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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 39 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 71 65 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.04% 5.17% 3.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.75% 18.11% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26 58 54
10th Percentile £47,144 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £63,626 £41,250 £37,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £61,482
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +5.72% +1.21%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £69,305 £60,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +14.55% +7.08% -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 400 359 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.49% 28.54% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 288 305 425
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,400 £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,704 £77,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.85%

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 August 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 7 (9.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.63%) CICS
3 1 (1.41%) Appian
3 1 (1.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (9.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (46.48%) Azure
2 29 (40.85%) AWS
3 11 (15.49%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.08%) PaaS
5 9 (12.68%) GitHub
5 9 (12.68%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.27%) SaaS
7 7 (9.86%) dbt
8 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.82%) Datadog
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.41%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.41%) GCP
10 1 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.04%) MySQL
2 5 (7.04%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.63%) Db2
3 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.23%) Big Data
4 3 (4.23%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.23%) Data Mining
4 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.23%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (4.23%) Power BI
4 3 (4.23%) QlikView
4 3 (4.23%) Tableau
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (21.13%) JUnit
2 14 (19.72%) Maven
2 14 (19.72%) Mockito
3 9 (12.68%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.82%) Git
5 2 (2.82%) JMeter
5 2 (2.82%) Locust
6 1 (1.41%) GitLab
6 1 (1.41%) JIRA
6 1 (1.41%) Postman
6 1 (1.41%) Selenium
General
1 36 (50.70%) Finance
2 17 (23.94%) Public Sector
3 11 (15.49%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.68%) Legal
5 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (11.27%) Banking
5 8 (11.27%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.45%) Law
7 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (36.62%) Lead
2 18 (25.35%) Developer
3 16 (22.54%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (14.08%) Java Developer
5 9 (12.68%) Applications Consultant
5 9 (12.68%) Consultant
5 9 (12.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Java Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Mainframe Consultant
6 8 (11.27%) Test Leader
7 7 (9.86%) SAP Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (9.86%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) COBOL Consultant
8 4 (5.63%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (5.63%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (43.66%) Spring
2 27 (38.03%) REST
3 22 (30.99%) React
4 17 (23.94%) Spring Boot
5 12 (16.90%) .NET
6 11 (15.49%) Node.js
7 9 (12.68%) ISPF
8 8 (11.27%) AngularJS
8 8 (11.27%) RESTful
9 7 (9.86%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (9.86%) SAPUI5
10 6 (8.45%) JDBC
10 6 (8.45%) OAuth
10 6 (8.45%) SOAP
11 4 (5.63%) Terraform
12 3 (4.23%) PyTorch
12 3 (4.23%) TensorFlow
13 2 (2.82%) Gherkin
14 1 (1.41%) CSS
14 1 (1.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (14.08%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 9 (12.68%) Mainframe
3 7 (9.86%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Unix
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (49.30%) Mentoring
2 34 (47.89%) Agile
3 33 (46.48%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
5 22 (30.99%) Test Automation
6 21 (29.58%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (28.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (26.76%) Microservices
9 18 (25.35%) TDD
10 16 (22.54%) Coaching
10 16 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (22.54%) Software Engineering
11 15 (21.13%) DevOps
11 15 (21.13%) Scrum
12 14 (19.72%) Technical Architecture
13 13 (18.31%) AI
13 13 (18.31%) Unit Testing
14 12 (16.90%) Analytics
14 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
14 12 (16.90%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.99%) JavaScript
2 21 (29.58%) SQL
3 14 (19.72%) PL/SQL
4 13 (18.31%) Python
5 10 (14.08%) Bash
6 9 (12.68%) COBOL
6 9 (12.68%) JCL
7 7 (9.86%) ABAP
8 4 (5.63%) C
9 3 (4.23%) C#
9 3 (4.23%) R
10 2 (2.82%) C++
11 1 (1.41%) PHP
11 1 (1.41%) Scala
11 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (16.90%) SC Cleared
1 12 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.04%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.04%) QA
3 2 (2.82%) WCAG
4 1 (1.41%) GxP
4 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (23.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (25.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.41%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (19.72%) Oracle
2 7 (9.86%) SAP
3 6 (8.45%) iManage
4 5 (7.04%) Broadcom
5 3 (4.23%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow