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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 110 71
Rank change year-on-year -3 -39 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 67 95 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.17% 2.40% 3.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.32% 8.98% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 55 51 159
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £29,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,125 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,500 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 719 1,058 1,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.61% 26.74% 29.43%
Number of salaries quoted 577 536 1,408
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
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% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,232
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 10 February 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 10 February 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 -7 34 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Worcestershire -4 11 £35,000 - 5
Coventry -5 7 £60,000 +4.35% 2
Warwickshire +13 5 £80,000 - 3
Staffordshire -14 1 £53,688 -9.53% 1
Shropshire -25 1 £57,500 +9.52% 17
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 (8.96%) IIS
1 6 (8.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.99%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.49%) FileNet
3 1 (1.49%) JBoss
3 1 (1.49%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) AWS
2 17 (25.37%) Azure
3 9 (13.43%) SaaS
4 5 (7.46%) GCP
4 5 (7.46%) Serverless
5 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.48%) GitHub
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.99%) Azure AI
7 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.99%) PaaS
7 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.49%) Datadog
8 1 (1.49%) dbt
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) MySQL
4 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.48%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.99%) MS Access
5 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.99%) Redis
6 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) JUnit
2 9 (13.43%) Maven
2 9 (13.43%) Mockito
3 8 (11.94%) Git
4 5 (7.46%) GitLab
5 4 (5.97%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.48%) Selenium
7 1 (1.49%) JMeter
7 1 (1.49%) Locust
7 1 (1.49%) MLflow
7 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 26 (38.81%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Manufacturing
3 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Law
5 2 (2.99%) Advertising
5 2 (2.99%) Banking
5 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Automotive
6 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Police
6 1 (1.49%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (47.76%) Developer
2 19 (28.36%) Java Developer
3 12 (17.91%) Senior
4 10 (14.93%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (14.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 9 (13.43%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Java Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Support Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Technical Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Technical Support
8 6 (8.96%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 4 (5.97%) Lead
9 4 (5.97%) Software Developer
10 3 (4.48%) C# Developer
10 3 (4.48%) C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) Spring
2 17 (25.37%) React
3 13 (19.40%) REST
4 12 (17.91%) Spring Boot
5 11 (16.42%) .NET
6 5 (7.46%) RESTful
7 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.97%) Node.js
8 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
8 3 (4.48%) JPA
8 3 (4.48%) OAuth
8 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
9 2 (2.99%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.99%) ADO
9 2 (2.99%) Blazor
9 2 (2.99%) Django
9 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.99%) Vue
9 2 (2.99%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.46%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.97%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.99%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.49%) Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) NHS
6 1 (1.49%) PKI
6 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.93%) Linux
2 2 (2.99%) Unix
3 1 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (47.76%) Full-Stack Development
2 27 (40.30%) Agile
3 22 (32.84%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (26.87%) Microservices
5 17 (25.37%) CI/CD
6 15 (22.39%) Computer Science
7 12 (17.91%) DevOps
7 12 (17.91%) Scrum
7 12 (17.91%) TDD
7 12 (17.91%) User Experience
8 9 (13.43%) Containerisation
8 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (13.43%) Software Engineering
9 8 (11.94%) Decision-Making
9 8 (11.94%) SDLC
9 8 (11.94%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (10.45%) AI
10 7 (10.45%) Mentoring
10 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.96%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (35.82%) JavaScript
2 18 (26.87%) Python
3 16 (23.88%) SQL
4 11 (16.42%) C#
4 11 (16.42%) TypeScript
5 8 (11.94%) PL/SQL
6 7 (10.45%) PHP
7 6 (8.96%) Bash
7 6 (8.96%) C
7 6 (8.96%) R
8 4 (5.97%) C++
8 4 (5.97%) Delphi
9 2 (2.99%) Groovy
9 2 (2.99%) XAML
10 1 (1.49%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.49%) Ruby
10 1 (1.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Computer Science Degree
1 11 (16.42%) Degree
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.48%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (25.37%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.46%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Grafana
4 3 (4.48%) Ansible
5 2 (2.99%) Nagios
5 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Oracle
2 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.97%) IBM
4 2 (2.99%) ForgeRock
4 2 (2.99%) Google
4 2 (2.99%) UiPath
5 1 (1.49%) Adobe
5 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.49%) Foundry
5 1 (1.49%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.49%) New Relic
5 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.49%) Palantir
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk