Java Developer Job Trends in the Midlands

Java Developer
England > Midlands

The median Java Developer salary in the Midlands is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 259 193
Rank change year-on-year +65 -66 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 30 15 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.54% 0.17% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.18% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 24 10 28
10th Percentile £55,375 - £43,375
25th Percentile £56,500 £24,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £34,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +92.03% -40.00% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £84,975
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -3.03%

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 5,158 8,394 5,060
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.41% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,175 4,320 3,918
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £32,063 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,065 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.71% -4.17% -

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 26 October 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 26 October 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 +67 25 £70,000 +191.67% 4
East Midlands +8 5 £58,000 -3.33% 4
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 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 30 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (93.33%) Spring
3 24 (80.00%) Spring Boot
4 23 (76.67%) Microservices
5 22 (73.33%) Agile
5 22 (73.33%) AWS
6 21 (70.00%) Docker
7 20 (66.67%) TDD
8 15 (50.00%) JUnit
8 15 (50.00%) RESTful
8 15 (50.00%) SC Cleared
8 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
9 13 (43.33%) BDD
9 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
9 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
9 13 (43.33%) Maven
9 13 (43.33%) Mockito
9 13 (43.33%) REST
10 12 (40.00%) Git
10 12 (40.00%) Kubernetes
10 12 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (40.00%) Scrum
11 11 (36.67%) Hibernate
11 11 (36.67%) SOAP
11 11 (36.67%) Web Services
12 10 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (33.33%) JavaScript
12 10 (33.33%) SQL
13 9 (30.00%) Clean Code

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 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) JBoss
2 2 (6.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 7 (23.33%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (20.00%) AWS KMS
5 6 (20.00%) Azure
5 6 (20.00%) Route 53
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (23.33%) DynamoDB
4 5 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 3 (10.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.33%) Hazelcast
6 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) JUnit
2 13 (43.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (43.33%) Maven
2 13 (43.33%) Mockito
3 12 (40.00%) Git
4 7 (23.33%) SonarQube
5 6 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 6 (20.00%) DbUnit
5 6 (20.00%) JIRA
5 6 (20.00%) jMock
6 2 (6.67%) Babel
6 2 (6.67%) Gradle
6 2 (6.67%) JMeter
6 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (6.67%) webpack
7 1 (3.33%) GitLab
General
1 16 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (93.33%) Spring
2 24 (80.00%) Spring Boot
3 15 (50.00%) RESTful
4 13 (43.33%) REST
5 11 (36.67%) Hibernate
5 11 (36.67%) SOAP
5 11 (36.67%) Web Services
6 10 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
7 9 (30.00%) JPA
8 8 (26.67%) AngularJS
8 8 (26.67%) React
9 7 (23.33%) Bootstrap
10 6 (20.00%) HTML
10 6 (20.00%) PowerMock
10 6 (20.00%) Spring Batch
10 6 (20.00%) Spring Integration
11 5 (16.67%) Spring Cloud
12 4 (13.33%) CSS
13 3 (10.00%) Redux
13 3 (10.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.33%) IoT
5 1 (3.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Microservices
2 22 (73.33%) Agile
3 20 (66.67%) TDD
4 13 (43.33%) BDD
4 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
5 12 (40.00%) Scrum
6 9 (30.00%) Clean Code
6 9 (30.00%) DevOps
7 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
7 8 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (20.00%) Kanban
8 6 (20.00%) Open Source
8 6 (20.00%) Pair Programming
9 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
10 4 (13.33%) Code Quality
10 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
3 4 (13.33%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) Shell Script
3 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.00%) C#
4 3 (10.00%) Scala
5 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (70.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Grafana
2 3 (10.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft