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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 58 56 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.92% 4.93% 3.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.32% 16.57% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 35 48 103
10th Percentile £40,250 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £48,394 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £74,761
90th Percentile £84,350 £73,750 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -2.08% +6.19% -5.83%

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 405 338 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.42% 29.73% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 311 276 718
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -0.90% -3.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £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 29 May 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 (10.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.72%) Appian
3 1 (1.72%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Maximo
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.83%) AWS
2 21 (36.21%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) dbt
3 7 (12.07%) PaaS
3 7 (12.07%) SaaS
4 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.45%) Datadog
4 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.72%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) MySQL
2 6 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) JUnit
2 13 (22.41%) Maven
2 13 (22.41%) Mockito
3 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.45%) Git
4 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 2 (3.45%) JMeter
4 2 (3.45%) Locust
4 2 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (1.72%) GitLab
5 1 (1.72%) MLflow
General
1 18 (31.03%) Finance
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 8 (13.79%) Banking
3 8 (13.79%) Investment Banking
3 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Advertising
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Law
5 2 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Lead
2 14 (24.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 14 (24.14%) Java Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) Developer
4 12 (20.69%) Senior
5 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Java Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Test Leader
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (6.90%) Team Leader
9 3 (5.17%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (34.48%) REST
2 19 (32.76%) React
2 19 (32.76%) Spring
3 10 (17.24%) Spring Boot
4 8 (13.79%) AngularJS
5 7 (12.07%) RESTful
6 6 (10.34%) Node.js
7 4 (6.90%) .NET
8 3 (5.17%) CSS
8 3 (5.17%) HTML
9 2 (3.45%) Gherkin
9 2 (3.45%) jQuery
10 1 (1.72%) JDBC
10 1 (1.72%) OAuth
10 1 (1.72%) SAP Fiori
10 1 (1.72%) SAPUI5
10 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
10 1 (1.72%) SOAP
10 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
10 1 (1.72%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) Agile
2 27 (46.55%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (44.83%) Mentoring
4 23 (39.66%) Test Automation
5 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (32.76%) Microservices
7 17 (29.31%) CI/CD
7 17 (29.31%) TDD
8 15 (25.86%) Scrum
9 12 (20.69%) Unit Testing
10 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
10 11 (18.97%) Technical Leadership
11 10 (17.24%) Observability
12 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
12 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (15.52%) Sprint Planning
13 8 (13.79%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (13.79%) BDD
13 8 (13.79%) Design Patterns
13 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) SQL
2 19 (32.76%) JavaScript
3 13 (22.41%) PL/SQL
4 11 (18.97%) Python
5 9 (15.52%) Bash
6 5 (8.62%) C#
7 4 (6.90%) C
7 4 (6.90%) C++
7 4 (6.90%) R
8 2 (3.45%) PHP
9 1 (1.72%) ABAP
9 1 (1.72%) Scala
9 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (8.62%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.72%) IBM Certification
3 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) QA
2 6 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) WCAG
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (27.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.72%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Oracle
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.72%) IBM
3 1 (1.72%) iManage
3 1 (1.72%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.72%) SAP