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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 111 65
Rank change year-on-year +14 -46 -28
Permanent jobs citing Java 77 95 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.46% 2.23% 3.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.88% 8.68% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 63 49 111
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.63% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £74,952 £84,964 £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 708 1,095 1,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.45% 25.67% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 575 557 941
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +4 46 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Worcestershire -9 9 £35,000 -56.25% 10
Warwickshire +20 5 £80,000 - 3
Coventry +1 5 £60,000 +4.35% 9
Solihull - 2 - - 1
Staffordshire -11 1 £53,688 - 9
Shropshire -17 1 - - 16
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 6 (7.79%) IIS
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.90%) Confluence
4 2 (2.60%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.30%) FileNet
5 1 (1.30%) JBoss
5 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 32 (41.56%) AWS
2 24 (31.17%) Azure
3 10 (12.99%) SaaS
4 9 (11.69%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (10.39%) GCP
6 7 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (9.09%) Azure AI
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon Glacier
7 5 (6.49%) AWS KMS
7 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.19%) Serverless
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.90%) GitHub
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.60%) PaaS
10 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) DNS
1 5 (6.49%) FTP
1 5 (6.49%) HTTP
1 5 (6.49%) SMTP
1 5 (6.49%) SSH
2 3 (3.90%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.39%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.79%) MySQL
4 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.60%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.60%) MS Access
5 2 (2.60%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) JUnit
2 9 (11.69%) Git
2 9 (11.69%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.39%) Maven
3 8 (10.39%) Mockito
4 5 (6.49%) GitLab
4 5 (6.49%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 3 (3.90%) Selenium
6 2 (2.60%) Subversion
7 1 (1.30%) Gatling
7 1 (1.30%) JMeter
7 1 (1.30%) Locust
7 1 (1.30%) MLflow
7 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Law
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Advertising
7 1 (1.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Back Office
7 1 (1.30%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Police
7 1 (1.30%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (44.16%) Developer
2 19 (24.68%) Java Developer
3 13 (16.88%) Senior
4 10 (12.99%) Senior Developer
5 9 (11.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Full-Stack Developer
6 8 (10.39%) Java Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Software Developer
8 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Support Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Technical Support
8 6 (7.79%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Automation Developer
10 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) Spring
2 14 (18.18%) React
3 13 (16.88%) Spring Boot
4 11 (14.29%) .NET
5 10 (12.99%) REST
6 5 (6.49%) RESTful
7 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.90%) CSS
7 3 (3.90%) Hibernate
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth
7 3 (3.90%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
8 2 (2.60%) ADO
8 2 (2.60%) Flask
8 2 (2.60%) HTML
8 2 (2.60%) LDAP
8 2 (2.60%) Middleware
8 2 (2.60%) ODBC
8 2 (2.60%) SAML
8 2 (2.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) Derivative
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) PKI
6 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.18%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) VMS
3 3 (3.90%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (3.90%) Windows
4 2 (2.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) Agile
2 26 (33.77%) Full-Stack Development
2 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (20.78%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.78%) DevOps
4 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
5 14 (18.18%) Microservices
6 12 (15.58%) AI
6 12 (15.58%) TDD
7 10 (12.99%) Scrum
8 9 (11.69%) Containerisation
8 9 (11.69%) Mentoring
8 9 (11.69%) Software Engineering
8 9 (11.69%) User Experience
9 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.09%) SDLC
11 6 (7.79%) Cloud Security
11 6 (7.79%) Decision-Making
11 6 (7.79%) Sprint Planning
11 6 (7.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (37.66%) Python
2 25 (32.47%) JavaScript
3 19 (24.68%) SQL
4 16 (20.78%) C#
5 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.99%) R
7 8 (10.39%) PHP
8 7 (9.09%) Groovy
8 7 (9.09%) PL/SQL
9 6 (7.79%) Bash
10 5 (6.49%) Perl
11 4 (5.19%) C
11 4 (5.19%) C++
11 4 (5.19%) Delphi
12 3 (3.90%) Kotlin
12 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
12 3 (3.90%) Ruby
12 3 (3.90%) Scala
13 2 (2.60%) XAML
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (15.58%) Degree
4 7 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.90%) IBM Certification
7 2 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.30%) CBAP
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Terraform
3 8 (10.39%) Grafana
4 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.90%) Ansible
5 3 (3.90%) Nagios
6 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (25.97%) Oracle
2 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.19%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) IBM
3 4 (5.19%) UiPath
4 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (2.60%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.60%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) Adobe
6 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.30%) Foundry
6 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.30%) Palantir