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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 59 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -26
Permanent jobs citing Java 42 46 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.47% 3.58% 4.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.82% 12.50% 14.57%
Number of salaries quoted 28 40 106
10th Percentile £30,250 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £35,938 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% -7.63%
75th Percentile £74,296 £62,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% -6.63% -4.17%

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 388 368 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.56% 28.66% 28.04%
Number of salaries quoted 313 290 697
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £75,125 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 1 May 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 5 (11.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) dbt
3 7 (16.67%) PaaS
3 7 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (4.76%) Datadog
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.38%) GCP
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
1 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Maven
2 6 (14.29%) JUnit
2 6 (14.29%) Mockito
3 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) JMeter
3 2 (4.76%) Locust
3 2 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (2.38%) Git
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.38%) MLflow
4 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (26.19%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Banking
3 6 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Advertising
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 12 (28.57%) Java Engineer
2 11 (26.19%) Developer
3 9 (21.43%) Lead
3 9 (21.43%) Senior
4 7 (16.67%) Test Leader
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (7.14%) C# Developer
7 3 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Graduate C# Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Graduate Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 3 (7.14%) Graduate Software Developer
7 3 (7.14%) PHP Developer
7 3 (7.14%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) REST
2 10 (23.81%) React
2 10 (23.81%) Spring
3 8 (19.05%) Spring Boot
4 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 4 (9.52%) CSS
6 3 (7.14%) HTML
6 3 (7.14%) jQuery
7 2 (4.76%) .NET
7 2 (4.76%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.76%) Node.js
8 1 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.38%) RAML
8 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
8 1 (2.38%) SOAP
8 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
1 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.38%) NHS
2 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 17 (40.48%) Agile
4 15 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
6 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 9 (21.43%) Microservices
8 8 (19.05%) Observability
8 8 (19.05%) Scrum
9 7 (16.67%) BDD
10 6 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
10 6 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
10 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
10 6 (14.29%) DevOps
10 6 (14.29%) SDLC
10 6 (14.29%) Secure Coding
10 6 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 6 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 5 (11.90%) Bash
4 5 (11.90%) C#
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) C
5 4 (9.52%) C++
5 4 (9.52%) R
6 3 (7.14%) PHP
6 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (16.67%) Degree
1 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 7 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.38%) IBM Certification
2 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.14%) Terraform
3 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (2.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.38%) OpenAI