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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 40 52
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 74 64 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.12% 5.10% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.96% 18.23% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 28 57 57
10th Percentile £46,789 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £62,844 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +12.14% -5.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £68,403 £60,000 £55,750
% change year-on-year +14.00% +7.62% -7.08%

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 412 351 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.79% 27.97% 24.24%
Number of salaries quoted 297 297 428
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £33,375
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £44,702
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -

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 28 August 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 (9.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.41%) CICS
3 1 (1.35%) Appian
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (9.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (45.95%) Azure
2 29 (39.19%) AWS
3 12 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.51%) GitHub
4 10 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (12.16%) PaaS
6 7 (9.46%) SaaS
7 6 (8.11%) dbt
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (4.05%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.35%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.35%) Datadog
10 1 (1.35%) GCP
10 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.76%) MySQL
3 4 (5.41%) Db2
3 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.05%) Big Data
4 3 (4.05%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.05%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.05%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (4.05%) Power BI
4 3 (4.05%) QlikView
4 3 (4.05%) Tableau
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (20.27%) JUnit
2 14 (18.92%) Maven
2 14 (18.92%) Mockito
3 10 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.70%) Git
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) JIRA
6 1 (1.35%) JMeter
6 1 (1.35%) Locust
6 1 (1.35%) Postman
6 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 37 (50.00%) Finance
2 18 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (12.16%) Legal
6 8 (10.81%) Banking
6 8 (10.81%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.11%) Law
8 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 25 (33.78%) Lead
2 18 (24.32%) Developer
2 18 (24.32%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Java Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Applications Consultant
4 10 (13.51%) Consultant
4 10 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.51%) Mainframe Consultant
5 7 (9.46%) SAP Developer
5 7 (9.46%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (9.46%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (9.46%) Software Engineer
5 7 (9.46%) Test Leader
6 4 (5.41%) Java Consultant
6 4 (5.41%) Java Team Leader
6 4 (5.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (43.24%) Spring
2 27 (36.49%) REST
3 22 (29.73%) React
4 18 (24.32%) Spring Boot
5 14 (18.92%) .NET
6 11 (14.86%) Node.js
7 10 (13.51%) ISPF
8 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
8 8 (10.81%) RESTful
9 7 (9.46%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (9.46%) SAPUI5
10 6 (8.11%) JDBC
10 6 (8.11%) OAuth
10 6 (8.11%) SOAP
11 3 (4.05%) PyTorch
11 3 (4.05%) TensorFlow
11 3 (4.05%) Terraform
12 1 (1.35%) Gherkin
12 1 (1.35%) PySpark
12 1 (1.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (14.86%) Legacy Applications
2 10 (13.51%) Mainframe
3 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.05%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.05%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.86%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (48.65%) Agile
1 36 (48.65%) Mentoring
2 34 (45.95%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (43.24%) CI/CD
4 23 (31.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (28.38%) Technical Leadership
5 21 (28.38%) Test Automation
6 19 (25.68%) Microservices
7 18 (24.32%) Software Engineering
7 18 (24.32%) TDD
8 17 (22.97%) Coaching
9 15 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (20.27%) DevOps
9 15 (20.27%) Scrum
10 14 (18.92%) Technical Architecture
11 13 (17.57%) AI
11 13 (17.57%) Analytics
11 13 (17.57%) Unit Testing
12 12 (16.22%) Collaborative Culture
12 12 (16.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) JavaScript
2 22 (29.73%) SQL
3 14 (18.92%) PL/SQL
4 12 (16.22%) Python
5 10 (13.51%) Bash
5 10 (13.51%) COBOL
5 10 (13.51%) JCL
6 7 (9.46%) ABAP
7 4 (5.41%) C
7 4 (5.41%) C#
8 3 (4.05%) C++
8 3 (4.05%) R
9 1 (1.35%) PHP
9 1 (1.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (16.22%) SC Cleared
1 12 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.41%) Degree
3 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) Accessibility
1 6 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) GxP
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Argo
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Oracle
2 7 (9.46%) SAP
3 6 (8.11%) Broadcom
3 6 (8.11%) iManage
4 3 (4.05%) Databricks
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow