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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 39 50
Rank change year-on-year -20 +11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 81 62 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.28% 5.12% 3.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.88% 18.84% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 29 55 52
10th Percentile £46,674 £26,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £60,500 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +14.04% -6.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £74,688
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -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 429 329 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.07% 27.19% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 296 282 361
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,300 £31,250
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 £72,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,450 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,892
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.20% +1.65%

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 10 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 (8.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (4.94%) CICS
3 1 (1.23%) Appian
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (8.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (46.91%) Azure
2 32 (39.51%) AWS
3 14 (17.28%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (14.81%) GitHub
4 12 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (8.64%) PaaS
6 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.94%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (3.70%) SaaS
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.47%) dbt
9 2 (2.47%) Serverless
10 1 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.23%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.41%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.17%) Big Data
3 5 (6.17%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.17%) Data Mining
3 5 (6.17%) MySQL
3 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.17%) Oracle BI EE
3 5 (6.17%) Power BI
3 5 (6.17%) QlikView
3 5 (6.17%) Tableau
4 4 (4.94%) Db2
5 3 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.47%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (18.52%) JUnit
2 14 (17.28%) Maven
2 14 (17.28%) Mockito
3 12 (14.81%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.47%) Git
6 1 (1.23%) GitLab
6 1 (1.23%) JIRA
6 1 (1.23%) JMeter
6 1 (1.23%) Locust
6 1 (1.23%) Postman
6 1 (1.23%) Selenium
General
1 39 (48.15%) Finance
2 19 (23.46%) Public Sector
3 14 (17.28%) Social Skills
4 13 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (13.58%) Legal
6 9 (11.11%) Banking
7 8 (9.88%) Investment Banking
8 6 (7.41%) Law
9 5 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (29.63%) Senior
2 23 (28.40%) Developer
2 23 (28.40%) Lead
3 15 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 13 (16.05%) Java Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Applications Consultant
5 12 (14.81%) Consultant
5 12 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Mainframe Consultant
5 12 (14.81%) Senior Developer
5 12 (14.81%) Senior Java Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (8.64%) SAP Developer
7 7 (8.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Software Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Senior Java Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Java Consultant
10 4 (4.94%) Java Team Leader
10 4 (4.94%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (44.44%) Spring
2 27 (33.33%) REST
3 22 (27.16%) React
3 22 (27.16%) Spring Boot
4 17 (20.99%) .NET
5 12 (14.81%) ISPF
6 11 (13.58%) Node.js
7 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.88%) RESTful
8 7 (8.64%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (8.64%) SAPUI5
9 6 (7.41%) JDBC
9 6 (7.41%) OAuth
9 6 (7.41%) SOAP
10 5 (6.17%) PyTorch
10 5 (6.17%) TensorFlow
11 3 (3.70%) Terraform
12 2 (2.47%) Kafka
12 2 (2.47%) PySpark
13 1 (1.23%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.05%) Enterprise Software
1 13 (16.05%) Legacy Applications
2 12 (14.81%) Mainframe
3 9 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 7 (8.64%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (6.17%) Onboarding
5 5 (6.17%) Public Cloud
5 5 (6.17%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.58%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Unix
2 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.62%) Mentoring
2 40 (49.38%) Agile
3 38 (46.91%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (43.21%) CI/CD
5 25 (30.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 25 (30.86%) Technical Leadership
6 20 (24.69%) Coaching
7 19 (23.46%) Microservices
8 18 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 18 (22.22%) TDD
9 17 (20.99%) DevOps
9 17 (20.99%) Test Automation
10 16 (19.75%) Analytics
11 15 (18.52%) AI
11 15 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (18.52%) Scrum
12 14 (17.28%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (17.28%) Technical Architecture
13 13 (16.05%) Unit Testing
14 12 (14.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.63%) JavaScript
2 23 (28.40%) SQL
3 14 (17.28%) PL/SQL
4 12 (14.81%) COBOL
4 12 (14.81%) JCL
5 10 (12.35%) Bash
5 10 (12.35%) Python
6 7 (8.64%) ABAP
7 5 (6.17%) C#
7 5 (6.17%) R
8 4 (4.94%) C
8 4 (4.94%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
9 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.94%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) GxP
4 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (19.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.99%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.23%) Argo
2 1 (1.23%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (17.28%) Oracle
2 8 (9.88%) Broadcom
3 7 (8.64%) SAP
4 6 (7.41%) iManage
5 5 (6.17%) Databricks
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow