Java EE Job Trends in the Midlands

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Java EE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 - 225
Rank change year-on-year - - +115
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.018% - 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% - 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £47,800
25th Percentile £57,500 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £51,250 £70,000
% change year-on-year +26.83% -26.79% +0.80%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

Java EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 689 1,458 1,117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.33% 14.62% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 477 871 932
10th Percentile £36,550 £33,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,298 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the Midlands

Java EE
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Java EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Java EE

Java EE
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 EE within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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 - 1 £65,000 - 1
Java EE
England

Java EE
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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle