Java Job Trends in Birmingham

Java
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 48 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 57 61 119
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.90% 5.24% 3.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.54% 17.73% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 33 53 107
10th Percentile £42,500 £25,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,800 £73,750 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Programming Languages
Birmingham

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 392 344 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.08% 29.55% 26.90%
Number of salaries quoted 296 283 733
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £46,213 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,106 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Java job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Java
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Appian
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.11%) AWS
2 20 (35.09%) Azure
3 7 (12.28%) dbt
3 7 (12.28%) PaaS
3 7 (12.28%) SaaS
4 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.51%) Datadog
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) MySQL
2 6 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) JUnit
2 13 (22.81%) Maven
2 13 (22.81%) Mockito
3 3 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.51%) Git
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) JMeter
4 2 (3.51%) Locust
4 2 (3.51%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) GitLab
General
1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Banking
3 8 (14.04%) Investment Banking
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Legal
5 2 (3.51%) Advertising
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Lead
2 14 (24.56%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Java Engineer
3 12 (21.05%) Senior
4 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (15.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Test Leader
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (7.02%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.84%) REST
2 19 (33.33%) React
2 19 (33.33%) Spring
3 10 (17.54%) Spring Boot
4 8 (14.04%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.28%) Node.js
5 7 (12.28%) RESTful
6 3 (5.26%) .NET
6 3 (5.26%) CSS
6 3 (5.26%) HTML
6 3 (5.26%) SAP Fiori
6 3 (5.26%) SAPUI5
7 2 (3.51%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.51%) JDBC
7 2 (3.51%) jQuery
7 2 (3.51%) OAuth
7 2 (3.51%) SOAP
8 1 (1.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.88%) Agile
2 27 (47.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (45.61%) Mentoring
4 23 (40.35%) Test Automation
5 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (33.33%) Microservices
7 17 (29.82%) CI/CD
7 17 (29.82%) TDD
8 14 (24.56%) Scrum
9 13 (22.81%) Unit Testing
10 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
10 11 (19.30%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (17.54%) Observability
12 9 (15.79%) Sprint Planning
13 8 (14.04%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (14.04%) BDD
13 8 (14.04%) Coaching
13 8 (14.04%) Design Patterns
13 8 (14.04%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) SQL
2 17 (29.82%) JavaScript
3 13 (22.81%) PL/SQL
4 9 (15.79%) Bash
4 9 (15.79%) Python
5 4 (7.02%) C
5 4 (7.02%) C#
5 4 (7.02%) R
6 3 (5.26%) ABAP
6 3 (5.26%) C++
7 2 (3.51%) PHP
8 1 (1.75%) Scala
8 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 6 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Oracle
2 3 (5.26%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) iManage
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft