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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 110 78
Rank change year-on-year -4 -32 -33
Permanent jobs citing Java 73 78 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.09% 2.23% 3.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.01% 9.10% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 61 55 177
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £53,688 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -6.63% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,066 £63,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,000 £83,550
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%

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 810 857 1,749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.08% 24.47% 27.91%
Number of salaries quoted 642 578 1,544
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +1 41 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Worcestershire -7 15 £36,500 - 1
Coventry -14 8 £63,750 - 2
Warwickshire +7 4 £80,000 - 4
Shropshire -22 4 £62,500 +19.05% 3
Staffordshire -19 1 £53,688 -
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 6 (8.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.74%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.37%) FileNet
4 1 (1.37%) JBoss
4 1 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) AWS
2 18 (24.66%) Azure
3 9 (12.33%) SaaS
4 8 (10.96%) PaaS
5 7 (9.59%) dbt
6 5 (6.85%) GCP
6 5 (6.85%) Serverless
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) Datadog
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub
7 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.37%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.70%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.96%) MySQL
3 5 (6.85%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.48%) Relational Database
4 4 (5.48%) TimescaleDB
5 3 (4.11%) Redis
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.37%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.37%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.37%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) JUnit
2 10 (13.70%) Git
3 9 (12.33%) Maven
3 9 (12.33%) Mockito
4 7 (9.59%) Cucumber
4 7 (9.59%) GitLab
5 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
5 6 (8.22%) Selenium
6 5 (6.85%) JMeter
7 3 (4.11%) JIRA
7 3 (4.11%) Locust
8 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.74%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.74%) Postman
8 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.37%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.37%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.92%) Finance
3 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.74%) Advertising
5 2 (2.74%) Banking
5 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.37%) Automotive
6 1 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.37%) Law
6 1 (1.37%) Legal
6 1 (1.37%) Police
6 1 (1.37%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Developer
2 22 (30.14%) Java Developer
3 14 (19.18%) Lead
4 13 (17.81%) Senior
5 11 (15.07%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.96%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (10.96%) Java Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Software Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (9.59%) Test Leader
9 6 (8.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.48%) QA Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) QA Leader
11 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Maximo Developer
11 3 (4.11%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Backend Developer
12 2 (2.74%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) React
2 17 (23.29%) Spring
3 15 (20.55%) REST
4 11 (15.07%) Spring Boot
5 5 (6.85%) Node.js
6 4 (5.48%) CSS
6 4 (5.48%) GraphQL
6 4 (5.48%) HTML
6 4 (5.48%) RESTful
7 3 (4.11%) .NET
7 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.11%) Gherkin
7 3 (4.11%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.11%) JPA
8 2 (2.74%) Django
8 2 (2.74%) Flask
8 2 (2.74%) jQuery
8 2 (2.74%) OAuth
8 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
1 6 (8.22%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.37%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.37%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Derivative
6 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) NHS
6 1 (1.37%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
6 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.07%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) Android
3 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.37%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) Agile
1 34 (46.58%) Full-Stack Development
2 24 (32.88%) CI/CD
3 19 (26.03%) Microservices
4 18 (24.66%) DevOps
4 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (23.29%) Test Automation
6 16 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (19.18%) Scrum
8 13 (17.81%) User Experience
9 12 (16.44%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.07%) BDD
10 11 (15.07%) Computer Science
10 11 (15.07%) Software Engineering
10 11 (15.07%) TDD
11 9 (12.33%) Decision-Making
11 9 (12.33%) SDLC
11 9 (12.33%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.03%) Python
2 18 (24.66%) JavaScript
3 15 (20.55%) SQL
4 12 (16.44%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.96%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.59%) C
7 6 (8.22%) Bash
7 6 (8.22%) C++
8 5 (6.85%) C#
9 4 (5.48%) R
10 3 (4.11%) PHP
11 2 (2.74%) Delphi
12 1 (1.37%) Groovy
12 1 (1.37%) JCL
12 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.37%) Ruby
12 1 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) Degree
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.11%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.18%) QA
2 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (28.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.59%) Grafana
3 6 (8.22%) Terraform
4 3 (4.11%) Nagios
4 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.74%) Ansible
6 1 (1.37%) HP Fortify
6 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Oracle
2 4 (5.48%) IBM
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.74%) Google
3 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.74%) Splunk
4 1 (1.37%) Adobe
4 1 (1.37%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.37%) Foundry
4 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.37%) New Relic
4 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.37%) Palantir
4 1 (1.37%) Veracode