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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 36 63
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 -28
Permanent jobs citing Java 61 68 69
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.85% 5.44% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.84% 18.73% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 29 60 56
10th Percentile £40,500 £25,000 £27,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -5.77% +4.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +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 385 363 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.67% 29.06% 23.90%
Number of salaries quoted 286 311 491
10th Percentile £39,000 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £87,750 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 29 July 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 (8.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) Appian
3 1 (1.64%) CICS
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 27 (44.26%) AWS
2 23 (37.70%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) SaaS
4 7 (11.48%) dbt
4 7 (11.48%) PaaS
5 5 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) GitHub
6 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.28%) Datadog
7 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.64%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.64%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.64%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.48%) MySQL
2 6 (9.84%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.20%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.64%) Db2
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) JUnit
2 12 (19.67%) Maven
2 12 (19.67%) Mockito
3 4 (6.56%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.28%) Git
5 2 (3.28%) JIRA
5 2 (3.28%) JMeter
5 2 (3.28%) Locust
5 2 (3.28%) Selenium
6 1 (1.64%) GitLab
6 1 (1.64%) Postman
General
1 28 (45.90%) Finance
2 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
3 9 (14.75%) Social Skills
4 8 (13.11%) Banking
4 8 (13.11%) Investment Banking
5 7 (11.48%) Legal
6 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (9.84%) Law
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Lead
2 17 (27.87%) Developer
3 13 (21.31%) Senior
4 8 (13.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Java Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Java Engineer
4 8 (13.11%) Test Leader
5 7 (11.48%) SAP Developer
5 7 (11.48%) Software Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (8.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (6.56%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (6.56%) Team Leader
8 3 (4.92%) Applications Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Consultant
8 3 (4.92%) Lead Developer
8 3 (4.92%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (40.98%) REST
2 24 (39.34%) Spring
3 21 (34.43%) React
4 12 (19.67%) Spring Boot
5 11 (18.03%) Node.js
6 8 (13.11%) AngularJS
6 8 (13.11%) RESTful
7 7 (11.48%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (11.48%) SAPUI5
8 6 (9.84%) .NET
8 6 (9.84%) JDBC
8 6 (9.84%) OAuth
8 6 (9.84%) SOAP
9 3 (4.92%) CSS
9 3 (4.92%) ISPF
10 2 (3.28%) Gherkin
10 2 (3.28%) HTML
10 2 (3.28%) jQuery
11 1 (1.64%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.20%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.56%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (4.92%) Mainframe
5 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.64%) Unix
2 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (52.46%) Agile
2 30 (49.18%) Mentoring
3 25 (40.98%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (39.34%) CI/CD
4 24 (39.34%) Test Automation
5 18 (29.51%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (29.51%) Microservices
6 16 (26.23%) TDD
6 16 (26.23%) Technical Leadership
7 15 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (21.31%) Scrum
8 13 (21.31%) Software Engineering
8 13 (21.31%) Unit Testing
9 11 (18.03%) Coaching
9 11 (18.03%) Observability
10 10 (16.39%) Containerisation
10 10 (16.39%) DevOps
10 10 (16.39%) Technical Architecture
11 9 (14.75%) Analytics
11 9 (14.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (32.79%) JavaScript
1 20 (32.79%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) PL/SQL
3 10 (16.39%) Python
4 8 (13.11%) Bash
5 7 (11.48%) ABAP
6 4 (6.56%) C#
7 3 (4.92%) C++
7 3 (4.92%) COBOL
7 3 (4.92%) JCL
8 2 (3.28%) C
8 2 (3.28%) PHP
9 1 (1.64%) Scala
9 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.84%) QA
3 2 (3.28%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.28%) WCAG
4 1 (1.64%) GxP
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (24.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (26.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.56%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Oracle
2 7 (11.48%) SAP
3 6 (9.84%) iManage
4 2 (3.28%) Broadcom
4 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft