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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 63 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 47 69 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.08% 3.32% 4.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.47% 10.97% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 41 41 45
10th Percentile £38,750 £25,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £52,000 £31,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £40,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -30.43% -8.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -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 349 629 427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 22.90% 30.28% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 300 286 362
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £37,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,813 £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 £78,988 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.11%

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 5 December 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 9 (19.15%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.26%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Maximo
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) AWS
2 20 (42.55%) Azure
3 12 (25.53%) Amazon S3
4 10 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (19.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (19.15%) AWS KMS
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon ELB
6 8 (17.02%) Amazon Glacier
6 8 (17.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (14.89%) Azure AI
8 6 (12.77%) GCP
9 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (8.51%) Serverless
10 3 (6.38%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (6.38%) SaaS
11 2 (4.26%) GitHub
12 1 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.13%) Datadog
12 1 (2.13%) PaaS
12 1 (2.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.02%) DNS
1 8 (17.02%) Firewall
1 8 (17.02%) FTP
1 8 (17.02%) HTTP
1 8 (17.02%) SMTP
1 8 (17.02%) SSH
2 2 (4.26%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.28%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.38%) MySQL
3 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.13%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.13%) Big Data
5 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.13%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.13%) HBase
5 1 (2.13%) Impala
5 1 (2.13%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.13%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (2.13%) QlikView
5 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.13%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.13%) SQLite
5 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (23.40%) Git
2 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
3 9 (19.15%) JIRA
4 8 (17.02%) Vagrant
5 6 (12.77%) Maven
6 5 (10.64%) JUnit
6 5 (10.64%) Mockito
7 2 (4.26%) GitLab
8 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 1 (2.13%) DbUnit
8 1 (2.13%) JMeter
8 1 (2.13%) jMock
8 1 (2.13%) Locust
8 1 (2.13%) MLflow
8 1 (2.13%) Selenium
8 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (36.17%) Public Sector
2 11 (23.40%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Back Office
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Advertising
6 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (42.55%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Java Developer
3 8 (17.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Automation Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Java Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Maximo Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Junior
8 2 (4.26%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Spring
2 9 (19.15%) React
3 6 (12.77%) REST
4 5 (10.64%) AngularJS
4 5 (10.64%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.38%) .NET
5 3 (6.38%) CSS
5 3 (6.38%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (4.26%) jQuery
6 2 (4.26%) Middleware
6 2 (4.26%) RESTful
6 2 (4.26%) SOAP
6 2 (4.26%) Web Services
7 1 (2.13%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.13%) JPA
7 1 (2.13%) Kafka
7 1 (2.13%) PowerMock
7 1 (2.13%) Spring Batch
7 1 (2.13%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) AI Agents
2 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.26%) NHS
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.13%) IoT
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Amazon Linux
2 8 (17.02%) VMS
3 3 (6.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (40.43%) Agile
2 16 (34.04%) DevOps
3 12 (25.53%) AI
4 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (19.15%) Cloud Security
5 9 (19.15%) Microservices
5 9 (19.15%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (19.15%) TDD
6 8 (17.02%) Change Management
6 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.02%) Configuration Management
6 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
6 8 (17.02%) Patch Management
6 8 (17.02%) Scrum
7 7 (14.89%) Computer Science
7 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.64%) Coaching
8 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning
8 5 (10.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Python
2 15 (31.91%) SQL
3 12 (25.53%) JavaScript
4 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
5 8 (17.02%) Groovy
5 8 (17.02%) Perl
5 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
5 8 (17.02%) R
6 6 (12.77%) C#
7 5 (10.64%) PL/SQL
8 4 (8.51%) Bash
9 3 (6.38%) C++
9 3 (6.38%) Kotlin
9 3 (6.38%) Scala
10 2 (4.26%) PHP
11 1 (2.13%) C
11 1 (2.13%) PROC SQL
11 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (40.43%) Security Cleared
2 17 (36.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (12.77%) Degree
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.38%) IBM Certification
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.13%) CBAP
6 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (31.91%) Docker
2 8 (17.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Grafana
2 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 9 (19.15%) Terraform
3 8 (17.02%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.13%) Kibana
4 1 (2.13%) logstash
4 1 (2.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) ServiceNow
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.64%) Oracle
4 4 (8.51%) UiPath
5 3 (6.38%) Google
5 3 (6.38%) IBM
6 2 (4.26%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.13%) Informatica
7 1 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.13%) New Relic
7 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) Splunk