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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 51 102
Rank change year-on-year -23 +51 -26
Permanent jobs citing Java 167 148 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.85% 4.53% 2.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.50% 20.82% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 82 92 72
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £47,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £87,025 £74,875 £78,700
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 1,012 711 1,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.24% 21.76% 24.22%
Number of salaries quoted 710 559 768
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,125 £32,425
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -2 95 £75,000 +15.38% 53
Shropshire -17 22 £45,000 -28.00% 33
Staffordshire -10 16 £50,000 -6.87% 3
Coventry -9 12 £70,000 - 7
Worcestershire -18 9 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Warwickshire -21 8 £55,000 - 9
Wolverhampton -6 2 £70,000 -22.22% 3
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 7 (4.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.59%) CICS
3 5 (2.99%) Confluence
4 3 (1.80%) Documentum
5 1 (0.60%) Appian
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.60%) SAS
5 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.60%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Simulink
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.72%) Azure
2 58 (34.73%) AWS
3 25 (14.97%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (12.57%) GitHub
5 20 (11.98%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.59%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.99%) PaaS
8 4 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.40%) GCP
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.80%) SaaS
9 3 (1.80%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.20%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.20%) Serverless
11 1 (0.60%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.39%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.80%) Firewall
2 3 (1.80%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.19%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.19%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.59%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.59%) Db2
3 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.59%) Power BI
4 5 (2.99%) Big Data
4 5 (2.99%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.99%) MySQL
4 5 (2.99%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (2.99%) QlikView
4 5 (2.99%) Tableau
5 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.20%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.60%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 30 (17.96%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.58%) JUnit
3 15 (8.98%) Git
3 15 (8.98%) Maven
4 14 (8.38%) Mockito
5 13 (7.78%) GitLab
6 11 (6.59%) Cucumber
7 10 (5.99%) Postman
8 9 (5.39%) Eclipse
8 9 (5.39%) JMeter
8 9 (5.39%) Selenium
9 8 (4.79%) JIRA
9 8 (4.79%) Zephyr
10 5 (2.99%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.40%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.40%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.80%) Burp Suite
12 3 (1.80%) Gatling
12 3 (1.80%) HP UFT
12 3 (1.80%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (25.75%) Finance
2 38 (22.75%) Social Skills
3 29 (17.37%) Public Sector
4 25 (14.97%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.19%) Banking
6 11 (6.59%) Legal
7 9 (5.39%) Electronics
8 6 (3.59%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.59%) Law
8 6 (3.59%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Police
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (34.13%) Developer
2 50 (29.94%) Senior
3 33 (19.76%) Lead
4 29 (17.37%) Java Developer
5 26 (15.57%) Java Engineer
6 21 (12.57%) Consultant
7 20 (11.98%) Senior Developer
8 17 (10.18%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (9.58%) Applications Consultant
9 16 (9.58%) Mainframe Consultant
10 14 (8.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (8.38%) Software Engineer
11 13 (7.78%) Applications Engineer
11 13 (7.78%) Senior Java Engineer
12 11 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (4.79%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
15 7 (4.19%) Integration Developer
15 7 (4.19%) Scrum Master
15 7 (4.19%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (27.54%) Spring
2 32 (19.16%) Spring Boot
3 29 (17.37%) REST
4 24 (14.37%) React
5 22 (13.17%) .NET
6 16 (9.58%) ISPF
7 12 (7.19%) SOAP
7 12 (7.19%) XML
8 11 (6.59%) Node.js
8 11 (6.59%) RESTful
9 10 (5.99%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.39%) Playwright
11 7 (4.19%) SAP Fiori
11 7 (4.19%) SAPUI5
12 6 (3.59%) JDBC
12 6 (3.59%) JSON
12 6 (3.59%) Kafka
12 6 (3.59%) OAuth
13 5 (2.99%) ADO
13 5 (2.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.57%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (11.98%) Cloud Native
3 18 (10.78%) Legacy Applications
4 16 (9.58%) Mainframe
5 9 (5.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.59%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.99%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.40%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.80%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.20%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
12 1 (0.60%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.98%) Linux
2 5 (2.99%) Windows
3 3 (1.80%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.60%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (41.92%) Agile
2 68 (40.72%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (37.13%) CI/CD
4 54 (32.34%) Mentoring
5 41 (24.55%) Scrum
6 40 (23.95%) Software Engineering
7 39 (23.35%) DevOps
8 33 (19.76%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (16.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (16.17%) Test Automation
11 26 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (14.97%) Microservices
13 23 (13.77%) Collaborative Culture
14 22 (13.17%) Software Testing
15 20 (11.98%) Coaching
15 20 (11.98%) TDD
16 19 (11.38%) AI
16 19 (11.38%) SDLC
17 18 (10.78%) Analytics
17 18 (10.78%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.35%) JavaScript
2 37 (22.16%) SQL
3 26 (15.57%) Python
4 16 (9.58%) C
4 16 (9.58%) COBOL
4 16 (9.58%) JCL
5 15 (8.98%) PL/SQL
6 14 (8.38%) C#
7 11 (6.59%) Bash
8 10 (5.99%) TypeScript
9 9 (5.39%) Embedded C
9 9 (5.39%) MATLAB
10 8 (4.79%) C++
11 7 (4.19%) ABAP
12 6 (3.59%) R
13 3 (1.80%) Go
14 2 (1.20%) VBA
15 1 (0.60%) Scala
15 1 (0.60%) VB
15 1 (0.60%) VB6
Qualifications
1 29 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.77%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.57%) Degree
4 9 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.59%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.99%) ISEB
6 5 (2.99%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) QA
2 10 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) GxP
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) PSD2
5 1 (0.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (11.38%) Docker
2 12 (7.19%) Embedded Firmware
2 12 (7.19%) Firmware
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.99%) Grafana
3 3 (1.80%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.20%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Argo
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (10.78%) Oracle
2 12 (7.19%) SAP
3 10 (5.99%) Broadcom
4 6 (3.59%) Databricks
4 6 (3.59%) iManage
4 6 (3.59%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.99%) Pega
6 3 (1.80%) OpenText
6 3 (1.80%) Veracode
7 1 (0.60%) Denodo
7 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.60%) Google
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.60%) VMware