Java Job Trends in Coventry

Java
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 35 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 3 4 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Coventry 1.61% 2.05% 2.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.54% 6.15% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £45,500 £41,950
25th Percentile £67,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% +2.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,438 £57,500
90th Percentile - £67,375 £62,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.35% -

All Programming Languages
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 26 65 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 13.98% 33.33% 23.78%
Number of salaries quoted 9 43 58
10th Percentile £43,300 - £37,350
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £40,320
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £59,625 £59,688
90th Percentile £74,750 £70,000 £64,475
West Midlands median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Java job vacancy trend in Coventry

Java
Salary Trend in Coventry

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) React
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Redux
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) Dart
2 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Solace