Java Developer Job Trends in the Midlands

Java Developer
England > Midlands

The median Java Developer salary in the Midlands is £63,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 199 271 195
Rank change year-on-year +72 -76 -41
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 36 15 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.64% 0.15% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.16% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 32 11 33
10th Percentile £29,000 - £47,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £24,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.56% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £87,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +6.25% -

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 5,177 9,550 5,266
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 94.82% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 5,390 3,994
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,119 £26,724
25th Percentile £31,750 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.63% +4.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,375 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +66 28 £66,250 +176.04% 3
East Midlands +34 8 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 36 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (72.22%) Spring
3 24 (66.67%) Agile
3 24 (66.67%) Spring Boot
4 20 (55.56%) Microservices
5 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
5 19 (52.78%) AWS
6 18 (50.00%) Docker
6 18 (50.00%) TDD
7 15 (41.67%) SC Cleared
8 14 (38.89%) JPA
8 14 (38.89%) RESTful
8 14 (38.89%) Public Sector
9 13 (36.11%) Git
9 13 (36.11%) BDD
10 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
10 12 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (33.33%) Hibernate
10 12 (33.33%) SQL
10 12 (33.33%) JUnit
10 12 (33.33%) Linux
11 11 (30.56%) SOAP
11 11 (30.56%) Web Services
11 11 (30.56%) Maven
11 11 (30.56%) REST
11 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
12 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
12 10 (27.78%) Mockito
12 10 (27.78%) Amazon EC2

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 (11.11%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) JBoss
2 2 (5.56%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 7 (19.44%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (16.67%) AWS KMS
5 6 (16.67%) Route 53
6 4 (11.11%) Azure
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.56%) Serverless
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (19.44%) DynamoDB
4 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
5 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.33%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.78%) Hazelcast
7 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Git
2 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (33.33%) JUnit
3 11 (30.56%) Maven
4 10 (27.78%) Mockito
5 7 (19.44%) SonarQube
6 6 (16.67%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (16.67%) DbUnit
6 6 (16.67%) JIRA
6 6 (16.67%) jMock
7 2 (5.56%) Babel
7 2 (5.56%) Gradle
7 2 (5.56%) JMeter
7 2 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (5.56%) webpack
8 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 14 (38.89%) Public Sector
2 9 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Law
3 4 (11.11%) Police
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (72.22%) Spring
2 24 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 14 (38.89%) JPA
3 14 (38.89%) RESTful
4 12 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 11 (30.56%) REST
5 11 (30.56%) SOAP
5 11 (30.56%) Web Services
6 10 (27.78%) ActiveMQ
6 10 (27.78%) React
7 9 (25.00%) AngularJS
8 7 (19.44%) Bootstrap
9 6 (16.67%) HTML
9 6 (16.67%) PowerMock
9 6 (16.67%) Spring Batch
9 6 (16.67%) Spring Integration
10 5 (13.89%) J2EE
10 5 (13.89%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (11.11%) CSS
11 4 (11.11%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (13.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.78%) IoT
5 1 (2.78%) Life Science
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Rocky
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (66.67%) Agile
2 20 (55.56%) Microservices
3 18 (50.00%) TDD
4 13 (36.11%) BDD
5 11 (30.56%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 10 (27.78%) Scrum
7 8 (22.22%) Clean Code
7 8 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 8 (22.22%) DevOps
8 7 (19.44%) Front End Development
9 6 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (16.67%) Kanban
9 6 (16.67%) Open Source
9 6 (16.67%) Pair Programming
9 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
11 4 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (33.33%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.11%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.33%) C#
5 3 (8.33%) Scala
6 2 (5.56%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Degree
3 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.33%) Grafana
2 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Splunk
4 2 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft