Java Contracts in the West Midlands

Java
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 39 24
Rank change year-on-year -27 -15 +8
Contract jobs citing Java 46 131 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.40% 5.39% 6.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.87% 20.28% 25.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 92 180
10th Percentile £316 £480 £381
25th Percentile £416 £509 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £498
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.55% +20.61%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £540
90th Percentile £675 £700 £619
England median daily rate £575 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -6.12% +2.08% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £40.20 - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £18.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £18.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +197.30% - -
75th Percentile £56.25 £18.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £61.43 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -5.50% +8.33% +20.00%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 423 646 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.03% 26.57% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 452 709
10th Percentile £260 £363 £325
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £460
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +14.13% +15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
England median daily rate £540 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -5.10% +3.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 3
10th Percentile £40.10 £21.23 £16.46
25th Percentile £55.00 £23.61 £16.77
Median hourly rate £57.50 £25.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +127.72% +44.29% -54.84%
75th Percentile £58.75 £66.29 £46.88
90th Percentile £69.75 £98.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £62.00 £61.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year +1.35% +22.35% +16.80%

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 18 April 2024.

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 18 April 2024.

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 April 2024. 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 -7 27 £450 -21.74% 35
Worcestershire +13 8 £550 +4.76% 4
Warwickshire -15 5 £625 +8.70% 2
Coventry +9 3 £500 +4.17% 4
Shropshire +5 2 - - 3
Staffordshire - 1 - - 9
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 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 2 (4.35%) CMS
1 2 (4.35%) Headless CMS
2 1 (2.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
2 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 8 (17.39%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.35%) GCP
3 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) DHCP
1 8 (17.39%) DNS
1 8 (17.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.87%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.35%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 2 (4.35%) MySQL
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
3 2 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.17%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.17%) Big Data
4 1 (2.17%) Impala
4 1 (2.17%) Jackrabbit
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.17%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.17%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.70%) Bitbucket
2 4 (8.70%) Git
3 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.52%) Maven
3 3 (6.52%) Selenium
4 2 (4.35%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.35%) TestNG
4 2 (4.35%) webpack
5 1 (2.17%) Ant
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.17%) GitLab
5 1 (2.17%) Gradle
5 1 (2.17%) JIRA
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.35%) Banking
3 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (58.70%) Developer
2 17 (36.96%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Lead
4 6 (13.04%) Lead Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Lead Java Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 3 (6.52%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
7 2 (4.35%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.17%) E-Commerce Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Selenium Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) Spring
2 7 (15.22%) React
3 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.52%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.52%) Hibernate
4 3 (6.52%) RESTful
5 2 (4.35%) Apache Sling
5 2 (4.35%) Kafka
5 2 (4.35%) Next.js
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (4.35%) OSGi
5 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.35%) Vue
6 1 (2.17%) .NET
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.17%) CSS
6 1 (2.17%) Guice
6 1 (2.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Data Structures
2 4 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Unix
2 9 (19.57%) Linux
3 6 (13.04%) Windows
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Agile
2 8 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (17.39%) Microservices
2 8 (17.39%) Virtual Environments
3 6 (13.04%) BDD
3 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
3 6 (13.04%) Computer Science
3 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
4 5 (10.87%) Information Management
4 5 (10.87%) OO
4 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.87%) Security Hardening
4 5 (10.87%) Security Monitoring
4 5 (10.87%) SIEM
4 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
4 5 (10.87%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (10.87%) TDD
5 4 (8.70%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 8 (17.39%) C#
3 7 (15.22%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) C
5 2 (4.35%) C++
5 2 (4.35%) Perl
5 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Scala
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) ABAP
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) HiveQL
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) SCCM
2 5 (10.87%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Veeam
2 5 (10.87%) VMware
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) Informatica
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Denodo
5 1 (2.17%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Talend