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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 111 71
Rank change year-on-year +34 -40 -46
Permanent jobs citing Java 103 114 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.86% 2.07% 3.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.67% 8.49% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 78 62 92
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,876 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -9.78% -3.36%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,375 £71,546
90th Percentile £75,750 £79,875 £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 702 1,342 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.51% 24.42% 34.49%
Number of salaries quoted 578 701 966
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,582
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,754 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £76,250 £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 14 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 14 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 +11 55 £65,000 +36.84% 11
Shropshire +5 11 £65,000 +13.04% 13
Solihull - 9 £75,000 - 1
Staffordshire +3 7 £53,688 +19.31% 2
Coventry +5 5 £57,600 +0.17% 4
Warwickshire +41 4 £80,000 - 3
Worcestershire +7 3 £36,500 -51.33% 3
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 19 (18.45%) Confluence
2 6 (5.83%) IIS
3 2 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.94%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.97%) SAS
4 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Maximo
2 1 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 56 (54.37%) AWS
2 34 (33.01%) Azure
3 24 (23.30%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (23.30%) Amazon S3
4 23 (22.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 21 (20.39%) AWS KMS
6 17 (16.50%) Amazon ELB
6 17 (16.50%) Amazon Glacier
6 17 (16.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (10.68%) SaaS
8 10 (9.71%) GCP
9 9 (8.74%) Serverless
10 8 (7.77%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.80%) Azure AI
12 4 (3.88%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (3.88%) GitHub
12 4 (3.88%) Route 53
13 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.50%) DNS
1 17 (16.50%) FTP
1 17 (16.50%) HTTP
1 17 (16.50%) SMTP
1 17 (16.50%) SSH
2 15 (14.56%) Firewall
3 1 (0.97%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (22.33%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (15.53%) SQL Server
3 13 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.80%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.80%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.85%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.85%) MySQL
6 4 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.91%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.94%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.94%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.94%) MS Access
8 2 (1.94%) Power BI
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.97%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.97%) Impala
9 1 (0.97%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 27 (26.21%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.27%) Git
3 19 (18.45%) JIRA
4 17 (16.50%) Vagrant
5 14 (13.59%) JUnit
6 11 (10.68%) Mockito
7 9 (8.74%) Maven
8 6 (5.83%) GitLab
9 4 (3.88%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.88%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.88%) DbUnit
9 4 (3.88%) jMock
9 4 (3.88%) SonarQube
9 4 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (2.91%) JMeter
10 3 (2.91%) Selenium
11 2 (1.94%) Subversion
12 1 (0.97%) Gatling
12 1 (0.97%) Locust
12 1 (0.97%) Postman
General
1 30 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.21%) Public Sector
3 12 (11.65%) Finance
4 7 (6.80%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Retail
7 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.91%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.94%) Advertising
8 2 (1.94%) Back Office
8 2 (1.94%) Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Law
9 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Police
9 1 (0.97%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (36.89%) Developer
2 25 (24.27%) Java Developer
3 16 (15.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (10.68%) Senior
5 10 (9.71%) Support Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Java Engineer
6 9 (8.74%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 7 (6.80%) Lead
8 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Technical Support
9 6 (5.83%) Technical Support Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Architect
11 4 (3.88%) Automation Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (31.07%) Spring
2 22 (21.36%) Spring Boot
3 15 (14.56%) .NET
4 14 (13.59%) React
5 12 (11.65%) RESTful
6 11 (10.68%) REST
7 10 (9.71%) Hibernate
7 10 (9.71%) HTML
8 9 (8.74%) AngularJS
8 9 (8.74%) Web Services
9 6 (5.83%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (4.85%) JPA
10 5 (4.85%) SOAP
11 4 (3.88%) Bootstrap
11 4 (3.88%) jQuery
11 4 (3.88%) PowerMock
11 4 (3.88%) Spring Batch
11 4 (3.88%) Spring Integration
12 3 (2.91%) OAuth2
12 3 (2.91%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) AI Agents
2 6 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.88%) Replication
3 4 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.94%) IoT
5 2 (1.94%) Life Science
5 2 (1.94%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.97%) Derivative
6 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.97%) NHS
6 1 (0.97%) PKI
6 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.24%) Linux
2 17 (16.50%) VMS
3 15 (14.56%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (5.83%) Unix
4 6 (5.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (37.86%) Agile
2 37 (35.92%) DevOps
3 26 (25.24%) Microservices
4 24 (23.30%) CI/CD
4 24 (23.30%) TDD
5 22 (21.36%) AI
5 22 (21.36%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (18.45%) Computer Science
7 18 (17.48%) Cloud Security
8 17 (16.50%) Configuration Management
9 15 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (14.56%) Patch Management
10 14 (13.59%) Change Management
10 14 (13.59%) Containerisation
10 14 (13.59%) Machine Learning
10 14 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (12.62%) Scrum
12 12 (11.65%) BDD
12 12 (11.65%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (51.46%) Python
2 33 (32.04%) SQL
3 32 (31.07%) JavaScript
4 24 (23.30%) C#
5 19 (18.45%) Groovy
6 17 (16.50%) Perl
6 17 (16.50%) TypeScript
7 15 (14.56%) PHP
7 15 (14.56%) PowerShell
7 15 (14.56%) R
8 10 (9.71%) Ruby
9 9 (8.74%) C++
10 8 (7.77%) C
11 7 (6.80%) Dart
11 7 (6.80%) MATLAB
11 7 (6.80%) PL/SQL
11 7 (6.80%) Rust
12 4 (3.88%) Bash
12 4 (3.88%) Delphi
12 4 (3.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (33.01%) Security Cleared
2 32 (31.07%) SC Cleared
3 21 (20.39%) Degree
4 17 (16.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (11.65%) AWS Certification
6 7 (6.80%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.83%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.94%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.97%) CBAP
10 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (39.81%) Docker
2 17 (16.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.88%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.97%) HDFS
4 1 (0.97%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (22.33%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.39%) Grafana
2 21 (20.39%) Terraform
3 16 (15.53%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.91%) Ansible
4 3 (2.91%) Kibana
5 2 (1.94%) Nagios
5 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.97%) logstash
6 1 (0.97%) Oozie
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Oracle
2 15 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.56%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.85%) Splunk
4 4 (3.88%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.88%) Google
4 4 (3.88%) UiPath
5 3 (2.91%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.94%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (1.94%) ForgeRock
6 2 (1.94%) IBM
7 1 (0.97%) Databricks
7 1 (0.97%) Foundry
7 1 (0.97%) Informatica
7 1 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.97%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.97%) New Relic
7 1 (0.97%) Palantir
7 1 (0.97%) SAP