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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 90 60 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.46% 5.00% 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.04% 18.69% 12.33%
Number of salaries quoted 34 53 51
10th Percentile £46,789 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £63,627 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

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 449 321 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.26% 26.73% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 301 278 343
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £76,075 £72,500 £71,620
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,150 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +3.77%

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 25 September 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 (7.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (5.56%) CICS
3 1 (1.11%) Appian
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (7.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (44.44%) Azure
2 32 (35.56%) AWS
3 16 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.56%) GitHub
4 14 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.67%) PaaS
6 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.22%) SaaS
8 2 (2.22%) Serverless
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.11%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.78%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.56%) Big Data
4 5 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.56%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.56%) Db2
4 5 (5.56%) MySQL
4 5 (5.56%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (5.56%) Power BI
4 5 (5.56%) QlikView
4 5 (5.56%) Tableau
5 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.22%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) JUnit
2 14 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 14 (15.56%) Maven
2 14 (15.56%) Mockito
3 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.22%) Git
4 1 (1.11%) GitLab
4 1 (1.11%) Postman
General
1 40 (44.44%) Finance
2 20 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 15 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 14 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.22%) Banking
5 11 (12.22%) Legal
6 8 (8.89%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.67%) Law
8 5 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) Senior
2 26 (28.89%) Developer
3 21 (23.33%) Lead
4 20 (22.22%) Java Engineer
5 18 (20.00%) Java Developer
6 16 (17.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 15 (16.67%) Senior Developer
7 15 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 14 (15.56%) Applications Consultant
8 14 (15.56%) Consultant
8 14 (15.56%) Mainframe Consultant
9 11 (12.22%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
10 10 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (8.89%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (7.78%) SAP Developer
12 7 (7.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
14 5 (5.56%) COBOL Consultant
14 5 (5.56%) Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (43.33%) Spring
2 27 (30.00%) REST
3 25 (27.78%) Spring Boot
4 22 (24.44%) React
5 19 (21.11%) .NET
6 14 (15.56%) ISPF
7 11 (12.22%) Node.js
8 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.89%) RESTful
9 7 (7.78%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (7.78%) SAPUI5
10 6 (6.67%) JDBC
10 6 (6.67%) OAuth
10 6 (6.67%) SOAP
11 5 (5.56%) PyTorch
11 5 (5.56%) TensorFlow
12 3 (3.33%) Kafka
13 2 (2.22%) PySpark
13 2 (2.22%) Terraform
14 1 (1.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 15 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 14 (15.56%) Mainframe
3 10 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.56%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.56%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Linux
2 1 (1.11%) Unix
2 1 (1.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (46.67%) Agile
1 42 (46.67%) Mentoring
2 40 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 29 (32.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (28.89%) Technical Leadership
6 22 (24.44%) Software Engineering
7 20 (22.22%) Coaching
8 19 (21.11%) Microservices
9 18 (20.00%) TDD
10 17 (18.89%) DevOps
11 16 (17.78%) Analytics
11 16 (17.78%) Collaborative Culture
12 15 (16.67%) AI
12 15 (16.67%) Scrum
12 15 (16.67%) Test Automation
13 14 (15.56%) Batch Processing
13 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (15.56%) Re-Platforming
13 14 (15.56%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) JavaScript
1 23 (25.56%) SQL
2 14 (15.56%) COBOL
2 14 (15.56%) JCL
2 14 (15.56%) PL/SQL
3 10 (11.11%) Bash
4 9 (10.00%) Python
5 7 (7.78%) ABAP
6 5 (5.56%) C#
6 5 (5.56%) R
7 4 (4.44%) C
7 4 (4.44%) C++
8 1 (1.11%) PHP
8 1 (1.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.22%) QA
4 1 (1.11%) GxP
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Oracle
2 9 (10.00%) Broadcom
3 7 (7.78%) SAP
4 6 (6.67%) iManage
5 5 (5.56%) Databricks
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft