Java Job Trends in the Midlands

Java
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 129 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 -47 -59
Permanent jobs citing Java 106 150 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.49% 1.90% 3.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.22% 7.55% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 79 93 127
10th Percentile £35,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,213 £32,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -30.43% -2.54%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £78,100 £85,100
England median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +6.67% -

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 1,150 1,986 1,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.13% 25.17% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 945 1,121 1,456
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - -1.41% -1.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Java job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Java
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 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 13 December 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 +13 80 £60,000 +13.01% 132
East Midlands -2 26 £57,500 +64.29% 101
Java
England

Java
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 12 (11.32%) Confluence
2 6 (5.66%) IIS
3 3 (2.83%) JBoss
4 2 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.89%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.89%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) FileNet
5 1 (0.94%) SAS
5 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Maximo
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.94%) AWS
2 38 (35.85%) Azure
3 19 (17.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 17 (16.04%) Amazon EC2
4 17 (16.04%) Amazon S3
5 13 (12.26%) Amazon ELB
5 13 (12.26%) Amazon Glacier
5 13 (12.26%) AWS KMS
5 13 (12.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (10.38%) SaaS
7 9 (8.49%) GCP
8 7 (6.60%) Azure AI
8 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.60%) Serverless
9 6 (5.66%) GitHub
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.77%) PaaS
11 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.83%) Kong
11 3 (2.83%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.26%) DNS
1 13 (12.26%) FTP
1 13 (12.26%) HTTP
1 13 (12.26%) SMTP
1 13 (12.26%) SSH
2 11 (10.38%) Firewall
3 2 (1.89%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (19.81%) SQL Server
2 16 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.60%) MySQL
4 7 (6.60%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.83%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.89%) MS Access
7 2 (1.89%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.94%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.94%) Metadata
8 1 (0.94%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.94%) QlikView
8 1 (0.94%) SQLite
8 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Jenkins
2 24 (22.64%) Git
3 15 (14.15%) JUnit
4 14 (13.21%) JIRA
5 13 (12.26%) Vagrant
6 10 (9.43%) GitLab
6 10 (9.43%) Selenium
7 8 (7.55%) Mockito
8 7 (6.60%) Cucumber
8 7 (6.60%) Maven
8 7 (6.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.77%) JMeter
9 4 (3.77%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.89%) Babel
10 2 (1.89%) Gradle
10 2 (1.89%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.89%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.89%) Subversion
10 2 (1.89%) webpack
11 1 (0.94%) Postman
General
1 35 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Finance
3 17 (16.04%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Law
7 2 (1.89%) Back Office
7 2 (1.89%) Banking
7 2 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.94%) Advertising
8 1 (0.94%) Automotive
8 1 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Police
8 1 (0.94%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (36.79%) Developer
2 22 (20.75%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.98%) Senior
4 14 (13.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Lead
5 9 (8.49%) Senior Developer
6 8 (7.55%) Software Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Technical Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Architect
7 7 (6.60%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.60%) Java Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Technical Support
8 6 (5.66%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.36%) Spring
2 23 (21.70%) Spring Boot
3 20 (18.87%) React
4 14 (13.21%) REST
5 11 (10.38%) .NET
5 11 (10.38%) RESTful
6 8 (7.55%) CSS
7 7 (6.60%) Hibernate
8 6 (5.66%) HTML
8 6 (5.66%) Node.js
8 6 (5.66%) SOAP
9 5 (4.72%) Web Services
10 4 (3.77%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.77%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.77%) jQuery
10 4 (3.77%) Kafka
11 3 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.83%) Flask
11 3 (2.83%) pytest
11 3 (2.83%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.66%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.77%) Replication
5 3 (2.83%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.83%) Web Conferencing
6 2 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.89%) IoT
6 2 (1.89%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.89%) NHS
6 2 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.94%) Derivative
7 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Life Science
7 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.94%) PKI
7 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.58%) Linux
2 13 (12.26%) VMS
3 11 (10.38%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (6.60%) Windows
5 5 (4.72%) Unix
6 1 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.57%) Agile
2 39 (36.79%) DevOps
3 32 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (28.30%) CI/CD
5 24 (22.64%) Microservices
6 18 (16.98%) TDD
7 17 (16.04%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (15.09%) Mentoring
8 16 (15.09%) Test Automation
9 15 (14.15%) AI
9 15 (14.15%) Computer Science
9 15 (14.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.21%) Cloud Security
10 14 (13.21%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.26%) Configuration Management
12 12 (11.32%) Change Management
13 11 (10.38%) Clean Code
13 11 (10.38%) Patch Management
13 11 (10.38%) Scrum
14 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (43.40%) Python
2 32 (30.19%) JavaScript
3 23 (21.70%) SQL
4 19 (17.92%) C#
4 19 (17.92%) Groovy
5 15 (14.15%) Perl
6 13 (12.26%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.38%) PHP
7 11 (10.38%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.55%) C
8 8 (7.55%) R
9 5 (4.72%) C++
9 5 (4.72%) Delphi
9 5 (4.72%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.77%) Bash
10 4 (3.77%) Scala
10 4 (3.77%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.83%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.83%) Ruby
12 2 (1.89%) XAML
Qualifications
1 25 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 18 (16.98%) Degree
4 12 (11.32%) AWS Certification
4 12 (11.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (8.49%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.66%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.83%) IBM Certification
9 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.89%) HND
10 1 (0.94%) CBAP
10 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.55%) QA
2 4 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (29.25%) Docker
2 13 (12.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.77%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (21.70%) Kubernetes
2 22 (20.75%) Terraform
3 17 (16.04%) Grafana
4 12 (11.32%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.83%) Ansible
5 3 (2.83%) Kibana
5 3 (2.83%) Nagios
6 2 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.94%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.94%) logstash
7 1 (0.94%) Oozie
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Oracle
2 13 (12.26%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.38%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.77%) Adobe
4 4 (3.77%) Google
4 4 (3.77%) IBM
4 4 (3.77%) Informatica
4 4 (3.77%) MuleSoft
4 4 (3.77%) SAP
4 4 (3.77%) Splunk
4 4 (3.77%) UiPath
5 3 (2.83%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.89%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (1.89%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.89%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (1.89%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.89%) Siemens
6 2 (1.89%) Toshiba
7 1 (0.94%) Palantir