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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 108 68
Rank change year-on-year +4 -40 -27
Permanent jobs citing Java 70 100 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.28% 2.46% 3.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.83% 9.13% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 57 54 149
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £28,050
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £68,750 £64,375 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £83,474 £81,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 712 1,095 1,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.98% 26.95% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 569 550 1,300
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,688 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -11 37 £58,750 +23.68% 12
Worcestershire -2 11 £35,000 - 7
Coventry 0 7 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Warwickshire +16 5 £80,000 - 2
Staffordshire -12 1 £53,688 -9.53% 3
Solihull - 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 6 (8.57%) IIS
1 6 (8.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (2.86%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.43%) FileNet
3 1 (1.43%) JBoss
3 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 28 (40.00%) AWS
2 18 (25.71%) Azure
3 10 (14.29%) SaaS
4 7 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (7.14%) GCP
6 5 (7.14%) Serverless
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon ELB
7 3 (4.29%) Amazon Glacier
7 3 (4.29%) AWS KMS
7 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (4.29%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
7 3 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.86%) PaaS
8 2 (2.86%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
1 3 (4.29%) FTP
1 3 (4.29%) HTTP
1 3 (4.29%) SMTP
1 3 (4.29%) SSH
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
3 1 (1.43%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) SQL Server
2 10 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.14%) MySQL
4 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.29%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (2.86%) MS Access
6 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.86%) Redis
7 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.43%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (15.71%) JUnit
2 9 (12.86%) Git
2 9 (12.86%) Maven
2 9 (12.86%) Mockito
3 7 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
4 4 (5.71%) GitLab
5 3 (4.29%) Selenium
5 3 (4.29%) Vagrant
6 2 (2.86%) JIRA
7 1 (1.43%) JMeter
7 1 (1.43%) Locust
7 1 (1.43%) MLflow
7 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.43%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Law
5 3 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Police
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Developer
2 20 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 12 (17.14%) Senior
4 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (10.00%) Java Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (8.57%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Support Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Technical Support
8 6 (8.57%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Lead
9 4 (5.71%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.29%) React
1 17 (24.29%) Spring
2 13 (18.57%) REST
3 11 (15.71%) .NET
3 11 (15.71%) Spring Boot
4 5 (7.14%) RESTful
5 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.71%) Hibernate
5 4 (5.71%) Node.js
6 3 (4.29%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.29%) JPA
6 3 (4.29%) OAuth
6 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.86%) Blazor
7 2 (2.86%) Django
7 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (2.86%) OpenID
7 2 (2.86%) pytest
7 2 (2.86%) Vue
7 2 (2.86%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.71%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.29%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.43%) Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) PKI
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.57%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) VMS
3 2 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Unix
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
4 1 (1.43%) Android
4 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (41.43%) Agile
3 24 (34.29%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (24.29%) CI/CD
4 17 (24.29%) Microservices
5 15 (21.43%) DevOps
6 14 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 12 (17.14%) User Experience
8 11 (15.71%) Scrum
8 11 (15.71%) TDD
9 9 (12.86%) Containerisation
9 9 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.86%) Software Engineering
10 8 (11.43%) AI
10 8 (11.43%) Decision-Making
10 8 (11.43%) SDLC
10 8 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 6 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (8.57%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (34.29%) JavaScript
2 22 (31.43%) Python
3 17 (24.29%) SQL
4 12 (17.14%) C#
5 11 (15.71%) TypeScript
6 8 (11.43%) PL/SQL
7 7 (10.00%) PHP
7 7 (10.00%) R
8 6 (8.57%) Bash
8 6 (8.57%) C
9 5 (7.14%) Groovy
10 4 (5.71%) C++
10 4 (5.71%) Delphi
11 3 (4.29%) Perl
12 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.86%) Ruby
12 2 (2.86%) XAML
13 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
13 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (14.29%) Degree
4 7 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.29%) IBM Certification
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (27.14%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.43%) Terraform
3 6 (8.57%) Grafana
4 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.29%) Ansible
5 3 (4.29%) Nagios
6 2 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (27.14%) Oracle
2 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) IBM
4 3 (4.29%) UiPath
5 2 (2.86%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.86%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) Adobe
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) Foundry
6 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.43%) New Relic
6 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.43%) Palantir
6 1 (1.43%) Splunk