Java Developer Jobs in the West Midlands

Java Developer
England > West Midlands

The median Java Developer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 227 212
Rank change year-on-year +47 -15 -49
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 17 20 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.38% 0.28% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.29% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 16 20 42
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £30,313 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,813 £76,688
90th Percentile £66,875 £70,250 £84,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 4,005 6,824 5,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 94.09% 89.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,807 5,158 3,359
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,217 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the West Midlands

Java Developer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Birmingham +42 12 £57,500 +6.98% 4
Worcestershire - 2 £47,500 - 2
Solihull - 1 £70,000 -
Staffordshire - 1 £60,000 -
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Java Developer 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 West Midlands region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (82.35%) Linux
2 14 (82.35%) SQL
3 13 (76.47%) JPA
4 10 (58.82%) Agile
5 9 (52.94%) JUnit
5 9 (52.94%) Mockito
5 9 (52.94%) Azure
5 9 (52.94%) AWS
6 8 (47.06%) AngularJS
6 8 (47.06%) React
6 8 (47.06%) SDLC
6 8 (47.06%) Hibernate
7 7 (41.18%) Eclipse
7 7 (41.18%) IntelliJ
7 7 (41.18%) IBM
7 7 (41.18%) Protractor
7 7 (41.18%) Microservices
7 7 (41.18%) Algorithms
7 7 (41.18%) Karma Test Runner
7 7 (41.18%) Docker
7 7 (41.18%) SaaS
7 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
7 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
7 7 (41.18%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (41.18%) Jasmine
7 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
8 5 (29.41%) Police
8 5 (29.41%) Rocky
8 5 (29.41%) Vaadin

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (11.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) AWS
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) DB2
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) JUnit
1 9 (52.94%) Mockito
2 7 (41.18%) Eclipse
2 7 (41.18%) IntelliJ
2 7 (41.18%) Jasmine
2 7 (41.18%) Karma Test Runner
2 7 (41.18%) Protractor
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Law
1 5 (29.41%) Police
2 1 (5.88%) Advertising
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (76.47%) JPA
2 8 (47.06%) AngularJS
2 8 (47.06%) Hibernate
2 8 (47.06%) React
3 7 (41.18%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (29.41%) GWT
4 5 (29.41%) J2EE
4 5 (29.41%) Middleware
4 5 (29.41%) Vaadin
5 3 (17.65%) Spring
6 2 (11.76%) REST
7 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Algorithms
2 5 (29.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Rocky
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) SDLC
3 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
3 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 7 (41.18%) Unit Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
5 2 (11.76%) Scrum
5 2 (11.76%) SOA
5 2 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (11.76%) Systems Thinking
5 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 1 (5.88%) Front End Development
6 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (82.35%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
1 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Docker
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) IBM
2 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Sybase