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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 93
Rank change year-on-year -18 +42 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 178 145 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.99% 4.50% 2.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.68% 20.95% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 89 89 70
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,450 £75,000 £78,300
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.23%

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 1,007 692 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.26% 21.48% 24.35%
Number of salaries quoted 705 543 743
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,125 £32,300
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -3 101 £75,000 +15.38% 70
Shropshire -14 23 £45,000 -28.00% 25
Staffordshire -11 16 £50,000 -6.87% 6
Coventry -3 14 £70,000 - 7
Worcestershire -17 9 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -17 8 £55,000 - 8
Wolverhampton -6 2 £70,000 -22.22% 1
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 (3.93%) CICS
1 7 (3.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.81%) Confluence
3 3 (1.69%) Documentum
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (5.06%) Simulink
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.08%) Azure
2 63 (35.39%) AWS
3 27 (15.17%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (13.48%) GitHub
5 23 (12.92%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.37%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.81%) PaaS
8 4 (2.25%) Amazon EMR
8 4 (2.25%) GCP
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.69%) SaaS
9 3 (1.69%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.12%) Serverless
11 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.56%) Datadog
11 1 (0.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.06%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.69%) Firewall
2 3 (1.69%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.30%) Relational Database
2 7 (3.93%) Db2
2 7 (3.93%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.37%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.37%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.37%) Power BI
4 5 (2.81%) Big Data
4 5 (2.81%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.81%) MySQL
4 5 (2.81%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (2.81%) QlikView
4 5 (2.81%) Tableau
5 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.12%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.56%) GIS
Development Applications
1 33 (18.54%) Jenkins
2 17 (9.55%) Git
3 16 (8.99%) JUnit
4 15 (8.43%) Maven
5 14 (7.87%) GitLab
5 14 (7.87%) Mockito
6 11 (6.18%) Cucumber
6 11 (6.18%) Selenium
7 10 (5.62%) Postman
8 9 (5.06%) Eclipse
8 9 (5.06%) JIRA
8 9 (5.06%) JMeter
8 9 (5.06%) Zephyr
9 5 (2.81%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.25%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.25%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
11 3 (1.69%) Gatling
11 3 (1.69%) HP UFT
11 3 (1.69%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (25.28%) Finance
2 40 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.98%) Public Sector
4 28 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (6.74%) Banking
6 11 (6.18%) Legal
7 9 (5.06%) Electronics
8 6 (3.37%) Law
8 6 (3.37%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.81%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Police
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (33.15%) Developer
2 57 (32.02%) Senior
3 33 (18.54%) Lead
4 30 (16.85%) Java Developer
5 26 (14.61%) Java Engineer
6 23 (12.92%) Consultant
7 21 (11.80%) Senior Developer
8 18 (10.11%) Applications Consultant
8 18 (10.11%) Mainframe Consultant
8 18 (10.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (8.99%) Software Engineer
10 14 (7.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 14 (7.87%) Senior Java Engineer
11 12 (6.74%) Applications Engineer
12 11 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (4.49%) Integration Developer
14 8 (4.49%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 7 (3.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (26.40%) Spring
2 33 (18.54%) Spring Boot
3 28 (15.73%) REST
4 24 (13.48%) React
5 23 (12.92%) .NET
6 18 (10.11%) ISPF
7 12 (6.74%) RESTful
7 12 (6.74%) SOAP
7 12 (6.74%) XML
8 11 (6.18%) Node.js
9 10 (5.62%) AngularJS
10 9 (5.06%) Playwright
11 7 (3.93%) SAP Fiori
11 7 (3.93%) SAPUI5
12 6 (3.37%) JDBC
12 6 (3.37%) JSON
12 6 (3.37%) Kafka
12 6 (3.37%) OAuth
12 6 (3.37%) Terraform
13 5 (2.81%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.92%) Cloud Native
1 23 (12.92%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (11.24%) Legacy Applications
3 18 (10.11%) Mainframe
4 9 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.81%) Embedded Systems
7 5 (2.81%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.81%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.56%) IoT
11 1 (0.56%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.24%) Linux
2 5 (2.81%) Windows
3 3 (1.69%) Kali Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (40.45%) Agile
2 71 (39.89%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (38.76%) CI/CD
4 58 (32.58%) Mentoring
5 45 (25.28%) Software Engineering
6 43 (24.16%) DevOps
6 43 (24.16%) Scrum
7 37 (20.79%) Technical Leadership
8 31 (17.42%) Test Automation
9 29 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (15.73%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (15.17%) Microservices
12 26 (14.61%) Collaborative Culture
12 26 (14.61%) Software Testing
13 23 (12.92%) Coaching
14 22 (12.36%) SDLC
15 20 (11.24%) TDD
16 19 (10.67%) AI
16 19 (10.67%) Validation
17 18 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (23.03%) JavaScript
2 39 (21.91%) SQL
3 28 (15.73%) Python
4 19 (10.67%) C
5 18 (10.11%) COBOL
5 18 (10.11%) JCL
6 15 (8.43%) PL/SQL
7 13 (7.30%) C#
8 12 (6.74%) TypeScript
9 11 (6.18%) Bash
9 11 (6.18%) C++
10 9 (5.06%) Embedded C
10 9 (5.06%) MATLAB
11 7 (3.93%) ABAP
12 6 (3.37%) R
13 3 (1.69%) Go
14 1 (0.56%) Scala
14 1 (0.56%) VB
14 1 (0.56%) VB6
14 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (16.29%) Degree
2 28 (15.73%) Security Cleared
3 27 (15.17%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.93%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.81%) ISEB
6 5 (2.81%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.11%) QA
2 10 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.69%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
6 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.56%) PSD2
6 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (11.80%) Docker
2 13 (7.30%) Embedded Firmware
2 13 (7.30%) Firmware
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (12.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.81%) Grafana
3 3 (1.69%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.12%) Ansible
4 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.56%) Argo
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (10.67%) Oracle
2 12 (6.74%) SAP
3 11 (6.18%) Broadcom
4 7 (3.93%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.37%) Databricks
5 6 (3.37%) iManage
6 5 (2.81%) Pega
7 3 (1.69%) OpenText
7 3 (1.69%) Veracode
8 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.56%) Denodo
9 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.56%) Google
9 1 (0.56%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.56%) VMware