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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 114 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 -49 -38
Permanent jobs citing Java 74 96 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.46% 2.09% 3.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.77% 8.36% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58 47 104
10th Percentile £37,850 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,438 £66,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £81,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -

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 687 1,148 1,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.56% 24.99% 33.76%
Number of salaries quoted 556 606 910
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,163 £41,250 £41,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,313 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 14 December 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 14 December 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 +4 41 £62,500 +25.00% 18
Solihull - 6 - - 1
Warwickshire +28 5 £80,000 - 7
Coventry +2 5 £60,000 +4.35% 9
Worcestershire -10 4 £47,000 -41.25% 8
Shropshire -14 4 £65,000 +13.04% 14
Staffordshire -10 1 £53,688 +2.32% 7
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 11 (14.86%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) IIS
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.70%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.35%) FileNet
4 1 (1.35%) JBoss
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Maximo
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 38 (51.35%) AWS
2 28 (37.84%) Azure
3 16 (21.62%) Amazon S3
4 15 (20.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (18.92%) Amazon EC2
6 12 (16.22%) Amazon ELB
6 12 (16.22%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (16.22%) AWS KMS
6 12 (16.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (14.86%) SaaS
8 8 (10.81%) GCP
9 7 (9.46%) Azure AI
10 4 (5.41%) GitHub
10 4 (5.41%) Serverless
11 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.70%) PaaS
12 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
13 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.22%) DNS
1 12 (16.22%) FTP
1 12 (16.22%) HTTP
1 12 (16.22%) SMTP
1 12 (16.22%) SSH
2 10 (13.51%) Firewall
3 1 (1.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.27%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.76%) MySQL
5 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) MS Access
6 2 (2.70%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.35%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (21.62%) Git
1 16 (21.62%) Jenkins
2 12 (16.22%) Vagrant
3 11 (14.86%) JIRA
4 8 (10.81%) JUnit
5 6 (8.11%) GitLab
6 5 (6.76%) Maven
6 5 (6.76%) Mockito
6 5 (6.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (5.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.05%) Selenium
9 2 (2.70%) Subversion
10 1 (1.35%) Gatling
10 1 (1.35%) JMeter
10 1 (1.35%) Locust
10 1 (1.35%) MLflow
10 1 (1.35%) Postman
General
1 28 (37.84%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Public Sector
3 12 (16.22%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.05%) Law
8 2 (2.70%) Back Office
8 2 (2.70%) Banking
8 2 (2.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.35%) Advertising
9 1 (1.35%) Automotive
9 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Police
9 1 (1.35%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (39.19%) Developer
2 13 (17.57%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Software Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Support
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Support Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Automation Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Junior
7 4 (5.41%) Lead
7 4 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) Spring
2 13 (17.57%) React
2 13 (17.57%) Spring Boot
3 11 (14.86%) .NET
4 8 (10.81%) REST
5 7 (9.46%) RESTful
6 4 (5.41%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.05%) CSS
7 3 (4.05%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.05%) OAuth
7 3 (4.05%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.70%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.70%) ADO
8 2 (2.70%) LDAP
8 2 (2.70%) Middleware
8 2 (2.70%) ODBC
8 2 (2.70%) OpenID
8 2 (2.70%) SAML
8 2 (2.70%) SOAP
8 2 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.41%) Replication
4 3 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.70%) NHS
6 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.35%) Derivative
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Life Science
6 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (24.32%) Linux
2 12 (16.22%) VMS
3 10 (13.51%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (9.46%) Windows
5 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) Agile
2 28 (37.84%) DevOps
3 23 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 14 (18.92%) Microservices
6 13 (17.57%) AI
6 13 (17.57%) Cloud Security
6 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
7 12 (16.22%) Configuration Management
7 12 (16.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (16.22%) TDD
8 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
9 10 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (13.51%) Patch Management
10 9 (12.16%) Change Management
10 9 (12.16%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.81%) Scrum
12 7 (9.46%) Containerisation
12 7 (9.46%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (48.65%) Python
2 24 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 19 (25.68%) SQL
4 17 (22.97%) C#
5 14 (18.92%) Groovy
6 12 (16.22%) Perl
6 12 (16.22%) TypeScript
7 10 (13.51%) PowerShell
8 8 (10.81%) PHP
9 7 (9.46%) R
10 5 (6.76%) PL/SQL
11 4 (5.41%) C++
11 4 (5.41%) Delphi
12 3 (4.05%) Bash
12 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
12 3 (4.05%) Ruby
12 3 (4.05%) Scala
13 2 (2.70%) C
13 2 (2.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 16 (21.62%) Degree
4 12 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (13.51%) AWS Certification
6 7 (9.46%) Master's Degree
7 5 (6.76%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.05%) IBM Certification
9 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.35%) CBAP
10 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (31.08%) Docker
2 12 (16.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.41%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Kubernetes
1 16 (21.62%) Terraform
2 15 (20.27%) Grafana
3 11 (14.86%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.05%) Ansible
4 3 (4.05%) Nagios
5 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Oracle
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.51%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.41%) Google
4 4 (5.41%) IBM
4 4 (5.41%) UiPath
5 2 (2.70%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (2.70%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.70%) Splunk
6 1 (1.35%) Adobe
6 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.35%) Foundry
6 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) New Relic
6 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.35%) Palantir