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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 59 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -41
Permanent jobs citing Java 51 74 54
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.62% 3.37% 4.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.74% 11.26% 12.00%
Number of salaries quoted 45 45 41
10th Percentile £31,500 £24,600 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £31,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £74,905 £82,978 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £53,688 £57,500
% change year-on-year +16.41% -6.63% -4.17%

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 346 657 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 24.56% 29.93% 37.56%
Number of salaries quoted 297 298 381
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,893 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

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 20 November 2025.

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 11 (21.57%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.92%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.96%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Maximo
2 1 (1.96%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 31 (60.78%) AWS
2 21 (41.18%) Azure
3 14 (27.45%) Amazon S3
4 12 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (21.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (21.57%) AWS KMS
6 9 (17.65%) Amazon ELB
6 9 (17.65%) Amazon Glacier
6 9 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (13.73%) Azure AI
8 6 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (11.76%) Serverless
9 5 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (9.80%) GCP
10 3 (5.88%) SaaS
11 2 (3.92%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (3.92%) GitHub
11 2 (3.92%) Route 53
12 1 (1.96%) Datadog
12 1 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.65%) DNS
1 9 (17.65%) Firewall
1 9 (17.65%) FTP
1 9 (17.65%) HTTP
1 9 (17.65%) SMTP
1 9 (17.65%) SSH
2 1 (1.96%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.84%) MySQL
3 4 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.96%) Big Data
6 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.96%) HBase
6 1 (1.96%) Impala
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata
6 1 (1.96%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.96%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.96%) Power BI
6 1 (1.96%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Git
2 11 (21.57%) Jenkins
2 11 (21.57%) JIRA
3 9 (17.65%) Vagrant
4 7 (13.73%) Maven
5 6 (11.76%) JUnit
5 6 (11.76%) Mockito
6 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.92%) DbUnit
6 2 (3.92%) GitLab
6 2 (3.92%) jMock
6 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.96%) JMeter
7 1 (1.96%) Locust
7 1 (1.96%) Selenium
General
1 21 (41.18%) Public Sector
2 11 (21.57%) Finance
3 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Retail
5 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Back Office
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.96%) Advertising
6 1 (1.96%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (43.14%) Developer
2 12 (23.53%) Java Developer
3 9 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Lead
5 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Senior
6 4 (7.84%) Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Automation Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Applications Support
7 3 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Graduate
7 3 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) Spring
2 10 (19.61%) React
3 8 (15.69%) Spring Boot
4 6 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 6 (11.76%) REST
5 5 (9.80%) .NET
6 4 (7.84%) CSS
6 4 (7.84%) Hibernate
6 4 (7.84%) RESTful
7 3 (5.88%) jQuery
7 3 (5.88%) Web Services
8 2 (3.92%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.92%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.92%) JPA
8 2 (3.92%) Middleware
8 2 (3.92%) PowerMock
8 2 (3.92%) SOAP
8 2 (3.92%) Spring Batch
8 2 (3.92%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.92%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Life Science
5 1 (1.96%) NHS
5 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Linux
2 9 (17.65%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (17.65%) VMS
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Agile
2 16 (31.37%) DevOps
3 12 (23.53%) AI
3 12 (23.53%) Microservices
4 11 (21.57%) TDD
5 10 (19.61%) CI/CD
5 10 (19.61%) Cloud Security
5 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (19.61%) Scrum
6 9 (17.65%) Change Management
6 9 (17.65%) Configuration Management
6 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 9 (17.65%) Patch Management
7 7 (13.73%) Mentoring
8 6 (11.76%) Coaching
8 6 (11.76%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
9 5 (9.80%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (47.06%) Python
2 19 (37.25%) SQL
3 11 (21.57%) JavaScript
4 9 (17.65%) Groovy
4 9 (17.65%) Perl
4 9 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 8 (15.69%) R
5 8 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.76%) C#
6 6 (11.76%) PL/SQL
7 4 (7.84%) Bash
8 3 (5.88%) C++
8 3 (5.88%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.88%) PHP
8 3 (5.88%) Scala
9 1 (1.96%) C
9 1 (1.96%) PROC SQL
9 1 (1.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 19 (37.25%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.92%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) CBAP
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) PCI DSS
1 3 (5.88%) QA
1 3 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.96%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (35.29%) Docker
2 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.96%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) Grafana
2 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 10 (19.61%) Terraform
3 9 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.96%) Kibana
4 1 (1.96%) logstash
4 1 (1.96%) Oozie
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) ServiceNow
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) Oracle
4 4 (7.84%) UiPath
5 3 (5.88%) Google
6 2 (3.92%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.92%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (3.92%) IBM
6 2 (3.92%) Splunk
7 1 (1.96%) Databricks
7 1 (1.96%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.96%) Informatica
7 1 (1.96%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.96%) New Relic
7 1 (1.96%) SAP