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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 54 105
Rank change year-on-year -16 +51 -29
Permanent jobs citing Java 184 139 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.04% 4.36% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.02% 20.50% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 93 85 67
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £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 £77,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,000 £75,000 £78,450
England median annual salary £71,371 £78,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% -2.50% +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 1,021 678 1,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.31% 21.25% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 723 531 733
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,125 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,875 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
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 16 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 16 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 -1 103 £75,000 +15.38% 9
Shropshire -14 24 £45,000 -29.69% 22
Staffordshire -6 16 £50,000 -6.87% 4
Coventry -6 16 £70,000 - 3
Worcestershire -20 9 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -15 8 £55,000 - 3
Wolverhampton -3 2 £70,000 -22.22%
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 8 (4.35%) CICS
2 7 (3.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (2.72%) Confluence
4 3 (1.63%) Documentum
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.54%) SAS
5 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (4.89%) Simulink
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (38.59%) Azure
2 65 (35.33%) AWS
3 29 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (14.13%) GitHub
5 25 (13.59%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.26%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.72%) PaaS
8 4 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.17%) GCP
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.63%) SaaS
9 3 (1.63%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.09%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.09%) Serverless
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.54%) AWS IoT
11 1 (0.54%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.89%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.63%) Firewall
2 3 (1.63%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.61%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.35%) Db2
3 7 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.80%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.26%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.26%) Power BI
4 6 (3.26%) Tableau
5 5 (2.72%) Big Data
5 5 (2.72%) Data Mining
5 5 (2.72%) MySQL
5 5 (2.72%) Oracle BI EE
5 5 (2.72%) QlikView
6 3 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.09%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.54%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 35 (19.02%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.24%) Git
3 16 (8.70%) JUnit
4 15 (8.15%) Maven
5 14 (7.61%) GitLab
5 14 (7.61%) Mockito
6 11 (5.98%) Cucumber
6 11 (5.98%) Selenium
7 10 (5.43%) Postman
8 9 (4.89%) Eclipse
8 9 (4.89%) JIRA
8 9 (4.89%) JMeter
8 9 (4.89%) Zephyr
9 5 (2.72%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.17%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.17%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.63%) Burp Suite
11 3 (1.63%) Gatling
11 3 (1.63%) HP UFT
11 3 (1.63%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (26.09%) Finance
2 41 (22.28%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.93%) Public Sector
4 29 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.98%) Banking
5 11 (5.98%) Legal
6 9 (4.89%) Electronics
7 6 (3.26%) Law
7 6 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Police
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
10 1 (0.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (34.24%) Developer
2 60 (32.61%) Senior
3 33 (17.93%) Lead
4 31 (16.85%) Java Developer
5 25 (13.59%) Consultant
5 25 (13.59%) Java Engineer
6 23 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 20 (10.87%) Applications Consultant
7 20 (10.87%) Mainframe Consultant
8 19 (10.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (8.70%) Software Engineer
10 14 (7.61%) Senior Java Engineer
11 13 (7.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (6.52%) Applications Engineer
13 11 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (5.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (5.43%) Integration Developer
15 8 (4.35%) COBOL Consultant
15 8 (4.35%) Java Consultant
15 8 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (26.09%) Spring
2 34 (18.48%) Spring Boot
3 28 (15.22%) REST
4 26 (14.13%) .NET
5 23 (12.50%) React
6 20 (10.87%) ISPF
7 12 (6.52%) RESTful
7 12 (6.52%) SOAP
7 12 (6.52%) XML
8 11 (5.98%) Node.js
9 9 (4.89%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.89%) Playwright
10 7 (3.80%) JSON
10 7 (3.80%) SAP Fiori
10 7 (3.80%) SAPUI5
11 6 (3.26%) JDBC
11 6 (3.26%) Kafka
11 6 (3.26%) OAuth
11 6 (3.26%) Terraform
12 5 (2.72%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.59%) Enterprise Software
2 24 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 22 (11.96%) Legacy Applications
4 20 (10.87%) Mainframe
5 9 (4.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.26%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.72%) Embedded Systems
8 5 (2.72%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.72%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.63%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.54%) IoT
12 1 (0.54%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.87%) Linux
2 5 (2.72%) Windows
3 3 (1.63%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.54%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (39.67%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (39.13%) Agile
3 71 (38.59%) CI/CD
4 59 (32.07%) Mentoring
5 48 (26.09%) Software Engineering
6 45 (24.46%) DevOps
7 43 (23.37%) Scrum
8 40 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
9 30 (16.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (16.30%) Test Automation
10 28 (15.22%) Collaborative Culture
11 27 (14.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (14.67%) Microservices
11 27 (14.67%) Software Testing
12 23 (12.50%) Coaching
12 23 (12.50%) SDLC
13 20 (10.87%) AI
13 20 (10.87%) Batch Processing
13 20 (10.87%) Re-Platforming
13 20 (10.87%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 43 (23.37%) JavaScript
2 41 (22.28%) SQL
3 31 (16.85%) Python
4 20 (10.87%) C
4 20 (10.87%) COBOL
4 20 (10.87%) JCL
5 15 (8.15%) PL/SQL
6 14 (7.61%) C#
6 14 (7.61%) TypeScript
7 12 (6.52%) C++
8 11 (5.98%) Bash
9 9 (4.89%) Embedded C
9 9 (4.89%) MATLAB
10 7 (3.80%) ABAP
11 6 (3.26%) R
12 3 (1.63%) Go
13 1 (0.54%) Scala
13 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.54%) VB
13 1 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (16.30%) Degree
2 28 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 27 (14.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.80%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.72%) ISEB
6 5 (2.72%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.78%) QA
2 10 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.63%) NIST
6 1 (0.54%) GDPR
6 1 (0.54%) GxP
6 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.54%) PSD2
6 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (11.41%) Docker
2 13 (7.07%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (7.07%) Firmware
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.72%) Grafana
3 3 (1.63%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.09%) Ansible
4 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.54%) Argo
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.33%) Oracle
2 12 (6.52%) Broadcom
2 12 (6.52%) SAP
3 8 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.26%) Databricks
4 6 (3.26%) iManage
5 5 (2.72%) Pega
6 3 (1.63%) OpenText
6 3 (1.63%) Veracode
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.54%) Denodo
8 1 (0.54%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.54%) Google
8 1 (0.54%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.54%) VMware