Java Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Java Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Java Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 249 242
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 24 23 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.33% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.39% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 18
10th Percentile £27,150 £47,500 £40,399
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £41,237
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,480 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.23% -16.33% +22.73%
75th Percentile £71,991 £75,781 £90,000
90th Percentile - - £95,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -19.44% +20.00% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,846 5,918 6,926
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 90.23% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,177 3,357 4,791
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the West Midlands

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the West Midlands

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the West Midlands

Java Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -4 21 £65,000 +15.08% 5
Worcestershire - 2 £60,000 -
Coventry +32 1 £38,000 -36.67%
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 14 (58.33%) Azure
4 13 (54.17%) Microservices
5 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 9 (37.50%) Agile
5 9 (37.50%) AWS
6 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 8 (33.33%) TDD
6 8 (33.33%) Spring
7 7 (29.17%) SQL
7 7 (29.17%) Coaching
7 7 (29.17%) Continuous Deployment
7 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
7 7 (29.17%) BDD
8 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
8 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
8 6 (25.00%) MySQL
8 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (25.00%) RESTful
9 5 (20.83%) Maven
9 5 (20.83%) SOLID
9 5 (20.83%) Design Patterns
10 4 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
10 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
10 4 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (16.67%) People Management
10 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing

Java Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (25.00%) MySQL
1 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Maven
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Spring
2 6 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 13 (54.17%) Microservices
3 9 (37.50%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 8 (33.33%) TDD
4 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 7 (29.17%) BDD
5 7 (29.17%) Coaching
5 7 (29.17%) Continuous Deployment
6 5 (20.83%) Design Patterns
6 5 (20.83%) SOLID
7 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) People Management
7 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
7 4 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
9 2 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) C#
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle
1 1 (4.17%) YouTube