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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 114 65
Rank change year-on-year +31 -49 -39
Permanent jobs citing Java 90 113 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.54% 2.07% 3.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.04% 8.45% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 72 60 95
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,094 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.72% -7.66% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,841
90th Percentile £77,250 £80,496 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 690 1,338 1,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.46% 24.54% 34.61%
Number of salaries quoted 574 696 977
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,763 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,778 £76,625 £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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +10 51 £65,000 +23.81% 11
Shropshire +5 9 £65,000 +13.04% 14
Solihull - 9 £75,000 - 1
Warwickshire +45 4 £80,000 - 3
Coventry +3 4 £57,600 +0.17% 4
Worcestershire +8 3 £36,500 -51.33% 4
Staffordshire -3 1 £53,688 +19.31% 3
Wolverhampton - 1 £90,000 - 1
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 17 (18.89%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) IIS
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.22%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) SAS
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Maximo
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.67%) AWS
2 31 (34.44%) Azure
3 22 (24.44%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (24.44%) Amazon S3
4 21 (23.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 19 (21.11%) AWS KMS
6 15 (16.67%) Amazon ELB
6 15 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
6 15 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 11 (12.22%) SaaS
8 9 (10.00%) GCP
9 8 (8.89%) Serverless
10 7 (7.78%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (7.78%) Azure AI
11 6 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.44%) GitHub
12 4 (4.44%) Route 53
13 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.67%) DNS
1 15 (16.67%) FTP
1 15 (16.67%) HTTP
1 15 (16.67%) SMTP
1 15 (16.67%) SSH
2 13 (14.44%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.33%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (17.78%) SQL Server
3 13 (14.44%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.78%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.56%) MySQL
6 4 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.33%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.22%) MS Access
9 1 (1.11%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.11%) Big Data
9 1 (1.11%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.11%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.11%) HBase
9 1 (1.11%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.11%) QlikView
9 1 (1.11%) SQLite
9 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 23 (25.56%) Git
3 17 (18.89%) JIRA
4 15 (16.67%) Vagrant
5 14 (15.56%) JUnit
6 11 (12.22%) Mockito
7 9 (10.00%) Maven
8 5 (5.56%) GitLab
9 4 (4.44%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.44%) DbUnit
9 4 (4.44%) jMock
9 4 (4.44%) SonarQube
9 4 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (3.33%) JMeter
10 3 (3.33%) Selenium
11 2 (2.22%) Subversion
12 1 (1.11%) Gatling
12 1 (1.11%) Locust
12 1 (1.11%) Postman
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.22%) Finance
4 7 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.22%) Back Office
7 2 (2.22%) Banking
7 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.22%) Law
8 1 (1.11%) Advertising
8 1 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Police
8 1 (1.11%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (41.11%) Developer
2 24 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 14 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Java Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Software Engineer
7 7 (7.78%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (7.78%) Lead
7 7 (7.78%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Support
8 6 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Architect
10 4 (4.44%) Automation Developer
10 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (33.33%) Spring
2 22 (24.44%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.56%) .NET
4 13 (14.44%) React
5 12 (13.33%) RESTful
6 10 (11.11%) REST
7 9 (10.00%) Hibernate
8 8 (8.89%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.89%) Web Services
9 6 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (5.56%) JPA
10 5 (5.56%) SOAP
11 4 (4.44%) Bootstrap
11 4 (4.44%) jQuery
11 4 (4.44%) PowerMock
11 4 (4.44%) Spring Batch
11 4 (4.44%) Spring Integration
12 3 (3.33%) CSS
12 3 (3.33%) OAuth
12 3 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 6 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.44%) Replication
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.11%) Derivative
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) IoT
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.11%) Life Science
6 1 (1.11%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
6 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Linux
2 15 (16.67%) VMS
3 13 (14.44%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (6.67%) Unix
4 6 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.11%) Agile
2 33 (36.67%) DevOps
3 24 (26.67%) Microservices
4 23 (25.56%) CI/CD
5 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (24.44%) TDD
6 16 (17.78%) Cloud Security
7 15 (16.67%) Configuration Management
8 14 (15.56%) AI
8 14 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
9 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (14.44%) Patch Management
9 13 (14.44%) Scrum
10 12 (13.33%) BDD
10 12 (13.33%) Change Management
10 12 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (12.22%) Computer Science
11 11 (12.22%) Mentoring
11 11 (12.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (46.67%) Python
2 25 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 24 (26.67%) SQL
4 17 (18.89%) C#
4 17 (18.89%) Groovy
5 15 (16.67%) Perl
6 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
7 10 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 8 (8.89%) PHP
8 8 (8.89%) R
9 6 (6.67%) PL/SQL
10 4 (4.44%) Bash
10 4 (4.44%) Delphi
10 4 (4.44%) Scala
11 3 (3.33%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.33%) Ruby
12 2 (2.22%) C++
12 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.22%) XAML
13 1 (1.11%) C
Qualifications
1 31 (34.44%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.22%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) Degree
4 11 (12.22%) AWS Certification
5 10 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.67%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.22%) IBM Certification
9 1 (1.11%) CBAP
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (42.22%) Docker
2 15 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.44%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Flume
4 1 (1.11%) HDFS
4 1 (1.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 21 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 19 (21.11%) Grafana
2 19 (21.11%) Terraform
3 14 (15.56%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.33%) Ansible
4 3 (3.33%) Kibana
5 2 (2.22%) Nagios
5 2 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.11%) logstash
6 1 (1.11%) Oozie
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Oracle
2 13 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.56%) Splunk
4 4 (4.44%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.44%) Google
4 4 (4.44%) UiPath
5 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.22%) Automation Anywhere
6 2 (2.22%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) Databricks
7 1 (1.11%) Foundry
7 1 (1.11%) Informatica
7 1 (1.11%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.11%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.11%) New Relic
7 1 (1.11%) Palantir
7 1 (1.11%) SAP