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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 41 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 84 61 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.32% 5.10% 3.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.00% 18.89% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 31 54 52
10th Percentile £46,789 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £63,626 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +14.35% -7.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £69,310 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.52% +9.09% -4.35%

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 442 323 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.21% 27.03% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 302 281 358
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,000 £42,500
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 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%

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 18 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 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.76%) CICS
3 1 (1.19%) Appian
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) Azure
2 32 (38.10%) AWS
3 14 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (14.29%) GitHub
4 12 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (7.14%) PaaS
6 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.38%) SaaS
8 2 (2.38%) Serverless
9 1 (1.19%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.19%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 7 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.95%) Big Data
4 5 (5.95%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.95%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.95%) MySQL
4 5 (5.95%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (5.95%) Power BI
4 5 (5.95%) QlikView
4 5 (5.95%) Tableau
5 4 (4.76%) Db2
6 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.38%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) JUnit
2 14 (16.67%) Maven
2 14 (16.67%) Mockito
3 12 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.38%) Git
5 1 (1.19%) GitLab
5 1 (1.19%) Postman
General
1 38 (45.24%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Public Sector
3 14 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (13.10%) Banking
5 11 (13.10%) Legal
6 8 (9.52%) Investment Banking
7 6 (7.14%) Law
8 5 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (34.52%) Senior
2 25 (29.76%) Developer
3 21 (25.00%) Lead
4 17 (20.24%) Java Developer
5 16 (19.05%) Java Engineer
6 14 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 14 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (15.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (14.29%) Applications Consultant
8 12 (14.29%) Consultant
8 12 (14.29%) Mainframe Consultant
9 10 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (11.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (9.52%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (8.33%) SAP Developer
11 7 (8.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
13 5 (5.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 4 (4.76%) COBOL Consultant
14 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (44.05%) Spring
2 27 (32.14%) REST
3 23 (27.38%) Spring Boot
4 22 (26.19%) React
5 17 (20.24%) .NET
6 12 (14.29%) ISPF
7 11 (13.10%) Node.js
8 8 (9.52%) AngularJS
8 8 (9.52%) RESTful
9 7 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (8.33%) SAPUI5
10 6 (7.14%) JDBC
10 6 (7.14%) OAuth
10 6 (7.14%) SOAP
11 5 (5.95%) PyTorch
11 5 (5.95%) TensorFlow
12 3 (3.57%) Kafka
13 2 (2.38%) PySpark
13 2 (2.38%) Terraform
14 1 (1.19%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.48%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (15.48%) Legacy Applications
2 12 (14.29%) Mainframe
3 9 (10.71%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.95%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.95%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
2 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 40 (47.62%) Agile
3 38 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (39.29%) CI/CD
5 26 (30.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 25 (29.76%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (23.81%) Coaching
8 19 (22.62%) Microservices
8 19 (22.62%) Software Engineering
9 18 (21.43%) TDD
10 16 (19.05%) Analytics
11 15 (17.86%) AI
11 15 (17.86%) DevOps
11 15 (17.86%) Scrum
11 15 (17.86%) Test Automation
12 14 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
13 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (15.48%) Unit Testing
14 12 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 23 (27.38%) SQL
3 14 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 12 (14.29%) COBOL
4 12 (14.29%) JCL
5 10 (11.90%) Bash
6 9 (10.71%) Python
7 7 (8.33%) ABAP
8 5 (5.95%) C#
8 5 (5.95%) R
9 4 (4.76%) C
9 4 (4.76%) C++
10 1 (1.19%) PHP
10 1 (1.19%) Scala
10 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 15 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) Degree
3 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) GxP
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Oracle
2 8 (9.52%) Broadcom
3 7 (8.33%) SAP
4 6 (7.14%) iManage
5 5 (5.95%) Databricks
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft