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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 107 57
Rank change year-on-year +43 -50 -34
Permanent jobs citing Java 165 181 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.08% 2.14% 4.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.90% 8.94% 14.16%
Number of salaries quoted 104 157 134
10th Percentile £28,625 £24,600 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,188 £70,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £93,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +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 922 2,025 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 22.77% 23.98% 35.12%
Number of salaries quoted 610 1,644 1,210
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,375 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +2 63 £60,000 +4.35% 129
Staffordshire +32 34 £53,688 +20.65% 41
Shropshire +36 22 £61,250 - 41
Solihull +16 13 £72,500 +52.63% 3
Warwickshire +4 6 - - 30
Worcestershire +25 5 £47,500 -26.92% 21
Herefordshire - 4 - - 1
Wolverhampton +16 3 £95,000 +123.53% 13
Walsall - 3 £105,000 -
Coventry +8 2 - - 38
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 32 (19.39%) Confluence
2 8 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.21%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.61%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
4 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.82%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.61%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 94 (56.97%) AWS
2 83 (50.30%) Azure
3 29 (17.58%) GCP
4 26 (15.76%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (14.55%) Amazon S3
6 22 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 22 (13.33%) AWS KMS
7 17 (10.30%) Serverless
8 16 (9.70%) Amazon ELB
8 16 (9.70%) Amazon Glacier
8 16 (9.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 14 (8.48%) Power Platform
10 12 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (4.85%) Power Automate
12 8 (4.85%) PowerApps
13 7 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (3.64%) Route 53
15 4 (2.42%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 15 (9.09%) Firewall
2 12 (7.27%) DNS
2 12 (7.27%) FTP
2 12 (7.27%) HTTP
2 12 (7.27%) SMTP
2 12 (7.27%) SSH
3 3 (1.82%) SSL
4 2 (1.21%) Broadband
5 1 (0.61%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (20.61%) SQL Server
2 24 (14.55%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (12.12%) NoSQL
4 12 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.27%) Relational Database
5 9 (5.45%) MySQL
6 8 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (4.85%) DB2
6 8 (4.85%) RDBMS
7 7 (4.24%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.64%) Big Data
8 6 (3.64%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.64%) Power BI
9 5 (3.03%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.42%) Cloud Spanner
10 4 (2.42%) MaxDB
10 4 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.42%) SAP HANA
11 3 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 44 (26.67%) JIRA
2 33 (20.00%) Maven
3 31 (18.79%) SonarQube
4 30 (18.18%) Sonatype Nexus
5 29 (17.58%) Git
6 27 (16.36%) GitLab
6 27 (16.36%) Jenkins
6 27 (16.36%) Selenium
7 25 (15.15%) Cucumber
8 24 (14.55%) Bitbucket
9 16 (9.70%) JUnit
9 16 (9.70%) Vagrant
10 15 (9.09%) Mockito
11 9 (5.45%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (3.64%) DbUnit
12 6 (3.64%) jMock
13 4 (2.42%) Eclipse
13 4 (2.42%) IntelliJ
13 4 (2.42%) Jasmine
13 4 (2.42%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 40 (24.24%) Finance
2 30 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 29 (17.58%) Banking
4 25 (15.15%) Social Skills
5 24 (14.55%) Retail
6 22 (13.33%) Public Sector
7 15 (9.09%) Police
8 14 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
9 11 (6.67%) Investment Banking
10 10 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (4.85%) Law
12 4 (2.42%) Advertising
12 4 (2.42%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.82%) Marketing
14 2 (1.21%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.61%) Back Office
15 1 (0.61%) Electronics
15 1 (0.61%) Games
Job Titles
1 54 (32.73%) Developer
2 41 (24.85%) Software Engineer
3 33 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 17 (10.30%) Java Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Lead
6 12 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Graduate
7 11 (6.67%) Graduate Developer
7 11 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Senior
9 8 (4.85%) Architect
9 8 (4.85%) Lead Developer
9 8 (4.85%) Microsoft 365 Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (4.24%) IT Graduate
10 7 (4.24%) Lead Java Developer
10 7 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Applications Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Software Support Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (35.76%) Spring
2 42 (25.45%) JPA
2 42 (25.45%) Spring Boot
3 41 (24.85%) React
4 34 (20.61%) HTML
5 32 (19.39%) CSS
5 32 (19.39%) Hibernate
6 30 (18.18%) .NET
6 30 (18.18%) Kafka
7 24 (14.55%) Redux
7 24 (14.55%) REST
8 23 (13.94%) RESTful
9 17 (10.30%) AngularJS
10 13 (7.88%) Web Services
11 11 (6.67%) CSS3
11 11 (6.67%) HTML5
11 11 (6.67%) Jest
11 11 (6.67%) Sass
12 10 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
12 10 (6.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.76%) Product Ownership
2 24 (14.55%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (7.27%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.85%) Replication
5 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.64%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.64%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.82%) Cyberattack
9 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) IoT
9 2 (1.21%) Life Science
9 2 (1.21%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.03%) Linux
2 16 (9.70%) VMS
3 14 (8.48%) Windows
4 13 (7.88%) Amazon Linux
4 13 (7.88%) Unix
5 5 (3.03%) Rocky
6 4 (2.42%) AIX
7 3 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.61%) Android
8 1 (0.61%) CentOS
8 1 (0.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (46.06%) Agile
2 72 (43.64%) DevOps
3 65 (39.39%) Microservices
4 52 (31.52%) Software Engineering
5 50 (30.30%) Containerisation
6 45 (27.27%) TDD
7 44 (26.67%) CI/CD
8 35 (21.21%) Full-Stack Development
8 35 (21.21%) SDLC
8 35 (21.21%) Test Automation
9 27 (16.36%) Computer Science
9 27 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 26 (15.76%) Performance Optimisation
11 25 (15.15%) Front End Development
12 23 (13.94%) Mentoring
12 23 (13.94%) User Experience
13 22 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
14 19 (11.52%) Configuration Management
14 19 (11.52%) Continuous Integration
15 18 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 81 (49.09%) SQL
2 52 (31.52%) JavaScript
2 52 (31.52%) Python
3 35 (21.21%) C#
4 19 (11.52%) C++
4 19 (11.52%) TypeScript
5 16 (9.70%) Groovy
5 16 (9.70%) Perl
6 15 (9.09%) PHP
7 13 (7.88%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.67%) R
9 10 (6.06%) Ruby
10 8 (4.85%) C
10 8 (4.85%) Rust
11 7 (4.24%) Dart
11 7 (4.24%) MATLAB
12 6 (3.64%) PL/SQL
13 5 (3.03%) Bash
13 5 (3.03%) Shell Script
14 4 (2.42%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 39 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 35 (21.21%) Degree
3 27 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 20 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (7.27%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.85%) DV Cleared
7 7 (4.24%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (24.85%) QA
2 11 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.24%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (47.27%) Docker
2 15 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (3.64%) DFS Replication
4 3 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.21%) Postfix
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (32.12%) Kubernetes
2 22 (13.33%) Terraform
3 19 (11.52%) Prometheus
4 17 (10.30%) Grafana
5 6 (3.64%) Ansible
6 3 (1.82%) Kibana
6 3 (1.82%) Nagios
6 3 (1.82%) Nessus
6 3 (1.82%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.21%) Argo
7 2 (1.21%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.61%) logstash
8 1 (0.61%) Oozie
Vendors
1 24 (14.55%) Solace
2 20 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 13 (7.88%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.85%) Oracle
5 7 (4.24%) Google
6 6 (3.64%) Atlassian
6 6 (3.64%) IBM
6 6 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.03%) SAP
8 3 (1.82%) Databricks
8 3 (1.82%) Juniper
8 3 (1.82%) Splunk
8 3 (1.82%) Sybase
9 2 (1.21%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.21%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.61%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.61%) Informatica
10 1 (0.61%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.61%) UiPath