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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 37 59
Rank change year-on-year -22 +22 -24
Permanent jobs citing Java 59 68 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.81% 5.47% 2.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.32% 18.68% 11.96%
Number of salaries quoted 29 60 62
10th Percentile £40,500 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.41% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £88,148 - £81,125
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 385 364 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.82% 29.26% 24.28%
Number of salaries quoted 287 312 519
10th Percentile £38,094 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -
75th Percentile £74,994 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +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 26 July 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 4 (6.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Appian
3 1 (1.69%) CICS
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (11.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) AWS
2 21 (35.59%) Azure
3 8 (13.56%) SaaS
4 7 (11.86%) dbt
4 7 (11.86%) PaaS
5 4 (6.78%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.39%) Datadog
6 2 (3.39%) GitHub
6 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.69%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.69%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) MySQL
2 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.69%) Db2
6 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) JUnit
2 11 (18.64%) Maven
2 11 (18.64%) Mockito
3 4 (6.78%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.39%) Git
4 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.39%) JIRA
4 2 (3.39%) JMeter
4 2 (3.39%) Locust
4 2 (3.39%) Selenium
5 1 (1.69%) GitLab
5 1 (1.69%) Postman
General
1 26 (44.07%) Finance
2 12 (20.34%) Public Sector
3 8 (13.56%) Banking
3 8 (13.56%) Investment Banking
3 8 (13.56%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Legal
5 6 (10.17%) Law
6 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Lead
2 16 (27.12%) Developer
3 12 (20.34%) Senior
4 8 (13.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Java Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Test Leader
5 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
5 7 (11.86%) SAP Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Java Team Leader
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (6.78%) Team Leader
7 3 (5.08%) Lead Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead Java Developer
7 3 (5.08%) QA Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (40.68%) REST
2 22 (37.29%) Spring
3 20 (33.90%) React
4 11 (18.64%) Node.js
4 11 (18.64%) Spring Boot
5 8 (13.56%) AngularJS
5 8 (13.56%) RESTful
6 7 (11.86%) SAP Fiori
6 7 (11.86%) SAPUI5
7 6 (10.17%) JDBC
7 6 (10.17%) OAuth
7 6 (10.17%) SOAP
8 5 (8.47%) .NET
9 3 (5.08%) CSS
10 2 (3.39%) Gherkin
10 2 (3.39%) HTML
10 2 (3.39%) ISPF
10 2 (3.39%) jQuery
11 1 (1.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.08%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Agile
2 29 (49.15%) Mentoring
3 24 (40.68%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (40.68%) Test Automation
4 22 (37.29%) CI/CD
5 17 (28.81%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (28.81%) Microservices
6 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (25.42%) TDD
7 14 (23.73%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (22.03%) Software Engineering
8 13 (22.03%) Unit Testing
9 12 (20.34%) Scrum
10 11 (18.64%) Coaching
10 11 (18.64%) Observability
11 9 (15.25%) Analytics
11 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
11 9 (15.25%) DevOps
11 9 (15.25%) Migration
11 9 (15.25%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) JavaScript
1 19 (32.20%) SQL
2 11 (18.64%) PL/SQL
3 10 (16.95%) Python
4 7 (11.86%) ABAP
4 7 (11.86%) Bash
5 4 (6.78%) C#
6 3 (5.08%) C++
7 2 (3.39%) C
7 2 (3.39%) COBOL
7 2 (3.39%) JCL
7 2 (3.39%) PHP
8 1 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (15.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.08%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.17%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.39%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) GxP
4 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (23.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (25.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) Terraform
3 2 (3.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.69%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Oracle
2 7 (11.86%) SAP
3 6 (10.17%) iManage
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.69%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft