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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 55 93
Rank change year-on-year -66 +38 -36
Permanent jobs citing Java 84 143 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.99% 4.50% 2.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.71% 18.24% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 65 88 176
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,188 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £74,066 £65,000 £70,498
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,125 £81,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%

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 964 784 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.36% 24.67% 25.39%
Number of salaries quoted 721 594 1,631
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,772
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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -13 51 £50,000 +11.11% 18
Worcestershire -12 14 £42,750 -10.00% 5
Shropshire -33 7 £53,750 -10.42% 4
Coventry -19 5 £80,000 - 4
Wolverhampton -22 4 £70,000 -26.32%
Staffordshire -39 2 £67,500 +25.73% 1
Warwickshire -19 1 £80,000 - 3
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 (5.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.19%) Appian
4 1 (1.19%) FileNet
4 1 (1.19%) JBoss
4 1 (1.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.14%) AWS
2 25 (29.76%) Azure
3 8 (9.52%) PaaS
3 8 (9.52%) SaaS
4 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (8.33%) dbt
5 4 (4.76%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.57%) Serverless
6 3 (3.57%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.38%) Datadog
7 2 (2.38%) GCP
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub
8 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.19%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.52%) MySQL
1 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.57%) Redis
4 3 (3.57%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.19%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.19%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Cucumber
2 10 (11.90%) Maven
3 9 (10.71%) JUnit
3 9 (10.71%) Mockito
4 8 (9.52%) Gatling
4 8 (9.52%) Git
4 8 (9.52%) GitLab
5 7 (8.33%) JMeter
5 7 (8.33%) Selenium
6 6 (7.14%) Jenkins
7 5 (5.95%) Cypress.io
7 5 (5.95%) LoadRunner
7 5 (5.95%) Postman
7 5 (5.95%) REST Assured
8 4 (4.76%) Burp Suite
8 4 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.76%) Zephyr
9 3 (3.57%) HP UFT
9 3 (3.57%) JIRA
10 2 (2.38%) Locust
General
1 18 (21.43%) Finance
2 16 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.33%) Banking
3 7 (8.33%) Investment Banking
3 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (1.19%) Automotive
6 1 (1.19%) Law
6 1 (1.19%) Legal
6 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (32.14%) Developer
2 23 (27.38%) Lead
3 17 (20.24%) Java Developer
4 15 (17.86%) Java Engineer
4 15 (17.86%) Senior
5 13 (15.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 10 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (10.71%) Software Engineer
8 8 (9.52%) Senior Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (8.33%) Test Leader
10 5 (5.95%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) QA Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.76%) QA Leader
11 4 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (3.57%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 3 (3.57%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (27.38%) React
2 21 (25.00%) Spring
3 20 (23.81%) REST
4 14 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 10 (11.90%) AngularJS
6 9 (10.71%) Playwright
7 8 (9.52%) Node.js
8 5 (5.95%) CSS
8 5 (5.95%) RESTful
9 4 (4.76%) .NET
9 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.76%) HTML
10 3 (3.57%) jQuery
11 2 (2.38%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.38%) Hibernate
11 2 (2.38%) JPA
11 2 (2.38%) Kafka
12 1 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
12 1 (1.19%) RAML
12 1 (1.19%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.14%) Virtual Team
2 5 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.95%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.19%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.19%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.19%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Kali Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (1.19%) Android
3 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (52.38%) Agile
2 36 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
3 33 (39.29%) CI/CD
3 33 (39.29%) Test Automation
4 28 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.81%) Microservices
7 17 (20.24%) DevOps
8 16 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (19.05%) Scrum
8 16 (19.05%) SDLC
9 15 (17.86%) Computer Science
9 15 (17.86%) Containerisation
10 14 (16.67%) BDD
10 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.67%) TDD
11 13 (15.48%) Performance Testing
12 11 (13.10%) Security Testing
13 10 (11.90%) Observability
14 9 (10.71%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.38%) JavaScript
1 23 (27.38%) Python
2 21 (25.00%) SQL
3 15 (17.86%) C#
4 11 (13.10%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.90%) C++
6 9 (10.71%) PL/SQL
7 7 (8.33%) Bash
7 7 (8.33%) C
8 4 (4.76%) PHP
8 4 (4.76%) R
9 2 (2.38%) Go
10 1 (1.19%) JCL
10 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Degree
2 11 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.86%) QA
2 11 (13.10%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (20.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (20.24%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.14%) Grafana
3 4 (4.76%) HP Fortify
3 4 (4.76%) Terraform
4 3 (3.57%) Nagios
4 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.19%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Oracle
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) Veracode
3 2 (2.38%) IBM
3 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.19%) Adobe
4 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.19%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.19%) Splunk