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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 58 67
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -50
Contract jobs citing Java 124 55 45
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.13% 2.91% 2.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.62% 12.85% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 40 29
10th Percentile £370 £433 £321
25th Percentile £451 £464 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £520 £684 £675
90th Percentile £562 £765 £700
England median daily rate £514 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -14.33% +2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 0 2
10th Percentile £41.96 - £17.16
25th Percentile - - £17.22
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £17.38
75th Percentile - - £17.47
90th Percentile - - £17.49
England median hourly rate £50.00 £68.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +5.77% -

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 525 428 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.94% 22.67% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 255 312
10th Percentile £358 £335 £277
25th Percentile £447 £403 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £659 £700
England median daily rate £513 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -5.09% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 9
10th Percentile £33.91 £34.25 £17.43
25th Percentile - £34.73 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £47.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +156.76% -58.89%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £19.25
90th Percentile - £70.50 £25.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -0.13%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Java relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Java job vacancy trend 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 4 November 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 4 November 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 4 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 +6 47 £500 -20.00% 8
Shropshire -7 42 £458 +5.17% 10
Warwickshire +28 28 £550 - 8
Solihull - 5 £523 - 1
Coventry -14 1 - - 7
Java
England

Java
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 13 (10.48%) Confluence
1 13 (10.48%) WebLogic
2 11 (8.87%) Apache
3 9 (7.26%) JBoss
4 3 (2.42%) Apache Pig
4 3 (2.42%) nginx
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.61%) Drupal
5 2 (1.61%) FileNet
6 1 (0.81%) IIS
6 1 (0.81%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.81%) SAP EP
6 1 (0.81%) SAS
6 1 (0.81%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 16 (12.90%) Maya
2 10 (8.06%) NUKE
3 6 (4.84%) Adobe Captivate
3 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.81%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.81%) Blender
4 1 (0.81%) CINEMA 4D
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.81%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (41.94%) AWS
2 23 (18.55%) Amazon S3
3 22 (17.74%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (14.52%) AWS KMS
5 16 (12.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 12 (9.68%) Amazon ELB
6 12 (9.68%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (9.68%) Azure
6 12 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (8.87%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (6.45%) Cloud Computing
8 8 (6.45%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.84%) Route 53
10 5 (4.03%) GCP
10 5 (4.03%) Serverless
11 4 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
12 3 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.61%) Amazon EventBridge
13 2 (1.61%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.68%) DNS
1 12 (9.68%) Firewall
1 12 (9.68%) FTP
1 12 (9.68%) HTTP
1 12 (9.68%) SMTP
1 12 (9.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.97%) MongoDB
2 24 (19.35%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.65%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.65%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.84%) Hadoop
7 5 (4.03%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.03%) Power BI
7 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.23%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.61%) MySQL
9 2 (1.61%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.81%) Big Data
10 1 (0.81%) OLTP
10 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (35.48%) Git
2 34 (27.42%) JUnit
3 26 (20.97%) Jenkins
4 21 (16.94%) JIRA
5 16 (12.90%) Selenium
6 15 (12.10%) GitLab
6 15 (12.10%) Maven
7 12 (9.68%) Mockito
7 12 (9.68%) Vagrant
8 9 (7.26%) Cucumber
9 8 (6.45%) Eclipse
9 8 (6.45%) IntelliJ
9 8 (6.45%) SonarQube
10 4 (3.23%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (3.23%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.23%) jMock
10 4 (3.23%) Toad
11 2 (1.61%) Gatling
12 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.61%) Public Sector
3 24 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.90%) Automotive
4 16 (12.90%) Games
5 11 (8.87%) Banking
6 10 (8.06%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (6.45%) Finance
8 6 (4.84%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.23%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.81%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.81%) Law
12 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (37.10%) Developer
2 34 (27.42%) Java Developer
3 19 (15.32%) Lead
4 18 (14.52%) Senior
5 12 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Java Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (5.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Analyst
9 6 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.03%) Data Scientist
10 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 5 (4.03%) Test Analyst
11 4 (3.23%) Lead Java Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (34.68%) Spring
2 32 (25.81%) HTML
3 23 (18.55%) REST
3 23 (18.55%) Spring Boot
4 22 (17.74%) SOAP
5 18 (14.52%) JSON
6 17 (13.71%) CSS
6 17 (13.71%) Gherkin
6 17 (13.71%) XML
7 16 (12.90%) Django
7 16 (12.90%) React
8 14 (11.29%) Hibernate
9 13 (10.48%) JPA
9 13 (10.48%) Kafka
9 13 (10.48%) RESTful
9 13 (10.48%) Web Services
10 12 (9.68%) Playwright
11 9 (7.26%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (6.45%) EJB
12 8 (6.45%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.71%) Animation
2 12 (9.68%) Replication
3 9 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.84%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.84%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.61%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.61%) Derivative
7 2 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.81%) Motion Graphics
8 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.35%) Linux
2 19 (15.32%) Windows
3 12 (9.68%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (9.68%) VMS
4 9 (7.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (36.29%) Microservices
2 43 (34.68%) Agile
3 31 (25.00%) Scrum
4 30 (24.19%) DevOps
5 27 (21.77%) CI/CD
6 21 (16.94%) Test Automation
7 20 (16.13%) TDD
8 18 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (12.90%) SDLC
9 16 (12.90%) Software Engineering
10 15 (12.10%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (11.29%) Change Management
11 14 (11.29%) Deployment Automation
12 13 (10.48%) Analytical Thinking
12 13 (10.48%) Containerisation
12 13 (10.48%) Open Source
13 12 (9.68%) Cloud Security
13 12 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.68%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (43.55%) SQL
2 34 (27.42%) Python
3 18 (14.52%) Scala
4 17 (13.71%) C++
5 14 (11.29%) Groovy
6 13 (10.48%) Perl
6 13 (10.48%) PowerShell
7 10 (8.06%) Tcl
8 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.23%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.61%) PHP
11 2 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.61%) Ruby
12 1 (0.81%) ABAP
12 1 (0.81%) Bash
12 1 (0.81%) BeanShell
12 1 (0.81%) COBOL
12 1 (0.81%) Korn
12 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (28.23%) Security Cleared
2 32 (25.81%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.87%) Degree
4 4 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.42%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.42%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.61%) ISEB
7 1 (0.81%) CISM
7 1 (0.81%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) WCAG
2 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.23%) QA
3 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
System Software
1 40 (32.26%) Docker
2 17 (13.71%) Active Directory
3 12 (9.68%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.23%) Postfix
5 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (19.35%) Grafana
2 19 (15.32%) Kubernetes
2 19 (15.32%) Prometheus
3 16 (12.90%) Terraform
4 8 (6.45%) Puppet
5 6 (4.84%) Ansible
5 6 (4.84%) Kibana
6 4 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (12.90%) Oracle
2 14 (11.29%) ServiceNow
3 11 (8.87%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.87%) webMethods
4 8 (6.45%) Adobe
5 6 (4.84%) Autodesk
6 5 (4.03%) SAP
6 5 (4.03%) Splunk
7 4 (3.23%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.23%) ForgeRock
7 4 (3.23%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.42%) Ariba
8 3 (2.42%) Google
9 2 (1.61%) Calypso
9 2 (1.61%) IBM
9 2 (1.61%) Pega
10 1 (0.81%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.81%) Talend
10 1 (0.81%) Trillium