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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 44 104
Rank change year-on-year -58 +60 -47
Permanent jobs citing Java 91 165 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.16% 5.14% 2.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.48% 20.68% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 63 105 156
10th Percentile £35,250 £29,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £47,144 £42,500 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,498
90th Percentile £86,800 £75,000 £80,000
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 960 798 2,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.19% 24.84% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 717 619 1,631
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 £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 5 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 5 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 -18 53 £70,079 +16.80% 9
Worcestershire -8 10 £50,000 +5.26% 3
Shropshire -26 10 £50,000 -18.37% 17
Staffordshire -27 7 £58,750 +9.43% 3
Coventry -14 5 £80,000 - 2
Wolverhampton -16 5 £70,000 -26.32% 2
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 3 (3.30%) Confluence
1 3 (3.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.20%) Documentum
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Appian
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.97%) AWS
2 25 (27.47%) Azure
3 10 (10.99%) SaaS
4 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.69%) dbt
4 7 (7.69%) PaaS
5 4 (4.40%) BrowserStack
6 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.30%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.20%) Datadog
7 2 (2.20%) GCP
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.20%) Serverless
8 1 (1.10%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.79%) MySQL
3 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.20%) Redis
6 2 (2.20%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.10%) MariaDB
7 1 (1.10%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 13 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 11 (12.09%) JUnit
3 10 (10.99%) Maven
3 10 (10.99%) Mockito
4 9 (9.89%) Git
5 8 (8.79%) Gatling
5 8 (8.79%) GitLab
6 7 (7.69%) JMeter
6 7 (7.69%) Selenium
7 6 (6.59%) Jenkins
7 6 (6.59%) Postman
8 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.49%) LoadRunner
8 5 (5.49%) REST Assured
8 5 (5.49%) Zephyr
9 4 (4.40%) Burp Suite
9 4 (4.40%) JIRA
9 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
10 3 (3.30%) HP UFT
11 2 (2.20%) Locust
General
1 23 (25.27%) Finance
2 20 (21.98%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.79%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.49%) Legal
8 4 (4.40%) Law
9 1 (1.10%) Advertising
9 1 (1.10%) Electronics
9 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (34.07%) Developer
2 30 (32.97%) Lead
3 18 (19.78%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Java Developer
5 13 (14.29%) Java Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (9.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (8.79%) Test Leader
8 6 (6.59%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (6.59%) QA Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Quality Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) SAP Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Java Team Leader
10 4 (4.40%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (30.77%) REST
2 27 (29.67%) React
3 25 (27.47%) Spring
4 14 (15.38%) Spring Boot
5 13 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 12 (13.19%) Node.js
7 9 (9.89%) Playwright
8 8 (8.79%) RESTful
9 5 (5.49%) .NET
9 5 (5.49%) CSS
9 5 (5.49%) SAP Fiori
9 5 (5.49%) SAPUI5
10 4 (4.40%) HTML
10 4 (4.40%) JDBC
10 4 (4.40%) OAuth
10 4 (4.40%) SOAP
11 3 (3.30%) GraphQL
12 2 (2.20%) jQuery
12 2 (2.20%) Swing
12 2 (2.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.49%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.20%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.10%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.10%) IoT
7 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.10%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.38%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Kali Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Windows
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.55%) Agile
2 41 (45.05%) CI/CD
3 39 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 37 (40.66%) Mentoring
5 34 (37.36%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (26.37%) Full-Stack Development
7 23 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (24.18%) Microservices
9 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
10 19 (20.88%) Scrum
11 18 (19.78%) DevOps
12 17 (18.68%) TDD
13 16 (17.58%) BDD
13 16 (17.58%) SDLC
14 14 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (14.29%) Containerisation
15 13 (14.29%) Observability
15 13 (14.29%) Performance Testing
15 13 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.67%) JavaScript
2 24 (26.37%) Python
3 22 (24.18%) SQL
4 15 (16.48%) C#
5 10 (10.99%) PL/SQL
5 10 (10.99%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.79%) C++
7 6 (6.59%) Bash
8 5 (5.49%) ABAP
8 5 (5.49%) C
9 3 (3.30%) Go
9 3 (3.30%) PHP
10 1 (1.10%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.10%) JCL
10 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.10%) R
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
10 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (12.09%) SC Cleared
1 11 (12.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) Degree
3 8 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.48%) QA
2 13 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) GxP
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (19.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (19.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.59%) Grafana
2 6 (6.59%) Terraform
3 4 (4.40%) HP Fortify
4 2 (2.20%) Nagios
4 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Oracle
2 5 (5.49%) SAP
3 4 (4.40%) iManage
3 4 (4.40%) Veracode
4 2 (2.20%) OpenText
4 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.10%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.10%) Google
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.10%) Splunk