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 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 108 79
Rank change year-on-year +50 -29 -54
Permanent jobs citing Java 133 115 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.15% 2.11% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.76% 8.52% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 80 63 92
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,500 £32,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,250 £71,546
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,650 £80,000
England median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.23% +6.68%

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 673 1,350 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 21.00% 24.76% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 524 721 979
10th Percentile £32,125 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,438 £40,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £68,813 £68,750 £66,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £76,250
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 23 October 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 23 October 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 +13 59 £65,000 +36.84% 13
Staffordshire +13 24 £53,688 +13.03% 8
Solihull - 14 £75,000 - 1
Shropshire +7 13 £64,500 +12.17% 11
Warwickshire +48 7 - - 10
Coventry +6 4 £65,000 +13.04% 5
Herefordshire - 3 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £90,000 -
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 36 (27.07%) Confluence
2 6 (4.51%) IIS
3 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Maximo
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 87 (65.41%) AWS
2 61 (45.86%) Azure
3 30 (22.56%) Amazon EC2
3 30 (22.56%) Amazon S3
4 26 (19.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (19.55%) AWS KMS
5 24 (18.05%) GCP
6 20 (15.04%) Amazon ELB
6 20 (15.04%) Amazon Glacier
6 20 (15.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (8.27%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (8.27%) SaaS
7 11 (8.27%) Serverless
8 9 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (5.26%) Azure AI
10 6 (4.51%) Route 53
11 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.26%) GitHub
13 2 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.29%) DNS
1 19 (14.29%) FTP
1 19 (14.29%) HTTP
1 19 (14.29%) SMTP
1 19 (14.29%) SSH
2 17 (12.78%) Firewall
3 1 (0.75%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 29 (21.80%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.26%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.76%) MySQL
8 3 (2.26%) Hazelcast
8 3 (2.26%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.50%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.50%) MS Access
9 2 (1.50%) Power BI
10 1 (0.75%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.75%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.75%) QlikView
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.75%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 47 (35.34%) JIRA
2 35 (26.32%) Maven
3 32 (24.06%) Jenkins
4 31 (23.31%) SonarQube
4 31 (23.31%) Sonatype Nexus
5 29 (21.80%) Git
6 28 (21.05%) GitLab
7 26 (19.55%) Cucumber
8 25 (18.80%) Selenium
9 24 (18.05%) Bitbucket
10 20 (15.04%) Vagrant
11 13 (9.77%) JUnit
12 12 (9.02%) Mockito
13 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (4.51%) DbUnit
13 6 (4.51%) jMock
14 3 (2.26%) JMeter
15 2 (1.50%) Subversion
16 1 (0.75%) Locust
16 1 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 35 (26.32%) Finance
2 30 (22.56%) Public Sector
2 30 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 27 (20.30%) Banking
4 25 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (13.53%) Retail
6 12 (9.02%) Corporate Banking
6 12 (9.02%) Investment Banking
7 9 (6.77%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.50%) Advertising
11 2 (1.50%) Back Office
11 2 (1.50%) Law
11 2 (1.50%) Police
12 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (29.32%) Developer
2 32 (24.06%) Software Engineer
3 25 (18.80%) Java Developer
4 18 (13.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.52%) Lead
7 9 (6.77%) Java Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Lead Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Senior
9 6 (4.51%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.51%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (4.51%) Software Applications Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Software Support Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Technical Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Technical Support
9 6 (4.51%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (42.11%) Spring
2 46 (34.59%) Spring Boot
3 35 (26.32%) React
4 34 (25.56%) HTML
5 32 (24.06%) JPA
6 27 (20.30%) CSS
7 25 (18.80%) Hibernate
7 25 (18.80%) Kafka
7 25 (18.80%) RESTful
8 24 (18.05%) Redux
9 23 (17.29%) REST
10 19 (14.29%) .NET
11 12 (9.02%) AngularJS
11 12 (9.02%) Web Services
12 11 (8.27%) CSS3
12 11 (8.27%) HTML5
12 11 (8.27%) Jest
12 11 (8.27%) Sass
13 10 (7.52%) ActiveMQ
14 8 (6.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 24 (18.05%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.26%) Replication
4 6 (4.51%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.01%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.50%) IoT
8 2 (1.50%) Life Science
8 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.75%) Clustering
9 1 (0.75%) Derivative
9 1 (0.75%) NHS
9 1 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (23.31%) Linux
2 20 (15.04%) VMS
3 18 (13.53%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (6.77%) Windows
5 6 (4.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (49.62%) DevOps
2 62 (46.62%) Agile
3 53 (39.85%) Microservices
4 47 (35.34%) CI/CD
5 40 (30.08%) Containerisation
5 40 (30.08%) TDD
6 35 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
7 34 (25.56%) Test Automation
8 33 (24.81%) Software Engineering
9 30 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (18.80%) Front End Development
10 25 (18.80%) SDLC
11 24 (18.05%) Performance Optimisation
12 22 (16.54%) AI
13 21 (15.79%) Cloud Security
14 20 (15.04%) Computer Science
14 20 (15.04%) Configuration Management
14 20 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
15 19 (14.29%) Clean Code
15 19 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 59 (44.36%) SQL
2 58 (43.61%) Python
3 52 (39.10%) JavaScript
4 26 (19.55%) TypeScript
5 25 (18.80%) C#
6 22 (16.54%) Groovy
7 20 (15.04%) Perl
8 18 (13.53%) PowerShell
9 15 (11.28%) PHP
9 15 (11.28%) R
10 10 (7.52%) Ruby
11 9 (6.77%) C++
12 8 (6.02%) C
13 7 (5.26%) Dart
13 7 (5.26%) MATLAB
13 7 (5.26%) Rust
14 6 (4.51%) PL/SQL
15 4 (3.01%) Scala
16 3 (2.26%) Bash
16 3 (2.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 39 (29.32%) Security Cleared
2 38 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 23 (17.29%) Degree
4 17 (12.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (10.53%) AWS Certification
6 9 (6.77%) Azure Certification
7 6 (4.51%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.50%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.75%) CBAP
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.31%) QA
2 13 (9.77%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.26%) PCI DSS
3 7 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (52.63%) Docker
2 19 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.26%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.50%) Postfix
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (34.59%) Kubernetes
2 25 (18.80%) Grafana
2 25 (18.80%) Terraform
3 22 (16.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.26%) Ansible
4 3 (2.26%) Kibana
5 2 (1.50%) Nagios
5 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) logstash
6 1 (0.75%) Oozie
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Solace
2 19 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 18 (13.53%) ServiceNow
4 13 (9.77%) Oracle
5 6 (4.51%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.76%) Splunk
7 4 (3.01%) Google
7 4 (3.01%) UiPath
8 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.26%) IBM
9 2 (1.50%) Automation Anywhere
9 2 (1.50%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.50%) Jaspersoft
10 1 (0.75%) Databricks
10 1 (0.75%) Foundry
10 1 (0.75%) Informatica
10 1 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.75%) New Relic
10 1 (0.75%) Palantir
10 1 (0.75%) SAP