 (21.59%) REST
5 18 (20.45%) SOAP
5 18 (20.45%) Web Services
6 15 (17.05%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (15.91%) JPA
8 13 (14.77%) Hibernate
8 13 (14.77%) RESTful
9 12 (13.64%) AngularJS
10 11 (12.50%) Bootstrap
10 11 (12.50%) Spring Batch
10 11 (12.50%) Spring Integration
11 10 (11.36%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (10.23%) Kafka
13 8 (9.09%) React
14 7 (7.95%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Animation
2 9 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.82%) Virtual Reality
4 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.68%) Replication
5 4 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.14%) CCTV
7 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.18%) Linux
2 9 (10.23%) Windows
3 5 (5.68%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (5.68%) VMS
4 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.05%) Microservices
2 34 (38.64%) Agile
3 26 (29.55%) TDD
4 22 (25.00%) DevOps
5 21 (23.86%) Scrum
6 16 (18.18%) CI/CD
7 15 (17.05%) Continuous Integration
8 14 (15.91%) BDD
9 12 (13.64%) Analytical Thinking
9 12 (13.64%) Containerisation
9 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (12.50%) SDLC
10 11 (12.50%) Test Automation
11 9 (10.23%) Risk Management
12 8 (9.09%) Kanban
13 7 (7.95%) Change Management
13 7 (7.95%) Front End Development
13 7 (7.95%) Open Source
13 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (7.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (55.68%) SQL
2 25 (28.41%) Python
3 17 (19.32%) C++
4 11 (12.50%) Tcl
5 8 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 5 (5.68%) Groovy
6 5 (5.68%) Perl
7 4 (4.55%) C#
8 3 (3.41%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.41%) Ruby
8 3 (3.41%) Scala
9 2 (2.27%) R
9 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.14%) ABAP
10 1 (1.14%) Bash
10 1 (1.14%) C
10 1 (1.14%) COBOL
10 1 (1.14%) Korn
10 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) Degree
4 3 (3.41%) CISSP
4 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) ISEB
6 1 (1.14%) OCP
6 1 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (35.23%) Docker
2 10 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 8 (9.09%) Postfix
4 5 (5.68%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 17 (19.32%) Kubernetes
2 15 (17.05%) Grafana
2 15 (17.05%) Prometheus
3 8 (9.09%) Terraform
4 5 (5.68%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.27%) Ansible
6 1 (1.14%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Jaspersoft
2 8 (9.09%) Oracle
3 7 (7.95%) Atlassian
3 7 (7.95%) Microsoft
4 6 (6.82%) Adobe
4 6 (6.82%) Autodesk
4 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.41%) Databricks
5 3 (3.41%) Virgin Media
6 2 (2.27%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.27%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) webMethods
7 1 (1.14%) Ariba
7 1 (1.14%) Google
7 1 (1.14%) IBM
7 1 (1.14%) Sybase
7 1 (1.14%) Trillium