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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 47 99
Rank change year-on-year -57 +52 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 89 157 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.16% 5.17% 2.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.30% 19.97% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 62 102 172
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,875 £24,100
25th Percentile £46,966 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,986 £72,875 £71,991
90th Percentile £84,500 £75,000 £80,450
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 957 786 2,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.50% 25.91% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 716 604 1,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £77,125 £77,500
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 18 June 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 18 June 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 -16 56 £65,153 +13.31% 14
Worcestershire -4 12 £44,000 -7.37% 3
Shropshire -28 9 £53,750 -10.42% 8
Coventry -12 4 £80,000 - 3
Wolverhampton -20 4 £70,000 -24.32%
Staffordshire -27 4 £67,500 +25.73% 6
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 (6.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.37%) Confluence
3 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.12%) Appian
4 1 (1.12%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.46%) AWS
2 26 (29.21%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) SaaS
4 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.87%) dbt
4 7 (7.87%) PaaS
5 4 (4.49%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.37%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.25%) Datadog
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.25%) Serverless
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.12%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.12%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.12%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.87%) MySQL
3 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.25%) Redis
5 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.25%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.12%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.12%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 14 (15.73%) JUnit
2 13 (14.61%) Maven
2 13 (14.61%) Mockito
3 12 (13.48%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.99%) Gatling
5 7 (7.87%) GitLab
5 7 (7.87%) JMeter
5 7 (7.87%) Selenium
6 6 (6.74%) Git
7 5 (5.62%) Cypress.io
7 5 (5.62%) Jenkins
7 5 (5.62%) LoadRunner
7 5 (5.62%) Postman
7 5 (5.62%) REST Assured
8 4 (4.49%) Burp Suite
8 4 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 4 (4.49%) Zephyr
9 3 (3.37%) HP UFT
9 3 (3.37%) JIRA
10 2 (2.25%) Locust
General
1 24 (26.97%) Finance
2 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.99%) Banking
4 8 (8.99%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Law
9 1 (1.12%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 30 (33.71%) Developer
2 28 (31.46%) Lead
3 20 (22.47%) Java Developer
3 20 (22.47%) Senior
4 17 (19.10%) Java Engineer
5 14 (15.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 12 (13.48%) Software Engineer
7 11 (12.36%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (10.11%) Senior Developer
9 7 (7.87%) Test Leader
10 6 (6.74%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) QA Engineer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 5 (5.62%) Lead Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Lead Java Developer
11 5 (5.62%) Quality Engineer
12 4 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.21%) React
2 25 (28.09%) REST
3 24 (26.97%) Spring
4 13 (14.61%) Spring Boot
5 12 (13.48%) AngularJS
6 10 (11.24%) Node.js
7 9 (10.11%) Playwright
8 7 (7.87%) RESTful
9 4 (4.49%) .NET
9 4 (4.49%) CSS
10 3 (3.37%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.37%) HTML
10 3 (3.37%) SAP Fiori
10 3 (3.37%) SAPUI5
11 2 (2.25%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.25%) JDBC
11 2 (2.25%) jQuery
11 2 (2.25%) Kafka
11 2 (2.25%) OAuth
11 2 (2.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (6.74%) Virtual Team
2 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (1.12%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.12%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.12%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (17.98%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Kali Linux
3 3 (3.37%) Windows
4 1 (1.12%) Android
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (53.93%) Agile
2 37 (41.57%) Mentoring
3 35 (39.33%) CI/CD
3 35 (39.33%) Test Automation
4 34 (38.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (33.71%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (25.84%) Microservices
7 21 (23.60%) Scrum
8 20 (22.47%) TDD
9 19 (21.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (19.10%) Software Engineering
11 16 (17.98%) Containerisation
11 16 (17.98%) SDLC
12 15 (16.85%) BDD
12 15 (16.85%) DevOps
13 14 (15.73%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (14.61%) Performance Testing
14 13 (14.61%) Unit Testing
15 11 (12.36%) Computer Science
15 11 (12.36%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (29.21%) JavaScript
2 24 (26.97%) SQL
3 21 (23.60%) Python
4 14 (15.73%) C#
5 13 (14.61%) PL/SQL
6 10 (11.24%) TypeScript
7 9 (10.11%) Bash
8 7 (7.87%) C++
9 6 (6.74%) C
10 4 (4.49%) R
11 3 (3.37%) ABAP
11 3 (3.37%) Go
11 3 (3.37%) PHP
12 1 (1.12%) JCL
12 1 (1.12%) Scala
12 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) SC Cleared
1 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.99%) Degree
3 7 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.37%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.98%) QA
2 13 (14.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) WCAG
4 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (22.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (22.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.74%) Grafana
3 4 (4.49%) HP Fortify
3 4 (4.49%) Terraform
4 2 (2.25%) Nagios
4 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (14.61%) Oracle
2 4 (4.49%) Veracode
3 3 (3.37%) SAP
4 2 (2.25%) iManage
4 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.12%) Splunk