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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 64 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 -22 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 37 58 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.75% 3.49% 5.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.28% 10.80% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 28 41 95
10th Percentile £36,875 £31,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -21.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £65,938 £62,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £74,833 £65,000 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £53,094 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.83% -7.66% -4.17%

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 360 537 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.00% 32.35% 31.54%
Number of salaries quoted 295 268 589
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,250
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 28 February 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 6 (16.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.41%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (54.05%) AWS
2 15 (40.54%) Azure
3 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.11%) Serverless
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.41%) Datadog
4 2 (5.41%) dbt
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
4 2 (5.41%) PaaS
4 2 (5.41%) SaaS
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.70%) Azure AI
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MySQL
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Maven
2 8 (21.62%) JUnit
2 8 (21.62%) Mockito
3 2 (5.41%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.41%) JMeter
3 2 (5.41%) Locust
3 2 (5.41%) Selenium
4 1 (2.70%) Git
4 1 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.70%) JIRA
4 1 (2.70%) MLflow
4 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (37.84%) Finance
2 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Advertising
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Law
6 1 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Developer
2 9 (24.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.62%) Senior
4 7 (18.92%) Senior Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Java Engineer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (16.22%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (13.51%) Lead
7 4 (10.81%) Software Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (8.11%) Maximo Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Azure Developer
9 2 (5.41%) C# Software Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) React
1 9 (24.32%) REST
2 8 (21.62%) Spring
3 4 (10.81%) Spring Boot
4 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.11%) CSS
4 3 (8.11%) HTML
5 2 (5.41%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.41%) jQuery
5 2 (5.41%) Middleware
6 1 (2.70%) .NET
6 1 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.70%) Node.js
6 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.70%) RAML
6 1 (2.70%) RESTful
6 1 (2.70%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.70%) SOAP
6 1 (2.70%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) NHS
4 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Linux
2 2 (5.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (54.05%) Full-Stack Development
2 19 (51.35%) Agile
3 13 (35.14%) Microservices
4 11 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (29.73%) Scrum
5 10 (27.03%) Computer Science
6 9 (24.32%) CI/CD
6 9 (24.32%) TDD
7 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (18.92%) Decision-Making
8 7 (18.92%) DevOps
8 7 (18.92%) SDLC
9 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.22%) SOA
9 6 (16.22%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (16.22%) Test Automation
9 6 (16.22%) Unit Testing
10 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
11 4 (10.81%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 10 (27.03%) JavaScript
3 8 (21.62%) PL/SQL
4 7 (18.92%) TypeScript
5 6 (16.22%) Bash
6 5 (13.51%) Python
6 5 (13.51%) R
7 4 (10.81%) C
8 3 (8.11%) C#
8 3 (8.11%) C++
9 2 (5.41%) PHP
10 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.70%) Ruby
10 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (16.22%) Degree
4 3 (8.11%) IBM Certification
5 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (29.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 2 (5.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) IBM
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.70%) Google
4 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.70%) New Relic
4 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.70%) Splunk
4 1 (2.70%) UiPath