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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 48 105
Rank change year-on-year -32 +57 -24
Permanent jobs citing Java 143 159 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.66% 4.65% 2.02%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.07% 20.57% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 73 102 95
10th Percentile £41,400 £27,875 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,789 £46,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% +9.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £70,995
90th Percentile £87,968 £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 1,016 773 1,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.80% 22.60% 22.10%
Number of salaries quoted 739 608 979
10th Percentile £37,900 £31,863 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 76 £75,000 +15.38% 77
Shropshire -18 24 £46,250 -26.00% 16
Staffordshire -11 12 £50,000 -6.87% 1
Worcestershire -16 11 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Warwickshire -5 7 £55,000 - 4
Wolverhampton -10 6 £70,000 -26.32%
Coventry -15 4 £78,750 - 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 7 (4.90%) Confluence
1 7 (4.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.80%) CICS
3 3 (2.10%) Documentum
4 1 (0.70%) Appian
4 1 (0.70%) nginx
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.70%) SAS
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.70%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Simulink
2 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (37.76%) Azure
2 50 (34.97%) AWS
3 23 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (10.49%) GitHub
5 14 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (5.59%) PaaS
6 8 (5.59%) SaaS
7 5 (3.50%) Power Platform
8 4 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.80%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.80%) dbt
8 4 (2.80%) GCP
8 4 (2.80%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.10%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.40%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.40%) Datadog
10 2 (1.40%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.50%) Wireshark
2 3 (2.10%) Firewall
2 3 (2.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.20%) MySQL
4 5 (3.50%) Data Lake
4 5 (3.50%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.50%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.50%) Power BI
5 4 (2.80%) Big Data
5 4 (2.80%) Db2
5 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.80%) Oracle BI EE
5 4 (2.80%) QlikView
5 4 (2.80%) Tableau
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.40%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 27 (18.88%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.59%) Cucumber
3 16 (11.19%) Git
3 16 (11.19%) JUnit
4 15 (10.49%) GitLab
4 15 (10.49%) Maven
5 14 (9.79%) Mockito
6 13 (9.09%) JMeter
6 13 (9.09%) Postman
6 13 (9.09%) Selenium
7 11 (7.69%) Zephyr
8 9 (6.29%) Gatling
8 9 (6.29%) JIRA
9 7 (4.90%) Cypress.io
9 7 (4.90%) REST Assured
10 6 (4.20%) LoadRunner
10 6 (4.20%) SoapUI
11 5 (3.50%) Burp Suite
11 5 (3.50%) Eclipse
11 5 (3.50%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (30.77%) Finance
2 32 (22.38%) Social Skills
3 27 (18.88%) Public Sector
4 20 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.99%) Banking
5 10 (6.99%) Legal
6 8 (5.59%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.20%) Law
8 5 (3.50%) Electronics
8 5 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Police
10 1 (0.70%) Retail
10 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (29.37%) Developer
2 39 (27.27%) Lead
3 32 (22.38%) Senior
4 22 (15.38%) Java Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Java Engineer
6 15 (10.49%) Consultant
7 12 (8.39%) Senior Developer
8 11 (7.69%) Applications Consultant
8 11 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 11 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (7.69%) Mainframe Consultant
8 11 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (6.29%) Applications Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) SAP Developer
11 7 (4.90%) Scrum Master
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.20%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.67%) Spring
2 32 (22.38%) REST
3 27 (18.88%) React
3 27 (18.88%) Spring Boot
4 17 (11.89%) .NET
5 16 (11.19%) Playwright
6 12 (8.39%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.69%) ISPF
7 11 (7.69%) Node.js
7 11 (7.69%) RESTful
7 11 (7.69%) SOAP
7 11 (7.69%) XML
8 7 (4.90%) JSON
8 7 (4.90%) SAP Fiori
8 7 (4.90%) SAPUI5
9 6 (4.20%) JDBC
9 6 (4.20%) OAuth
10 5 (3.50%) ADO
10 5 (3.50%) Terraform
11 4 (2.80%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.59%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.89%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (9.79%) Legacy Applications
4 11 (7.69%) Mainframe
5 7 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.90%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (4.20%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.20%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.80%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.10%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.10%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (2.10%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.70%) Mobile Wallet
11 1 (0.70%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.38%) Linux
2 5 (3.50%) Kali Linux
2 5 (3.50%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Unix
4 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (48.95%) Agile
2 67 (46.85%) CI/CD
3 62 (43.36%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (39.16%) Mentoring
5 41 (28.67%) Test Automation
6 39 (27.27%) DevOps
6 39 (27.27%) Scrum
7 29 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (20.28%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (18.18%) Microservices
9 25 (17.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (17.48%) SDLC
9 25 (17.48%) Software Engineering
10 21 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (13.99%) AI
11 20 (13.99%) Software Testing
11 20 (13.99%) TDD
12 19 (13.29%) Coaching
13 18 (12.59%) BDD
13 18 (12.59%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.97%) JavaScript
2 38 (26.57%) SQL
3 29 (20.28%) Python
4 20 (13.99%) C#
5 15 (10.49%) PL/SQL
6 12 (8.39%) JCL
7 11 (7.69%) Bash
7 11 (7.69%) C
7 11 (7.69%) COBOL
8 8 (5.59%) C++
8 8 (5.59%) TypeScript
9 7 (4.90%) ABAP
10 5 (3.50%) Embedded C
10 5 (3.50%) MATLAB
10 5 (3.50%) R
11 3 (2.10%) Go
12 2 (1.40%) PHP
13 1 (0.70%) Scala
13 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 26 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.78%) Degree
4 11 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.20%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.50%) ISEB
6 5 (3.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.59%) QA
2 10 (6.99%) Accessibility
3 9 (6.29%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.10%) NIST
6 1 (0.70%) GDPR
6 1 (0.70%) GxP
6 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) PSD2
6 1 (0.70%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (14.69%) Docker
2 7 (4.90%) Embedded Firmware
2 7 (4.90%) Firmware
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (16.08%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.59%) Grafana
3 5 (3.50%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.40%) Ansible
4 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.70%) Argo
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (12.59%) Oracle
2 12 (8.39%) SAP
3 7 (4.90%) Broadcom
4 6 (4.20%) iManage
4 6 (4.20%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.50%) Databricks
5 5 (3.50%) Pega
5 5 (3.50%) Veracode
6 3 (2.10%) OpenText
7 1 (0.70%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.70%) Denodo
7 1 (0.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.70%) Google
7 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.70%) Splunk
7 1 (0.70%) VMware