Java Developer Jobs in the Midlands

Java Developer
England > Midlands

The median Java Developer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 305 240
Rank change year-on-year +96 -65 -83
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 41 32 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.61% 0.23% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.24% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 37 27 41
10th Percentile £29,750 £24,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £74,250 £61,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,197 13,136 7,469
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 94.28% 89.70%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 9,184 4,512
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the Midlands

Java Developer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +82 31 £64,000 +42.22% 34
East Midlands +42 10 £57,750 +35.88% 18
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 30 June 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (70.73%) Agile
3 24 (58.54%) AWS
3 24 (58.54%) Microservices
4 23 (56.10%) Docker
5 22 (53.66%) JPA
5 22 (53.66%) Linux
6 21 (51.22%) SQL
7 20 (48.78%) JUnit
7 20 (48.78%) Spring
8 19 (46.34%) Mockito
9 18 (43.90%) Hibernate
10 17 (41.46%) AngularJS
10 17 (41.46%) Spring Boot
11 16 (39.02%) React
11 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
11 16 (39.02%) Security Cleared
11 16 (39.02%) TDD
12 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
13 11 (26.83%) Scrum
13 11 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (26.83%) Git
13 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
13 11 (26.83%) BDD
13 11 (26.83%) NoSQL
13 11 (26.83%) Azure
13 11 (26.83%) Jenkins
13 11 (26.83%) REST
14 10 (24.39%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (24.39%) RESTful

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (9.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (2.44%) JBoss
3 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 24 (58.54%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 10 (24.39%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
4 8 (19.51%) SaaS
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (14.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (14.63%) AWS KMS
6 6 (14.63%) Route 53
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.88%) Serverless
8 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) NoSQL
1 11 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (17.07%) DynamoDB
4 3 (7.32%) RDBMS
4 3 (7.32%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) DB2
5 1 (2.44%) Hazelcast
5 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (48.78%) JUnit
2 19 (46.34%) Mockito
3 11 (26.83%) Git
3 11 (26.83%) Jenkins
4 10 (24.39%) Maven
5 8 (19.51%) Eclipse
5 8 (19.51%) IntelliJ
5 8 (19.51%) Jasmine
5 8 (19.51%) Karma Test Runner
5 8 (19.51%) Protractor
6 7 (17.07%) SonarQube
7 6 (14.63%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (14.63%) DbUnit
7 6 (14.63%) jMock
8 5 (12.20%) JIRA
9 2 (4.88%) JMeter
10 1 (2.44%) Babel
10 1 (2.44%) GitLab
10 1 (2.44%) Gradle
10 1 (2.44%) webpack
General
1 12 (29.27%) Public Sector
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Law
3 5 (12.20%) Police
4 3 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Advertising
5 1 (2.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.44%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (53.66%) JPA
2 20 (48.78%) Spring
3 18 (43.90%) Hibernate
4 17 (41.46%) AngularJS
4 17 (41.46%) Spring Boot
5 16 (39.02%) React
6 11 (26.83%) REST
7 10 (24.39%) ActiveMQ
7 10 (24.39%) RESTful
7 10 (24.39%) Web Services
8 9 (21.95%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (21.95%) SOAP
9 7 (17.07%) Bootstrap
10 6 (14.63%) PowerMock
10 6 (14.63%) Spring Batch
10 6 (14.63%) Spring Integration
11 5 (12.20%) GWT
11 5 (12.20%) J2EE
11 5 (12.20%) Middleware
11 5 (12.20%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Algorithms
2 6 (14.63%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
4 4 (9.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) IoT
5 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Life Science
5 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (53.66%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Rocky
3 3 (7.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) Agile
2 24 (58.54%) Microservices
3 16 (39.02%) Containerisation
3 16 (39.02%) TDD
4 11 (26.83%) BDD
4 11 (26.83%) Scrum
5 10 (24.39%) Full-Stack Development
5 10 (24.39%) Unit Testing
6 8 (19.51%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (19.51%) SDLC
7 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
7 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Front End Development
8 6 (14.63%) Kanban
8 6 (14.63%) Open Source
9 5 (12.20%) DevOps
9 5 (12.20%) Requirements Analysis
10 4 (9.76%) Fintech
10 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
11 3 (7.32%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (51.22%) SQL
3 5 (12.20%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.76%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.32%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.88%) Bash
6 2 (4.88%) Python
7 1 (2.44%) C#
7 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (39.02%) Security Cleared
2 11 (26.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) Degree
3 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (56.10%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.32%) Grafana
2 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) IBM
2 6 (14.63%) Atlassian
3 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle
5 3 (7.32%) Splunk
6 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.88%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.44%) Sybase