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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 68 67 71
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.98% 5.30% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.75% 18.36% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28 60 56
10th Percentile £42,502 £25,000 £27,625
25th Percentile £59,125 £41,250 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,539 £65,000 £61,482
Median % change year-on-year +11.60% +5.72% -1.63%
75th Percentile £78,125 £73,750 £76,204
90th Percentile £88,148 - £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £60,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.03% +9.55% -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 406 365 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.79% 28.88% 23.70%
Number of salaries quoted 297 313 442
10th Percentile £39,000 £41,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,900 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £84,964
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +1.85%

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 11 August 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 (10.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.41%) CICS
3 2 (2.94%) Confluence
3 2 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.47%) Appian
4 1 (1.47%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (44.12%) AWS
2 29 (42.65%) Azure
3 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (11.76%) PaaS
3 8 (11.76%) SaaS
4 7 (10.29%) dbt
5 6 (8.82%) GitHub
5 6 (8.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.94%) Datadog
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.47%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.47%) GCP
7 1 (1.47%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) MySQL
1 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.41%) Db2
3 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.47%) Big Data
5 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.47%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.47%) Power BI
5 1 (1.47%) QlikView
5 1 (1.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (22.06%) JUnit
2 14 (20.59%) Maven
2 14 (20.59%) Mockito
3 6 (8.82%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) Git
5 2 (2.94%) JIRA
5 2 (2.94%) JMeter
5 2 (2.94%) Locust
5 2 (2.94%) Selenium
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 35 (51.47%) Finance
2 16 (23.53%) Public Sector
3 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 8 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 8 (11.76%) Legal
5 7 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (8.82%) Law
7 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (36.76%) Lead
2 19 (27.94%) Developer
3 15 (22.06%) Senior
4 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (14.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (14.71%) Java Developer
5 8 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Java Engineer
5 8 (11.76%) Test Leader
6 7 (10.29%) SAP Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (10.29%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Applications Consultant
7 6 (8.82%) Consultant
7 6 (8.82%) Mainframe Consultant
8 4 (5.88%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (5.88%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.41%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.18%) Spring
2 27 (39.71%) REST
3 22 (32.35%) React
4 14 (20.59%) Spring Boot
5 11 (16.18%) Node.js
6 9 (13.24%) .NET
7 8 (11.76%) AngularJS
7 8 (11.76%) RESTful
8 7 (10.29%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (10.29%) SAPUI5
9 6 (8.82%) ISPF
9 6 (8.82%) JDBC
9 6 (8.82%) OAuth
9 6 (8.82%) SOAP
10 3 (4.41%) CSS
11 2 (2.94%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.94%) jQuery
12 1 (1.47%) PyTorch
12 1 (1.47%) TensorFlow
12 1 (1.47%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.29%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (10.29%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (10.29%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (8.82%) Mainframe
4 5 (7.35%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.47%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (16.18%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Unix
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Agile
2 33 (48.53%) Mentoring
3 29 (42.65%) CI/CD
3 29 (42.65%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (33.82%) Test Automation
5 19 (27.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (27.94%) Microservices
5 19 (27.94%) Technical Leadership
6 18 (26.47%) TDD
7 17 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (22.06%) Scrum
8 15 (22.06%) Software Engineering
9 14 (20.59%) Coaching
9 14 (20.59%) Technical Architecture
10 13 (19.12%) DevOps
10 13 (19.12%) Unit Testing
11 12 (17.65%) Containerisation
12 11 (16.18%) AI
12 11 (16.18%) Migration
12 11 (16.18%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 22 (32.35%) JavaScript
1 22 (32.35%) SQL
2 14 (20.59%) PL/SQL
3 11 (16.18%) Python
4 10 (14.71%) Bash
5 7 (10.29%) ABAP
6 6 (8.82%) COBOL
6 6 (8.82%) JCL
7 4 (5.88%) C
7 4 (5.88%) C#
8 3 (4.41%) C++
9 2 (2.94%) PHP
10 1 (1.47%) R
10 1 (1.47%) Scala
10 1 (1.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 12 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (8.82%) QA
3 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.94%) WCAG
5 1 (1.47%) GxP
5 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.88%) Terraform
3 2 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (1.47%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Oracle
2 7 (10.29%) SAP
3 6 (8.82%) iManage
4 3 (4.41%) Broadcom
5 2 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.47%) Databricks
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft