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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 112 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 -33 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 75 82 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.14% 2.29% 3.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.41% 9.01% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 62 55 176
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £74,066 £63,750 £72,101
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £87,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%

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 797 910 1,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.11% 25.45% 28.05%
Number of salaries quoted 633 581 1,525
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,463
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -3 41 £60,000 +33.33% 10
Worcestershire -6 13 £36,500 - 8
Coventry -10 8 £63,750 - 2
Warwickshire +13 5 £80,000 - 4
Shropshire -22 4 £62,500 +19.05% 10
Staffordshire -18 1 £53,688 - 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 6 (8.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.33%) FileNet
3 1 (1.33%) IIS
3 1 (1.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.33%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.67%) AWS
2 18 (24.00%) Azure
3 10 (13.33%) SaaS
4 8 (10.67%) PaaS
5 7 (9.33%) dbt
6 6 (8.00%) Serverless
7 5 (6.67%) GCP
8 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.00%) Datadog
9 3 (4.00%) GitHub
10 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
11 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.67%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.33%) MySQL
4 4 (5.33%) TimescaleDB
5 3 (4.00%) Redis
5 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.67%) MS Access
6 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.33%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.33%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JUnit
2 9 (12.00%) Maven
2 9 (12.00%) Mockito
3 8 (10.67%) Git
4 7 (9.33%) Cucumber
4 7 (9.33%) GitLab
5 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.67%) JMeter
6 5 (6.67%) Selenium
7 3 (4.00%) Locust
8 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.67%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.67%) Postman
8 2 (2.67%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.33%) Burp Suite
9 1 (1.33%) Gatling
9 1 (1.33%) JIRA
9 1 (1.33%) MLflow
9 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (2.67%) Advertising
6 2 (2.67%) Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Automotive
7 1 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Police
7 1 (1.33%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (45.33%) Developer
2 21 (28.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (17.33%) Lead
3 13 (17.33%) Senior
4 11 (14.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (12.00%) Senior Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Java Engineer
7 8 (10.67%) Software Engineer
8 7 (9.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 7 (9.33%) Test Leader
9 6 (8.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.67%) Software Developer
11 4 (5.33%) C# Developer
11 4 (5.33%) C# Software Developer
11 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 3 (4.00%) Maximo Developer
12 3 (4.00%) QA Engineer
12 3 (4.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) React
1 18 (24.00%) Spring
2 14 (18.67%) REST
3 12 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (8.00%) .NET
5 5 (6.67%) Node.js
5 5 (6.67%) RESTful
6 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.00%) CSS
7 3 (4.00%) Gherkin
7 3 (4.00%) Hibernate
7 3 (4.00%) HTML
7 3 (4.00%) JPA
7 3 (4.00%) OAuth
7 3 (4.00%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.67%) ADO
8 2 (2.67%) LDAP
8 2 (2.67%) ODBC
8 2 (2.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
1 6 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.33%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.33%) Derivative
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
6 1 (1.33%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.33%) PKI
6 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Reality
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.67%) Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Android
3 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.33%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 32 (42.67%) Agile
3 22 (29.33%) CI/CD
4 20 (26.67%) Microservices
5 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (24.00%) DevOps
7 15 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 14 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (17.33%) Scrum
9 13 (17.33%) User Experience
10 11 (14.67%) BDD
10 11 (14.67%) Computer Science
10 11 (14.67%) Containerisation
10 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
10 11 (14.67%) TDD
11 10 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 8 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (10.67%) SDLC
12 8 (10.67%) Sprint Planning
13 7 (9.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 20 (26.67%) Python
3 15 (20.00%) SQL
4 12 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.67%) C#
5 8 (10.67%) PL/SQL
6 7 (9.33%) C
7 6 (8.00%) Bash
7 6 (8.00%) C++
8 4 (5.33%) Delphi
8 4 (5.33%) R
9 3 (4.00%) PHP
10 2 (2.67%) Groovy
10 2 (2.67%) XAML
11 1 (1.33%) JCL
11 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.33%) Ruby
11 1 (1.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.67%) Degree
4 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.00%) IBM Certification
6 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) QA
2 5 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.33%) Grafana
2 7 (9.33%) Terraform
3 3 (4.00%) Ansible
3 3 (4.00%) Nagios
3 3 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.33%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Oracle
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.33%) IBM
4 2 (2.67%) ForgeRock
4 2 (2.67%) Google
4 2 (2.67%) Splunk
5 1 (1.33%) Adobe
5 1 (1.33%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.33%) Foundry
5 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.33%) New Relic
5 1 (1.33%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.33%) Palantir
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.33%) Veracode