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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 66 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 -34
Permanent jobs citing Java 41 61 56
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.55% 3.16% 4.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.65% 10.32% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 36 48
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,375 £39,250
25th Percentile £52,250 £35,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.04% -7.63%
75th Percentile £73,750 £63,125 £72,433
90th Percentile £74,905 £82,482 £80,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 352 591 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.85% 30.62% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 301 271 358
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,000 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,350
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 14 December 2025.

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 (14.63%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.88%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Maximo
2 1 (2.44%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 18 (43.90%) Azure
3 9 (21.95%) Amazon S3
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (17.07%) Azure AI
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon ELB
5 6 (14.63%) Amazon Glacier
5 6 (14.63%) AWS KMS
5 6 (14.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (12.20%) GCP
7 3 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (7.32%) SaaS
7 3 (7.32%) Serverless
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.44%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.44%) Datadog
9 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.44%) GitHub
9 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.63%) DNS
1 6 (14.63%) Firewall
1 6 (14.63%) FTP
1 6 (14.63%) HTTP
1 6 (14.63%) SMTP
1 6 (14.63%) SSH
2 1 (2.44%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.88%) MySQL
4 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Hazelcast
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Git
1 7 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.63%) JIRA
2 6 (14.63%) Vagrant
3 5 (12.20%) Maven
4 4 (9.76%) JUnit
4 4 (9.76%) Mockito
5 2 (4.88%) GitLab
6 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.44%) JMeter
6 1 (2.44%) Locust
6 1 (2.44%) MLflow
6 1 (2.44%) Selenium
6 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (31.71%) Public Sector
2 11 (26.83%) Finance
3 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Back Office
5 2 (4.88%) Banking
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.44%) Advertising
6 1 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Law
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Developer
2 7 (17.07%) Java Developer
3 6 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 5 (12.20%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Automation Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (9.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Maximo Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Graduate
7 2 (4.88%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) Spring
2 9 (21.95%) React
3 6 (14.63%) REST
4 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.76%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.32%) CSS
6 2 (4.88%) .NET
6 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.88%) jQuery
6 2 (4.88%) Middleware
7 1 (2.44%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.44%) EDI
7 1 (2.44%) HTML
7 1 (2.44%) JSP
7 1 (2.44%) RESTful
7 1 (2.44%) SOAP
7 1 (2.44%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.44%) Web Services
7 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) AI Agents
2 4 (9.76%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.88%) NHS
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Life Science
5 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (26.83%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (14.63%) VMS
3 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Agile
2 14 (34.15%) DevOps
3 11 (26.83%) AI
4 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
5 8 (19.51%) Full-Stack Development
5 8 (19.51%) Microservices
5 8 (19.51%) TDD
6 7 (17.07%) Cloud Security
6 7 (17.07%) Computer Science
6 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
6 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (17.07%) Scrum
7 6 (14.63%) Change Management
7 6 (14.63%) Configuration Management
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (14.63%) Patch Management
8 4 (9.76%) Asset Management
8 4 (9.76%) Software Engineering
8 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) Python
2 13 (31.71%) SQL
3 12 (29.27%) JavaScript
4 9 (21.95%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.07%) R
6 6 (14.63%) C#
6 6 (14.63%) Groovy
6 6 (14.63%) Perl
6 6 (14.63%) PowerShell
7 5 (12.20%) PL/SQL
8 3 (7.32%) Bash
8 3 (7.32%) C++
8 3 (7.32%) Kotlin
8 3 (7.32%) Scala
9 2 (4.88%) PHP
10 1 (2.44%) C
10 1 (2.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 13 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (14.63%) Degree
4 3 (7.32%) IBM Certification
5 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.44%) CBAP
6 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.88%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO 9001
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (29.27%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.51%) Grafana
3 7 (17.07%) Terraform
4 6 (14.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
2 5 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
3 4 (9.76%) UiPath
4 3 (7.32%) Google
4 3 (7.32%) IBM
5 2 (4.88%) Automation Anywhere
6 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.44%) New Relic
6 1 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 1 (2.44%) Splunk