Java Developer Jobs in Birmingham

Java Developer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Java Developer salary in Birmingham is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 139 103
Rank change year-on-year +38 -36 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 12 12 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.81% 0.44% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 0.47% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 30
10th Percentile - £24,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £30,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £73,813
90th Percentile - £66,500 £82,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 1,389 2,563 1,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 94.30% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 797 2,090 1,426
10th Percentile £33,550 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,991 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,435 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,886 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,250 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Birmingham

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Java Developer in Birmingham

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Birmingham

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer 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 Birmingham region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 11 (91.67%) JPA
3 6 (50.00%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (50.00%) SaaS
3 6 (50.00%) Mockito
3 6 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Eclipse
3 6 (50.00%) IntelliJ
3 6 (50.00%) IBM
3 6 (50.00%) JUnit
3 6 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Jasmine
3 6 (50.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
3 6 (50.00%) Docker
3 6 (50.00%) Microservices
3 6 (50.00%) Algorithms
3 6 (50.00%) React
3 6 (50.00%) SDLC
3 6 (50.00%) Protractor
3 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (41.67%) Rocky
4 5 (41.67%) Police
4 5 (41.67%) Mobile App

Java Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 6 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 6 (50.00%) Jasmine
1 6 (50.00%) JUnit
1 6 (50.00%) Karma Test Runner
1 6 (50.00%) Mockito
1 6 (50.00%) Protractor
General
1 5 (41.67%) Law
1 5 (41.67%) Police
2 1 (8.33%) Advertising
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) JPA
2 6 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 6 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 6 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (50.00%) React
3 5 (41.67%) GWT
3 5 (41.67%) J2EE
3 5 (41.67%) Middleware
3 5 (41.67%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (41.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Rocky
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (50.00%) Microservices
1 6 (50.00%) SDLC
1 6 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (91.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) IBM
2 5 (41.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase