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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 54 48
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 -36
Permanent jobs citing Java 62 79 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.17% 3.42% 4.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.14% 12.60% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 55 52 56
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% -7.08% -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £91,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

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 324 627 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.00% 27.14% 36.52%
Number of salaries quoted 282 357 420
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £38,063
25th Percentile £44,563 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,991 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,450 £80,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (25.81%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.61%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 37 (59.68%) AWS
2 22 (35.48%) Azure
3 20 (32.26%) Amazon S3
4 19 (30.65%) Amazon EC2
5 18 (29.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 18 (29.03%) AWS KMS
6 14 (22.58%) Amazon ELB
6 14 (22.58%) Amazon Glacier
6 14 (22.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (17.74%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (17.74%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (17.74%) Serverless
8 7 (11.29%) Azure AI
9 4 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (6.45%) GCP
9 4 (6.45%) GitHub
9 4 (6.45%) Route 53
10 3 (4.84%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (3.23%) SaaS
12 1 (1.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (22.58%) Firewall
2 11 (17.74%) DNS
2 11 (17.74%) FTP
2 11 (17.74%) HTTP
2 11 (17.74%) SMTP
2 11 (17.74%) SSH
3 3 (4.84%) SSL
4 1 (1.61%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (30.65%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (8.06%) DynamoDB
4 5 (8.06%) MySQL
5 3 (4.84%) Hazelcast
5 3 (4.84%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.61%) Apache Hive
7 1 (1.61%) Big Data
7 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.61%) HBase
7 1 (1.61%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.61%) QlikView
7 1 (1.61%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.61%) SQLite
7 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (30.65%) Git
1 19 (30.65%) Jenkins
2 16 (25.81%) JIRA
3 14 (22.58%) Vagrant
4 7 (11.29%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (9.68%) Maven
6 4 (6.45%) DbUnit
6 4 (6.45%) jMock
6 4 (6.45%) JUnit
6 4 (6.45%) Mockito
6 4 (6.45%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.84%) GitLab
8 1 (1.61%) Selenium
8 1 (1.61%) Subversion
General
1 22 (35.48%) Public Sector
2 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.29%) Retail
4 6 (9.68%) Finance
5 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Law
6 4 (6.45%) Police
7 3 (4.84%) Back Office
7 3 (4.84%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.61%) Advertising
8 1 (1.61%) Banking
8 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (40.32%) Developer
2 16 (25.81%) Java Developer
3 11 (17.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Graduate
4 7 (11.29%) Graduate Developer
4 7 (11.29%) Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Applications Support
5 6 (9.68%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Lead Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Lead Java Developer
5 6 (9.68%) Software Applications Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Software Support Engineer
5 6 (9.68%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Architect
6 5 (8.06%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Automation Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Graduate Java Developer
7 4 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) Spring
2 10 (16.13%) .NET
2 10 (16.13%) Spring Boot
3 9 (14.52%) AngularJS
3 9 (14.52%) React
3 9 (14.52%) Web Services
4 8 (12.90%) Hibernate
4 8 (12.90%) JPA
5 6 (9.68%) RESTful
5 6 (9.68%) SOAP
6 5 (8.06%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (8.06%) Bootstrap
6 5 (8.06%) CSS
6 5 (8.06%) REST
7 4 (6.45%) GWT
7 4 (6.45%) Middleware
7 4 (6.45%) PowerMock
7 4 (6.45%) Spring Batch
7 4 (6.45%) Spring Integration
7 4 (6.45%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) AI Agents
2 4 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.23%) IoT
4 2 (3.23%) Life Science
4 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) Clustering
5 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.61%) NHS
5 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.71%) Linux
2 14 (22.58%) VMS
3 11 (17.74%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (6.45%) Rocky
5 3 (4.84%) Ubuntu
5 3 (4.84%) Windows
6 1 (1.61%) CentOS
6 1 (1.61%) Debian
6 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (37.10%) DevOps
2 22 (35.48%) Agile
3 15 (24.19%) Cloud Security
4 14 (22.58%) Configuration Management
4 14 (22.58%) Patch Management
4 14 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (19.35%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (19.35%) TDD
6 11 (17.74%) Change Management
6 11 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (17.74%) Microservices
7 8 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 8 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (11.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (11.29%) Scrum
8 7 (11.29%) Test Automation
9 6 (9.68%) BDD
9 6 (9.68%) Containerisation
9 6 (9.68%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (53.23%) Python
2 25 (40.32%) SQL
3 14 (22.58%) Groovy
3 14 (22.58%) Perl
4 11 (17.74%) PowerShell
5 8 (12.90%) R
6 6 (9.68%) C#
7 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.45%) PHP
8 4 (6.45%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.84%) C++
9 3 (4.84%) Ruby
9 3 (4.84%) Shell Script
9 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.23%) Bash
10 2 (3.23%) Kotlin
10 2 (3.23%) Scala
11 1 (1.61%) C
11 1 (1.61%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (40.32%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.26%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.52%) Degree
4 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.45%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.61%) CBAP
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) PCI DSS
1 7 (11.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.23%) QA
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (33.87%) Docker
2 14 (22.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.61%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (24.19%) Terraform
2 12 (19.35%) Grafana
2 12 (19.35%) Prometheus
3 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.84%) Ansible
4 3 (4.84%) Nagios
4 3 (4.84%) Nessus
4 3 (4.84%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.61%) Kibana
5 1 (1.61%) logstash
5 1 (1.61%) Oozie
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.06%) Red Hat
4 4 (6.45%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.45%) UiPath
5 3 (4.84%) Juniper
6 2 (3.23%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (3.23%) Google
7 1 (1.61%) Databricks
7 1 (1.61%) IBM
7 1 (1.61%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.61%) Informatica
7 1 (1.61%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.61%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) Splunk