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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 47 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 55 52 110
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.84% 4.55% 3.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.72% 15.38% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 33 45 103
10th Percentile £39,500 £26,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £46,789 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -9.80%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £74,761
90th Percentile £79,000 £73,750 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -3.51% -5.00%

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 401 338 771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.42% 29.55% 27.60%
Number of salaries quoted 312 276 696
10th Percentile £33,750 £38,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £85,000
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 22 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 (10.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.82%) Appian
3 1 (1.82%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) AWS
2 21 (38.18%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) dbt
3 7 (12.73%) PaaS
3 7 (12.73%) SaaS
4 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.64%) Datadog
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.82%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.82%) GCP
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) MongoDB
1 6 (10.91%) MySQL
2 4 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Maven
2 12 (21.82%) JUnit
2 12 (21.82%) Mockito
3 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.64%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) JIRA
3 2 (3.64%) JMeter
3 2 (3.64%) Locust
3 2 (3.64%) Selenium
4 1 (1.82%) GitLab
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.82%) MLflow
4 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (29.09%) Finance
2 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Banking
3 8 (14.55%) Investment Banking
4 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Advertising
6 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (32.73%) Lead
2 14 (25.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 14 (25.45%) Java Engineer
3 13 (23.64%) Developer
4 11 (20.00%) Senior
5 9 (16.36%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (16.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (16.36%) Java Developer
6 7 (12.73%) Senior Developer
6 7 (12.73%) Test Leader
7 6 (10.91%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (10.91%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Java Team Leader
8 3 (5.45%) Lead Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.64%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.73%) React
1 18 (32.73%) REST
1 18 (32.73%) Spring
2 10 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 8 (14.55%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.91%) RESTful
5 5 (9.09%) Node.js
6 3 (5.45%) .NET
6 3 (5.45%) CSS
6 3 (5.45%) HTML
7 2 (3.64%) Gherkin
7 2 (3.64%) jQuery
8 1 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.82%) RAML
8 1 (1.82%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.82%) SOAP
8 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.82%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Agile
1 27 (49.09%) Full-Stack Development
2 25 (45.45%) Mentoring
3 22 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 19 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (32.73%) Microservices
6 16 (29.09%) CI/CD
7 15 (27.27%) TDD
8 14 (25.45%) Scrum
9 11 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 10 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 10 (18.18%) Observability
10 10 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
10 10 (18.18%) Unit Testing
11 9 (16.36%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (14.55%) Architectural Patterns
12 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (14.55%) Design Patterns
12 8 (14.55%) Secure Coding
12 8 (14.55%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) SQL
2 17 (30.91%) JavaScript
3 12 (21.82%) PL/SQL
4 10 (18.18%) Python
5 9 (16.36%) Bash
6 5 (9.09%) C#
7 4 (7.27%) C
7 4 (7.27%) C++
7 4 (7.27%) R
8 2 (3.64%) PHP
9 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 10 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (10.91%) Degree
3 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.82%) IBM Certification
3 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.55%) QA
2 5 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.45%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (23.64%) Oracle
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) IBM
4 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.82%) OpenAI