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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 45 105
Rank change year-on-year -35 +60 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 147 155 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.68% 4.61% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.23% 21.26% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 75 98 88
10th Percentile £41,550 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £46,519 £46,563 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,789 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 1,033 729 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.84% 21.70% 22.16%
Number of salaries quoted 746 570 926
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,038 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,892
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.20% +2.60%
75th Percentile £71,246 £68,750 £65,452
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -15 78 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Shropshire -18 24 £46,250 -26.00% 19
Staffordshire -13 13 £50,000 -6.87% 1
Worcestershire -17 11 £70,000 +47.37%
Warwickshire -12 8 £55,000 - 4
Wolverhampton -9 6 £70,000 -22.22%
Coventry -18 4 £78,750 - 4
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 7 (4.76%) Confluence
1 7 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.72%) CICS
3 3 (2.04%) Documentum
4 1 (0.68%) Appian
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Simulink
2 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.73%) Azure
2 51 (34.69%) AWS
3 23 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (10.20%) GitHub
5 14 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.76%) PaaS
6 7 (4.76%) SaaS
7 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.72%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.72%) GCP
8 4 (2.72%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.04%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.04%) dbt
10 2 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.36%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.36%) Datadog
10 2 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.08%) Wireshark
2 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 3 (2.04%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.80%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.08%) MongoDB
3 6 (4.08%) MySQL
4 5 (3.40%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.40%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.40%) Power BI
5 4 (2.72%) Big Data
5 4 (2.72%) Db2
5 4 (2.72%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (2.72%) QlikView
5 4 (2.72%) Tableau
6 3 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.36%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (18.37%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.24%) Cucumber
3 16 (10.88%) Git
3 16 (10.88%) JUnit
4 15 (10.20%) GitLab
4 15 (10.20%) Maven
5 14 (9.52%) Mockito
6 13 (8.84%) JMeter
6 13 (8.84%) Postman
6 13 (8.84%) Selenium
7 11 (7.48%) Zephyr
8 9 (6.12%) Gatling
8 9 (6.12%) JIRA
9 7 (4.76%) Cypress.io
9 7 (4.76%) REST Assured
10 6 (4.08%) Eclipse
10 6 (4.08%) LoadRunner
10 6 (4.08%) SoapUI
11 5 (3.40%) Burp Suite
11 5 (3.40%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (29.93%) Finance
2 33 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.37%) Public Sector
4 21 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.48%) Banking
6 10 (6.80%) Legal
7 8 (5.44%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.08%) Electronics
8 6 (4.08%) Law
8 6 (4.08%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.68%) Police
11 1 (0.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (29.93%) Developer
2 39 (26.53%) Lead
3 35 (23.81%) Senior
4 23 (15.65%) Java Developer
5 18 (12.24%) Java Engineer
6 16 (10.88%) Consultant
7 13 (8.84%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Applications Consultant
9 11 (7.48%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.48%) Mainframe Consultant
9 11 (7.48%) Software Engineer
10 10 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
10 10 (6.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (6.80%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) SAP Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Scrum Master
11 7 (4.76%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.08%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.57%) Spring
2 32 (21.77%) REST
3 28 (19.05%) Spring Boot
4 27 (18.37%) React
5 17 (11.56%) .NET
6 16 (10.88%) Playwright
7 12 (8.16%) AngularJS
7 12 (8.16%) XML
8 11 (7.48%) ISPF
8 11 (7.48%) Node.js
8 11 (7.48%) RESTful
8 11 (7.48%) SOAP
9 7 (4.76%) JSON
9 7 (4.76%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (4.76%) SAPUI5
10 6 (4.08%) JDBC
10 6 (4.08%) OAuth
11 5 (3.40%) ADO
11 5 (3.40%) Kafka
11 5 (3.40%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.56%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (9.52%) Legacy Applications
4 11 (7.48%) Mainframe
5 7 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.76%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.72%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.72%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.04%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.68%) Autonomous Agent
11 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.68%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.97%) Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Kali Linux
2 5 (3.40%) Windows
3 3 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.68%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (49.66%) Agile
2 67 (45.58%) CI/CD
3 63 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (38.78%) Mentoring
5 40 (27.21%) Scrum
5 40 (27.21%) Test Automation
6 39 (26.53%) DevOps
7 30 (20.41%) Technical Leadership
8 29 (19.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (17.69%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (17.69%) Microservices
9 26 (17.69%) Software Engineering
10 25 (17.01%) SDLC
11 21 (14.29%) Software Testing
11 21 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (13.61%) AI
12 20 (13.61%) TDD
13 19 (12.93%) Coaching
14 18 (12.24%) Analytics
14 18 (12.24%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.89%) JavaScript
2 39 (26.53%) SQL
3 28 (19.05%) Python
4 20 (13.61%) C#
5 15 (10.20%) PL/SQL
6 12 (8.16%) C
6 12 (8.16%) JCL
7 11 (7.48%) Bash
7 11 (7.48%) COBOL
8 8 (5.44%) C++
8 8 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.76%) ABAP
10 6 (4.08%) Embedded C
10 6 (4.08%) MATLAB
11 5 (3.40%) R
12 3 (2.04%) Go
13 2 (1.36%) PHP
14 1 (0.68%) Scala
14 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 25 (17.01%) Degree
4 11 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.40%) ISEB
6 5 (3.40%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.24%) QA
2 10 (6.80%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.12%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.04%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) GDPR
6 1 (0.68%) GxP
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) PSD2
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (14.29%) Docker
2 8 (5.44%) Embedded Firmware
2 8 (5.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.44%) Grafana
3 5 (3.40%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.68%) Argo
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (12.24%) Oracle
2 12 (8.16%) SAP
3 7 (4.76%) Broadcom
4 6 (4.08%) iManage
4 6 (4.08%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.40%) Databricks
5 5 (3.40%) Pega
5 5 (3.40%) Veracode
6 3 (2.04%) OpenText
7 1 (0.68%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.68%) Denodo
7 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.68%) Google
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) VMware