Java Jobs in the West Midlands

Java
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 50 23
Rank change year-on-year -43 -27 +8
Permanent jobs citing Java 200 408 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.76% 6.04% 8.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.68% 16.29% 20.84%
Number of salaries quoted 185 171 371
10th Percentile £30,500 £45,750 £35,125
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +1.69% +7.27%
75th Percentile £71,991 £81,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £73,500 £80,000 £71,640
% change year-on-year -8.13% +11.67% +10.22%

All Programming Languages
West Midlands

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,873 2,504 3,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 25.88% 37.07% 41.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 1,274 2,144
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,925 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Java in the West Midlands

Java
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 -28 115 £57,500 -8.00% 36
Warwickshire +16 24 £32,500 -58.60% 2
Staffordshire -7 21 £52,500 -4.55% 6
Wolverhampton -1 9 £42,500 -22.73% 1
Coventry +14 4 £45,000 -25.00% 4
Solihull -14 4 £47,500 -36.67% 3
Shropshire -7 2 £50,000 -21.57%
Worcestershire -26 2 £60,000 +20.00% 4
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (7.50%) IIS
2 6 (3.00%) Tuxedo
3 2 (1.00%) Appian
3 2 (1.00%) CMS
3 2 (1.00%) JBoss
3 2 (1.00%) Liferay
3 2 (1.00%) Magnolia
3 2 (1.00%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.00%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 9 (4.50%) Adobe XD
2 6 (3.00%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.50%) CATIA
3 1 (0.50%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 92 (46.00%) AWS
2 43 (21.50%) Azure
3 15 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
4 11 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (5.50%) GCP
4 11 (5.50%) GitHub
4 11 (5.50%) Serverless
5 8 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 7 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (2.50%) SaaS
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.00%) PaaS
8 4 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.00%) Matillion
10 2 (1.00%) npm
11 1 (0.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) WAN
2 6 (3.00%) Ethernet
3 5 (2.50%) HTTP
4 3 (1.50%) MQTT
5 2 (1.00%) AMQP
6 1 (0.50%) DHCP
6 1 (0.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.50%) SSH
6 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 21 (10.50%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (7.00%) MySQL
5 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 7 (3.50%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.00%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.00%) Power BI
9 4 (2.00%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.50%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (1.50%) InterSystems Cache
10 3 (1.50%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.50%) PowerCenter
11 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 2 (1.00%) Looker
11 2 (1.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (9.00%) Cucumber
2 13 (6.50%) Git
3 9 (4.50%) GitLab
3 9 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.50%) Maven
3 9 (4.50%) Postman
4 6 (3.00%) CANoe
5 5 (2.50%) JUnit
6 3 (1.50%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (1.50%) Subversion
6 3 (1.50%) Toad
7 2 (1.00%) Bower
7 2 (1.00%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.00%) gulp
7 2 (1.00%) Moq
7 2 (1.00%) Selenium
7 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.50%) Appium
8 1 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.50%) TestNG
General
1 46 (23.00%) Finance
2 34 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 14 (7.00%) Banking
7 12 (6.00%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.50%) Automotive
8 7 (3.50%) Law
8 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.50%) Games
9 5 (2.50%) Multimedia
10 4 (2.00%) Marketing
10 4 (2.00%) Retail
11 3 (1.50%) Legal
12 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.50%) Front Office
12 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (32.50%) Developer
2 44 (22.00%) Software Engineer
3 34 (17.00%) Lead
4 29 (14.50%) Senior
5 25 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 21 (10.50%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.50%) Junior
8 16 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (6.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (5.50%) Junior Developer
12 10 (5.00%) Consultant
12 10 (5.00%) Lead Developer
12 10 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 10 (5.00%) Technical Leader
13 9 (4.50%) Angular Developer
13 9 (4.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 9 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) QA Engineer
13 9 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.50%) React
1 39 (19.50%) Spring
2 32 (16.00%) Spring Boot
3 30 (15.00%) HTML
4 28 (14.00%) CSS
5 24 (12.00%) AngularJS
5 24 (12.00%) RESTful
6 17 (8.50%) .NET
7 15 (7.50%) Node.js
8 10 (5.00%) JSON
8 10 (5.00%) Web Services
9 9 (4.50%) Material Design
9 9 (4.50%) NgRx
9 9 (4.50%) REST
10 8 (4.00%) Hibernate
10 8 (4.00%) XML
11 7 (3.50%) Kafka
12 6 (3.00%) Lambda Expressions
13 5 (2.50%) Jest
13 5 (2.50%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.50%) Clustering
3 13 (6.50%) Public Cloud
4 10 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.50%) Management Information System
5 9 (4.50%) Private Cloud
6 7 (3.50%) NHS
7 6 (3.00%) Robotics
8 5 (2.50%) Infotainment
8 5 (2.50%) SCADA
8 5 (2.50%) Smartphone
9 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.50%) IoT
10 3 (1.50%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.00%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.00%) Linux
2 13 (6.50%) Windows
3 9 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.50%) Unix
5 3 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.00%) Agile
2 77 (38.50%) Software Engineering
3 46 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (22.00%) Mentoring
5 43 (21.50%) CI/CD
5 43 (21.50%) Full Stack Development
6 40 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 39 (19.50%) Scrum
8 38 (19.00%) Microservices
8 38 (19.00%) TDD
9 34 (17.00%) DevOps
10 30 (15.00%) Test Automation
11 29 (14.50%) Coaching
12 26 (13.00%) User Experience
13 23 (11.50%) BDD
13 23 (11.50%) Software Testing
14 21 (10.50%) API Development
15 19 (9.50%) Containerisation
15 19 (9.50%) Roadmaps
16 18 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.00%) SQL
2 57 (28.50%) JavaScript
3 48 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 46 (23.00%) Python
5 43 (21.50%) C#
6 16 (8.00%) C++
7 9 (4.50%) C
7 9 (4.50%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.00%) Go
8 8 (4.00%) PHP
9 7 (3.50%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.00%) COBOL
10 6 (3.00%) Micro Focus COBOL
11 5 (2.50%) VB
12 4 (2.00%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.50%) Ruby
14 2 (1.00%) R
14 2 (1.00%) Scala
14 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 25 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.00%) Degree
3 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.00%) PhD
6 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.50%) QA
2 6 (3.00%) ISO 26262
3 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.00%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.00%) SEPA
5 1 (0.50%) ITGC
System Software
1 25 (12.50%) Docker
2 13 (6.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.50%) Google
3 15 (7.50%) Oracle
4 14 (7.00%) VMware
5 11 (5.50%) YouTube
6 9 (4.50%) Adobe
7 6 (3.00%) Micro Focus
8 5 (2.50%) Cisco
8 5 (2.50%) Remedy
9 3 (1.50%) IBM
9 3 (1.50%) Informatica
9 3 (1.50%) InterSystems
10 2 (1.00%) IFS
10 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.00%) OpenText
10 2 (1.00%) Pega
10 2 (1.00%) PeopleSoft
10 2 (1.00%) Sitecore
10 2 (1.00%) Workday
11 1 (0.50%) SAP