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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 37 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 74 63 73
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.11% 5.03% 3.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.92% 17.90% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 26 56 54
10th Percentile £46,789 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £61,281 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +14.04% -5.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £60,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.03% +9.55% -8.33%

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 413 352 575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.79% 28.09% 24.36%
Number of salaries quoted 294 301 399
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,298 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £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 1 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 (9.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (5.41%) CICS
3 1 (1.35%) Appian
3 1 (1.35%) Confluence
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (9.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.30%) Azure
2 30 (40.54%) AWS
3 12 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (13.51%) GitHub
4 10 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (10.81%) PaaS
6 5 (6.76%) SaaS
7 4 (5.41%) dbt
7 4 (5.41%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.05%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.35%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.35%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.35%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.35%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.76%) MongoDB
2 5 (6.76%) MySQL
3 4 (5.41%) Big Data
3 4 (5.41%) Data Lake
3 4 (5.41%) Data Mining
3 4 (5.41%) Db2
3 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.41%) Oracle BI EE
3 4 (5.41%) Power BI
3 4 (5.41%) QlikView
3 4 (5.41%) Tableau
4 3 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.35%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (20.27%) JUnit
2 14 (18.92%) Maven
2 14 (18.92%) Mockito
3 10 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.05%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.70%) Git
6 1 (1.35%) GitLab
6 1 (1.35%) JIRA
6 1 (1.35%) JMeter
6 1 (1.35%) Locust
6 1 (1.35%) Postman
6 1 (1.35%) Selenium
General
1 37 (50.00%) Finance
2 18 (24.32%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.51%) Legal
5 8 (10.81%) Banking
5 8 (10.81%) Investment Banking
6 6 (8.11%) Law
7 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) Lead
2 20 (27.03%) Developer
3 19 (25.68%) Senior
4 12 (16.22%) Java Developer
5 11 (14.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 11 (14.86%) Java Engineer
6 10 (13.51%) Applications Consultant
6 10 (13.51%) Consultant
6 10 (13.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (13.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (13.51%) Mainframe Consultant
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Developer
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (9.46%) SAP Developer
8 7 (9.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
10 5 (6.76%) Test Leader
11 4 (5.41%) COBOL Consultant
11 4 (5.41%) Java Consultant
11 4 (5.41%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (44.59%) Spring
2 27 (36.49%) REST
3 22 (29.73%) React
4 19 (25.68%) Spring Boot
5 14 (18.92%) .NET
6 11 (14.86%) Node.js
7 10 (13.51%) ISPF
8 8 (10.81%) AngularJS
8 8 (10.81%) RESTful
9 7 (9.46%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (9.46%) SAPUI5
10 6 (8.11%) JDBC
10 6 (8.11%) OAuth
10 6 (8.11%) SOAP
11 4 (5.41%) PyTorch
11 4 (5.41%) TensorFlow
12 3 (4.05%) Terraform
13 1 (1.35%) Gherkin
13 1 (1.35%) PySpark
13 1 (1.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.86%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (14.86%) Legacy Applications
2 10 (13.51%) Mainframe
3 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
4 7 (9.46%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 4 (5.41%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.86%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
2 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (51.35%) Mentoring
2 37 (50.00%) Agile
3 35 (47.30%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (43.24%) CI/CD
5 23 (31.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 22 (29.73%) Technical Leadership
7 19 (25.68%) Microservices
7 19 (25.68%) Test Automation
8 18 (24.32%) Coaching
8 18 (24.32%) TDD
9 17 (22.97%) Software Engineering
10 15 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (20.27%) DevOps
10 15 (20.27%) Scrum
11 14 (18.92%) AI
11 14 (18.92%) Analytics
11 14 (18.92%) Technical Architecture
12 13 (17.57%) Unit Testing
13 12 (16.22%) Collaborative Culture
13 12 (16.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) JavaScript
2 22 (29.73%) SQL
3 14 (18.92%) PL/SQL
4 11 (14.86%) Python
5 10 (13.51%) Bash
5 10 (13.51%) COBOL
5 10 (13.51%) JCL
6 7 (9.46%) ABAP
7 4 (5.41%) C
7 4 (5.41%) C#
7 4 (5.41%) R
8 3 (4.05%) C++
9 1 (1.35%) PHP
9 1 (1.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
1 13 (17.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.76%) Degree
3 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.41%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) GxP
4 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.35%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.35%) Argo
2 1 (1.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (18.92%) Oracle
2 7 (9.46%) SAP
3 6 (8.11%) Broadcom
3 6 (8.11%) iManage
4 4 (5.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow