Java Contracts in the Midlands

Java
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 52 27
Rank change year-on-year -19 -25 -3
Contract jobs citing Java 68 129 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.35% 4.00% 6.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.06% 15.38% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 98 213
10th Percentile £359 £418 £380
25th Percentile £418 £500 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +8.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £577 £625 £541
90th Percentile £653 £700 £610
England median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £30.87 £28.60 -
25th Percentile £40.13 £44.13 £20.25
Median hourly rate £47.75 £70.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.79% +76.10% -
75th Percentile £55.94 - £59.61
90th Percentile £56.25 - £59.79
England median hourly rate £67.02 £65.50 £64.50
% change year-on-year +2.32% +1.55% +2.38%

All Programming Languages
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 Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 676 839 1,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.38% 26.04% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 610 964
10th Percentile £260 £313 £320
25th Percentile £350 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £540
90th Percentile £631 £700 £624
England median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 £23.61 £16.55
25th Percentile £30.37 £26.02 £20.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +42.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.75 £44.80
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +19.32%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java in the Midlands

Java
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Java in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Java in the Midlands

Java
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
West Midlands -34 41 £550 +1.85% 60
East Midlands +2 27 £451 -23.19% 20
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 4 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.94%) CMS
2 2 (2.94%) Confluence
2 2 (2.94%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) SAS
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 21 (30.88%) AWS
2 6 (8.82%) Azure
3 4 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (5.88%) SaaS
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon S3
4 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.47%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (1.47%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (1.47%) GCP
6 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.47%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.76%) DHCP
1 8 (11.76%) DNS
1 8 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.35%) Firewall
3 1 (1.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.88%) DB2
5 3 (4.41%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.41%) MySQL
5 3 (4.41%) Power BI
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.94%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.94%) Big Data
6 2 (2.94%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (1.47%) QlikView
7 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
1 8 (11.76%) JIRA
2 4 (5.88%) Git
3 3 (4.41%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.41%) GitLab
3 3 (4.41%) Gradle
3 3 (4.41%) Maven
4 2 (2.94%) JUnit
4 2 (2.94%) Travis CI
4 2 (2.94%) webpack
5 1 (1.47%) Ant
5 1 (1.47%) JMeter
General
1 27 (39.71%) Finance
2 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Banking
4 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Automotive
6 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Back Office
7 1 (1.47%) Law
7 1 (1.47%) Police
7 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Developer
2 17 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 8 (11.76%) Architect
3 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Lead
4 7 (10.29%) Senior
4 7 (10.29%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.82%) Lead Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Lead Java Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) SAP Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Cybersecurity Manager
8 3 (4.41%) ForgeRock Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
8 3 (4.41%) Security Manager
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) React
2 9 (13.24%) RESTful
2 9 (13.24%) Spring
3 6 (8.82%) .NET
4 5 (7.35%) OpenAPI
4 5 (7.35%) RAML
4 5 (7.35%) SAP PI
4 5 (7.35%) Swagger
5 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.88%) Kafka
5 4 (5.88%) SAML
6 3 (4.41%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.41%) JSON
6 3 (4.41%) OAuth
6 3 (4.41%) OAuth2
6 3 (4.41%) OpenID
6 3 (4.41%) REST
7 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.94%) Next.js
7 2 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 7 (10.29%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.35%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.88%) Mainframe
4 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.41%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.47%) PKI
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 10 (14.71%) Windows
3 9 (13.24%) Unix
4 5 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.88%) Android
5 4 (5.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.94%) Agile
2 15 (22.06%) Microservices
3 13 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
5 10 (14.71%) DevOps
5 10 (14.71%) SDLC
6 9 (13.24%) Architectural Design
6 9 (13.24%) Computer Science
6 9 (13.24%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.24%) Migration
7 8 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (11.76%) Project Management
7 8 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
8 7 (10.29%) Visualisation
9 6 (8.82%) Mentoring
9 6 (8.82%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.82%) TDD
10 5 (7.35%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.47%) Python
2 13 (19.12%) C#
3 9 (13.24%) SQL
4 7 (10.29%) C
5 6 (8.82%) ABAP
6 5 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.41%) BeanShell
7 3 (4.41%) C++
7 3 (4.41%) Groovy
7 3 (4.41%) Scala
8 2 (2.94%) Perl
8 2 (2.94%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.94%) R
8 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.47%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (13.24%) Degree
1 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) NIST
2 3 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) Docker
2 5 (7.35%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (7.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (7.35%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.41%) OpenAM
3 3 (4.41%) OpenIDM
4 2 (2.94%) HDFS
5 1 (1.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (11.76%) SCCM
2 5 (7.35%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.41%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.47%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.82%) SAP
3 5 (7.35%) Veeam
3 5 (7.35%) VMware
4 3 (4.41%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.94%) Confluent
5 2 (2.94%) Informatica
5 2 (2.94%) Oracle
5 2 (2.94%) Talend
6 1 (1.47%) Denodo
6 1 (1.47%) Thales