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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 118 64
Rank change year-on-year +17 -54 -36
Permanent jobs citing Java 74 94 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.44% 2.10% 3.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.69% 8.42% 11.84%
Number of salaries quoted 60 48 105
10th Percentile £35,675 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,444 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,964 £81,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -

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 692 1,117 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.47% 24.92% 33.65%
Number of salaries quoted 563 582 907
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,800 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +10 41 £62,500 +19.05% 30
Worcestershire -6 6 £36,500 -54.38% 20
Warwickshire +19 5 £80,000 - 6
Coventry +1 5 £60,000 +4.35% 19
Shropshire -12 4 £65,000 +13.04% 26
Solihull - 4 - - 1
Staffordshire -15 1 £53,688 - 18
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 8 (10.81%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) IIS
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.70%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.35%) FileNet
4 1 (1.35%) JBoss
4 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Maximo
2 1 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) AWS
2 26 (35.14%) Azure
3 13 (17.57%) Amazon S3
4 12 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (14.86%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (14.86%) SaaS
6 9 (12.16%) Amazon ELB
6 9 (12.16%) Amazon Glacier
6 9 (12.16%) AWS KMS
6 9 (12.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (10.81%) GCP
8 7 (9.46%) Azure AI
9 4 (5.41%) GitHub
9 4 (5.41%) Serverless
10 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.70%) PaaS
11 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
12 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.16%) DNS
1 9 (12.16%) FTP
1 9 (12.16%) HTTP
1 9 (12.16%) SMTP
1 9 (12.16%) SSH
2 7 (9.46%) Firewall
3 1 (1.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (8.11%) MySQL
5 4 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.70%) MS Access
6 2 (2.70%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.35%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (18.92%) Git
2 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.16%) Vagrant
4 8 (10.81%) JIRA
4 8 (10.81%) JUnit
5 5 (6.76%) GitLab
5 5 (6.76%) Maven
5 5 (6.76%) Mockito
6 4 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.05%) Selenium
7 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.70%) Subversion
9 1 (1.35%) Gatling
9 1 (1.35%) JMeter
9 1 (1.35%) Locust
9 1 (1.35%) MLflow
9 1 (1.35%) Postman
General
1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (16.22%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.86%) Finance
4 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Law
6 2 (2.70%) Back Office
6 2 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Advertising
7 1 (1.35%) Automotive
7 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.35%) Police
7 1 (1.35%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (41.89%) Developer
2 15 (20.27%) Java Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
4 8 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.81%) Senior Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Software Developer
5 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Support Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Engineer
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Support
5 6 (8.11%) Technical Support Engineer
6 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Automation Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (5.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Junior
7 4 (5.41%) Lead
8 3 (4.05%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) Spring
2 15 (20.27%) Spring Boot
3 14 (18.92%) React
4 11 (14.86%) .NET
5 7 (9.46%) REST
5 7 (9.46%) RESTful
6 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.05%) CSS
6 3 (4.05%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.05%) OAuth
6 3 (4.05%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.70%) ADO
7 2 (2.70%) HTML
7 2 (2.70%) JPA
7 2 (2.70%) LDAP
7 2 (2.70%) Middleware
7 2 (2.70%) ODBC
7 2 (2.70%) OpenID
7 2 (2.70%) SAML
7 2 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.70%) NHS
4 2 (2.70%) Replication
4 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.35%) Derivative
5 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) PKI
5 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (20.27%) Linux
2 9 (12.16%) VMS
3 7 (9.46%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (6.76%) Windows
5 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (37.84%) Agile
2 24 (32.43%) DevOps
3 23 (31.08%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (24.32%) CI/CD
5 15 (20.27%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (18.92%) Microservices
7 13 (17.57%) Computer Science
8 12 (16.22%) AI
9 11 (14.86%) Mentoring
9 11 (14.86%) TDD
10 10 (13.51%) Cloud Security
11 9 (12.16%) Configuration Management
11 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (12.16%) Software Engineering
12 8 (10.81%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (10.81%) Scrum
12 8 (10.81%) Test Automation
13 7 (9.46%) Containerisation
13 7 (9.46%) Patch Management
14 6 (8.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 33 (44.59%) Python
2 25 (33.78%) JavaScript
3 18 (24.32%) SQL
4 17 (22.97%) C#
5 12 (16.22%) TypeScript
6 11 (14.86%) Groovy
7 9 (12.16%) Perl
8 8 (10.81%) PHP
9 7 (9.46%) PowerShell
9 7 (9.46%) R
10 4 (5.41%) C++
10 4 (5.41%) Delphi
10 4 (5.41%) PL/SQL
11 3 (4.05%) Bash
11 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
11 3 (4.05%) Ruby
11 3 (4.05%) Scala
12 2 (2.70%) C
12 2 (2.70%) XAML
Qualifications
1 21 (28.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
3 15 (20.27%) Degree
4 13 (17.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (10.81%) AWS Certification
6 7 (9.46%) Master's Degree
7 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.05%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.05%) IBM Certification
8 2 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.35%) CBAP
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.35%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (27.03%) Docker
2 9 (12.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.70%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 15 (20.27%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.57%) Terraform
3 12 (16.22%) Grafana
4 8 (10.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.05%) Ansible
5 3 (4.05%) Nagios
6 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Oracle
2 13 (17.57%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.46%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.41%) Google
4 4 (5.41%) IBM
4 4 (5.41%) UiPath
5 2 (2.70%) Automation Anywhere
5 2 (2.70%) ForgeRock
5 2 (2.70%) Splunk
6 1 (1.35%) Adobe
6 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.35%) Foundry
6 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.35%) New Relic
6 1 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.35%) Palantir