Java Job Trends in the West Midlands

Java
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 95 83
Rank change year-on-year -23 -12 -31
Permanent jobs citing Java 77 86 197
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.02% 2.57% 2.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.42% 11.23% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 64 67 182
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,356 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.63% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,892 £62,500 £72,322
90th Percentile £79,250 £80,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year - +1.62% -7.74%

All Programming Languages
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 914 766 1,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.12% 22.85% 27.03%
Number of salaries quoted 706 583 1,633
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,563 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £76,650
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Java job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Java
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in the West Midlands

Java
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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 -6 42 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Worcestershire -13 15 £36,500 -23.16% 2
Coventry -18 7 £60,000 - 2
Shropshire -23 5 £60,000 +14.29% 2
Wolverhampton -21 4 £70,000 -26.32%
Warwickshire +4 3 £80,000 - 4
Staffordshire -21 1 £53,688 -
Java
England

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 5 (6.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Appian
3 1 (1.30%) FileNet
3 1 (1.30%) JBoss
3 1 (1.30%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) AWS
2 17 (22.08%) Azure
3 9 (11.69%) PaaS
3 9 (11.69%) SaaS
4 8 (10.39%) dbt
5 4 (5.19%) BrowserStack
5 4 (5.19%) Serverless
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.90%) Datadog
6 3 (3.90%) GCP
6 3 (3.90%) GitHub
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.09%) MySQL
3 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.90%) Redis
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.30%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.30%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Cucumber
2 10 (12.99%) Git
3 9 (11.69%) JUnit
4 8 (10.39%) GitLab
5 7 (9.09%) Jenkins
5 7 (9.09%) Maven
5 7 (9.09%) Mockito
5 7 (9.09%) Selenium
6 6 (7.79%) Gatling
6 6 (7.79%) JMeter
7 4 (5.19%) Zephyr
8 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.90%) JIRA
8 3 (3.90%) LoadRunner
8 3 (3.90%) Locust
8 3 (3.90%) Postman
8 3 (3.90%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.60%) Burp Suite
9 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.08%) Finance
3 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.19%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Advertising
6 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Police
7 1 (1.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (40.26%) Developer
2 20 (25.97%) Java Developer
3 18 (23.38%) Lead
4 13 (16.88%) Senior
5 11 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 11 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 9 (11.69%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (10.39%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.39%) Test Leader
8 7 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (7.79%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (6.49%) QA Engineer
10 5 (6.49%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (5.19%) QA Leader
11 4 (5.19%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.90%) C# Developer
12 3 (3.90%) Graduate
12 3 (3.90%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.08%) React
1 17 (22.08%) Spring
2 16 (20.78%) REST
3 13 (16.88%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.09%) Playwright
5 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.49%) CSS
5 5 (6.49%) Node.js
6 4 (5.19%) .NET
6 4 (5.19%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.19%) HTML
7 3 (3.90%) Gherkin
7 3 (3.90%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.90%) JPA
7 3 (3.90%) jQuery
7 3 (3.90%) RESTful
8 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (2.60%) Flask
8 2 (2.60%) pytest
8 2 (2.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Virtual Team
2 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.30%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (49.35%) Agile
2 34 (44.16%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (33.77%) CI/CD
3 26 (33.77%) Test Automation
4 19 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.08%) DevOps
6 16 (20.78%) BDD
6 16 (20.78%) Microservices
7 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
7 15 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (16.88%) Computer Science
8 13 (16.88%) SDLC
9 12 (15.58%) Performance Testing
9 12 (15.58%) User Experience
10 11 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 11 (14.29%) Scrum
11 10 (12.99%) Security Testing
11 10 (12.99%) Software Engineering
12 9 (11.69%) TDD
13 8 (10.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) Python
2 19 (24.68%) JavaScript
3 15 (19.48%) SQL
4 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
5 11 (14.29%) C#
6 7 (9.09%) C
6 7 (9.09%) C++
7 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
8 5 (6.49%) Bash
9 4 (5.19%) PHP
9 4 (5.19%) R
10 2 (2.60%) Delphi
11 1 (1.30%) JCL
11 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Degree
2 9 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.60%) IBM Certification
4 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) QA
2 10 (12.99%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (23.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (22.08%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.09%) Grafana
3 4 (5.19%) Terraform
4 3 (3.90%) Nagios
4 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.60%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Oracle
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.90%) IBM
4 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.60%) Veracode
5 1 (1.30%) Adobe
5 1 (1.30%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.30%) Foundry
5 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.30%) Palantir
5 1 (1.30%) Splunk