Java Jobs in Birmingham

Java
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 52 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 -26 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 47 111 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.19% 4.08% 7.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.99% 14.57% 20.95%
Number of salaries quoted 40 106 114
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £35,938 £38,438 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,250
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -7.63% -0.40%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £53,688 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.63% -4.17% +0.84%

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 392 762 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.58% 28.04% 36.81%
Number of salaries quoted 290 697 567
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,125 £84,964 £84,250
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 (2.13%) ColdFusion
1 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (2.13%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 27 (57.45%) Azure
2 13 (27.66%) AWS
3 11 (23.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 11 (23.40%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.77%) SaaS
5 4 (8.51%) Serverless
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon Glacier
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.38%) AWS KMS
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) Firewall
1 3 (6.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) Relational Database
2 11 (23.40%) Power BI
3 7 (14.89%) DB2
4 6 (12.77%) MySQL
4 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
4 6 (12.77%) SQL Server
5 4 (8.51%) MaxDB
5 4 (8.51%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (8.51%) SAP HANA
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.26%) Big Data
7 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Eclipse
1 6 (12.77%) IntelliJ
1 6 (12.77%) Jasmine
1 6 (12.77%) JUnit
1 6 (12.77%) Karma Test Runner
1 6 (12.77%) Mockito
1 6 (12.77%) Protractor
2 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.38%) Vagrant
3 2 (4.26%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) Appium
4 1 (2.13%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) Subversion
4 1 (2.13%) TestComplete
4 1 (2.13%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (31.91%) Finance
2 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Manufacturing
2 11 (23.40%) Marketing
3 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Law
5 5 (10.64%) Police
6 2 (4.26%) Advertising
6 2 (4.26%) Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Back Office
7 1 (2.13%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Developer
2 12 (25.53%) Java Developer
3 11 (23.40%) Data Scientist
4 9 (19.15%) Graduate
4 9 (19.15%) Graduate Developer
5 6 (12.77%) SaaS Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Backend Developer
6 5 (10.64%) IT Graduate
6 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Consultant
7 4 (8.51%) Graduate Java Developer
7 4 (8.51%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 4 (8.51%) SAP Basis Support
7 4 (8.51%) SAP Consultant
7 4 (8.51%) SAP Support
7 4 (8.51%) SAP Support Consultant
7 4 (8.51%) Support Consultant
8 3 (6.38%) Agile C# Developer
8 3 (6.38%) C# Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) JPA
2 10 (21.28%) React
3 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
4 6 (12.77%) .NET
4 6 (12.77%) CSS
4 6 (12.77%) Hibernate
4 6 (12.77%) jQuery
4 6 (12.77%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (10.64%) ASP.NET
5 5 (10.64%) GWT
5 5 (10.64%) J2EE
5 5 (10.64%) Middleware
5 5 (10.64%) Vaadin
6 4 (8.51%) SAP Basis
7 3 (6.38%) Kafka
8 2 (4.26%) gRPC
8 2 (4.26%) RESTful
8 2 (4.26%) Vue
9 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
9 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Mobile App
2 6 (12.77%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.26%) Replication
3 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.91%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Windows
3 7 (14.89%) Unix
4 5 (10.64%) Rocky
5 4 (8.51%) AIX
6 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.38%) VMS
7 1 (2.13%) Android
7 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.13%) CentOS
7 1 (2.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Agile
1 16 (34.04%) Computer Science
2 15 (31.91%) Analytics
2 15 (31.91%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (25.53%) Data Engineering
4 11 (23.40%) Actionable Insight
4 11 (23.40%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (23.40%) Bayesian Methods
4 11 (23.40%) Customer Experience
4 11 (23.40%) Customer-Centricity
4 11 (23.40%) Data Analysis
4 11 (23.40%) Data Science
4 11 (23.40%) Decision-Making
4 11 (23.40%) Deep Learning
4 11 (23.40%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 11 (23.40%) Generative AI
4 11 (23.40%) Machine Learning
4 11 (23.40%) Mathematics
4 11 (23.40%) Statistical Modelling
4 11 (23.40%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) SQL
2 17 (36.17%) Python
3 16 (34.04%) C++
4 11 (23.40%) R
5 8 (17.02%) C#
6 6 (12.77%) PHP
7 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
8 4 (8.51%) ABAP
9 3 (6.38%) Groovy
9 3 (6.38%) Perl
9 3 (6.38%) Ruby
9 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
11 1 (2.13%) Bash
11 1 (2.13%) Go
11 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
11 1 (2.13%) Objective-C
11 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
11 1 (2.13%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) Degree
2 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Terraform
2 4 (8.51%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.38%) Ansible
3 3 (6.38%) Nagios
3 3 (6.38%) Nessus
3 3 (6.38%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) IBM
2 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle
3 4 (8.51%) SAP
4 3 (6.38%) Juniper
4 3 (6.38%) Sybase
5 1 (2.13%) UiPath