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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 45 108
Rank change year-on-year -31 +63 -31
Permanent jobs citing Java 152 157 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.72% 4.82% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.63% 21.60% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 77 100 80
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,609 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.46%

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 1,039 727 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.73% 22.34% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 741 572 855
10th Percentile £38,000 £32,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 16 September 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 September 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 -9 83 £75,000 +15.38% 94
Shropshire -18 22 £45,000 -28.00% 25
Staffordshire -16 15 £50,000 -6.87% 4
Worcestershire -16 9 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Warwickshire -13 8 £55,000 - 5
Wolverhampton -4 6 £70,000 -22.22% 4
Coventry -15 6 £70,000 - 7
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 (4.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (3.95%) Confluence
3 4 (2.63%) CICS
4 3 (1.97%) Documentum
5 1 (0.66%) Appian
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.66%) SAS
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Simulink
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (36.84%) Azure
2 51 (33.55%) AWS
3 22 (14.47%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (10.53%) GitHub
5 15 (9.87%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.95%) PaaS
6 6 (3.95%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (2.63%) BrowserStack
7 4 (2.63%) GCP
7 4 (2.63%) SaaS
7 4 (2.63%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.97%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.32%) Serverless
10 1 (0.66%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.66%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.26%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.97%) Firewall
2 3 (1.97%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.58%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.95%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.95%) Power BI
4 5 (3.29%) Big Data
4 5 (3.29%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.29%) MySQL
4 5 (3.29%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.29%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (3.29%) QlikView
4 5 (3.29%) Tableau
5 4 (2.63%) Db2
6 3 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.32%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.66%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 16 (10.53%) Cucumber
2 16 (10.53%) JUnit
3 15 (9.87%) Maven
4 14 (9.21%) Git
4 14 (9.21%) Mockito
5 13 (8.55%) GitLab
6 11 (7.24%) Postman
6 11 (7.24%) Selenium
6 11 (7.24%) Zephyr
7 10 (6.58%) JMeter
8 8 (5.26%) Eclipse
8 8 (5.26%) Gatling
8 8 (5.26%) JIRA
9 5 (3.29%) Cypress.io
9 5 (3.29%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.29%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.63%) HP UFT
10 4 (2.63%) LoadRunner
10 4 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (29.61%) Finance
2 35 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.76%) Public Sector
4 22 (14.47%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.55%) Banking
6 11 (7.24%) Legal
7 8 (5.26%) Electronics
7 8 (5.26%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.95%) Law
8 6 (3.95%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.66%) Police
10 1 (0.66%) Retail
10 1 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (30.92%) Developer
2 40 (26.32%) Senior
3 38 (25.00%) Lead
4 24 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 21 (13.82%) Java Engineer
6 17 (11.18%) Consultant
7 15 (9.87%) Senior Developer
8 13 (8.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (7.89%) Applications Consultant
9 12 (7.89%) Applications Engineer
9 12 (7.89%) Mainframe Consultant
9 12 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (7.24%) Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (6.58%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (6.58%) Software Engineer
12 9 (5.92%) Senior Java Engineer
13 7 (4.61%) Automation Engineer
13 7 (4.61%) SAP Developer
13 7 (4.61%) Scrum Master
13 7 (4.61%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (28.29%) Spring
2 31 (20.39%) REST
3 29 (19.08%) Spring Boot
4 26 (17.11%) React
5 18 (11.84%) .NET
6 14 (9.21%) Playwright
7 12 (7.89%) AngularJS
7 12 (7.89%) ISPF
8 11 (7.24%) Node.js
8 11 (7.24%) RESTful
8 11 (7.24%) SOAP
8 11 (7.24%) XML
9 7 (4.61%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (4.61%) SAPUI5
10 6 (3.95%) JDBC
10 6 (3.95%) JSON
10 6 (3.95%) OAuth
11 5 (3.29%) ADO
11 5 (3.29%) Kafka
11 5 (3.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.18%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (9.21%) Legacy Applications
4 12 (7.89%) Mainframe
5 8 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (4.61%) Virtual Team
7 6 (3.95%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.29%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
8 5 (3.29%) Reference Data
9 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.97%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
11 2 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 2 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.66%) IoT
12 1 (0.66%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.82%) Linux
2 5 (3.29%) Windows
3 4 (2.63%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.97%) Unix
5 1 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.66%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.03%) Agile
2 65 (42.76%) Problem-Solving
3 63 (41.45%) CI/CD
4 57 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 40 (26.32%) Scrum
6 37 (24.34%) DevOps
7 35 (23.03%) Test Automation
8 30 (19.74%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (18.42%) Software Engineering
10 27 (17.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (16.45%) Microservices
12 24 (15.79%) SDLC
13 22 (14.47%) Software Testing
14 20 (13.16%) Coaching
14 20 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (13.16%) TDD
15 19 (12.50%) AI
16 18 (11.84%) Analytics
16 18 (11.84%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 39 (25.66%) JavaScript
1 39 (25.66%) SQL
2 27 (17.76%) Python
3 19 (12.50%) C#
4 15 (9.87%) PL/SQL
5 14 (9.21%) C
6 12 (7.89%) COBOL
6 12 (7.89%) JCL
7 11 (7.24%) Bash
8 9 (5.92%) TypeScript
9 8 (5.26%) C++
9 8 (5.26%) Embedded C
9 8 (5.26%) MATLAB
10 7 (4.61%) ABAP
11 6 (3.95%) R
12 3 (1.97%) Go
13 1 (0.66%) PHP
13 1 (0.66%) Scala
13 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 27 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 26 (17.11%) Degree
4 10 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.95%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.29%) ISEB
6 5 (3.29%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.87%) QA
2 10 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.66%) GDPR
6 1 (0.66%) GxP
6 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.66%) PSD2
6 1 (0.66%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (12.50%) Docker
2 10 (6.58%) Embedded Firmware
2 10 (6.58%) Firmware
3 1 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (13.82%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.95%) Grafana
3 4 (2.63%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.32%) Ansible
4 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.66%) Argo
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (11.84%) Oracle
2 12 (7.89%) SAP
3 8 (5.26%) Broadcom
4 6 (3.95%) Databricks
4 6 (3.95%) iManage
4 6 (3.95%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.29%) Pega
6 4 (2.63%) Veracode
7 3 (1.97%) OpenText
8 1 (0.66%) Denodo
8 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.66%) Google
8 1 (0.66%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.66%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.66%) VMware