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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 82 91
Rank change year-on-year -45 +9 -30
Permanent jobs citing Java 76 98 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.92% 2.96% 2.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.96% 12.69% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 61 78 183
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,688 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -6.63% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,063 £71,991
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -2.67% +1.62% -7.74%

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 955 772 1,872
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.57% 23.30% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 722 593 1,629
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,375 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,850 £76,900
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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -9 42 £50,000 +11.11% 13
Worcestershire -12 15 £36,500 -23.16% 4
Shropshire -29 7 £53,750 -10.42%
Coventry -19 6 £61,350 - 2
Wolverhampton -19 4 £70,000 -26.32%
Warwickshire -4 2 £80,000 - 4
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 5 (6.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.32%) Appian
4 1 (1.32%) FileNet
4 1 (1.32%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 23 (30.26%) AWS
2 19 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) PaaS
3 8 (10.53%) SaaS
4 7 (9.21%) dbt
5 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.26%) BrowserStack
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub
7 3 (3.95%) Serverless
7 3 (3.95%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (2.63%) Datadog
8 2 (2.63%) GCP
8 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.89%) MySQL
2 6 (7.89%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.95%) Redis
3 3 (3.95%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.32%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.32%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.32%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) Cucumber
2 10 (13.16%) Git
2 10 (13.16%) GitLab
3 9 (11.84%) Selenium
4 8 (10.53%) Gatling
4 8 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.53%) JUnit
5 7 (9.21%) JMeter
5 7 (9.21%) Maven
6 6 (7.89%) Mockito
7 5 (6.58%) Cypress.io
7 5 (6.58%) LoadRunner
7 5 (6.58%) Postman
7 5 (6.58%) REST Assured
8 4 (5.26%) Burp Suite
8 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (5.26%) Zephyr
9 3 (3.95%) HP UFT
9 3 (3.95%) JIRA
10 2 (2.63%) Locust
General
1 17 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
4 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (7.89%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.63%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Automotive
7 1 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (36.84%) Developer
2 19 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.05%) Lead
4 14 (18.42%) Java Engineer
4 14 (18.42%) Senior
5 12 (15.79%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 7 (9.21%) Test Leader
9 6 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (6.58%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) QA Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (6.58%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
11 4 (5.26%) QA Leader
11 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.95%) C# Developer
12 3 (3.95%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.00%) REST
1 19 (25.00%) Spring
2 18 (23.68%) React
3 15 (19.74%) Spring Boot
4 9 (11.84%) Playwright
5 7 (9.21%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.89%) Node.js
7 5 (6.58%) CSS
8 4 (5.26%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.26%) HTML
9 3 (3.95%) .NET
9 3 (3.95%) Hibernate
9 3 (3.95%) JPA
9 3 (3.95%) jQuery
10 2 (2.63%) Django
10 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (2.63%) Flask
10 2 (2.63%) Gherkin
10 2 (2.63%) pytest
10 2 (2.63%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Virtual Team
2 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.58%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.32%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.32%) NHS
5 1 (1.32%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.47%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Kali Linux
3 2 (2.63%) Windows
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.00%) Agile
2 35 (46.05%) Full-Stack Development
3 31 (40.79%) Test Automation
4 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
5 21 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.37%) DevOps
6 17 (22.37%) Mentoring
7 16 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (19.74%) BDD
8 15 (19.74%) Computer Science
8 15 (19.74%) Microservices
8 15 (19.74%) SDLC
9 14 (18.42%) Containerisation
10 13 (17.11%) Performance Testing
11 11 (14.47%) Scrum
11 11 (14.47%) Security Testing
11 11 (14.47%) User Experience
12 9 (11.84%) Observability
12 9 (11.84%) TDD
13 8 (10.53%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) Python
2 16 (21.05%) JavaScript
2 16 (21.05%) SQL
3 11 (14.47%) TypeScript
4 10 (13.16%) C#
5 7 (9.21%) C
5 7 (9.21%) C++
6 6 (7.89%) PL/SQL
7 5 (6.58%) Bash
8 4 (5.26%) PHP
8 4 (5.26%) R
9 2 (2.63%) Delphi
10 1 (1.32%) JCL
10 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Degree
2 11 (14.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.74%) QA
2 9 (11.84%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (21.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.53%) Grafana
3 4 (5.26%) HP Fortify
3 4 (5.26%) Terraform
4 3 (3.95%) Nagios
4 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.32%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Oracle
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) Veracode
3 2 (2.63%) IBM
3 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.32%) Adobe
4 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.32%) Splunk