Java Jobs in the Midlands

Java
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 99 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 -47 -32
Permanent jobs citing Java 146 277 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.10% 2.37% 5.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.63% 8.93% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 121 232 269
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,025 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,375 £92,750
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +10.34%

All Programming Languages
Midlands

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,516 3,103 3,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 21.83% 26.58% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 2,596 1,889
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Java in the Midlands

Java
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the Midlands

Java
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 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 -16 99 £53,688 -6.63% 467
East Midlands +17 46 £46,250 -11.90% 329
Java
England

Java
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 13 (8.90%) CMS
1 13 (8.90%) WordPress
2 8 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.42%) Apache
4 3 (2.05%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.37%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.68%) ColdFusion
6 1 (0.68%) Confluence
6 1 (0.68%) Mendix
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (8.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.05%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (8.90%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (45.89%) Azure
2 44 (30.14%) AWS
3 20 (13.70%) Power Platform
4 17 (11.64%) SaaS
5 14 (9.59%) GitHub
5 14 (9.59%) Slack
6 13 (8.90%) Zapier
7 11 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (7.53%) GCP
8 9 (6.16%) Serverless
9 8 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (5.48%) Power Automate
9 8 (5.48%) PowerApps
10 6 (4.11%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (2.74%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.74%) Google App Engine
11 4 (2.74%) Google Compute Engine
12 3 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.05%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.05%) Firewall
1 3 (2.05%) SSL
2 2 (1.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.18%) MySQL
2 26 (17.81%) NoSQL
3 17 (11.64%) Relational Database
4 12 (8.22%) Power BI
5 11 (7.53%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.48%) DB2
7 7 (4.79%) Big Data
8 5 (3.42%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.42%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.74%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.74%) Cloud Spanner
9 4 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.74%) MaxDB
9 4 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.74%) SAP HANA
10 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.05%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.68%) MS Access
12 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (13.70%) Git
2 19 (13.01%) Eclipse
2 19 (13.01%) JUnit
2 19 (13.01%) Mockito
3 17 (11.64%) IntelliJ
3 17 (11.64%) Jasmine
3 17 (11.64%) Karma Test Runner
3 17 (11.64%) Protractor
4 5 (3.42%) JIRA
5 3 (2.05%) Appium
5 3 (2.05%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (2.05%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.05%) Selenium
5 3 (2.05%) Vagrant
5 3 (2.05%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.05%) WebDriver
6 2 (1.37%) Eclipse RCP
7 1 (0.68%) Subversion
7 1 (0.68%) TestComplete
General
1 30 (20.55%) Finance
2 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.96%) Police
5 14 (9.59%) Law
6 13 (8.90%) Manufacturing
7 11 (7.53%) Marketing
8 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.11%) Retail
10 5 (3.42%) Banking
11 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.05%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.37%) Advertising
13 2 (1.37%) Electronics
13 2 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.37%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.68%) Back Office
14 1 (0.68%) Games
14 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (52.74%) Developer
2 31 (21.23%) Java Developer
3 20 (13.70%) Software Engineer
4 16 (10.96%) SaaS Developer
5 15 (10.27%) Backend Developer
6 13 (8.90%) Data Scientist
6 13 (8.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 13 (8.90%) Graduate
6 13 (8.90%) Graduate Developer
7 11 (7.53%) Senior
8 10 (6.85%) Java Engineer
9 9 (6.16%) IT Graduate
9 9 (6.16%) Lead
10 8 (5.48%) Microsoft 365 Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Architect
11 7 (4.79%) Java Software Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) C# Developer
12 5 (3.42%) PHP Developer
12 5 (3.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (3.42%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.29%) React
2 30 (20.55%) .NET
3 25 (17.12%) CSS
4 23 (15.75%) JPA
5 22 (15.07%) AngularJS
6 21 (14.38%) Hibernate
7 20 (13.70%) Spring
8 17 (11.64%) RabbitMQ
9 16 (10.96%) HTML
10 14 (9.59%) Laravel
11 10 (6.85%) jQuery
11 10 (6.85%) RESTful
11 10 (6.85%) Spring Boot
12 9 (6.16%) ASP.NET
13 8 (5.48%) Node.js
14 7 (4.79%) Kafka
14 7 (4.79%) Middleware
14 7 (4.79%) Web Services
15 6 (4.11%) Material-UI
16 5 (3.42%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.38%) Algorithms
2 13 (8.90%) Mobile App
3 7 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 5 (3.42%) Cyberattack
5 5 (3.42%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.05%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) PKI
7 2 (1.37%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.37%) Replication
8 1 (0.68%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.60%) Linux
2 10 (6.85%) Windows
3 7 (4.79%) Unix
4 5 (3.42%) Rocky
5 4 (2.74%) AIX
5 4 (2.74%) Android
6 3 (2.05%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.05%) VMS
7 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.68%) CentOS
7 1 (0.68%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.73%) Agile
2 47 (32.19%) Computer Science
3 41 (28.08%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (26.03%) Software Engineering
5 32 (21.92%) Microservices
6 31 (21.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 27 (18.49%) Containerisation
8 25 (17.12%) Artificial Intelligence
9 23 (15.75%) Analytics
9 23 (15.75%) User Experience
10 22 (15.07%) DevOps
11 21 (14.38%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (14.38%) Mathematics
11 21 (14.38%) Unit Testing
12 20 (13.70%) Project Management
13 19 (13.01%) Front End Development
14 17 (11.64%) Data Engineering
14 17 (11.64%) E-Commerce
15 16 (10.96%) Server Management
15 16 (10.96%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.10%) SQL
2 55 (37.67%) Python
3 33 (22.60%) C#
4 29 (19.86%) C++
5 24 (16.44%) PHP
6 21 (14.38%) JavaScript
7 13 (8.90%) R
8 7 (4.79%) Rust
9 4 (2.74%) ABAP
9 4 (2.74%) Go
9 4 (2.74%) Ruby
10 3 (2.05%) Bash
10 3 (2.05%) Groovy
10 3 (2.05%) Perl
10 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.37%) Ada
11 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.68%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 55 (37.67%) Degree
2 30 (20.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (10.96%) Security Cleared
4 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.37%) CISSP
5 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.37%) PMP
5 2 (1.37%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.64%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) GDPR
3 2 (1.37%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (23.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (10.96%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.48%) Terraform
3 6 (4.11%) Ansible
4 3 (2.05%) Nagios
4 3 (2.05%) Nessus
4 3 (2.05%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.68%) Grafana
5 1 (0.68%) Marathon
5 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.33%) IBM
3 13 (8.90%) WooCommerce
4 6 (4.11%) Oracle
4 6 (4.11%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.42%) Google
6 4 (2.74%) SAP
7 3 (2.05%) Databricks
7 3 (2.05%) Juniper
7 3 (2.05%) Sybase
8 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.68%) UiPath