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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 110 69
Rank change year-on-year +41 -41 -44
Permanent jobs citing Java 114 113 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.29% 2.08% 3.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.22% 8.43% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 82 60 94
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,350 £31,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,626 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -11.96% -1.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,125 £72,433
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 703 1,340 1,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.28% 24.70% 34.16%
Number of salaries quoted 570 711 959
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,705
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £69,375 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £75,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +13 59 £65,000 +48.57% 20
Shropshire +5 13 £64,500 +12.17% 17
Solihull - 13 £75,000 - 1
Staffordshire 0 9 £53,688 +26.32% 4
Coventry +4 4 £60,000 +4.35% 9
Warwickshire +40 3 - - 14
Worcestershire +13 3 £36,500 -51.33% 3
Wolverhampton - 1 £90,000 - 1
Herefordshire - 1 - - 2
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 23 (20.18%) Confluence
2 6 (5.26%) IIS
3 2 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.75%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) SAS
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Maximo
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 67 (58.77%) AWS
2 42 (36.84%) Azure
3 29 (25.44%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (25.44%) Amazon S3
4 27 (23.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 26 (22.81%) AWS KMS
6 20 (17.54%) Amazon ELB
6 20 (17.54%) Amazon Glacier
6 20 (17.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (9.65%) GCP
7 11 (9.65%) SaaS
7 11 (9.65%) Serverless
8 10 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.14%) Azure AI
11 6 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (5.26%) Route 53
12 4 (3.51%) GitHub
13 3 (2.63%) Power Platform
14 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.67%) DNS
1 19 (16.67%) FTP
1 19 (16.67%) HTTP
1 19 (16.67%) SMTP
1 19 (16.67%) SSH
2 17 (14.91%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.56%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 14 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.02%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.14%) DynamoDB
6 6 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.39%) MySQL
8 3 (2.63%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.75%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.75%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.75%) MS Access
9 2 (1.75%) Power BI
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.88%) Impala
10 1 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 31 (27.19%) Jenkins
2 29 (25.44%) Git
3 26 (22.81%) JIRA
4 20 (17.54%) Vagrant
5 15 (13.16%) JUnit
6 14 (12.28%) Maven
7 13 (11.40%) Mockito
8 10 (8.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (7.89%) SonarQube
10 8 (7.02%) GitLab
11 6 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (5.26%) Cucumber
11 6 (5.26%) DbUnit
11 6 (5.26%) jMock
12 5 (4.39%) Selenium
13 3 (2.63%) Bitbucket
13 3 (2.63%) JMeter
14 2 (1.75%) Subversion
15 1 (0.88%) Locust
15 1 (0.88%) Postman
General
1 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 29 (25.44%) Public Sector
3 15 (13.16%) Finance
4 9 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (7.89%) Retail
5 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.39%) Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.75%) Advertising
9 2 (1.75%) Back Office
9 2 (1.75%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Police
10 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (35.09%) Developer
2 27 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 18 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Java Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Senior
6 8 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Lead
7 6 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Applications Support
7 6 (5.26%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Software Applications Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Software Support Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Technical Support
7 6 (5.26%) Technical Support Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (32.46%) Spring
2 26 (22.81%) Spring Boot
3 18 (15.79%) RESTful
4 17 (14.91%) .NET
4 17 (14.91%) React
5 15 (13.16%) REST
6 13 (11.40%) HTML
7 12 (10.53%) Hibernate
8 11 (9.65%) AngularJS
8 11 (9.65%) JPA
8 11 (9.65%) Web Services
9 8 (7.02%) ActiveMQ
10 7 (6.14%) SOAP
11 6 (5.26%) Bootstrap
11 6 (5.26%) CSS
11 6 (5.26%) PowerMock
11 6 (5.26%) Spring Batch
11 6 (5.26%) Spring Integration
12 4 (3.51%) jQuery
12 4 (3.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.02%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.14%) Replication
3 6 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.51%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) IoT
6 2 (1.75%) Life Science
6 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.75%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Clustering
7 1 (0.88%) Derivative
7 1 (0.88%) NHS
7 1 (0.88%) PKI
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.07%) Linux
2 20 (17.54%) VMS
3 18 (15.79%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (7.89%) Windows
5 6 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.47%) DevOps
2 44 (38.60%) Agile
3 33 (28.95%) Microservices
4 29 (25.44%) CI/CD
5 27 (23.68%) TDD
6 22 (19.30%) AI
6 22 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (18.42%) Cloud Security
8 20 (17.54%) Configuration Management
9 19 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 19 (16.67%) Containerisation
10 18 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (14.91%) Change Management
11 17 (14.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (14.91%) Patch Management
12 15 (13.16%) BDD
12 15 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (13.16%) Scrum
12 15 (13.16%) Software Engineering
13 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (50.88%) Python
2 40 (35.09%) SQL
3 35 (30.70%) JavaScript
4 24 (21.05%) C#
5 22 (19.30%) Groovy
6 20 (17.54%) Perl
6 20 (17.54%) TypeScript
7 18 (15.79%) PowerShell
8 15 (13.16%) PHP
8 15 (13.16%) R
9 10 (8.77%) Ruby
10 9 (7.89%) C++
11 8 (7.02%) C
12 7 (6.14%) Dart
12 7 (6.14%) MATLAB
12 7 (6.14%) PL/SQL
12 7 (6.14%) Rust
13 4 (3.51%) Bash
13 4 (3.51%) Scala
14 3 (2.63%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 40 (35.09%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 23 (20.18%) Degree
4 17 (14.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (12.28%) AWS Certification
6 9 (7.89%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.26%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.75%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.88%) CBAP
10 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 6 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (43.86%) Docker
2 19 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.14%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.75%) Postfix
5 1 (0.88%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 25 (21.93%) Grafana
2 25 (21.93%) Terraform
3 21 (18.42%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.63%) Ansible
4 3 (2.63%) Kibana
5 2 (1.75%) Nagios
5 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.88%) logstash
6 1 (0.88%) Oozie
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) ServiceNow
2 17 (14.91%) Microsoft
3 16 (14.04%) Oracle
4 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.39%) Splunk
6 4 (3.51%) Google
6 4 (3.51%) UiPath
7 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.63%) Solace
8 2 (1.75%) Automation Anywhere
8 2 (1.75%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.75%) IBM
8 2 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
9 1 (0.88%) Databricks
9 1 (0.88%) Foundry
9 1 (0.88%) Informatica
9 1 (0.88%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.88%) New Relic
9 1 (0.88%) Palantir
9 1 (0.88%) SAP