Java Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Java Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Java Engineer 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 233 297 272
Rank change year-on-year +64 -25 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 10 28 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.14% 0.24% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.25% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 39
10th Percentile £56,000 £28,200 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,991 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 - £75,781
England median annual salary £107,500 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% -22.22% +20.00%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the Midlands

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the Midlands

Java Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +35 10 £60,000 - 15
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Microservices
3 5 (50.00%) GCP
3 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 5 (50.00%) CQRS
3 5 (50.00%) Docker
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 5 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 5 (50.00%) Spring
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (20.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management

Java Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Spring
2 2 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (50.00%) CQRS
2 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Sybase