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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 44 102
Rank change year-on-year -59 +58 -34
Permanent jobs citing Java 91 159 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.17% 5.25% 2.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.48% 20.20% 9.21%
Number of salaries quoted 64 102 167
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,875 £24,000
25th Percentile £47,322 £42,500 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,575 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 960 787 2,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.35% 25.98% 24.18%
Number of salaries quoted 717 608 1,703
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -18 57 £69,310 +15.52% 9
Worcestershire -9 11 £45,000 -5.26% 3
Shropshire -27 9 £53,750 -10.42% 12
Coventry -13 5 £80,000 - 1
Staffordshire -30 5 £67,500 +25.73% 3
Wolverhampton -20 4 £70,000 -26.32% 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 5 (5.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.30%) Confluence
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) Appian
4 1 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.87%) AWS
2 25 (27.47%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) SaaS
4 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.69%) dbt
4 7 (7.69%) PaaS
5 4 (4.40%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.30%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.20%) Datadog
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.20%) Serverless
8 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.10%) GCP
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.79%) MySQL
3 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.20%) Redis
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.20%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.10%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.10%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 13 (14.29%) JUnit
2 12 (13.19%) Maven
2 12 (13.19%) Mockito
3 8 (8.79%) Gatling
3 8 (8.79%) GitLab
4 7 (7.69%) Git
4 7 (7.69%) JMeter
4 7 (7.69%) Selenium
5 6 (6.59%) Jenkins
5 6 (6.59%) Postman
6 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.49%) LoadRunner
6 5 (5.49%) REST Assured
6 5 (5.49%) Zephyr
7 4 (4.40%) Burp Suite
7 4 (4.40%) JIRA
7 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.30%) HP UFT
9 2 (2.20%) Locust
General
1 24 (26.37%) Finance
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.40%) Legal
7 3 (3.30%) Law
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (31.87%) Developer
1 29 (31.87%) Lead
2 20 (21.98%) Senior
3 18 (19.78%) Java Developer
4 16 (17.58%) Java Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 12 (13.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (8.79%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.79%) Test Leader
9 6 (6.59%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) QA Engineer
9 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.40%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.57%) React
1 26 (28.57%) REST
2 24 (26.37%) Spring
3 13 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 12 (13.19%) AngularJS
5 11 (12.09%) Node.js
6 9 (9.89%) Playwright
7 8 (8.79%) RESTful
8 4 (4.40%) .NET
8 4 (4.40%) CSS
8 4 (4.40%) SAP Fiori
8 4 (4.40%) SAPUI5
9 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
9 3 (3.30%) HTML
9 3 (3.30%) JDBC
9 3 (3.30%) OAuth
9 3 (3.30%) SOAP
10 2 (2.20%) Gherkin
10 2 (2.20%) jQuery
10 2 (2.20%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.59%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.59%) Virtual Team
2 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.30%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.10%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.48%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Kali Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Windows
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (51.65%) Agile
2 37 (40.66%) CI/CD
2 37 (40.66%) Mentoring
2 37 (40.66%) Test Automation
3 31 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (32.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (25.27%) Microservices
6 21 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 20 (21.98%) Scrum
7 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
8 19 (20.88%) TDD
9 16 (17.58%) BDD
9 16 (17.58%) DevOps
9 16 (17.58%) SDLC
10 15 (16.48%) Containerisation
11 14 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
11 14 (15.38%) Unit Testing
12 13 (14.29%) Performance Testing
13 12 (13.19%) Observability
13 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 24 (26.37%) SQL
3 23 (25.27%) Python
4 14 (15.38%) C#
5 12 (13.19%) PL/SQL
6 10 (10.99%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.79%) Bash
7 8 (8.79%) C++
8 6 (6.59%) C
9 4 (4.40%) ABAP
10 3 (3.30%) Go
10 3 (3.30%) PHP
10 3 (3.30%) R
11 1 (1.10%) JCL
11 1 (1.10%) Scala
11 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
1 12 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.89%) Degree
3 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) QA
2 13 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) GxP
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (20.88%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (21.98%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) Grafana
3 5 (5.49%) Terraform
4 4 (4.40%) HP Fortify
5 2 (2.20%) Nagios
5 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.10%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle
2 4 (4.40%) SAP
2 4 (4.40%) Veracode
3 3 (3.30%) iManage
4 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk