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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 32 69
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 -14
Contract jobs citing Java 191 88 44
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 5.53% 5.35% 2.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.30% 21.84% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 57 32
10th Percentile £413 £354 £365
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.68% -13.64% +1.85%
75th Percentile £588 £500 £612
90th Percentile £670 £550 £649
England median daily rate £525 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 17 5
10th Percentile - - £40.20
25th Percentile - £33.91 £40.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +197.30%
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £50.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +35.00% -27.27% +5.36%

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 786 403 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.74% 24.48% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 251 273
10th Percentile £362 £235 £310
25th Percentile £413 £381 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £453 £470
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -3.62% -6.00%
75th Percentile £538 £524 £575
90th Percentile £638 £613 £638
England median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.55% -6.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 11
10th Percentile £21.25 £28.18 £33.93
25th Percentile £29.38 £33.91 £40.25
Median hourly rate £58.00 £50.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -11.11% +128.43%
75th Percentile £67.84 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +4.00%

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 30 July 2026.

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
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 30 July 2026. 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
Shropshire -10 104 £493 +1.21% 34
Birmingham -9 40 £475 -2.56% 16
Solihull -2 26 £450 +7.14% 1
Coventry - 6 £575 - 4
Warwickshire -39 5 £539 +2.75% 4
Herefordshire - 4 £625 -
Worcestershire - 1 £450 - 1
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 19 (9.95%) WebLogic
2 14 (7.33%) Confluence
3 7 (3.66%) SAS
4 5 (2.62%) Apache
5 2 (1.05%) OpenROAD
5 2 (1.05%) OpenStack
5 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.52%) SAP EP
Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (2.62%) SAP PSCD
2 1 (0.52%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 73 (38.22%) AWS
2 35 (18.32%) Azure
3 27 (14.14%) Amazon S3
4 24 (12.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (12.57%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (9.95%) Amazon SQS
6 17 (8.90%) AWS KMS
6 17 (8.90%) GitHub
6 17 (8.90%) Route 53
7 14 (7.33%) Power Platform
8 12 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.24%) Serverless
10 9 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (4.71%) GCP
11 8 (4.19%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (2.09%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (8.90%) Amazon Aurora
2 17 (8.90%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (8.90%) DynamoDB
2 17 (8.90%) MongoDB
3 13 (6.81%) MySQL
4 12 (6.28%) Power BI
5 10 (5.24%) Pentaho
5 10 (5.24%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.14%) Metadata
7 5 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.62%) Oracle Database
8 4 (2.09%) BigQuery
8 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.09%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.57%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.57%) Impala
9 3 (1.57%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 45 (23.56%) Git
2 39 (20.42%) Jenkins
3 35 (18.32%) JUnit
4 32 (16.75%) Maven
5 25 (13.09%) SonarQube
6 24 (12.57%) Mockito
7 21 (10.99%) JIRA
8 20 (10.47%) GitLab
9 16 (8.38%) Selenium
10 13 (6.81%) DbUnit
10 13 (6.81%) jMock
11 11 (5.76%) Bitbucket Server
11 11 (5.76%) Gatling
12 10 (5.24%) Cucumber
13 9 (4.71%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (4.71%) Visual Studio
14 7 (3.66%) REST Assured
15 5 (2.62%) Serenity BDD
16 4 (2.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 3 (1.57%) Toad
General
1 51 (26.70%) Public Sector
2 41 (21.47%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.81%) Finance
5 8 (4.19%) Banking
6 7 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.57%) Retail
8 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Electronics
9 1 (0.52%) Front Office
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Local Government
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.52%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (36.13%) Developer
2 51 (26.70%) Java Developer
3 24 (12.57%) Lead
4 23 (12.04%) Architect
5 22 (11.52%) Java Engineer
6 17 (8.90%) Senior
7 13 (6.81%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.28%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.76%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (5.24%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Scrum Master
12 8 (4.19%) Quality Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Software Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
13 7 (3.66%) Lead Java Engineer
14 6 (3.14%) Technical Architect
15 5 (2.62%) Analyst
15 5 (2.62%) Consultant
15 5 (2.62%) SAP Consultant
15 5 (2.62%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (36.65%) Spring
2 55 (28.80%) Spring Boot
3 41 (21.47%) REST
4 38 (19.90%) SOAP
5 24 (12.57%) JPA
6 23 (12.04%) Web Services
7 22 (11.52%) Hibernate
7 22 (11.52%) RESTful
8 21 (10.99%) ActiveMQ
8 21 (10.99%) AngularJS
9 20 (10.47%) Spring Cloud
10 19 (9.95%) Spring Batch
10 19 (9.95%) Spring Integration
11 17 (8.90%) Node.js
12 15 (7.85%) Playwright
12 15 (7.85%) React
12 15 (7.85%) XML
13 13 (6.81%) PowerMock
14 12 (6.28%) Kafka
15 11 (5.76%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.57%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (12.04%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.85%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.66%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.09%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (2.09%) Clustering
7 4 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.09%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.57%) Blog
9 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Code
10 1 (0.52%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.23%) Linux
2 16 (8.38%) Unix
3 4 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.57%) Android
4 3 (1.57%) Windows
5 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (42.41%) Agile
2 66 (34.55%) CI/CD
3 58 (30.37%) Microservices
4 56 (29.32%) DevOps
5 53 (27.75%) Scrum
6 40 (20.94%) Containerisation
6 40 (20.94%) TDD
7 36 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (17.28%) Test Automation
10 32 (16.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (14.14%) Technical Leadership
12 26 (13.61%) BDD
13 23 (12.04%) Software Engineering
14 22 (11.52%) Kanban
14 22 (11.52%) Test Strategy
15 19 (9.95%) Migration
16 16 (8.38%) Analytics
16 16 (8.38%) Decision-Making
16 16 (8.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 68 (35.60%) SQL
2 24 (12.57%) Python
3 21 (10.99%) PL/SQL
4 19 (9.95%) JavaScript
5 16 (8.38%) Shell Script
6 13 (6.81%) VB
7 12 (6.28%) VB6
8 9 (4.71%) VBA
9 6 (3.14%) ABAP
9 6 (3.14%) C#
9 6 (3.14%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.62%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.09%) Perl
12 3 (1.57%) HiveQL
13 2 (1.05%) C
13 2 (1.05%) C++
13 2 (1.05%) COBOL
13 2 (1.05%) Groovy
13 2 (1.05%) R
14 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 107 (56.02%) Security Cleared
2 99 (51.83%) SC Cleared
3 33 (17.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (5.76%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.66%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.14%) Degree
7 5 (2.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (2.09%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.57%) ISEB
10 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.52%) CISM
11 1 (0.52%) CISSP
11 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.95%) QA
2 11 (5.76%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.19%) WCAG
5 3 (1.57%) FATCA
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (25.65%) Docker
2 11 (5.76%) Postfix
3 3 (1.57%) HDFS
4 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 48 (25.13%) Kubernetes
2 24 (12.57%) Grafana
3 8 (4.19%) Prometheus
3 8 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (3.66%) Terraform
5 3 (1.57%) Ansible
5 3 (1.57%) Kibana
6 2 (1.05%) Podman
7 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 34 (17.80%) Oracle
2 20 (10.47%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.90%) Jaspersoft
4 13 (6.81%) Atlassian
5 11 (5.76%) SAP
6 8 (4.19%) Denodo
6 8 (4.19%) Google
6 8 (4.19%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.19%) webMethods
7 6 (3.14%) Talend
8 4 (2.09%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.57%) Actian
9 3 (1.57%) Informatica
9 3 (1.57%) Splunk
10 2 (1.05%) Sonatype
11 1 (0.52%) HP
11 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.52%) Sage
11 1 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.52%) Zscaler