Java Contracts in Birmingham

Java
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 34 43
Rank change year-on-year -5 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Java 23 45 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.10% 5.05% 3.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.37% 20.09% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 37
10th Percentile £319 £425 £366
25th Percentile £398 £516 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £583 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +16.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £625
90th Percentile - - £743
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +16.82%
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 - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £55.00 £18.50 £58.00
% change year-on-year +197.30% -68.10% -

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 186 224 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 25.07% 25.14% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 145 241
10th Percentile £259 £313 £325
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.89% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £643
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 0
10th Percentile £40.20 £21.70 -
25th Percentile £40.50 £24.31 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £33.39 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.74% - -
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.63 -
90th Percentile - £98.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £29.32 £37.75
% change year-on-year +96.13% -22.34% +43.43%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (8.70%) CMS
1 2 (8.70%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.35%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
1 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
2 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) Jackrabbit
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) webpack
3 1 (4.35%) Ant
3 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.35%) Gradle
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (86.96%) Developer
2 16 (69.57%) Java Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Lead
3 6 (26.09%) Lead Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Lead Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.35%) SAP Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Selenium Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Spring
2 5 (21.74%) React
3 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
3 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) Apache Sling
4 2 (8.70%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.70%) Next.js
4 2 (8.70%) OSGi
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.35%) Guice
5 1 (4.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Data Structures
2 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
2 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Microservices
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) OO
4 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) TDD
5 4 (17.39%) BDD
5 4 (17.39%) SOA
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) Multithreading
6 3 (13.04%) OOP
7 2 (8.70%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.70%) E-Commerce
7 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (8.70%) Migration
7 2 (8.70%) OOD
7 2 (8.70%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) C
2 2 (8.70%) C++
2 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) Perl
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.35%) ABAP
3 1 (4.35%) Groovy
3 1 (4.35%) Scala
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) SAP