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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 83 85
Rank change year-on-year -40 +2 -36
Permanent jobs citing Java 76 99 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.95% 2.95% 2.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.94% 12.69% 10.73%
Number of salaries quoted 62 78 184
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,419 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,844 £53,688 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -6.63% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,063 £71,991
90th Percentile £79,500 £79,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% +2.04% -8.13%

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 957 780 1,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.94% 23.27% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 722 598 1,638
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £67,875 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,000 £75,916
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -14 42 £50,000 +11.11% 10
Worcestershire -13 15 £36,500 -23.16% 4
Coventry -21 6 £61,350 -
Shropshire -30 6 £57,500 -4.17% 2
Wolverhampton -18 4 £70,000 -26.32%
Warwickshire -8 2 £80,000 - 2
Staffordshire -29 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 5 (6.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.32%) Appian
3 1 (1.32%) FileNet
3 1 (1.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) AWS
2 19 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) PaaS
3 8 (10.53%) SaaS
4 7 (9.21%) dbt
5 5 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.26%) BrowserStack
6 4 (5.26%) Serverless
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub
7 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.63%) Datadog
8 2 (2.63%) GCP
8 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.63%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.89%) MySQL
2 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.95%) Redis
3 3 (3.95%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.32%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.32%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.32%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 10 (13.16%) Git
2 10 (13.16%) GitLab
3 8 (10.53%) JUnit
3 8 (10.53%) Selenium
4 7 (9.21%) Gatling
4 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.21%) Maven
5 6 (7.89%) JMeter
5 6 (7.89%) Mockito
6 4 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 4 (5.26%) LoadRunner
6 4 (5.26%) Postman
6 4 (5.26%) REST Assured
6 4 (5.26%) Zephyr
7 3 (3.95%) Burp Suite
7 3 (3.95%) JIRA
7 3 (3.95%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.63%) HP UFT
8 2 (2.63%) Locust
General
1 18 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.58%) Banking
5 5 (6.58%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.63%) Advertising
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Law
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Police
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Developer
2 19 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.05%) Lead
4 14 (18.42%) Senior
5 13 (17.11%) Java Engineer
6 12 (15.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
9 7 (9.21%) Test Leader
10 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (7.89%) Software Engineer
11 5 (6.58%) QA Engineer
11 5 (6.58%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (6.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 4 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (5.26%) QA Leader
12 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
13 3 (3.95%) C# Developer
13 3 (3.95%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.68%) React
1 18 (23.68%) REST
1 18 (23.68%) Spring
2 14 (18.42%) Spring Boot
3 8 (10.53%) Playwright
4 7 (9.21%) AngularJS
5 6 (7.89%) Node.js
6 5 (6.58%) CSS
7 4 (5.26%) .NET
7 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.26%) HTML
8 3 (3.95%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.95%) JPA
8 3 (3.95%) jQuery
9 2 (2.63%) Django
9 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.63%) pytest
9 2 (2.63%) RESTful
9 2 (2.63%) SOAP
9 2 (2.63%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Virtual Team
2 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.16%) Linux
2 3 (3.95%) Kali Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Windows
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.00%) Agile
2 35 (46.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 29 (38.16%) Test Automation
4 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
5 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (21.05%) DevOps
6 16 (21.05%) Microservices
7 15 (19.74%) BDD
7 15 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (19.74%) Mentoring
8 14 (18.42%) Computer Science
8 14 (18.42%) Containerisation
8 14 (18.42%) SDLC
9 12 (15.79%) Performance Testing
9 12 (15.79%) User Experience
10 11 (14.47%) Scrum
11 10 (13.16%) Security Testing
12 9 (11.84%) Software Engineering
12 9 (11.84%) TDD
13 8 (10.53%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.58%) Python
2 17 (22.37%) JavaScript
3 16 (21.05%) SQL
4 11 (14.47%) C#
4 11 (14.47%) TypeScript
5 7 (9.21%) C
5 7 (9.21%) C++
6 6 (7.89%) PL/SQL
7 5 (6.58%) Bash
8 4 (5.26%) PHP
8 4 (5.26%) R
9 2 (2.63%) Delphi
10 1 (1.32%) JCL
10 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (14.47%) Degree
2 10 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.32%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) QA
2 9 (11.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.21%) Grafana
3 4 (5.26%) Terraform
4 3 (3.95%) HP Fortify
4 3 (3.95%) Nagios
4 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Oracle
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.95%) Veracode
4 2 (2.63%) IBM
4 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.32%) Adobe
5 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.32%) Splunk