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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 39 114
Rank change year-on-year -67 +75 -56
Permanent jobs citing Java 98 170 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.22% 5.03% 2.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.01% 20.99% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 68 110 137
10th Percentile £38,875 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £47,322 £43,438 £40,000
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 £73,563 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 979 810 1,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.23% 23.95% 23.45%
Number of salaries quoted 731 640 1,514
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 July 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 July 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 -21 54 £70,079 +16.80% 7
Shropshire -26 13 £47,500 -22.45% 26
Worcestershire -12 10 £61,250 +28.95% 2
Staffordshire -19 8 £50,000 -6.87% 3
Coventry -16 6 £80,000 - 3
Wolverhampton -17 6 £70,000 -26.32% 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 5 (5.10%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) Documentum
2 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) Appian
3 1 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (35.71%) AWS
2 26 (26.53%) Azure
3 11 (11.22%) SaaS
4 7 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.14%) dbt
4 7 (7.14%) PaaS
5 4 (4.08%) BrowserStack
5 4 (4.08%) GCP
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.06%) Datadog
6 3 (3.06%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.04%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub
7 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.04%) Serverless
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.16%) MySQL
3 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.04%) Redis
6 2 (2.04%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.02%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.02%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 15 (15.31%) Cucumber
2 11 (11.22%) Git
2 11 (11.22%) GitLab
3 10 (10.20%) JUnit
4 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.18%) JMeter
4 9 (9.18%) Maven
4 9 (9.18%) Mockito
4 9 (9.18%) Selenium
5 8 (8.16%) Gatling
5 8 (8.16%) Postman
6 7 (7.14%) Zephyr
7 6 (6.12%) JIRA
8 5 (5.10%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.10%) LoadRunner
8 5 (5.10%) REST Assured
9 4 (4.08%) Burp Suite
9 4 (4.08%) SonarQube
10 3 (3.06%) HP UFT
10 3 (3.06%) SoapUI
General
1 26 (26.53%) Finance
2 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.18%) Banking
5 8 (8.16%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.14%) Legal
7 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.12%) Law
8 1 (1.02%) Advertising
8 1 (1.02%) Electronics
8 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.02%) Retail
8 1 (1.02%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (33.67%) Developer
2 32 (32.65%) Lead
3 19 (19.39%) Senior
4 14 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 14 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 13 (13.27%) Software Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Test Leader
7 7 (7.14%) SAP Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) QA Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Quality Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 5 (5.10%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.59%) REST
2 27 (27.55%) Spring
3 26 (26.53%) React
4 16 (16.33%) Spring Boot
5 14 (14.29%) Node.js
6 13 (13.27%) AngularJS
7 11 (11.22%) Playwright
8 10 (10.20%) RESTful
9 8 (8.16%) SOAP
10 7 (7.14%) SAP Fiori
10 7 (7.14%) SAPUI5
11 6 (6.12%) JDBC
11 6 (6.12%) OAuth
12 5 (5.10%) .NET
12 5 (5.10%) CSS
13 4 (4.08%) GraphQL
13 4 (4.08%) HTML
13 4 (4.08%) Kafka
14 3 (3.06%) JSON
14 3 (3.06%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.12%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.02%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.02%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.02%) IoT
7 1 (1.02%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.02%) Mobile Wallet
7 1 (1.02%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Kali Linux
2 4 (4.08%) Windows
3 2 (2.04%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (48.98%) Agile
2 46 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 41 (41.84%) Test Automation
4 40 (40.82%) Mentoring
5 39 (39.80%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (25.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (24.49%) Microservices
8 23 (23.47%) DevOps
9 21 (21.43%) Software Engineering
10 20 (20.41%) Full-Stack Development
10 20 (20.41%) Scrum
11 18 (18.37%) BDD
12 16 (16.33%) SDLC
12 16 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 16 (16.33%) TDD
12 16 (16.33%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (14.29%) Observability
13 14 (14.29%) Unit Testing
14 13 (13.27%) Containerisation
14 13 (13.27%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (26.53%) JavaScript
2 25 (25.51%) Python
3 23 (23.47%) SQL
4 16 (16.33%) C#
5 10 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.18%) PL/SQL
7 8 (8.16%) C++
8 7 (7.14%) ABAP
9 5 (5.10%) Bash
9 5 (5.10%) C
10 3 (3.06%) Go
10 3 (3.06%) PHP
11 1 (1.02%) Embedded C
11 1 (1.02%) JCL
11 1 (1.02%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.02%) Scala
11 1 (1.02%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (12.24%) Degree
2 10 (10.20%) SC Cleared
2 10 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.04%) ISEB
5 2 (2.04%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.35%) QA
2 13 (13.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.02%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) GxP
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) PSD2
4 1 (1.02%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (18.37%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.16%) Grafana
3 6 (6.12%) Terraform
4 4 (4.08%) HP Fortify
4 4 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.04%) Nagios
6 1 (1.02%) Ansible
6 1 (1.02%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (11.22%) Oracle
2 9 (9.18%) SAP
3 6 (6.12%) iManage
4 4 (4.08%) Veracode
5 2 (2.04%) OpenText
5 2 (2.04%) Pega
5 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk