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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 37 56
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 70 66 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.02% 5.23% 3.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.50% 18.23% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 26 59 55
10th Percentile £47,144 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £63,626 £41,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +5.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £68,403 £62,500 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.44% +9.65% -5.00%

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 400 362 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.55% 28.71% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 290 308 429
10th Percentile £42,150 £40,700 £33,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,188 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,950 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,333 £76,625 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.85%

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 20 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 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.71%) CICS
3 1 (1.43%) Appian
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.71%) Azure
2 29 (41.43%) AWS
3 11 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (12.86%) GitHub
4 9 (12.86%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (12.86%) PaaS
5 8 (11.43%) SaaS
6 7 (10.00%) dbt
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.86%) Datadog
7 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.43%) GCP
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) MySQL
2 5 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.71%) Db2
3 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.86%) Big Data
5 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.86%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (2.86%) Power BI
5 2 (2.86%) QlikView
5 2 (2.86%) Tableau
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (21.43%) JUnit
2 14 (20.00%) Maven
2 14 (20.00%) Mockito
3 9 (12.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.86%) Git
5 2 (2.86%) JMeter
5 2 (2.86%) Locust
6 1 (1.43%) GitLab
6 1 (1.43%) JIRA
6 1 (1.43%) Postman
6 1 (1.43%) Selenium
General
1 36 (51.43%) Finance
2 17 (24.29%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.71%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Banking
4 8 (11.43%) Investment Banking
4 8 (11.43%) Legal
5 6 (8.57%) Law
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (35.71%) Lead
2 18 (25.71%) Developer
3 16 (22.86%) Senior
4 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.86%) Applications Consultant
5 9 (12.86%) Consultant
5 9 (12.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Java Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Mainframe Consultant
6 8 (11.43%) Test Leader
7 7 (10.00%) SAP Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.71%) COBOL Consultant
8 4 (5.71%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (5.71%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (44.29%) Spring
2 27 (38.57%) REST
3 22 (31.43%) React
4 17 (24.29%) Spring Boot
5 12 (17.14%) .NET
6 11 (15.71%) Node.js
7 9 (12.86%) ISPF
8 8 (11.43%) AngularJS
8 8 (11.43%) RESTful
9 7 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (10.00%) SAPUI5
10 6 (8.57%) JDBC
10 6 (8.57%) OAuth
10 6 (8.57%) SOAP
11 4 (5.71%) Terraform
12 2 (2.86%) Gherkin
12 2 (2.86%) PyTorch
12 2 (2.86%) TensorFlow
13 1 (1.43%) CSS
13 1 (1.43%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.86%) Mainframe
3 7 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Unix
2 1 (1.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (48.57%) Agile
1 34 (48.57%) Mentoring
2 32 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (44.29%) CI/CD
4 22 (31.43%) Test Automation
5 21 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (27.14%) Microservices
8 18 (25.71%) TDD
9 16 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (22.86%) Software Engineering
10 15 (21.43%) Coaching
10 15 (21.43%) DevOps
10 15 (21.43%) Scrum
11 14 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
12 13 (18.57%) Unit Testing
13 12 (17.14%) AI
13 12 (17.14%) Containerisation
13 12 (17.14%) Migration
14 11 (15.71%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.43%) JavaScript
2 21 (30.00%) SQL
3 14 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 12 (17.14%) Python
5 10 (14.29%) Bash
6 9 (12.86%) COBOL
6 9 (12.86%) JCL
7 7 (10.00%) ABAP
8 4 (5.71%) C
9 3 (4.29%) C#
10 2 (2.86%) C++
10 2 (2.86%) R
11 1 (1.43%) PHP
11 1 (1.43%) Scala
11 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
1 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) Degree
3 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.14%) QA
3 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.86%) WCAG
5 1 (1.43%) GxP
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (24.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Grafana
3 1 (1.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Oracle
2 7 (10.00%) SAP
3 6 (8.57%) iManage
4 5 (7.14%) Broadcom
5 2 (2.86%) Databricks
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow