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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 46 94
Rank change year-on-year -75 +48 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 87 146 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.02% 4.65% 2.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.08% 18.84% 9.97%
Number of salaries quoted 64 91 174
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £74,296 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £83,500 £75,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +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 958 775 1,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.27% 24.71% 25.32%
Number of salaries quoted 717 589 1,632
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £76,500 £75,772
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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -10 55 £55,000 +22.22% 14
Worcestershire -22 13 £42,500 -10.53% 3
Shropshire -34 7 £53,750 -10.42% 3
Coventry -16 5 £80,000 - 5
Wolverhampton -23 4 £70,000 -26.32% 1
Staffordshire -38 2 £67,500 +25.73%
Warwickshire -18 1 £80,000 - 1
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 6 (6.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.45%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Appian
4 1 (1.15%) FileNet
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (33.33%) AWS
2 28 (32.18%) Azure
3 8 (9.20%) PaaS
3 8 (9.20%) SaaS
4 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.05%) dbt
5 4 (4.60%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.45%) Serverless
6 3 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.30%) Datadog
7 2 (2.30%) GCP
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.15%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.15%) GitHub
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.05%) MySQL
3 6 (6.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.45%) Redis
5 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.45%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.15%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.15%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.15%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 13 (14.94%) Maven
2 12 (13.79%) JUnit
2 12 (13.79%) Mockito
3 11 (12.64%) Cucumber
4 8 (9.20%) Gatling
4 8 (9.20%) Git
4 8 (9.20%) GitLab
5 7 (8.05%) JMeter
5 7 (8.05%) Selenium
6 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
7 5 (5.75%) Cypress.io
7 5 (5.75%) LoadRunner
7 5 (5.75%) Postman
7 5 (5.75%) REST Assured
8 4 (4.60%) Burp Suite
8 4 (4.60%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.60%) Zephyr
9 3 (3.45%) HP UFT
9 3 (3.45%) JIRA
10 2 (2.30%) Locust
General
1 20 (22.99%) Finance
2 16 (18.39%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Banking
3 8 (9.20%) Investment Banking
3 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.30%) Advertising
6 1 (1.15%) Law
6 1 (1.15%) Legal
6 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (32.18%) Developer
2 25 (28.74%) Lead
3 19 (21.84%) Java Developer
4 16 (18.39%) Java Engineer
4 16 (18.39%) Senior
5 14 (16.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 12 (13.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (11.49%) Software Engineer
8 9 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (10.34%) Senior Developer
9 7 (8.05%) Test Leader
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (5.75%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) QA Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Quality Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) QA Leader
12 4 (4.60%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (3.45%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (31.03%) React
2 25 (28.74%) Spring
3 22 (25.29%) REST
4 15 (17.24%) Spring Boot
5 11 (12.64%) AngularJS
6 9 (10.34%) Node.js
6 9 (10.34%) Playwright
7 7 (8.05%) RESTful
8 4 (4.60%) .NET
8 4 (4.60%) CSS
8 4 (4.60%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.60%) HTML
9 2 (2.30%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.30%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.30%) JPA
9 2 (2.30%) jQuery
9 2 (2.30%) Kafka
10 1 (1.15%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (1.15%) JSON
10 1 (1.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (6.90%) Virtual Team
2 5 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.75%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.15%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.15%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Kali Linux
2 4 (4.60%) Windows
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) Agile
2 39 (44.83%) Full-Stack Development
3 35 (40.23%) CI/CD
4 34 (39.08%) Test Automation
5 32 (36.78%) Mentoring
6 28 (32.18%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (27.59%) Microservices
8 19 (21.84%) Scrum
9 18 (20.69%) TDD
10 17 (19.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (19.54%) DevOps
10 17 (19.54%) SDLC
11 16 (18.39%) Containerisation
12 15 (17.24%) Software Engineering
13 14 (16.09%) BDD
13 14 (16.09%) Computer Science
14 13 (14.94%) Performance Testing
15 11 (12.64%) Security Testing
15 11 (12.64%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (12.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.03%) JavaScript
2 23 (26.44%) Python
2 23 (26.44%) SQL
3 14 (16.09%) C#
4 12 (13.79%) PL/SQL
5 11 (12.64%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.34%) Bash
6 9 (10.34%) C++
7 7 (8.05%) C
8 4 (4.60%) R
9 3 (3.45%) PHP
10 2 (2.30%) Go
11 1 (1.15%) JCL
11 1 (1.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.64%) Degree
3 10 (11.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.15%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.24%) QA
2 11 (12.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (22.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (22.99%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.90%) Grafana
3 4 (4.60%) HP Fortify
3 4 (4.60%) Terraform
4 3 (3.45%) Nagios
4 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Oracle
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.60%) Veracode
3 2 (2.30%) IBM
3 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.15%) Adobe
4 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.15%) Splunk