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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 44 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 101 59 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.77% 5.00% 3.51%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.70% 19.28% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 39 53 48
10th Percentile £47,358 £41,250 £25,050
25th Percentile £62,813 £47,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +30.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,750 £68,125
90th Percentile £88,148 - £79,125
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -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 445 306 658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 12.22% 25.93% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 287 267 317
10th Percentile £39,570 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £52,000 £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 £73,375 £70,500
90th Percentile £88,148 £77,500 £79,760
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 11 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 (6.93%) CICS
1 7 (6.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 7 (6.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (42.57%) Azure
2 36 (35.64%) AWS
3 20 (19.80%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (17.82%) GitHub
4 18 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (4.95%) PaaS
5 5 (4.95%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.98%) Serverless
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.99%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.99%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) Relational Database
2 7 (6.93%) Db2
2 7 (6.93%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.94%) NoSQL
3 6 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.95%) Big Data
4 5 (4.95%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.95%) Data Mining
4 5 (4.95%) MySQL
4 5 (4.95%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (4.95%) Power BI
4 5 (4.95%) QlikView
4 5 (4.95%) Tableau
5 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.98%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (17.82%) Jenkins
2 15 (14.85%) JUnit
3 14 (13.86%) Maven
3 14 (13.86%) Mockito
4 2 (1.98%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.98%) Git
4 2 (1.98%) Selenium
5 1 (0.99%) GitLab
5 1 (0.99%) Postman
General
1 43 (42.57%) Finance
2 23 (22.77%) Public Sector
3 17 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
5 11 (10.89%) Legal
6 10 (9.90%) Banking
7 6 (5.94%) Law
8 5 (4.95%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (42.57%) Senior
2 28 (27.72%) Developer
3 21 (20.79%) Java Developer
3 21 (20.79%) Java Engineer
4 20 (19.80%) Lead
5 18 (17.82%) Applications Consultant
5 18 (17.82%) Consultant
5 18 (17.82%) Mainframe Consultant
5 18 (17.82%) Senior Developer
5 18 (17.82%) Senior Java Developer
6 13 (12.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (12.87%) Senior Java Engineer
7 12 (11.88%) Software Engineer
8 10 (9.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (9.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (7.92%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) COBOL Consultant
10 7 (6.93%) Java Consultant
10 7 (6.93%) SAP Developer
10 7 (6.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (39.60%) Spring
2 26 (25.74%) Spring Boot
3 24 (23.76%) REST
4 22 (21.78%) .NET
5 19 (18.81%) React
6 18 (17.82%) ISPF
7 11 (10.89%) Node.js
8 8 (7.92%) RESTful
9 7 (6.93%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (6.93%) SAPUI5
10 6 (5.94%) JDBC
10 6 (5.94%) OAuth
10 6 (5.94%) SOAP
11 5 (4.95%) AngularJS
11 5 (4.95%) PyTorch
11 5 (4.95%) TensorFlow
12 3 (2.97%) Kafka
12 3 (2.97%) Terraform
13 2 (1.98%) PySpark
14 1 (0.99%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.81%) Enterprise Software
1 19 (18.81%) Legacy Applications
2 18 (17.82%) Mainframe
3 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
4 7 (6.93%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.95%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.95%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
2 1 (0.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (41.58%) Agile
1 42 (41.58%) CI/CD
2 41 (40.59%) Mentoring
3 40 (39.60%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (28.71%) Technical Leadership
5 28 (27.72%) Software Engineering
6 26 (25.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (22.77%) Coaching
8 22 (21.78%) DevOps
9 20 (19.80%) Collaborative Culture
9 20 (19.80%) Microservices
10 18 (17.82%) Batch Processing
10 18 (17.82%) Re-Platforming
10 18 (17.82%) TDD
11 17 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (16.83%) Scrum
12 16 (15.84%) Analytics
13 15 (14.85%) AI
13 15 (14.85%) Migration
14 14 (13.86%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.77%) JavaScript
2 22 (21.78%) SQL
3 18 (17.82%) COBOL
3 18 (17.82%) JCL
4 14 (13.86%) PL/SQL
5 10 (9.90%) Bash
6 7 (6.93%) ABAP
6 7 (6.93%) Python
7 5 (4.95%) R
8 4 (3.96%) C
9 3 (2.97%) C#
9 3 (2.97%) C++
10 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (13.86%) SC Cleared
1 14 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.95%) Degree
3 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.93%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.96%) QA
4 1 (0.99%) GxP
4 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.99%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (15.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (16.83%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.99%) Argo
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Oracle
2 11 (10.89%) Broadcom
3 7 (6.93%) SAP
4 6 (5.94%) iManage
5 5 (4.95%) Databricks
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.99%) OutSystems
6 1 (0.99%) Red Hat