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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 94 36
Rank change year-on-year -32 -58 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 130 284 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.08% 2.63% 7.09%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.31% 9.43% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 107 226 318
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -6.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,991 £75,781
90th Percentile £70,500 £82,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +14.29%

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 1,396 3,012 3,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.29% 27.88% 38.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,003 2,576 2,079
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,181 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +5.77%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -47 83 £53,688 -6.63% 77
East Midlands +16 46 £42,550 -18.95% 40
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 17 (13.08%) CMS
1 17 (13.08%) WordPress
2 5 (3.85%) Apache
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.54%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.77%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.77%) Confluence
5 1 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.77%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (13.08%) Shopify
2 3 (2.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (46.15%) Azure
2 34 (26.15%) AWS
3 18 (13.85%) GitHub
3 18 (13.85%) Slack
4 17 (13.08%) SaaS
4 17 (13.08%) Zapier
5 15 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 13 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (5.38%) Serverless
8 6 (4.62%) GCP
9 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.08%) ChatGPT
9 4 (3.08%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (3.08%) Google App Engine
9 4 (3.08%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.54%) Asana
12 1 (0.77%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) DNS
1 1 (0.77%) Firewall
1 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.08%) MySQL
2 23 (17.69%) NoSQL
3 17 (13.08%) Relational Database
4 14 (10.77%) Power BI
5 11 (8.46%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.15%) DB2
7 7 (5.38%) Big Data
8 4 (3.08%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.08%) Cloud Spanner
8 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.08%) MaxDB
8 4 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.08%) SAP HANA
9 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.77%) DataStage
10 1 (0.77%) QualityStage
10 1 (0.77%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (16.15%) Git
2 19 (14.62%) Eclipse
2 19 (14.62%) JUnit
2 19 (14.62%) Mockito
3 17 (13.08%) IntelliJ
3 17 (13.08%) Jasmine
3 17 (13.08%) Karma Test Runner
3 17 (13.08%) Protractor
4 5 (3.85%) JIRA
5 4 (3.08%) Selenium
6 3 (2.31%) Appium
6 3 (2.31%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.31%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.54%) Eclipse RCP
8 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.77%) GitLab
8 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.77%) Subversion
8 1 (0.77%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.77%) Vagrant
General
1 29 (22.31%) Finance
2 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.77%) Manufacturing
5 13 (10.00%) Marketing
6 10 (7.69%) Law
7 8 (6.15%) Police
8 6 (4.62%) Retail
9 5 (3.85%) Banking
10 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.31%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.54%) Advertising
12 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.77%) Back Office
13 1 (0.77%) Games
13 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (50.77%) Developer
2 27 (20.77%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.08%) Software Engineer
4 16 (12.31%) SaaS Developer
5 15 (11.54%) Backend Developer
5 15 (11.54%) Data Scientist
6 12 (9.23%) Lead
7 11 (8.46%) Graduate
7 11 (8.46%) Graduate Developer
7 11 (8.46%) Senior
8 9 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (6.92%) IT Graduate
9 7 (5.38%) SAP Support
9 7 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Architect
11 5 (3.85%) Agile Developer
11 5 (3.85%) C# Developer
11 5 (3.85%) Graduate C# Developer
11 5 (3.85%) PHP Developer
11 5 (3.85%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (26.15%) React
2 29 (22.31%) CSS
3 23 (17.69%) .NET
4 22 (16.92%) AngularJS
5 20 (15.38%) HTML
5 20 (15.38%) JPA
6 18 (13.85%) Hibernate
6 18 (13.85%) Laravel
7 17 (13.08%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (7.69%) jQuery
8 10 (7.69%) Spring
9 9 (6.92%) ASP.NET
10 8 (6.15%) RESTful
11 7 (5.38%) Kafka
11 7 (5.38%) Spring Boot
12 6 (4.62%) Node.js
13 5 (3.85%) Middleware
13 5 (3.85%) React Native
13 5 (3.85%) Web Services
14 4 (3.08%) Material-UI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.15%) Algorithms
2 11 (8.46%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.54%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.54%) PKI
6 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.54%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.54%) Replication
7 1 (0.77%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.00%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows
3 7 (5.38%) Unix
4 4 (3.08%) AIX
5 3 (2.31%) Rocky
6 1 (0.77%) Android
6 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.77%) CentOS
6 1 (0.77%) Debian
6 1 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.77%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.31%) Computer Science
2 50 (38.46%) Agile
3 46 (35.38%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 29 (22.31%) Full-Stack Development
6 27 (20.77%) Project Management
7 25 (19.23%) Analytics
7 25 (19.23%) Microservices
8 23 (17.69%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (16.92%) Front End Development
9 22 (16.92%) Mathematics
10 21 (16.15%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (16.15%) E-Commerce
10 21 (16.15%) Unit Testing
11 19 (14.62%) Containerisation
11 19 (14.62%) Data Engineering
11 19 (14.62%) User Experience
12 18 (13.85%) Server Management
13 17 (13.08%) Data Science
13 17 (13.08%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.15%) SQL
2 58 (44.62%) Python
3 29 (22.31%) C++
4 28 (21.54%) PHP
5 27 (20.77%) C#
6 17 (13.08%) JavaScript
7 15 (11.54%) R
8 7 (5.38%) ABAP
8 7 (5.38%) Rust
9 4 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.31%) Bash
10 3 (2.31%) SAPscript
11 2 (1.54%) Ada
11 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.54%) Ruby
12 1 (0.77%) Go
12 1 (0.77%) Groovy
12 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.77%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (46.92%) Degree
2 34 (26.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (10.77%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.54%) CISSP
5 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.54%) PMP
6 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.23%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) GDPR
3 2 (1.54%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.54%) NIST
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (18.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (0.77%) Ansible
3 1 (0.77%) Grafana
3 1 (0.77%) Nagios
3 1 (0.77%) Nessus
3 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.77%) Proxmox
3 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (13.85%) IBM
2 17 (13.08%) WooCommerce
3 16 (12.31%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.38%) SAP
5 6 (4.62%) Oracle
6 5 (3.85%) Google
7 4 (3.08%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.31%) Databricks
8 3 (2.31%) Sybase
9 1 (0.77%) Juniper
9 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.77%) UiPath