Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 21 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Java
England > Midlands
6 months to
21 May 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 20 28 20
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,032 540 657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.35% 6.62% 8.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.29% 13.84% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 583 427 579
10th Percentile £38,637 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,375 £39,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £62,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% - +8.33%

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

All Programming Languages
Midlands
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,630 3,902 3,508
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 41.97% 47.82% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,134 3,225 3,037
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.59% +2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £66,250 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 21 May 2022.

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 21 May 2022. 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 +11 650 £57,500 +4.55% 111
East Midlands +11 369 £54,255 +8.51% 60
Java
England

For the 6 months to 21 May 2022, IT jobs citing Java also mentioned the following skills 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 with a requirement for Java.

1 552 (53.49%) Agile
2 416 (40.31%) Python
3 397 (38.47%) JavaScript
4 292 (28.29%) C#
5 286 (27.71%) AWS
6 269 (26.07%) Spring
7 264 (25.58%) HTML
8 260 (25.19%) SQL
9 244 (23.64%) Software Engineering
9 244 (23.64%) Git (software)
10 241 (23.35%) CSS
11 236 (22.87%) Microsoft
11 236 (22.87%) Azure
12 233 (22.58%) Scrum
13 225 (21.80%) DevOps
14 201 (19.48%) Mentoring
15 200 (19.38%) TDD
16 191 (18.51%) Microservices
17 188 (18.22%) Social Skills
18 181 (17.54%) RESTful
19 178 (17.25%) Oracle
19 178 (17.25%) OO
20 166 (16.09%) Data Structures
21 164 (15.89%) Docker
21 164 (15.89%) Degree
22 162 (15.70%) .NET
23 160 (15.50%) Test Automation
24 158 (15.31%) CI/CD
25 157 (15.21%) Finance
26 149 (14.44%) Kubernetes

Java
Co-occurring IT Skills in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 51 (4.94%) Confluence
2 48 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 43 (4.17%) Apache
4 27 (2.62%) CMS
5 21 (2.03%) Apache Solr
6 20 (1.94%) JBoss
7 18 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (1.74%) Umbraco
8 17 (1.65%) OpenStack
9 15 (1.45%) GlassFish
9 15 (1.45%) WebSphere
10 12 (1.16%) BizTalk Server
11 9 (0.87%) WebLogic
12 8 (0.78%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.68%) SAS
14 6 (0.58%) IIS
14 6 (0.58%) Liferay
15 5 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
15 5 (0.48%) Appian
15 5 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (1.36%) CATIA
2 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.39%) Simulink
4 2 (0.19%) FileZilla
5 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.097%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.19%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.097%) assyst
3 1 (0.097%) Maximo
3 1 (0.097%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.097%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.097%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 286 (27.71%) AWS
2 236 (22.87%) Azure
3 103 (9.98%) GCP
4 65 (6.30%) Serverless
5 42 (4.07%) SaaS
6 40 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (3.78%) GitHub
8 32 (3.10%) OpenShift
9 30 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 26 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 26 (2.52%) PaaS
11 17 (1.65%) Cloud Functions
12 14 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (1.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (1.07%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (1.07%) IaaS
14 11 (1.07%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (0.87%) Tricentis Tosca
16 8 (0.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 8 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.84%) HTTP
1 19 (1.84%) Internet
2 18 (1.74%) SSL
3 16 (1.55%) DNS
4 10 (0.97%) SSH
5 9 (0.87%) FTP
5 9 (0.87%) TCP/IP
6 6 (0.58%) DHCP
6 6 (0.58%) Firewall
6 6 (0.58%) LAN
6 6 (0.58%) SNMP
6 6 (0.58%) VLAN
6 6 (0.58%) WAN
6 6 (0.58%) Wireless
7 4 (0.39%) AMQP
7 4 (0.39%) DAB
8 3 (0.29%) SMTP
9 1 (0.097%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.097%) Tactical Data Link
9 1 (0.097%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (10.27%) SQL Server
2 92 (8.91%) NoSQL
3 79 (7.66%) MySQL
4 77 (7.46%) MongoDB
5 58 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 51 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
7 43 (4.17%) Big Data
8 40 (3.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 33 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.20%) Hadoop
10 27 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 26 (2.52%) Power BI
12 25 (2.42%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 25 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
14 18 (1.74%) Amazon DynamoDB
15 15 (1.45%) Impala
16 14 (1.36%) Redis
17 13 (1.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 244 (23.64%) Git (software)
2 117 (11.34%) Jenkins
3 106 (10.27%) JIRA
4 65 (6.30%) JUnit
5 59 (5.72%) Maven
6 44 (4.26%) Selenium
7 31 (3.00%) Mockito
8 30 (2.91%) Cucumber
9 29 (2.81%) Gradle
10 28 (2.71%) GitLab
11 23 (2.23%) Subversion
12 21 (2.03%) Rational DOORS
13 20 (1.94%) Bitbucket
13 20 (1.94%) SonarQube
14 19 (1.84%) Polyspace
14 19 (1.84%) Rational Rhapsody
15 18 (1.74%) webpack
16 17 (1.65%) Jasmine
16 17 (1.65%) Karma Test Runner
16 17 (1.65%) Postman
General
1 188 (18.22%) Social Skills
2 157 (15.21%) Finance
3 109 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (8.33%) Marketing
5 83 (8.04%) Automotive
6 60 (5.81%) Manufacturing
7 34 (3.29%) Banking
8 30 (2.91%) Games
9 29 (2.81%) Law
10 28 (2.71%) Financial Institution
11 26 (2.52%) Retail
12 24 (2.33%) Public Sector
13 23 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.74%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.16%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.68%) Aviation
17 7 (0.68%) Legal
17 7 (0.68%) Publishing
18 4 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 495 (47.97%) Developer
2 226 (21.90%) Java Developer
3 151 (14.63%) Software Developer
4 147 (14.24%) Senior Developer
5 124 (12.02%) Senior Java Developer
6 116 (11.24%) Software Engineer
7 114 (11.05%) Trainee
7 114 (11.05%) Trainee Developer
7 114 (11.05%) Trainee Software Developer
8 62 (6.01%) Java Engineer
9 61 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
10 59 (5.72%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (4.65%) Architect
12 46 (4.46%) Lead Developer
13 44 (4.26%) Data Engineer
14 33 (3.20%) Senior Java Engineer
15 32 (3.10%) Full Stack Developer
16 30 (2.91%) .NET Developer
17 29 (2.81%) Java Software Engineer
18 25 (2.42%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (26.07%) Spring
2 264 (25.58%) HTML
3 241 (23.35%) CSS
4 181 (17.54%) RESTful
5 162 (15.70%) .NET
6 141 (13.66%) HTML5
7 136 (13.18%) REST
8 134 (12.98%) React
9 131 (12.69%) Spring Boot
10 119 (11.53%) CSS3
11 114 (11.05%) Java SE
12 87 (8.43%) Node.js
12 87 (8.43%) Web Services
13 81 (7.85%) SOAP
14 79 (7.66%) AngularJS
15 77 (7.46%) XML
16 73 (7.07%) Spring MVC
17 54 (5.23%) Kafka
18 49 (4.75%) Hibernate
18 49 (4.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 166 (16.09%) Data Structures
2 47 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 44 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 39 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
5 34 (3.29%) Life Science
6 23 (2.23%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.23%) User Experience
7 22 (2.13%) Driving Licence
8 19 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.36%) Social Media
13 13 (1.26%) Cyberthreat
13 13 (1.26%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.07%) Private Cloud
15 10 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.87%) AS400
16 9 (0.87%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 115 (11.14%) Linux
2 71 (6.88%) Unix
3 47 (4.55%) Windows
4 12 (1.16%) Android
5 7 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.58%) AIX
7 3 (0.29%) CentOS
7 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.29%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (53.49%) Agile
2 244 (23.64%) Software Engineering
3 233 (22.58%) Scrum
4 225 (21.80%) DevOps
5 201 (19.48%) Mentoring
6 200 (19.38%) TDD
7 191 (18.51%) Microservices
8 178 (17.25%) OO
9 160 (15.50%) Test Automation
10 158 (15.31%) CI/CD
11 139 (13.47%) OOP
12 135 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
13 133 (12.89%) Continuous Integration
14 129 (12.50%) Functional Programming
15 116 (11.24%) MVC
16 113 (10.95%) Computer Science
17 107 (10.37%) Coaching
18 100 (9.69%) Full Stack Development
19 77 (7.46%) Analytics
20 73 (7.07%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 416 (40.31%) Python
2 397 (38.47%) JavaScript
3 292 (28.29%) C#
4 260 (25.19%) SQL
5 74 (7.17%) PowerShell
6 71 (6.88%) Go
7 64 (6.20%) C++
8 53 (5.14%) C
9 52 (5.04%) Bash
10 47 (4.55%) Scala
11 43 (4.17%) TypeScript
12 39 (3.78%) Ruby
13 35 (3.39%) PHP
13 35 (3.39%) T-SQL
14 31 (3.00%) Perl
15 25 (2.42%) ES6
16 18 (1.74%) VB.NET
17 17 (1.65%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.65%) PL/SQL
17 17 (1.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 164 (15.89%) Degree
2 114 (11.05%) CIW
2 114 (11.05%) OCA
2 114 (11.05%) OCP
2 114 (11.05%) Oracle Certification
3 54 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (3.59%) Security Cleared
5 24 (2.33%) SC Cleared
6 15 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
7 10 (0.97%) ISTQB
8 8 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.48%) Six Sigma Green Belt
10 3 (0.29%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.29%) Six Sigma Black Belt
10 3 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.097%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.097%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.097%) ISEB
11 1 (0.097%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.097%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (7.17%) QA
2 19 (1.84%) MISRA
3 9 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 9 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 6 (0.58%) SLA
5 4 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.097%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.097%) NCSC
6 1 (0.097%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.097%) PSD2
System Software
1 164 (15.89%) Docker
2 11 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.58%) HDFS
4 4 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 149 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 65 (6.30%) Terraform
3 52 (5.04%) Ansible
4 27 (2.62%) Puppet
5 18 (1.74%) Kibana
6 15 (1.45%) Opscode Chef
7 12 (1.16%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.68%) Grafana
8 7 (0.68%) Oozie
8 7 (0.68%) Packer
9 6 (0.58%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (0.48%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.39%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.19%) Consul
12 2 (0.19%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.19%) Nagios
12 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.097%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 236 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 178 (17.25%) Oracle
3 70 (6.78%) Google
4 36 (3.49%) Sun
5 26 (2.52%) IBM
6 25 (2.42%) Salesforce.com
7 19 (1.84%) MuleSoft
8 17 (1.65%) Databricks
9 14 (1.36%) Sybase
10 13 (1.26%) Apple
11 12 (1.16%) Twitter
11 12 (1.16%) WSO2
12 11 (1.07%) AppDynamics
12 11 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.97%) New Relic
13 10 (0.97%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.87%) Informatica
15 7 (0.68%) Pega
15 7 (0.68%) Xamarin
16 6 (0.58%) Talend