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 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 295 242
Rank change year-on-year +83 -53 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 31 30 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.45% 0.26% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.27% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 30 27 51
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,200 £48,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £69,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +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 6,335 11,010 8,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 94.31% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,843 8,239 4,748
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +47 17 £60,000 +9.09% 64
East Midlands +55 14 £60,000 +41.18% 44
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 31 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (77.42%) Linux
2 24 (77.42%) SQL
2 24 (77.42%) Agile
3 23 (74.19%) JPA
4 22 (70.97%) React
5 19 (61.29%) Azure
5 19 (61.29%) AWS
5 19 (61.29%) Mockito
5 19 (61.29%) JUnit
6 18 (58.06%) Hibernate
6 18 (58.06%) AngularJS
7 17 (54.84%) Microservices
7 17 (54.84%) Algorithms
7 17 (54.84%) Jasmine
7 17 (54.84%) Karma Test Runner
7 17 (54.84%) Docker
7 17 (54.84%) NoSQL
7 17 (54.84%) RabbitMQ
7 17 (54.84%) SaaS
7 17 (54.84%) Unit Testing
7 17 (54.84%) Eclipse
7 17 (54.84%) IntelliJ
7 17 (54.84%) IBM
7 17 (54.84%) Protractor
7 17 (54.84%) Containerisation
8 8 (25.81%) SDLC
9 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
10 5 (16.13%) Police

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 2 (6.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) AWS
1 19 (61.29%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (54.84%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) DB2
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (61.29%) JUnit
1 19 (61.29%) Mockito
2 17 (54.84%) Eclipse
2 17 (54.84%) IntelliJ
2 17 (54.84%) Jasmine
2 17 (54.84%) Karma Test Runner
2 17 (54.84%) Protractor
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 5 (16.13%) Finance
1 5 (16.13%) Law
1 5 (16.13%) Police
2 1 (3.23%) Advertising
2 1 (3.23%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (74.19%) JPA
2 22 (70.97%) React
3 18 (58.06%) AngularJS
3 18 (58.06%) Hibernate
4 17 (54.84%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (16.13%) GWT
5 5 (16.13%) J2EE
5 5 (16.13%) Middleware
5 5 (16.13%) Vaadin
6 3 (9.68%) Spring
7 2 (6.45%) REST
8 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) Algorithms
2 5 (16.13%) Mobile App
3 4 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 24 (77.42%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Rocky
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) Agile
2 17 (54.84%) Containerisation
2 17 (54.84%) Microservices
2 17 (54.84%) Unit Testing
3 8 (25.81%) SDLC
4 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
5 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (16.13%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (12.90%) Fintech
7 2 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (6.45%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (6.45%) Mentoring
7 2 (6.45%) Resource Management
7 2 (6.45%) Scrum
7 2 (6.45%) SOA
7 2 (6.45%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (6.45%) Systems Thinking
7 2 (6.45%) TDD
8 1 (3.23%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (77.42%) SQL
3 2 (6.45%) Bash
3 2 (6.45%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
1 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Docker
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) IBM
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Sybase