Java Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Java Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Java Engineer salary in Birmingham is £65,000 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 110 129 119
Rank change year-on-year +19 -10 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 3 22 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.20% 0.81% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.86% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3 22 16
10th Percentile £53,500 £26,225 £47,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £56,480
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +10.66% -3.86%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £75,781
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £56,480
% change year-on-year - +6.23% -16.33%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Birmingham

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Birmingham

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

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

1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) React
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Advertising
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management

Java Engineer 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase
71 Java Engineer jobs in the West Midlands