Java Jobs in the West Midlands

Java
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 86 58
Rank change year-on-year -11 -28 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 110 196 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.47% 2.70% 5.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.78% 10.44% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 78 182 168
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £45,525
25th Percentile £41,563 £37,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.81% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £63,063 £71,991 £82,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £81,250 £96,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +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 934 1,877 2,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.98% 25.85% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 597 1,630 1,232
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,825 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 May 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 3 May 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 -15 48 £45,000 -21.74% 59
Staffordshire +26 24 £53,688 +2.26% 43
Shropshire +28 8 £60,000 +20.00% 18
Worcestershire +26 5 £47,500 -20.83% 9
Warwickshire -41 4 - - 17
Wolverhampton +10 3 £95,000 +123.53% 5
Walsall - 3 £105,000 -
Solihull +7 2 £58,750 +23.68% 1
Coventry -2 2 - - 13
Herefordshire - 1 - -
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 8 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.45%) Confluence
3 3 (2.73%) Apache
3 3 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.82%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.91%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.91%) Tomcat
Applications
1 12 (10.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.91%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 61 (55.45%) Azure
2 41 (37.27%) AWS
3 20 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 16 (14.55%) GCP
5 11 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (8.18%) Serverless
7 8 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.27%) Power Automate
7 8 (7.27%) PowerApps
8 7 (6.36%) SaaS
9 4 (3.64%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (3.64%) Google App Engine
9 4 (3.64%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.73%) Amazon ELB
10 3 (2.73%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (2.73%) AWS KMS
10 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.73%) Firewall
1 3 (2.73%) SSL
2 1 (0.91%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.36%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.45%) Relational Database
3 14 (12.73%) NoSQL
4 12 (10.91%) Power BI
5 8 (7.27%) DB2
6 7 (6.36%) Big Data
6 7 (6.36%) MySQL
7 5 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.55%) RDBMS
8 4 (3.64%) BigQuery
8 4 (3.64%) Cloud Spanner
8 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.64%) MaxDB
8 4 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (3.64%) SAP HANA
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.73%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.91%) MS Access
10 1 (0.91%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) JIRA
2 13 (11.82%) Selenium
3 11 (10.00%) GitLab
4 10 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 10 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 10 (9.09%) Maven
4 10 (9.09%) SonarQube
4 10 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (8.18%) JUnit
5 9 (8.18%) Mockito
6 7 (6.36%) Eclipse
6 7 (6.36%) IntelliJ
6 7 (6.36%) Jasmine
6 7 (6.36%) Karma Test Runner
6 7 (6.36%) Protractor
7 6 (5.45%) Git
8 3 (2.73%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.73%) Vagrant
8 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.73%) WebDriver
General
1 32 (29.09%) Finance
2 19 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.55%) Banking
4 16 (14.55%) Police
5 14 (12.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (10.91%) Manufacturing
7 11 (10.00%) Marketing
7 11 (10.00%) Retail
8 8 (7.27%) Law
9 6 (5.45%) Investment Banking
10 5 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.73%) Retail Banking
13 2 (1.82%) Advertising
13 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.82%) Public Sector
14 1 (0.91%) Back Office
14 1 (0.91%) Electronics
14 1 (0.91%) Games
Job Titles
1 38 (34.55%) Developer
2 24 (21.82%) Software Engineer
3 17 (15.45%) Java Developer
4 13 (11.82%) Data Scientist
5 10 (9.09%) Graduate
5 10 (9.09%) Graduate Developer
5 10 (9.09%) Java Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 8 (7.27%) Senior
7 7 (6.36%) Java Software Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Lead
7 7 (6.36%) SaaS Developer
8 6 (5.45%) Architect
8 6 (5.45%) Backend Developer
8 6 (5.45%) IT Graduate
9 5 (4.55%) Power Platform Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Agile Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 4 (3.64%) SAP Support
10 4 (3.64%) SAP Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.36%) React
2 26 (23.64%) .NET
3 23 (20.91%) JPA
3 23 (20.91%) Spring
4 17 (15.45%) CSS
4 17 (15.45%) Hibernate
5 16 (14.55%) Kafka
6 12 (10.91%) AngularJS
6 12 (10.91%) Spring Boot
7 11 (10.00%) HTML
8 10 (9.09%) Redux
9 9 (8.18%) REST
10 8 (7.27%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (7.27%) RESTful
11 7 (6.36%) jQuery
12 6 (5.45%) ASP.NET
12 6 (5.45%) Node.js
13 5 (4.55%) CSS3
13 5 (4.55%) J2EE
13 5 (4.55%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Mobile App
2 11 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 10 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.73%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.73%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.82%) PKI
6 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.82%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.82%) Replication
7 1 (0.91%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.27%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Windows
3 7 (6.36%) Unix
4 5 (4.55%) Rocky
5 4 (3.64%) AIX
6 3 (2.73%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.73%) VMS
7 2 (1.82%) Android
8 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.91%) CentOS
8 1 (0.91%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (40.91%) Agile
2 34 (30.91%) Software Engineering
3 32 (29.09%) Microservices
4 30 (27.27%) DevOps
5 29 (26.36%) Computer Science
6 25 (22.73%) Containerisation
7 21 (19.09%) Analytics
7 21 (19.09%) SDLC
8 19 (17.27%) Artificial Intelligence
8 19 (17.27%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (15.45%) CI/CD
9 17 (15.45%) Data Engineering
9 17 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (15.45%) TDD
9 17 (15.45%) Test Automation
10 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (13.64%) Data Science
11 15 (13.64%) Decision-Making
11 15 (13.64%) Machine Learning
11 15 (13.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.00%) SQL
2 32 (29.09%) Python
3 28 (25.45%) C#
3 28 (25.45%) JavaScript
4 23 (20.91%) C++
5 13 (11.82%) R
6 8 (7.27%) PHP
7 7 (6.36%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.64%) ABAP
9 3 (2.73%) Bash
9 3 (2.73%) Groovy
9 3 (2.73%) Perl
9 3 (2.73%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.73%) Ruby
9 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.82%) Go
11 1 (0.91%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.91%) Rust
11 1 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (30.91%) Degree
2 14 (12.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (11.82%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) CISSP
5 2 (1.82%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.82%) PMP
6 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.91%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (23.64%) QA
2 5 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.64%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.82%) NIST
5 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.73%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (21.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.36%) Terraform
3 4 (3.64%) Ansible
4 3 (2.73%) Nagios
4 3 (2.73%) Nessus
4 3 (2.73%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.91%) Grafana
5 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Solace
3 8 (7.27%) IBM
4 6 (5.45%) Oracle
4 6 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.55%) Google
6 4 (3.64%) SAP
7 3 (2.73%) Databricks
7 3 (2.73%) Juniper
7 3 (2.73%) Sybase
8 1 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.91%) UiPath