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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 113 72
Rank change year-on-year +31 -41 -47
Permanent jobs citing Java 89 117 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.42% 2.10% 3.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.59% 8.52% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 71 63 93
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,213 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,251 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -10.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 707 1,374 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.24% 24.66% 34.30%
Number of salaries quoted 588 727 958
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,724
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £68,813 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £77,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 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 +10 51 £65,000 +62.50% 7
Shropshire +5 8 £65,000 +13.04% 14
Solihull - 8 - - 1
Warwickshire +42 4 £80,000 - 4
Worcestershire +7 4 £47,000 -37.33% 3
Coventry +6 4 £57,600 +0.17% 4
Staffordshire 0 1 £53,688 +7.38% 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £90,000 - 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 16 (17.98%) Confluence
2 6 (6.74%) IIS
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) JBoss
4 1 (1.12%) SAS
4 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Maximo
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.18%) AWS
2 31 (34.83%) Azure
3 21 (23.60%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (23.60%) Amazon S3
4 20 (22.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 17 (19.10%) AWS KMS
6 15 (16.85%) Amazon ELB
6 15 (16.85%) Amazon Glacier
6 15 (16.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (12.36%) SaaS
8 8 (8.99%) GCP
8 8 (8.99%) Serverless
9 7 (7.87%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (7.87%) Azure AI
10 6 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.49%) GitHub
12 2 (2.25%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (2.25%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.85%) DNS
1 15 (16.85%) FTP
1 15 (16.85%) HTTP
1 15 (16.85%) SMTP
1 15 (16.85%) SSH
2 13 (14.61%) Firewall
3 1 (1.12%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.47%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (19.10%) SQL Server
3 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.87%) MySQL
4 7 (7.87%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.87%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.37%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.37%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.25%) MS Access
7 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.12%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.12%) Impala
7 1 (1.12%) Power BI
7 1 (1.12%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Jenkins
2 21 (23.60%) Git
3 16 (17.98%) JIRA
4 15 (16.85%) Vagrant
5 12 (13.48%) JUnit
6 9 (10.11%) Mockito
7 7 (7.87%) Maven
8 5 (5.62%) GitLab
9 4 (4.49%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.49%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (3.37%) JMeter
10 3 (3.37%) Selenium
11 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (2.25%) DbUnit
11 2 (2.25%) jMock
11 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
11 2 (2.25%) Subversion
12 1 (1.12%) Gatling
12 1 (1.12%) Locust
12 1 (1.12%) Postman
General
1 28 (31.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.84%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.48%) Finance
4 7 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.49%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.37%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Back Office
7 2 (2.25%) Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Advertising
8 1 (1.12%) Automotive
8 1 (1.12%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Police
8 1 (1.12%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (40.45%) Developer
2 22 (24.72%) Java Developer
3 14 (15.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.24%) Senior
5 9 (10.11%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Java Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Lead
6 7 (7.87%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Software Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Technical Support
7 6 (6.74%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Automation Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.34%) Spring
2 20 (22.47%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.73%) .NET
4 13 (14.61%) React
5 10 (11.24%) REST
5 10 (11.24%) RESTful
6 7 (7.87%) Hibernate
7 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.74%) Web Services
8 5 (5.62%) jQuery
9 4 (4.49%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.49%) CSS
10 3 (3.37%) HTML
10 3 (3.37%) JPA
10 3 (3.37%) OAuth
10 3 (3.37%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.37%) SOAP
10 3 (3.37%) WireMock
10 3 (3.37%) XML
11 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.74%) AI Agents
2 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.49%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.49%) Replication
4 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.12%) Derivative
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) IoT
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Life Science
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.72%) Linux
2 15 (16.85%) VMS
3 13 (14.61%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (6.74%) Unix
4 6 (6.74%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.45%) Agile
2 31 (34.83%) DevOps
3 23 (25.84%) CI/CD
4 22 (24.72%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (23.60%) Microservices
6 19 (21.35%) TDD
7 16 (17.98%) Cloud Security
8 15 (16.85%) Configuration Management
9 14 (15.73%) AI
9 14 (15.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (14.61%) Patch Management
11 12 (13.48%) Change Management
11 12 (13.48%) Computer Science
11 12 (13.48%) Mentoring
11 12 (13.48%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (12.36%) Containerisation
12 11 (12.36%) Scrum
13 10 (11.24%) BDD
13 10 (11.24%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.19%) Python
2 25 (28.09%) JavaScript
2 25 (28.09%) SQL
3 18 (20.22%) C#
4 17 (19.10%) Groovy
5 15 (16.85%) Perl
6 13 (14.61%) PowerShell
7 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
8 9 (10.11%) PHP
9 8 (8.99%) R
10 6 (6.74%) PL/SQL
11 4 (4.49%) Bash
11 4 (4.49%) Delphi
11 4 (4.49%) Scala
12 3 (3.37%) C++
12 3 (3.37%) Kotlin
12 3 (3.37%) Ruby
13 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (2.25%) XAML
14 1 (1.12%) C
Qualifications
1 29 (32.58%) Security Cleared
2 27 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.85%) Degree
4 11 (12.36%) AWS Certification
4 11 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.74%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.25%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.12%) CBAP
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (39.33%) Docker
2 15 (16.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.49%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (22.47%) Kubernetes
2 19 (21.35%) Terraform
3 18 (20.22%) Grafana
4 13 (14.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.37%) Ansible
5 3 (3.37%) Kibana
6 2 (2.25%) Nagios
6 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.12%) logstash
7 1 (1.12%) Oozie
Vendors
1 17 (19.10%) Oracle
2 13 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.62%) Splunk
4 4 (4.49%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) UiPath
5 3 (3.37%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.25%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.25%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (2.25%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.12%) Databricks
7 1 (1.12%) Foundry
7 1 (1.12%) Informatica
7 1 (1.12%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.12%) New Relic
7 1 (1.12%) Palantir
7 1 (1.12%) SAP