Java Jobs in Birmingham

Java
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 53 38
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 -25
Permanent jobs citing Java 64 108 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.89% 3.50% 6.28%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.73% 13.01% 17.25%
Number of salaries quoted 54 95 85
10th Percentile £25,750 £24,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £73,438 £75,772 £82,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +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 361 830 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.56% 26.87% 36.43%
Number of salaries quoted 281 711 509
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,300
25th Percentile £44,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,964 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Java in Birmingham

Java
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Birmingham

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (18.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.56%) ColdFusion
2 1 (1.56%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) AWS
2 24 (37.50%) Azure
3 15 (23.44%) Amazon EC2
3 15 (23.44%) Amazon S3
4 14 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (21.88%) AWS KMS
5 10 (15.63%) Amazon ECS
5 10 (15.63%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (15.63%) Amazon Glacier
5 10 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (15.63%) Serverless
5 10 (15.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (6.25%) GitHub
6 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.25%) Route 53
6 4 (6.25%) SaaS
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) Firewall
2 7 (10.94%) DNS
2 7 (10.94%) FTP
2 7 (10.94%) HTTP
2 7 (10.94%) SMTP
2 7 (10.94%) SSH
3 3 (4.69%) SSL
4 1 (1.56%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.44%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (14.06%) SQL Server
3 8 (12.50%) MySQL
4 7 (10.94%) DB2
5 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (7.81%) DynamoDB
6 5 (7.81%) NoSQL
6 5 (7.81%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.25%) MaxDB
7 4 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (6.25%) Power BI
7 4 (6.25%) SAP HANA
8 3 (4.69%) Big Data
8 3 (4.69%) Hazelcast
8 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.56%) QlikView
9 1 (1.56%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Git
1 15 (23.44%) Jenkins
2 12 (18.75%) JIRA
3 10 (15.63%) Vagrant
4 7 (10.94%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (10.94%) JUnit
4 7 (10.94%) Mockito
5 6 (9.38%) Maven
6 4 (6.25%) DbUnit
6 4 (6.25%) jMock
6 4 (6.25%) SonarQube
7 3 (4.69%) Eclipse
7 3 (4.69%) GitLab
7 3 (4.69%) IntelliJ
7 3 (4.69%) Jasmine
7 3 (4.69%) Karma Test Runner
7 3 (4.69%) Protractor
8 1 (1.56%) Appium
8 1 (1.56%) Selenium
8 1 (1.56%) Subversion
General
1 15 (23.44%) Public Sector
2 12 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Finance
4 7 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Retail
5 6 (9.38%) Law
6 5 (7.81%) Police
7 3 (4.69%) Advertising
7 3 (4.69%) Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.69%) Marketing
8 2 (3.13%) Back Office
9 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Games
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (42.19%) Developer
2 18 (28.13%) Java Developer
3 10 (15.63%) Graduate
3 10 (15.63%) Graduate Developer
4 8 (12.50%) Lead
5 7 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Lead Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Applications Support
6 6 (9.38%) Applications Support Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) IT Graduate
6 6 (9.38%) Lead Java Developer
6 6 (9.38%) Software Applications Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Software Support Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Support Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) SAP Basis Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) SAP Basis Support
8 4 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
8 4 (6.25%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) .NET
2 12 (18.75%) AngularJS
2 12 (18.75%) JPA
3 11 (17.19%) React
3 11 (17.19%) Spring
4 10 (15.63%) Hibernate
5 9 (14.06%) Web Services
6 8 (12.50%) Spring Boot
7 7 (10.94%) CSS
7 7 (10.94%) jQuery
8 6 (9.38%) ASP.NET
8 6 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (9.38%) RESTful
8 6 (9.38%) SOAP
9 5 (7.81%) ActiveMQ
9 5 (7.81%) GWT
9 5 (7.81%) J2EE
9 5 (7.81%) Middleware
9 5 (7.81%) REST
9 5 (7.81%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) IoT
4 2 (3.13%) Life Science
4 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.13%) Replication
4 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.56%) Clustering
5 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.56%) NHS
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (37.50%) Linux
2 10 (15.63%) VMS
3 8 (12.50%) Unix
3 8 (12.50%) Windows
4 7 (10.94%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (7.81%) Rocky
6 4 (6.25%) AIX
7 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.56%) CentOS
8 1 (1.56%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Agile
2 17 (26.56%) DevOps
3 16 (25.00%) Microservices
4 13 (20.31%) Computer Science
4 13 (20.31%) Configuration Management
5 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (17.19%) TDD
7 10 (15.63%) Cloud Security
7 10 (15.63%) Patch Management
7 10 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (14.06%) Analytics
8 9 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (14.06%) Change Management
9 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 8 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 8 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 8 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 7 (10.94%) Data Analysis
10 7 (10.94%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.00%) SQL
2 24 (37.50%) Python
3 10 (15.63%) C#
3 10 (15.63%) Groovy
3 10 (15.63%) Perl
4 9 (14.06%) C++
5 7 (10.94%) PHP
5 7 (10.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (6.25%) ABAP
6 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.25%) PL/SQL
6 4 (6.25%) R
7 3 (4.69%) Ruby
7 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.56%) Bash
8 1 (1.56%) C
8 1 (1.56%) PROC SQL
8 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.44%) Degree
3 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) PCI DSS
1 7 (10.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (3.13%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (32.81%) Docker
2 10 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (4.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (20.31%) Terraform
2 8 (12.50%) Grafana
2 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.69%) Ansible
3 3 (4.69%) Nagios
3 3 (4.69%) Nessus
3 3 (4.69%) Proxmox
4 1 (1.56%) Kibana
4 1 (1.56%) logstash
4 1 (1.56%) Oozie
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.38%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.81%) Oracle
4 5 (7.81%) SAP
5 4 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 4 (6.25%) IBM
6 3 (4.69%) Juniper
6 3 (4.69%) Sybase
7 1 (1.56%) Databricks
7 1 (1.56%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.56%) Informatica
7 1 (1.56%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.56%) Splunk
7 1 (1.56%) UiPath