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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 68 41
Rank change year-on-year +5 -27 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 40 63 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.29% 3.49% 5.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.05% 11.13% 17.49%
Number of salaries quoted 31 40 69
10th Percentile £45,000 £31,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 £63,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,762 £80,496 £83,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +2.68% -6.67%

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 362 566 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.70% 31.32% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 303 252 414
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,075 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,582 £41,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -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 15 January 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 6 (15.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
2 16 (40.00%) Azure
3 6 (15.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (7.50%) AWS KMS
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (7.50%) Azure AI
5 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 2 (5.00%) SaaS
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.50%) Datadog
7 1 (2.50%) dbt
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
1 3 (7.50%) FTP
1 3 (7.50%) HTTP
1 3 (7.50%) SMTP
1 3 (7.50%) SSH
2 1 (2.50%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Maven
2 8 (20.00%) JUnit
2 8 (20.00%) Mockito
3 4 (10.00%) Git
3 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (7.50%) JIRA
4 3 (7.50%) Vagrant
5 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.50%) GitLab
5 1 (2.50%) JMeter
5 1 (2.50%) Locust
5 1 (2.50%) MLflow
5 1 (2.50%) Selenium
5 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Advertising
5 1 (2.50%) Back Office
5 1 (2.50%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.50%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (47.50%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Java Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Senior
4 9 (22.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) Senior Developer
5 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (15.00%) Java Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Automation Developer
8 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Lead
8 3 (7.50%) Maximo Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Java Scala Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Scala Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Spring
2 9 (22.50%) React
2 9 (22.50%) REST
3 5 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.00%) CSS
5 2 (5.00%) HTML
5 2 (5.00%) Middleware
6 1 (2.50%) .NET
6 1 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.50%) jQuery
6 1 (2.50%) JSP
6 1 (2.50%) Node.js
6 1 (2.50%) RAML
6 1 (2.50%) RESTful
6 1 (2.50%) SOAP
6 1 (2.50%) Spring MVC
6 1 (2.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.50%) NHS
5 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (7.50%) VMS
3 2 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (45.00%) Agile
3 12 (30.00%) Microservices
4 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (27.50%) Scrum
4 11 (27.50%) TDD
5 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 8 (20.00%) DevOps
6 7 (17.50%) SDLC
7 6 (15.00%) AI
7 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 6 (15.00%) SOA
7 6 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.50%) Service Delivery
9 4 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 11 (27.50%) Python
4 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
5 8 (20.00%) PL/SQL
6 7 (17.50%) R
7 6 (15.00%) Bash
8 4 (10.00%) C
8 4 (10.00%) C#
9 3 (7.50%) Groovy
9 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
9 3 (7.50%) Perl
9 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
9 3 (7.50%) Scala
10 2 (5.00%) C++
11 1 (2.50%) PHP
11 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.00%) Degree
4 3 (7.50%) IBM Certification
5 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (32.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Grafana
3 4 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) IBM
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.50%) UiPath
3 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.50%) Google
3 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.50%) New Relic
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.50%) Splunk