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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 35 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 75 65 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.14% 5.15% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.34% 18.16% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 29 58 56
10th Percentile £46,789 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £63,626 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +12.14% -5.75%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £69,305 £60,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.03% +9.55% -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 409 358 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.68% 28.39% 24.01%
Number of salaries quoted 296 303 429
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,250 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +0.92%

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 26 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 (9.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.33%) CICS
3 1 (1.33%) Appian
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (45.33%) Azure
2 30 (40.00%) AWS
3 12 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.33%) GitHub
4 10 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (13.33%) PaaS
5 8 (10.67%) SaaS
6 7 (9.33%) dbt
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.67%) Datadog
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.33%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.33%) GCP
9 1 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (8.00%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.67%) MySQL
3 4 (5.33%) Db2
3 4 (5.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.00%) Big Data
4 3 (4.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.00%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (4.00%) Power BI
4 3 (4.00%) QlikView
4 3 (4.00%) Tableau
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) JUnit
2 14 (18.67%) Maven
2 14 (18.67%) Mockito
3 10 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.67%) Git
5 2 (2.67%) JMeter
5 2 (2.67%) Locust
6 1 (1.33%) GitLab
6 1 (1.33%) JIRA
6 1 (1.33%) Postman
6 1 (1.33%) Selenium
General
1 37 (49.33%) Finance
2 18 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (12.00%) Legal
6 8 (10.67%) Banking
6 8 (10.67%) Investment Banking
7 6 (8.00%) Law
8 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Lead
2 18 (24.00%) Developer
2 18 (24.00%) Senior
3 11 (14.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Java Engineer
4 10 (13.33%) Applications Consultant
4 10 (13.33%) Consultant
4 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Mainframe Consultant
5 8 (10.67%) Test Leader
6 7 (9.33%) SAP Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (9.33%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) COBOL Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (5.33%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (42.67%) Spring
2 27 (36.00%) REST
3 22 (29.33%) React
4 18 (24.00%) Spring Boot
5 14 (18.67%) .NET
6 11 (14.67%) Node.js
7 10 (13.33%) ISPF
8 8 (10.67%) AngularJS
8 8 (10.67%) RESTful
9 7 (9.33%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (9.33%) SAPUI5
10 6 (8.00%) JDBC
10 6 (8.00%) OAuth
10 6 (8.00%) SOAP
11 4 (5.33%) Terraform
12 3 (4.00%) PyTorch
12 3 (4.00%) TensorFlow
13 2 (2.67%) Gherkin
14 1 (1.33%) PySpark
14 1 (1.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.67%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (14.67%) Legacy Applications
2 10 (13.33%) Mainframe
3 9 (12.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.33%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.00%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Agile
2 36 (48.00%) Mentoring
3 34 (45.33%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (44.00%) CI/CD
5 23 (30.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (29.33%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (29.33%) Test Automation
7 19 (25.33%) Microservices
8 18 (24.00%) Software Engineering
8 18 (24.00%) TDD
9 17 (22.67%) Coaching
10 16 (21.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (21.33%) DevOps
11 15 (20.00%) Scrum
12 14 (18.67%) Technical Architecture
13 13 (17.33%) AI
13 13 (17.33%) Analytics
13 13 (17.33%) Unit Testing
14 12 (16.00%) Containerisation
14 12 (16.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (30.67%) JavaScript
2 22 (29.33%) SQL
3 14 (18.67%) PL/SQL
4 13 (17.33%) Python
5 10 (13.33%) Bash
5 10 (13.33%) COBOL
5 10 (13.33%) JCL
6 7 (9.33%) ABAP
7 4 (5.33%) C
7 4 (5.33%) C#
8 3 (4.00%) C++
8 3 (4.00%) R
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (16.00%) SC Cleared
1 12 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.67%) QA
4 2 (2.67%) WCAG
5 1 (1.33%) GxP
5 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (22.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Oracle
2 7 (9.33%) SAP
3 6 (8.00%) Broadcom
3 6 (8.00%) iManage
4 3 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow