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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 49 107
Rank change year-on-year -41 +58 -32
Permanent jobs citing Java 129 161 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.51% 4.67% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.75% 20.28% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 70 104 104
10th Percentile £40,450 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £51,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +9.65% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £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 1,012 794 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.83% 23.04% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 746 624 1,058
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,925
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% - +0.92%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,375 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 18 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 18 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 -19 70 £75,000 +15.38% 15
Shropshire -22 21 £46,250 -26.00% 21
Worcestershire -12 12 £66,250 +39.47%
Staffordshire -19 10 £50,000 -6.87% 1
Wolverhampton -15 6 £70,000 -26.32%
Coventry -17 4 £83,750 - 4
Warwickshire -9 3 £55,000 - 2
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 (5.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.65%) Confluence
3 4 (3.10%) CICS
4 3 (2.33%) Documentum
5 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.78%) Appian
6 1 (0.78%) nginx
6 1 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.78%) SAS
6 1 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (5.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (37.21%) AWS
1 48 (37.21%) Azure
2 18 (13.95%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (8.53%) GitHub
3 11 (8.53%) SaaS
4 10 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (6.98%) PaaS
6 7 (5.43%) dbt
7 4 (3.10%) BrowserStack
7 4 (3.10%) GCP
7 4 (3.10%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.33%) Datadog
8 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.55%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.78%) Serverless
10 1 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.33%) Firewall
1 3 (2.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 3 (2.33%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.43%) MySQL
2 7 (5.43%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.10%) Db2
3 4 (3.10%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.33%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.33%) Power BI
5 2 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.55%) Big Data
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (1.55%) QlikView
5 2 (1.55%) Tableau
6 1 (0.78%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.78%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 21 (16.28%) Jenkins
2 17 (13.18%) Cucumber
3 16 (12.40%) JUnit
4 15 (11.63%) Maven
5 14 (10.85%) Mockito
6 13 (10.08%) Git
7 12 (9.30%) GitLab
7 12 (9.30%) JMeter
7 12 (9.30%) Selenium
8 11 (8.53%) Postman
9 9 (6.98%) Gatling
10 8 (6.20%) Zephyr
11 7 (5.43%) Cypress.io
11 7 (5.43%) JIRA
11 7 (5.43%) REST Assured
12 6 (4.65%) LoadRunner
13 5 (3.88%) Burp Suite
13 5 (3.88%) SonarQube
14 4 (3.10%) HP UFT
14 4 (3.10%) SoapUI
General
1 43 (33.33%) Finance
2 25 (19.38%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.83%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.75%) Banking
6 8 (6.20%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.20%) Legal
7 6 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.65%) Law
8 3 (2.33%) Electronics
9 2 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Police
10 1 (0.78%) Retail
10 1 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (31.01%) Developer
2 39 (30.23%) Lead
3 27 (20.93%) Senior
4 21 (16.28%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.08%) Java Engineer
6 12 (9.30%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (9.30%) Software Engineer
7 10 (7.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (7.75%) Senior Developer
8 8 (6.20%) Applications Consultant
8 8 (6.20%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Consultant
8 8 (6.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (6.20%) Mainframe Consultant
8 8 (6.20%) Test Leader
9 7 (5.43%) Applications Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) QA Engineer
9 7 (5.43%) SAP Developer
9 7 (5.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.43%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.68%) Spring
2 33 (25.58%) REST
3 28 (21.71%) React
4 23 (17.83%) Spring Boot
5 14 (10.85%) Playwright
6 12 (9.30%) .NET
6 12 (9.30%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.30%) Node.js
7 11 (8.53%) RESTful
8 9 (6.98%) SOAP
9 8 (6.20%) ISPF
10 7 (5.43%) SAP Fiori
10 7 (5.43%) SAPUI5
11 6 (4.65%) JDBC
11 6 (4.65%) OAuth
12 5 (3.88%) JSON
12 5 (3.88%) XML
13 4 (3.10%) CSS
14 3 (2.33%) ADO
14 3 (2.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.95%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.85%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (8.53%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (6.20%) Mainframe
5 7 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.88%) Virtual Team
8 4 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.33%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.55%) Reference Data
11 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.78%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.78%) IoT
11 1 (0.78%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.05%) Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Kali Linux
2 5 (3.88%) Windows
3 3 (2.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.84%) Agile
2 62 (48.06%) CI/CD
3 53 (41.09%) Problem-Solving
4 49 (37.98%) Mentoring
5 42 (32.56%) Test Automation
6 37 (28.68%) DevOps
7 34 (26.36%) Scrum
8 31 (24.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 27 (20.93%) Microservices
10 26 (20.16%) Technical Leadership
11 25 (19.38%) SDLC
12 23 (17.83%) Software Engineering
13 22 (17.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 20 (15.50%) TDD
15 19 (14.73%) Containerisation
15 19 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
16 18 (13.95%) AI
16 18 (13.95%) BDD
17 15 (11.63%) Migration
17 15 (11.63%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (26.36%) JavaScript
2 31 (24.03%) SQL
3 30 (23.26%) Python
4 19 (14.73%) C#
5 15 (11.63%) PL/SQL
6 11 (8.53%) Bash
7 9 (6.98%) C
7 9 (6.98%) JCL
7 9 (6.98%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.20%) COBOL
9 7 (5.43%) ABAP
9 7 (5.43%) C++
10 3 (2.33%) Embedded C
10 3 (2.33%) Go
10 3 (2.33%) MATLAB
10 3 (2.33%) PHP
10 3 (2.33%) R
11 1 (0.78%) Scala
11 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 24 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.50%) Degree
4 11 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.33%) ISEB
6 3 (2.33%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.18%) QA
2 11 (8.53%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.33%) NIST
6 2 (1.55%) WCAG
7 1 (0.78%) GDPR
7 1 (0.78%) GxP
7 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.78%) PSD2
7 1 (0.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (17.83%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (3.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (19.38%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.98%) Grafana
3 6 (4.65%) Terraform
4 5 (3.88%) HP Fortify
5 3 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.55%) Ansible
7 1 (0.78%) Argo
7 1 (0.78%) Nagios
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (13.95%) Oracle
2 10 (7.75%) SAP
3 6 (4.65%) iManage
4 5 (3.88%) Veracode
5 4 (3.10%) Broadcom
5 4 (3.10%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.33%) Databricks
6 3 (2.33%) OpenText
6 3 (2.33%) Pega
7 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.78%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.78%) Denodo
8 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.78%) Google
8 1 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.78%) Splunk
8 1 (0.78%) VMware