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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 101 82
Rank change year-on-year +58 -19 -60
Permanent jobs citing Java 158 126 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.85% 2.08% 3.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.73% 9.01% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 101 81 101
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,500 £38,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%

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 727 1,399 1,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.32% 23.11% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 572 857 1,025
10th Percentile £32,125 £32,500 £33,565
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% +1.90%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £67,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +12 62 £65,000 +16.59% 20
Staffordshire +27 32 £53,688 +4.76% 10
Shropshire +24 19 £62,500 +8.70% 11
Solihull +12 15 £75,000 +50.00% 1
Warwickshire +41 6 - - 3
Worcestershire +13 4 £47,500 -36.67% 2
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Walsall - 3 £105,000 -
Coventry +8 2 - - 4
Wolverhampton +9 1 £90,000 +111.76% 4
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (23.42%) Confluence
2 8 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.80%) IIS
4 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.63%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 95 (60.13%) AWS
2 72 (45.57%) Azure
3 33 (20.89%) Amazon EC2
4 32 (20.25%) Amazon S3
5 29 (18.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 29 (18.35%) AWS KMS
5 29 (18.35%) GCP
6 23 (14.56%) Amazon ELB
6 23 (14.56%) Amazon Glacier
6 23 (14.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (9.49%) Serverless
8 13 (8.23%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (6.96%) Power Platform
10 9 (5.70%) SaaS
11 8 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.06%) Power Automate
11 8 (5.06%) PowerApps
12 7 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.43%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (12.66%) Firewall
2 19 (12.03%) DNS
2 19 (12.03%) FTP
2 19 (12.03%) HTTP
2 19 (12.03%) SMTP
2 19 (12.03%) SSH
3 3 (1.90%) SSL
4 1 (0.63%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.32%) SQL Server
2 32 (20.25%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (8.23%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (5.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (5.06%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.43%) DynamoDB
7 6 (3.80%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.16%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.16%) MySQL
9 3 (1.90%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.90%) Hazelcast
9 3 (1.90%) Power BI
10 2 (1.27%) Big Data
10 2 (1.27%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.27%) MS Access
10 2 (1.27%) Tableau
11 1 (0.63%) HBase
Development Applications
1 48 (30.38%) JIRA
2 34 (21.52%) Git
2 34 (21.52%) Jenkins
3 33 (20.89%) Maven
4 31 (19.62%) SonarQube
4 31 (19.62%) Sonatype Nexus
5 28 (17.72%) GitLab
6 25 (15.82%) Cucumber
6 25 (15.82%) Selenium
7 24 (15.19%) Bitbucket
8 23 (14.56%) Vagrant
9 10 (6.33%) JUnit
10 9 (5.70%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (5.70%) Mockito
11 6 (3.80%) DbUnit
11 6 (3.80%) jMock
12 3 (1.90%) Subversion
13 2 (1.27%) JMeter
13 2 (1.27%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.63%) Gatling
General
1 33 (20.89%) Finance
2 30 (18.99%) Social Skills
3 29 (18.35%) Public Sector
4 27 (17.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (15.82%) Banking
6 20 (12.66%) Retail
7 14 (8.86%) Police
8 11 (6.96%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (6.96%) Investment Banking
8 11 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (3.80%) Law
11 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.90%) Back Office
12 3 (1.90%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.27%) Advertising
13 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 50 (31.65%) Developer
2 38 (24.05%) Software Engineer
3 28 (17.72%) Java Developer
4 18 (11.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (11.39%) Java Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) Support Engineer
6 11 (6.96%) Java Software Engineer
7 8 (5.06%) Architect
7 8 (5.06%) Lead
7 8 (5.06%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 8 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (4.43%) Graduate
8 7 (4.43%) Graduate Developer
8 7 (4.43%) Lead Developer
8 7 (4.43%) Lead Java Developer
8 7 (4.43%) Senior
9 6 (3.80%) Software Support Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (3.80%) Technical Support
9 6 (3.80%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (38.61%) Spring
2 45 (28.48%) Spring Boot
3 37 (23.42%) JPA
4 36 (22.78%) React
5 35 (22.15%) HTML
6 29 (18.35%) .NET
6 29 (18.35%) CSS
6 29 (18.35%) Hibernate
7 25 (15.82%) Kafka
8 24 (15.19%) Redux
8 24 (15.19%) RESTful
9 21 (13.29%) REST
10 13 (8.23%) AngularJS
10 13 (8.23%) Web Services
11 11 (6.96%) CSS3
11 11 (6.96%) HTML5
11 11 (6.96%) Jest
11 11 (6.96%) Sass
12 10 (6.33%) ActiveMQ
13 9 (5.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.46%) Product Ownership
2 24 (15.19%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.43%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (4.43%) Mobile App
3 7 (4.43%) Replication
4 6 (3.80%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 5 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.27%) IoT
8 2 (1.27%) Life Science
8 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.63%) Clustering
9 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
9 1 (0.63%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.78%) Linux
2 23 (14.56%) VMS
3 18 (11.39%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (7.59%) Windows
5 4 (2.53%) Rocky
5 4 (2.53%) Unix
6 3 (1.90%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.63%) Android
7 1 (0.63%) CentOS
7 1 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (48.10%) DevOps
2 69 (43.67%) Agile
3 57 (36.08%) Microservices
4 48 (30.38%) CI/CD
5 44 (27.85%) Containerisation
5 44 (27.85%) Software Engineering
5 44 (27.85%) TDD
6 34 (21.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (21.52%) Test Automation
7 31 (19.62%) SDLC
8 27 (17.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (15.82%) Artificial Intelligence
9 25 (15.82%) Front End Development
10 24 (15.19%) Cloud Security
10 24 (15.19%) Performance Optimisation
11 23 (14.56%) Computer Science
11 23 (14.56%) Configuration Management
11 23 (14.56%) User Experience
12 21 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (12.66%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (42.41%) SQL
2 61 (38.61%) Python
3 52 (32.91%) JavaScript
4 36 (22.78%) C#
5 24 (15.19%) Groovy
6 23 (14.56%) Perl
7 21 (13.29%) TypeScript
8 18 (11.39%) PowerShell
9 17 (10.76%) PHP
10 15 (9.49%) R
11 12 (7.59%) C++
11 12 (7.59%) Ruby
12 9 (5.70%) C
13 8 (5.06%) Rust
14 7 (4.43%) Dart
14 7 (4.43%) MATLAB
15 5 (3.16%) Shell Script
16 4 (2.53%) PL/SQL
17 3 (1.90%) Scala
18 2 (1.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 43 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.42%) SC Cleared
3 30 (18.99%) Degree
4 20 (12.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (8.86%) AWS Certification
6 9 (5.70%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.80%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.16%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.63%) CBAP
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (24.05%) QA
2 12 (7.59%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.43%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 74 (46.84%) Docker
2 21 (13.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.43%) DFS Replication
4 3 (1.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.27%) Postfix
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.63%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 47 (29.75%) Kubernetes
2 26 (16.46%) Terraform
3 23 (14.56%) Grafana
4 22 (13.92%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.16%) Ansible
5 5 (3.16%) Nagios
6 3 (1.90%) Kibana
6 3 (1.90%) Nessus
6 3 (1.90%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.63%) logstash
7 1 (0.63%) Oozie
7 1 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.19%) Solace
3 18 (11.39%) ServiceNow
4 11 (6.96%) Oracle
5 6 (3.80%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.16%) Google
6 5 (3.16%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.53%) Splunk
7 4 (2.53%) UiPath
8 3 (1.90%) Juniper
9 2 (1.27%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (1.27%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.27%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.63%) Databricks
10 1 (0.63%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.63%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.63%) Informatica
10 1 (0.63%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.63%) SAP