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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 41 53
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 78 62 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.20% 5.12% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.57% 18.84% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 28 55 52
10th Percentile £46,617 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £59,125 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +14.04% -5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £74,688
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 420 329 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.83% 27.15% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 294 282 377
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,825 £31,900
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,224 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,250 £83,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,892
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.20% +2.60%

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 6 September 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 7 (8.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.13%) CICS
3 1 (1.28%) Appian
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (8.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (46.15%) Azure
2 32 (41.03%) AWS
3 13 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (14.10%) GitHub
4 11 (14.10%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (8.97%) PaaS
6 4 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (5.13%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.13%) SaaS
7 3 (3.85%) dbt
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.56%) Serverless
9 1 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.28%) Datadog
9 1 (1.28%) GCP
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.97%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.69%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.41%) MySQL
3 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.13%) Big Data
4 4 (5.13%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.13%) Data Mining
4 4 (5.13%) Db2
4 4 (5.13%) Oracle BI EE
4 4 (5.13%) Power BI
4 4 (5.13%) QlikView
4 4 (5.13%) Tableau
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.56%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (19.23%) JUnit
2 14 (17.95%) Maven
2 14 (17.95%) Mockito
3 11 (14.10%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.56%) Git
6 1 (1.28%) GitLab
6 1 (1.28%) JIRA
6 1 (1.28%) JMeter
6 1 (1.28%) Locust
6 1 (1.28%) Postman
6 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 38 (48.72%) Finance
2 19 (24.36%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 12 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.82%) Legal
6 9 (11.54%) Banking
7 8 (10.26%) Investment Banking
8 6 (7.69%) Law
9 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Lead
2 22 (28.21%) Senior
3 21 (26.92%) Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 13 (16.67%) Java Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (14.10%) Applications Consultant
6 11 (14.10%) Consultant
6 11 (14.10%) Mainframe Consultant
7 10 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (12.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (12.82%) Senior Developer
7 10 (12.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (8.97%) SAP Developer
8 7 (8.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.69%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) COBOL Consultant
11 4 (5.13%) Java Consultant
11 4 (5.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (44.87%) Spring
2 27 (34.62%) REST
3 22 (28.21%) React
4 21 (26.92%) Spring Boot
5 16 (20.51%) .NET
6 11 (14.10%) ISPF
6 11 (14.10%) Node.js
7 8 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 8 (10.26%) RESTful
8 7 (8.97%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (8.97%) SAPUI5
9 6 (7.69%) JDBC
9 6 (7.69%) OAuth
9 6 (7.69%) SOAP
10 4 (5.13%) PyTorch
10 4 (5.13%) TensorFlow
11 3 (3.85%) Terraform
12 2 (2.56%) Kafka
12 2 (2.56%) PySpark
13 1 (1.28%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
1 12 (15.38%) Legacy Applications
2 11 (14.10%) Mainframe
3 9 (11.54%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.97%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.41%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.13%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.13%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.56%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.28%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Unix
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.28%) Agile
1 40 (51.28%) Mentoring
2 36 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (43.59%) CI/CD
4 25 (32.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 24 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (24.36%) Coaching
6 19 (24.36%) Microservices
7 18 (23.08%) Software Engineering
7 18 (23.08%) TDD
7 18 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 16 (20.51%) DevOps
9 15 (19.23%) Analytics
9 15 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (19.23%) Scrum
10 14 (17.95%) AI
10 14 (17.95%) Technical Architecture
11 13 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (16.67%) Unit Testing
12 12 (15.38%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 23 (29.49%) SQL
3 14 (17.95%) PL/SQL
4 11 (14.10%) COBOL
4 11 (14.10%) JCL
5 10 (12.82%) Bash
5 10 (12.82%) Python
6 7 (8.97%) ABAP
7 5 (6.41%) C#
8 4 (5.13%) C
8 4 (5.13%) C++
8 4 (5.13%) R
9 1 (1.28%) PHP
9 1 (1.28%) Scala
9 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (17.95%) SC Cleared
1 14 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (1.28%) GxP
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (20.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (21.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.28%) Argo
2 1 (1.28%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Oracle
2 7 (8.97%) Broadcom
2 7 (8.97%) SAP
3 6 (7.69%) iManage
4 4 (5.13%) Databricks
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow