Java Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Java
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 62 62
Rank change year-on-year +24 0 -45
Contract jobs citing Java 105 50 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.72% 2.62% 3.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.73% 11.66% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 37 38
10th Percentile £411 £425 £410
25th Percentile £463 £500 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -
75th Percentile £518 £711 £700
90th Percentile £555 £765 -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 3
10th Percentile £33.91 - £17.20
25th Percentile £41.96 - £17.31
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +214.29% -69.90%
75th Percentile - - £18.13
90th Percentile - - £18.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +7.69% -

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 462 429 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.15% 22.47% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 271 319
10th Percentile £321 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £398 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £648 £700
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.39% -0.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 9
10th Percentile £30.25 £34.47 £17.43
25th Percentile £33.91 £40.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £56.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +204.05% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £59.69 £23.22
90th Percentile - £67.50 £50.75
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -13.46% - +13.04%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Java.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Java

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Java.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Java

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 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 18 September 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 +3 41 £494 -22.51% 22
Warwickshire +22 29 £550 - 3
Shropshire +5 28 £519 +19.55% 12
Solihull - 6 £500 - 1
Staffordshire +3 1 - - 10
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 13 (12.38%) Confluence
2 8 (7.62%) WebLogic
3 5 (4.76%) Apache
3 5 (4.76%) JBoss
4 3 (2.86%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.90%) FileNet
5 2 (1.90%) NetWeaver
5 2 (1.90%) nginx
5 2 (1.90%) SAP EP
6 1 (0.95%) IIS
6 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.95%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 19 (18.10%) Maya
2 13 (12.38%) NUKE
3 6 (5.71%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.95%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.95%) Blender
4 1 (0.95%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.43%) AWS
2 25 (23.81%) Amazon S3
3 24 (22.86%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (18.10%) AWS KMS
5 18 (17.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (12.38%) Amazon SQS
7 12 (11.43%) Amazon ELB
7 12 (11.43%) Amazon Glacier
7 12 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 8 (7.62%) Power Platform
9 7 (6.67%) Route 53
10 5 (4.76%) Azure
10 5 (4.76%) Serverless
11 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.86%) PaaS
13 2 (1.90%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.90%) GitHub
13 2 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) DNS
1 12 (11.43%) Firewall
1 12 (11.43%) FTP
1 12 (11.43%) HTTP
1 12 (11.43%) SMTP
1 12 (11.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.86%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 13 (12.38%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (7.62%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.71%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.76%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.76%) Power BI
8 4 (3.81%) Apache Hive
8 4 (3.81%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.95%) DataStage
9 1 (0.95%) OLTP
9 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (29.52%) Git
2 26 (24.76%) Jenkins
3 23 (21.90%) JUnit
4 15 (14.29%) JIRA
5 13 (12.38%) Maven
6 12 (11.43%) Vagrant
7 9 (8.57%) SonarQube
8 8 (7.62%) GitLab
9 7 (6.67%) Mockito
10 6 (5.71%) Selenium
11 5 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (4.76%) DbUnit
11 5 (4.76%) jMock
12 4 (3.81%) Eclipse
12 4 (3.81%) IntelliJ
13 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
14 1 (0.95%) ClearCase
14 1 (0.95%) JBehave
14 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
14 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (27.62%) Public Sector
2 22 (20.95%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (20.95%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.10%) Automotive
3 19 (18.10%) Games
4 8 (7.62%) Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.71%) Aerospace
7 5 (4.76%) Finance
8 3 (2.86%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.95%) Law
10 1 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (38.10%) Developer
2 31 (29.52%) Java Developer
3 16 (15.24%) Lead
3 16 (15.24%) Senior
4 12 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (5.71%) Architect
7 6 (5.71%) Java Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (3.81%) AWS Developer
10 3 (2.86%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.86%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (29.52%) Spring
2 27 (25.71%) HTML
3 21 (20.00%) CSS
4 20 (19.05%) Django
5 19 (18.10%) REST
6 18 (17.14%) SOAP
7 16 (15.24%) Spring Boot
8 12 (11.43%) Kafka
8 12 (11.43%) React
8 12 (11.43%) Web Services
9 11 (10.48%) Hibernate
10 10 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (9.52%) Gherkin
11 9 (8.57%) AngularJS
11 9 (8.57%) JPA
11 9 (8.57%) RESTful
12 8 (7.62%) XML
13 7 (6.67%) Bootstrap
13 7 (6.67%) JSON
13 7 (6.67%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Animation
2 12 (11.43%) Replication
3 10 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.71%) Virtual Reality
5 5 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.95%) Motion Graphics
7 1 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.10%) Linux
2 17 (16.19%) Windows
3 12 (11.43%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (11.43%) VMS
4 5 (4.76%) Unix
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.33%) Microservices
2 30 (28.57%) Agile
3 29 (27.62%) DevOps
4 18 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 18 (17.14%) Scrum
4 18 (17.14%) TDD
5 15 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (14.29%) SDLC
6 14 (13.33%) Change Management
7 13 (12.38%) Cloud Security
7 13 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (11.43%) Analytical Thinking
8 12 (11.43%) Configuration Management
8 12 (11.43%) Patch Management
8 12 (11.43%) Test Automation
9 11 (10.48%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.48%) Front End Development
9 11 (10.48%) Visualisation
10 10 (9.52%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 48 (45.71%) SQL
2 37 (35.24%) Python
3 20 (19.05%) C++
4 14 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 13 (12.38%) Tcl
6 12 (11.43%) Groovy
6 12 (11.43%) Perl
6 12 (11.43%) Scala
7 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.86%) C#
8 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.90%) ABAP
9 2 (1.90%) R
9 2 (1.90%) Ruby
10 1 (0.95%) Bash
10 1 (0.95%) C
10 1 (0.95%) Korn
10 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.48%) Degree
4 5 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.90%) CISSP
6 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.95%) OCP
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.95%) NIST
4 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (33.33%) Docker
2 17 (16.19%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.43%) DFS Replication
4 5 (4.76%) Postfix
5 2 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (18.10%) Grafana
1 19 (18.10%) Prometheus
2 15 (14.29%) Terraform
3 12 (11.43%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.81%) Puppet
6 3 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (12.38%) ServiceNow
2 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.62%) Adobe
3 8 (7.62%) Oracle
4 6 (5.71%) Autodesk
5 5 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.76%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (4.76%) webMethods
6 4 (3.81%) Splunk
7 3 (2.86%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.90%) Ariba
8 2 (1.90%) IBM
8 2 (1.90%) Pega
8 2 (1.90%) SAP
9 1 (0.95%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.95%) Databricks
9 1 (0.95%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.95%) Trillium