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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 40 51
Rank change year-on-year -24 +11 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 57 63 118
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.85% 5.49% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.73% 18.21% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 33 55 104
10th Percentile £43,358 £26,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.52% +4.35% -11.88%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £74,256
90th Percentile £88,148 £73,750 £85,625
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 387 346 859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.56% 30.14% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 292 287 739
10th Percentile £35,125 £40,600 £31,450
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +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 23 June 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 (8.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
2 2 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Appian
3 1 (1.75%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 4 (7.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) AWS
2 20 (35.09%) Azure
3 8 (14.04%) SaaS
4 7 (12.28%) dbt
4 7 (12.28%) PaaS
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon MSK
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.51%) Datadog
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.75%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) MySQL
2 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (22.81%) JUnit
2 12 (21.05%) Maven
2 12 (21.05%) Mockito
3 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.51%) Git
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) JMeter
4 2 (3.51%) Locust
4 2 (3.51%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) GitLab
5 1 (1.75%) Postman
General
1 20 (35.09%) Finance
2 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.04%) Banking
4 8 (14.04%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Legal
6 3 (5.26%) Law
7 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.75%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Lead
2 14 (24.56%) Developer
3 13 (22.81%) Senior
4 12 (21.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) Java Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Java Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Test Leader
6 7 (12.28%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (7.02%) SAP Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Team Leader
9 3 (5.26%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (38.60%) REST
2 18 (31.58%) React
2 18 (31.58%) Spring
3 9 (15.79%) Spring Boot
4 8 (14.04%) AngularJS
4 8 (14.04%) Node.js
4 8 (14.04%) RESTful
5 4 (7.02%) SAP Fiori
5 4 (7.02%) SAPUI5
6 3 (5.26%) .NET
6 3 (5.26%) CSS
6 3 (5.26%) JDBC
6 3 (5.26%) OAuth
6 3 (5.26%) SOAP
7 2 (3.51%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.51%) HTML
7 2 (3.51%) jQuery
8 1 (1.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
1 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
1 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.75%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (52.63%) Agile
2 27 (47.37%) Mentoring
3 24 (42.11%) Test Automation
4 22 (38.60%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (38.60%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 18 (31.58%) Microservices
6 16 (28.07%) TDD
7 13 (22.81%) Scrum
7 13 (22.81%) Unit Testing
8 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (19.30%) Observability
8 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
8 11 (19.30%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
10 9 (15.79%) Coaching
11 8 (14.04%) Architectural Patterns
11 8 (14.04%) BDD
11 8 (14.04%) Secure Coding
11 8 (14.04%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) SQL
2 17 (29.82%) JavaScript
3 12 (21.05%) PL/SQL
4 10 (17.54%) Python
5 8 (14.04%) Bash
6 4 (7.02%) ABAP
6 4 (7.02%) C#
7 3 (5.26%) C
7 3 (5.26%) C++
7 3 (5.26%) R
8 2 (3.51%) PHP
9 1 (1.75%) Scala
9 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
1 10 (17.54%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.79%) QA
2 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) GxP
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (28.07%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.02%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Oracle
2 4 (7.02%) SAP
3 3 (5.26%) iManage
4 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft