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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 47 104
Rank change year-on-year -33 +57 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 138 160 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.61% 4.64% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.58% 20.59% 9.39%
Number of salaries quoted 72 103 104
10th Percentile £41,325 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £46,250 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,403 £60,000 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% +7.62% -7.08%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,058 £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 1,016 777 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.82% 22.55% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 743 607 1,035
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,775 £32,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,000 £68,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 74 £75,000 +15.38% 66
Shropshire -14 24 £46,250 -26.00% 15
Worcestershire -13 11 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Staffordshire -15 11 £50,000 -6.87% 2
Wolverhampton -13 6 £70,000 -26.32%
Warwickshire -13 5 £55,000 - 3
Coventry -17 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 (5.07%) Confluence
1 7 (5.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.90%) CICS
3 3 (2.17%) Documentum
4 1 (0.72%) Appian
4 1 (0.72%) nginx
4 1 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.72%) SAS
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Simulink
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.07%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (37.68%) Azure
2 48 (34.78%) AWS
3 22 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (10.14%) GitHub
5 13 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (7.25%) SaaS
7 9 (6.52%) PaaS
8 6 (4.35%) dbt
9 4 (2.90%) BrowserStack
9 4 (2.90%) GCP
9 4 (2.90%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.90%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.45%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.45%) Datadog
12 1 (0.72%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Wireshark
2 3 (2.17%) Firewall
2 3 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 7 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.35%) MySQL
4 4 (2.90%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.90%) Data Mining
4 4 (2.90%) Db2
4 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.90%) Power BI
5 3 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.17%) Big Data
5 3 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.17%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (2.17%) QlikView
5 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.17%) Tableau
6 2 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.72%) Metadata
7 1 (0.72%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 26 (18.84%) Jenkins
2 18 (13.04%) Cucumber
3 16 (11.59%) Git
3 16 (11.59%) JUnit
4 15 (10.87%) GitLab
4 15 (10.87%) Maven
5 14 (10.14%) Mockito
6 13 (9.42%) JMeter
6 13 (9.42%) Postman
6 13 (9.42%) Selenium
7 11 (7.97%) Zephyr
8 9 (6.52%) Gatling
8 9 (6.52%) JIRA
9 7 (5.07%) Cypress.io
9 7 (5.07%) REST Assured
10 6 (4.35%) LoadRunner
10 6 (4.35%) SoapUI
11 5 (3.62%) Burp Suite
11 5 (3.62%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.90%) HP UFT
General
1 43 (31.16%) Finance
2 30 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.84%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.25%) Banking
6 9 (6.52%) Legal
7 8 (5.80%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.35%) Law
9 5 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.90%) Electronics
11 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Police
12 1 (0.72%) Retail
12 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (28.26%) Developer
1 39 (28.26%) Lead
2 31 (22.46%) Senior
3 20 (14.49%) Java Developer
4 16 (11.59%) Java Engineer
5 12 (8.70%) Consultant
5 12 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (7.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (7.25%) Applications Consultant
7 10 (7.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (7.25%) Mainframe Consultant
7 10 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.80%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.07%) SAP Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Scrum Master
9 7 (5.07%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (5.07%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (28.26%) Spring
2 32 (23.19%) REST
3 27 (19.57%) React
4 25 (18.12%) Spring Boot
5 16 (11.59%) Playwright
6 15 (10.87%) .NET
7 12 (8.70%) AngularJS
8 11 (7.97%) Node.js
8 11 (7.97%) RESTful
8 11 (7.97%) SOAP
9 10 (7.25%) ISPF
10 9 (6.52%) XML
11 7 (5.07%) JSON
11 7 (5.07%) SAP Fiori
11 7 (5.07%) SAPUI5
12 6 (4.35%) JDBC
12 6 (4.35%) OAuth
13 5 (3.62%) ADO
13 5 (3.62%) Terraform
14 3 (2.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.59%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (9.42%) Legacy Applications
4 10 (7.25%) Mainframe
5 7 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.07%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.17%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.17%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.72%) Autonomous Agent
10 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.72%) Mobile Wallet
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.94%) Linux
2 5 (3.62%) Kali Linux
2 5 (3.62%) Windows
3 3 (2.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.72%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (48.55%) Agile
2 65 (47.10%) CI/CD
3 58 (42.03%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (38.41%) Mentoring
5 43 (31.16%) Test Automation
6 38 (27.54%) DevOps
6 38 (27.54%) Scrum
7 29 (21.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
9 26 (18.84%) Microservices
9 26 (18.84%) Software Engineering
10 25 (18.12%) SDLC
11 24 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 21 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (14.49%) BDD
13 20 (14.49%) TDD
14 19 (13.77%) AI
14 19 (13.77%) Software Testing
15 18 (13.04%) Containerisation
16 17 (12.32%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.81%) JavaScript
2 35 (25.36%) SQL
3 30 (21.74%) Python
4 19 (13.77%) C#
5 15 (10.87%) PL/SQL
6 11 (7.97%) Bash
6 11 (7.97%) JCL
7 10 (7.25%) C
7 10 (7.25%) COBOL
8 8 (5.80%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.07%) ABAP
9 7 (5.07%) C++
10 4 (2.90%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.90%) MATLAB
10 4 (2.90%) R
11 3 (2.17%) Go
12 2 (1.45%) PHP
13 1 (0.72%) Scala
13 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.12%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.94%) Degree
4 11 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.62%) ISEB
6 5 (3.62%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.04%) QA
2 10 (7.25%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.17%) NIST
6 1 (0.72%) GDPR
6 1 (0.72%) GxP
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.72%) PSD2
6 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (15.22%) Docker
2 6 (4.35%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (4.35%) Firmware
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.80%) Grafana
3 5 (3.62%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.45%) Ansible
4 2 (1.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.72%) Argo
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (13.04%) Oracle
2 12 (8.70%) SAP
3 6 (4.35%) Broadcom
3 6 (4.35%) iManage
3 6 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.62%) Pega
4 5 (3.62%) Veracode
5 4 (2.90%) Databricks
6 3 (2.17%) OpenText
7 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.72%) Denodo
7 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.72%) Google
7 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Splunk
7 1 (0.72%) VMware