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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 46 104
Rank change year-on-year -31 +58 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 150 156 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.71% 4.67% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.26% 21.40% 8.91%
Number of salaries quoted 75 99 82
10th Percentile £41,550 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £46,519 £46,250 £32,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,789 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 1,052 729 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.97% 21.82% 22.66%
Number of salaries quoted 754 569 885
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,950 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £71,246 £68,750 £65,001
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -3.85%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -15 80 £75,000 +15.38% 65
Shropshire -19 24 £46,250 -26.00% 22
Staffordshire -18 14 £50,000 -6.87% 2
Worcestershire -17 11 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Warwickshire -9 8 £55,000 - 1
Wolverhampton -8 6 £70,000 -22.22%
Coventry -21 4 £78,750 - 5
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 7 (4.67%) Confluence
1 7 (4.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.67%) CICS
3 3 (2.00%) Documentum
4 1 (0.67%) Appian
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Simulink
2 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (37.33%) Azure
2 51 (34.00%) AWS
3 24 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (10.67%) GitHub
5 15 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.67%) PaaS
7 6 (4.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (4.00%) SaaS
8 4 (2.67%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.67%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.67%) GCP
8 4 (2.67%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.33%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.33%) Datadog
10 2 (1.33%) dbt
10 2 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.67%) Wireshark
2 3 (2.00%) Firewall
2 3 (2.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.33%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 6 (4.00%) Data Mining
3 6 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.00%) MySQL
3 6 (4.00%) Power BI
4 5 (3.33%) Big Data
4 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.33%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (3.33%) QlikView
4 5 (3.33%) Tableau
5 4 (2.67%) Db2
6 3 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.33%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (18.67%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.00%) Cucumber
3 16 (10.67%) Git
3 16 (10.67%) JUnit
4 15 (10.00%) GitLab
4 15 (10.00%) Maven
5 14 (9.33%) Mockito
6 13 (8.67%) JMeter
6 13 (8.67%) Postman
6 13 (8.67%) Selenium
7 11 (7.33%) Zephyr
8 9 (6.00%) Gatling
8 9 (6.00%) JIRA
9 7 (4.67%) Cypress.io
9 7 (4.67%) Eclipse
9 7 (4.67%) REST Assured
10 6 (4.00%) LoadRunner
10 6 (4.00%) SoapUI
11 5 (3.33%) Burp Suite
11 5 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (30.00%) Finance
2 35 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.00%) Public Sector
4 23 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.33%) Banking
5 11 (7.33%) Legal
6 8 (5.33%) Investment Banking
7 7 (4.67%) Electronics
8 6 (4.00%) Law
8 6 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Police
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (30.00%) Developer
2 40 (26.67%) Lead
3 36 (24.00%) Senior
4 24 (16.00%) Java Developer
5 18 (12.00%) Java Engineer
6 17 (11.33%) Consultant
7 14 (9.33%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.00%) Applications Consultant
8 12 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Mainframe Consultant
9 11 (7.33%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.33%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.67%) SAP Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Scrum Master
11 7 (4.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.67%) Spring
2 32 (21.33%) REST
3 29 (19.33%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.00%) React
5 18 (12.00%) .NET
6 16 (10.67%) Playwright
7 12 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 12 (8.00%) ISPF
7 12 (8.00%) XML
8 11 (7.33%) Node.js
8 11 (7.33%) RESTful
8 11 (7.33%) SOAP
9 7 (4.67%) JSON
9 7 (4.67%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (4.67%) SAPUI5
10 6 (4.00%) JDBC
10 6 (4.00%) OAuth
11 5 (3.33%) ADO
11 5 (3.33%) Kafka
11 5 (3.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 18 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (8.00%) Mainframe
4 8 (5.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.67%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.33%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.67%) Linux
2 5 (3.33%) Kali Linux
2 5 (3.33%) Windows
3 3 (2.00%) Unix
4 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (49.33%) Agile
2 68 (45.33%) CI/CD
3 66 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (38.67%) Mentoring
5 41 (27.33%) Scrum
6 40 (26.67%) DevOps
7 39 (26.00%) Test Automation
8 31 (20.67%) Technical Leadership
9 29 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 26 (17.33%) Microservices
10 26 (17.33%) Software Engineering
11 25 (16.67%) SDLC
12 22 (14.67%) Software Testing
13 21 (14.00%) AI
13 21 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (13.33%) Coaching
14 20 (13.33%) TDD
15 19 (12.67%) Analytics
16 18 (12.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.33%) JavaScript
2 39 (26.00%) SQL
3 28 (18.67%) Python
4 20 (13.33%) C#
5 15 (10.00%) PL/SQL
6 13 (8.67%) C
6 13 (8.67%) JCL
7 12 (8.00%) COBOL
8 11 (7.33%) Bash
9 8 (5.33%) C++
9 8 (5.33%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.67%) ABAP
10 7 (4.67%) Embedded C
10 7 (4.67%) MATLAB
11 6 (4.00%) R
12 3 (2.00%) Go
13 2 (1.33%) PHP
14 1 (0.67%) Scala
14 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.00%) Degree
2 27 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.33%) ISEB
5 5 (3.33%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.00%) QA
2 10 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 10 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.00%) NIST
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) GxP
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) PSD2
5 1 (0.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (14.00%) Docker
2 9 (6.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (6.00%) Firmware
3 1 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (15.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.33%) Grafana
3 5 (3.33%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) Argo
5 1 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (12.00%) Oracle
2 12 (8.00%) SAP
3 8 (5.33%) Broadcom
4 6 (4.00%) Databricks
4 6 (4.00%) iManage
4 6 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.33%) Pega
5 5 (3.33%) Veracode
6 3 (2.00%) OpenText
7 1 (0.67%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.67%) Denodo
7 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.67%) Google
7 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.67%) Splunk
7 1 (0.67%) VMware