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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 50 95
Rank change year-on-year -25 +45 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 168 150 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.86% 4.60% 2.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.34% 21.10% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 85 94 74
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,350 £74,625 £79,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 1,028 711 1,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.36% 21.82% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 725 559 788
10th Percentile £38,300 £32,125 £32,425
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% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -1 95 £75,000 +15.38% 69
Shropshire -21 21 £45,000 -28.00% 34
Staffordshire -2 16 £50,000 -6.87% 3
Coventry -12 11 £70,000 - 7
Worcestershire -15 9 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Warwickshire -14 8 £55,000 - 7
Wolverhampton -5 5 £70,000 -22.22% 3
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 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.57%) CICS
3 5 (2.98%) Confluence
4 3 (1.79%) Documentum
5 1 (0.60%) Appian
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Simulink
2 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 62 (36.90%) Azure
2 56 (33.33%) AWS
3 25 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (12.50%) GitHub
5 20 (11.90%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.57%) PaaS
6 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (2.38%) GCP
7 4 (2.38%) SaaS
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.79%) BrowserStack
8 3 (1.79%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.19%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.60%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.36%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.79%) Firewall
2 3 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.57%) Db2
3 6 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.57%) Power BI
4 5 (2.98%) Big Data
4 5 (2.98%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.98%) MySQL
4 5 (2.98%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (2.98%) QlikView
4 5 (2.98%) Tableau
5 3 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.19%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.19%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.52%) JUnit
3 15 (8.93%) Git
3 15 (8.93%) Maven
4 14 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 14 (8.33%) Mockito
5 13 (7.74%) GitLab
6 11 (6.55%) Zephyr
7 10 (5.95%) Postman
8 9 (5.36%) Eclipse
8 9 (5.36%) JMeter
8 9 (5.36%) Selenium
9 8 (4.76%) JIRA
10 6 (3.57%) Gatling
11 5 (2.98%) SoapUI
12 4 (2.38%) Cypress.io
12 4 (2.38%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.79%) Burp Suite
13 3 (1.79%) HP UFT
13 3 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (27.38%) Finance
2 38 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.26%) Public Sector
4 25 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.14%) Banking
6 11 (6.55%) Legal
7 9 (5.36%) Electronics
8 6 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.57%) Law
8 6 (3.57%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Police
11 1 (0.60%) Retail
11 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (32.74%) Developer
2 49 (29.17%) Senior
3 37 (22.02%) Lead
4 29 (17.26%) Java Developer
5 26 (15.48%) Java Engineer
6 21 (12.50%) Consultant
7 20 (11.90%) Senior Developer
8 17 (10.12%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (9.52%) Applications Consultant
9 16 (9.52%) Mainframe Consultant
10 14 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (7.74%) Applications Engineer
11 13 (7.74%) Senior Java Engineer
11 13 (7.74%) Software Engineer
12 11 (6.55%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (4.17%) SAP Developer
15 7 (4.17%) Scrum Master
15 7 (4.17%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.38%) Spring
2 32 (19.05%) Spring Boot
3 29 (17.26%) REST
4 24 (14.29%) React
5 22 (13.10%) .NET
6 16 (9.52%) ISPF
7 12 (7.14%) Playwright
8 11 (6.55%) Node.js
8 11 (6.55%) RESTful
8 11 (6.55%) SOAP
8 11 (6.55%) XML
9 10 (5.95%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.17%) SAP Fiori
10 7 (4.17%) SAPUI5
11 6 (3.57%) JDBC
11 6 (3.57%) JSON
11 6 (3.57%) Kafka
11 6 (3.57%) OAuth
12 5 (2.98%) ADO
12 5 (2.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (11.90%) Cloud Native
3 18 (10.71%) Legacy Applications
4 16 (9.52%) Mainframe
5 9 (5.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.57%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.57%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.98%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.98%) Reference Data
8 5 (2.98%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.79%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.60%) Autonomous Agent
12 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.60%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.90%) Linux
2 5 (2.98%) Windows
3 3 (1.79%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (43.45%) Agile
2 68 (40.48%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (38.69%) CI/CD
4 54 (32.14%) Mentoring
5 41 (24.40%) Scrum
6 39 (23.21%) DevOps
7 38 (22.62%) Software Engineering
8 33 (19.64%) Technical Leadership
9 31 (18.45%) Test Automation
10 28 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 26 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (14.88%) Microservices
13 23 (13.69%) Collaborative Culture
14 22 (13.10%) SDLC
14 22 (13.10%) Software Testing
15 20 (11.90%) Coaching
15 20 (11.90%) TDD
16 19 (11.31%) AI
16 19 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
17 18 (10.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (24.40%) JavaScript
2 37 (22.02%) SQL
3 29 (17.26%) Python
4 17 (10.12%) C#
5 16 (9.52%) C
5 16 (9.52%) COBOL
5 16 (9.52%) JCL
6 15 (8.93%) PL/SQL
7 12 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.55%) Bash
9 9 (5.36%) Embedded C
9 9 (5.36%) MATLAB
10 8 (4.76%) C++
11 7 (4.17%) ABAP
12 6 (3.57%) R
13 3 (1.79%) Go
14 1 (0.60%) Scala
14 1 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.48%) Degree
4 9 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.98%) ISEB
6 5 (2.98%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.33%) QA
2 10 (5.95%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.79%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) GxP
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) PSD2
6 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (11.31%) Docker
2 12 (7.14%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (7.14%) Firmware
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.98%) Grafana
3 3 (1.79%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.19%) Ansible
4 2 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (10.71%) Oracle
2 12 (7.14%) SAP
3 10 (5.95%) Broadcom
4 6 (3.57%) Databricks
4 6 (3.57%) iManage
5 5 (2.98%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.98%) Pega
6 3 (1.79%) OpenText
6 3 (1.79%) Veracode
7 1 (0.60%) Denodo
7 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.60%) Google
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.60%) VMware