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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 45 54
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 95 61 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.58% 5.12% 3.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.06% 19.49% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 36 53 48
10th Percentile £47,144 £27,500 £25,050
25th Percentile £63,626 £41,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +26.83% -14.58%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%

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 451 313 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.25% 26.26% 28.96%
Number of salaries quoted 301 269 331
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,650 £31,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,620
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,400 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +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 2 October 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 (7.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (6.32%) CICS
3 1 (1.05%) Appian
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (7.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (43.16%) Azure
2 32 (33.68%) AWS
3 18 (18.95%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (16.84%) GitHub
4 16 (16.84%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.32%) PaaS
6 5 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.11%) SaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Serverless
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.05%) dbt
9 1 (1.05%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 7 (7.37%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.32%) Db2
3 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (5.26%) Big Data
4 5 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.26%) Data Mining
4 5 (5.26%) MySQL
4 5 (5.26%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (5.26%) Power BI
4 5 (5.26%) QlikView
4 5 (5.26%) Tableau
5 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.11%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 16 (16.84%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.79%) JUnit
3 14 (14.74%) Maven
3 14 (14.74%) Mockito
4 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.11%) Git
5 1 (1.05%) GitLab
5 1 (1.05%) Postman
General
1 41 (43.16%) Finance
2 21 (22.11%) Public Sector
3 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.79%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.58%) Legal
5 10 (10.53%) Banking
6 6 (6.32%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.32%) Law
7 5 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (38.95%) Senior
2 27 (28.42%) Developer
3 21 (22.11%) Java Engineer
3 21 (22.11%) Lead
4 20 (21.05%) Java Developer
5 17 (17.89%) Senior Developer
5 17 (17.89%) Senior Java Developer
6 16 (16.84%) Applications Consultant
6 16 (16.84%) Consultant
6 16 (16.84%) Mainframe Consultant
7 14 (14.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (12.63%) Senior Java Engineer
9 10 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (10.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (9.47%) Software Engineer
11 8 (8.42%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (7.37%) SAP Developer
12 7 (7.37%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (6.32%) COBOL Consultant
13 6 (6.32%) Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (41.05%) Spring
2 25 (26.32%) REST
2 25 (26.32%) Spring Boot
3 21 (22.11%) .NET
4 20 (21.05%) React
5 16 (16.84%) ISPF
6 11 (11.58%) Node.js
7 8 (8.42%) RESTful
8 7 (7.37%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (7.37%) SAPUI5
9 6 (6.32%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.32%) JDBC
9 6 (6.32%) OAuth
9 6 (6.32%) SOAP
10 5 (5.26%) PyTorch
10 5 (5.26%) TensorFlow
11 3 (3.16%) Kafka
12 2 (2.11%) PySpark
12 2 (2.11%) Terraform
13 1 (1.05%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.89%) Enterprise Software
1 17 (17.89%) Legacy Applications
2 16 (16.84%) Mainframe
3 11 (11.58%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.37%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (5.26%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 5 (5.26%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.58%) Linux
2 1 (1.05%) Unix
2 1 (1.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (43.16%) Agile
2 40 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (41.05%) Mentoring
4 37 (38.95%) CI/CD
5 27 (28.42%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (28.42%) Technical Leadership
6 25 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 20 (21.05%) Coaching
8 19 (20.00%) DevOps
8 19 (20.00%) Microservices
9 18 (18.95%) Collaborative Culture
9 18 (18.95%) TDD
10 16 (16.84%) Analytics
10 16 (16.84%) Batch Processing
10 16 (16.84%) Re-Platforming
11 15 (15.79%) AI
11 15 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (15.79%) Scrum
12 14 (14.74%) Migration
12 14 (14.74%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.21%) JavaScript
2 22 (23.16%) SQL
3 16 (16.84%) COBOL
3 16 (16.84%) JCL
4 14 (14.74%) PL/SQL
5 10 (10.53%) Bash
6 8 (8.42%) Python
7 7 (7.37%) ABAP
8 5 (5.26%) R
9 4 (4.21%) C
9 4 (4.21%) C#
10 3 (3.16%) C++
11 1 (1.05%) Scala
11 1 (1.05%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.26%) Degree
3 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) GxP
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (15.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.05%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (14.74%) Oracle
2 10 (10.53%) Broadcom
3 7 (7.37%) SAP
4 6 (6.32%) iManage
5 5 (5.26%) Databricks