Java Developer Job Trends in the Midlands

Java Developer
England > Midlands

The median Java Developer salary in the Midlands is £58,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 233 182
Rank change year-on-year +26 -51 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 20 10 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.14% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.15% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 29
10th Percentile £35,300 - £46,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £74,000 - £73,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

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 6,991 6,525 4,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.50% 94.25% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,225 3,118 3,587
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,603 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,838 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies 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 19 December 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 19 December 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 +45 15 £61,250 +2.08% 12
East Midlands -12 5 £58,000 -3.33% 5
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (90.00%) Spring
3 14 (70.00%) Agile
4 13 (65.00%) Spring Boot
5 11 (55.00%) AWS
5 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
6 10 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (50.00%) Microservices
6 10 (50.00%) React
7 9 (45.00%) Clean Code
8 8 (40.00%) Docker
8 8 (40.00%) JUnit
8 8 (40.00%) TDD
9 7 (35.00%) Azure
9 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
9 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
9 7 (35.00%) REST
10 6 (30.00%) Maven
10 6 (30.00%) Mockito
10 6 (30.00%) Oracle
10 6 (30.00%) RESTful
10 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
10 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
10 6 (30.00%) SQL
10 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
10 6 (30.00%) User Experience
11 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (25.00%) Git
11 5 (25.00%) Scrum
12 4 (20.00%) Code Quality

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) JBoss
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 7 (35.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) JUnit
2 6 (30.00%) Maven
2 6 (30.00%) Mockito
3 5 (25.00%) Git
4 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (10.00%) Babel
5 2 (10.00%) Gradle
5 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (90.00%) Spring
2 13 (65.00%) Spring Boot
3 10 (50.00%) React
4 7 (35.00%) REST
5 6 (30.00%) RESTful
6 4 (20.00%) CSS
6 4 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 4 (20.00%) HTML
7 3 (15.00%) JPA
7 3 (15.00%) Redux
7 3 (15.00%) SOAP
7 3 (15.00%) Spring MVC
8 2 (10.00%) CSS3
8 2 (10.00%) HTML5
8 2 (10.00%) Spring Cloud
9 1 (5.00%) J2EE
9 1 (5.00%) JSP
9 1 (5.00%) Node.js
9 1 (5.00%) OAuth
9 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (50.00%) Microservices
3 9 (45.00%) Clean Code
4 8 (40.00%) TDD
5 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (30.00%) User Experience
7 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (25.00%) Scrum
8 4 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (20.00%) DevOps
8 4 (20.00%) Pair Programming
8 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
9 3 (15.00%) API Development
9 3 (15.00%) Front End Development
9 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
9 3 (15.00%) MVC
9 3 (15.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 2 (10.00%) Python
5 2 (10.00%) Scala
5 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle