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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 47
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 42 47 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.67% 3.52% 4.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.08% 12.34% 15.41%
Number of salaries quoted 33 40 107
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £72,433
90th Percentile - £65,000 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,100 £53,688 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -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 379 381 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.04% 28.50% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 308 283 694
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £32,800
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%

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 April 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 5 (11.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 18 (42.86%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 8 (19.05%) dbt
3 8 (19.05%) PaaS
3 8 (19.05%) SaaS
4 3 (7.14%) Datadog
5 2 (4.76%) GCP
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
1 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Maven
2 6 (14.29%) JUnit
2 6 (14.29%) Mockito
3 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 3 (7.14%) JMeter
3 3 (7.14%) Locust
4 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 2 (4.76%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) Git
5 1 (2.38%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.38%) MLflow
5 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Advertising
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.38%) Law
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Developer
1 12 (28.57%) Lead
2 9 (21.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Java Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Test Leader
4 7 (16.67%) Senior
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (11.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
8 3 (7.14%) C# Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Graduate
8 3 (7.14%) Graduate Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Graduate Software Developer
8 3 (7.14%) PHP Developer
8 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 3 (7.14%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) REST
2 7 (16.67%) React
3 6 (14.29%) Spring
4 4 (9.52%) CSS
4 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 3 (7.14%) Gherkin
5 3 (7.14%) HTML
5 3 (7.14%) jQuery
6 2 (4.76%) Middleware
7 1 (2.38%) .NET
7 1 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (2.38%) Node.js
7 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.38%) RAML
7 1 (2.38%) RESTful
7 1 (2.38%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.38%) SOAP
7 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
7 1 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Management Information System
1 5 (11.90%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Agile
2 18 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 14 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (26.19%) Computer Science
6 9 (21.43%) Microservices
7 8 (19.05%) BDD
7 8 (19.05%) Scrum
8 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 7 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (16.67%) DevOps
8 7 (16.67%) Observability
9 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 6 (14.29%) SDLC
9 6 (14.29%) TDD
10 5 (11.90%) Performance Testing
10 5 (11.90%) SOA
10 5 (11.90%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) Python
2 10 (23.81%) SQL
3 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 5 (11.90%) Bash
6 4 (9.52%) C
6 4 (9.52%) C#
6 4 (9.52%) C++
6 4 (9.52%) R
7 3 (7.14%) PHP
7 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.38%) Ruby
8 1 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (16.67%) Degree
2 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) IBM Certification
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.43%) QA
2 4 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 3 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.52%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) IBM
3 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.38%) New Relic
4 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.38%) Splunk