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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 41 114
Rank change year-on-year -57 +73 -52
Permanent jobs citing Java 103 171 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.27% 5.06% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.40% 21.16% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 69 111 120
10th Percentile £39,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,375 £71,991
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 990 808 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.16% 23.93% 22.42%
Number of salaries quoted 742 642 1,304
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,104 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -25 57 £70,079 +16.80% 11
Shropshire -25 14 £47,500 -22.45% 32
Worcestershire -7 13 £62,500 +31.58%
Staffordshire -27 8 £50,000 -6.87% 2
Wolverhampton -18 6 £70,000 -26.32% 1
Coventry -12 4 £83,750 - 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 6 (5.83%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.94%) Documentum
3 2 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.97%) Appian
4 1 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 7 (6.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (35.92%) AWS
2 28 (27.18%) Azure
3 11 (10.68%) SaaS
4 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.80%) dbt
5 7 (6.80%) PaaS
6 4 (3.88%) BrowserStack
6 4 (3.88%) GCP
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.91%) Datadog
7 3 (2.91%) GitHub
7 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.91%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.97%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.97%) Serverless
9 1 (0.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.77%) MySQL
1 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.91%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.97%) Redis
6 1 (0.97%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (0.97%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 15 (14.56%) Cucumber
2 12 (11.65%) Git
2 12 (11.65%) GitLab
3 11 (10.68%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.68%) JUnit
4 10 (9.71%) JMeter
4 10 (9.71%) Maven
4 10 (9.71%) Mockito
4 10 (9.71%) Selenium
5 9 (8.74%) Postman
6 8 (7.77%) Gatling
6 8 (7.77%) Zephyr
7 7 (6.80%) JIRA
8 5 (4.85%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.85%) LoadRunner
8 5 (4.85%) REST Assured
9 4 (3.88%) Burp Suite
9 4 (3.88%) SoapUI
9 4 (3.88%) SonarQube
10 3 (2.91%) HP UFT
General
1 29 (28.16%) Finance
2 20 (19.42%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.56%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.74%) Banking
5 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.77%) Investment Banking
6 7 (6.80%) Legal
7 6 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.83%) Law
8 1 (0.97%) Advertising
8 1 (0.97%) Electronics
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.97%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (34.95%) Developer
2 33 (32.04%) Lead
3 20 (19.42%) Senior
4 18 (17.48%) Java Developer
5 14 (13.59%) Java Engineer
6 13 (12.62%) Software Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Test Leader
8 7 (6.80%) SAP Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (5.83%) QA Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (27.18%) REST
1 28 (27.18%) Spring
2 25 (24.27%) React
3 17 (16.50%) Spring Boot
4 12 (11.65%) AngularJS
4 12 (11.65%) Node.js
4 12 (11.65%) Playwright
5 10 (9.71%) RESTful
6 9 (8.74%) SOAP
7 7 (6.80%) SAP Fiori
7 7 (6.80%) SAPUI5
8 6 (5.83%) JDBC
8 6 (5.83%) OAuth
9 5 (4.85%) .NET
9 5 (4.85%) CSS
10 4 (3.88%) HTML
10 4 (3.88%) JSON
10 4 (3.88%) XML
11 3 (2.91%) ADO
11 3 (2.91%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.85%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.85%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.85%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.97%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.97%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.97%) Mobile Wallet
5 1 (0.97%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.56%) Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Kali Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Windows
3 2 (1.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (48.54%) Agile
2 47 (45.63%) CI/CD
3 42 (40.78%) Mentoring
4 41 (39.81%) Test Automation
5 40 (38.83%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (22.33%) DevOps
7 23 (22.33%) Microservices
8 22 (21.36%) Scrum
8 22 (21.36%) Software Engineering
9 20 (19.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (17.48%) BDD
10 18 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (17.48%) Technical Leadership
11 17 (16.50%) SDLC
11 17 (16.50%) TDD
12 14 (13.59%) Containerisation
12 14 (13.59%) Unit Testing
13 13 (12.62%) Observability
13 13 (12.62%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.21%) JavaScript
2 24 (23.30%) SQL
3 23 (22.33%) Python
4 16 (15.53%) C#
5 10 (9.71%) PL/SQL
6 9 (8.74%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.80%) ABAP
7 7 (6.80%) C++
8 6 (5.83%) Bash
9 5 (4.85%) C
10 3 (2.91%) Go
10 3 (2.91%) PHP
11 2 (1.94%) JCL
12 1 (0.97%) COBOL
12 1 (0.97%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.97%) Scala
12 1 (0.97%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) Degree
2 12 (11.65%) SC Cleared
2 12 (11.65%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.91%) ISEB
5 3 (2.91%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.50%) QA
2 12 (11.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) GxP
4 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) PSD2
4 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (16.50%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (16.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.77%) Grafana
3 5 (4.85%) Terraform
4 4 (3.88%) HP Fortify
5 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.97%) Ansible
6 1 (0.97%) Argo
6 1 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Oracle
2 10 (9.71%) SAP
3 6 (5.83%) iManage
4 4 (3.88%) Veracode
5 3 (2.91%) Pega
6 2 (1.94%) OpenText
6 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.97%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.97%) Broadcom
7 1 (0.97%) Databricks
7 1 (0.97%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.97%) Google
7 1 (0.97%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.97%) Splunk