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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 46 101
Rank change year-on-year -31 +55 -28
Permanent jobs citing Java 162 154 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.79% 4.74% 2.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.58% 21.30% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 82 98 77
10th Percentile £42,750 £40,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,025 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 1,040 723 1,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.52% 22.26% 23.79%
Number of salaries quoted 730 570 817
10th Percentile £38,675 £32,125 £32,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +3.77%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
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 25 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 25 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 -8 90 £75,000 +15.38% 59
Shropshire -19 22 £45,000 -28.00% 31
Staffordshire -8 16 £50,000 -6.87% 3
Worcestershire -16 9 £70,000 +47.37% 1
Warwickshire -16 8 £55,000 - 5
Coventry -18 8 £70,000 - 4
Wolverhampton -4 6 £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 (4.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.09%) CICS
2 5 (3.09%) Confluence
3 3 (1.85%) Documentum
4 1 (0.62%) Appian
4 1 (0.62%) nginx
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.62%) SAS
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Simulink
2 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (37.04%) Azure
2 54 (33.33%) AWS
3 24 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.11%) GitHub
5 17 (10.49%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.70%) PaaS
6 6 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (2.47%) BrowserStack
7 4 (2.47%) GCP
7 4 (2.47%) SaaS
7 4 (2.47%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.23%) Serverless
10 1 (0.62%) Datadog
10 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.56%) Wireshark
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
2 3 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.79%) Relational Database
2 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.70%) Power BI
4 5 (3.09%) Big Data
4 5 (3.09%) Data Mining
4 5 (3.09%) Db2
4 5 (3.09%) MySQL
4 5 (3.09%) Oracle BI EE
4 5 (3.09%) QlikView
4 5 (3.09%) Tableau
5 3 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.23%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (17.28%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.88%) Cucumber
2 16 (9.88%) JUnit
3 15 (9.26%) Maven
4 14 (8.64%) Git
4 14 (8.64%) Mockito
5 13 (8.02%) GitLab
6 11 (6.79%) Postman
6 11 (6.79%) Zephyr
7 10 (6.17%) JMeter
7 10 (6.17%) Selenium
8 9 (5.56%) Eclipse
9 8 (4.94%) Gatling
10 7 (4.32%) JIRA
11 5 (3.09%) Cypress.io
11 5 (3.09%) REST Assured
11 5 (3.09%) SoapUI
12 4 (2.47%) Burp Suite
12 4 (2.47%) HP UFT
12 4 (2.47%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (28.40%) Finance
2 37 (22.84%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.28%) Public Sector
4 24 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.02%) Banking
6 11 (6.79%) Legal
7 9 (5.56%) Electronics
8 8 (4.94%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.70%) Law
9 6 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Police
11 1 (0.62%) Retail
11 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (32.10%) Developer
2 46 (28.40%) Senior
3 38 (23.46%) Lead
4 27 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 25 (15.43%) Java Engineer
6 19 (11.73%) Consultant
7 18 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 16 (9.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 15 (9.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 14 (8.64%) Applications Consultant
10 14 (8.64%) Mainframe Consultant
11 13 (8.02%) Applications Engineer
12 12 (7.41%) Senior Java Engineer
13 11 (6.79%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (6.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 10 (6.17%) Software Engineer
15 8 (4.94%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
16 7 (4.32%) SAP Developer
16 7 (4.32%) Scrum Master
16 7 (4.32%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (28.40%) Spring
2 32 (19.75%) Spring Boot
3 31 (19.14%) REST
4 26 (16.05%) React
5 20 (12.35%) .NET
6 14 (8.64%) ISPF
6 14 (8.64%) Playwright
7 12 (7.41%) AngularJS
8 11 (6.79%) Node.js
8 11 (6.79%) RESTful
8 11 (6.79%) SOAP
8 11 (6.79%) XML
9 7 (4.32%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (4.32%) SAPUI5
10 6 (3.70%) JDBC
10 6 (3.70%) JSON
10 6 (3.70%) Kafka
10 6 (3.70%) OAuth
11 5 (3.09%) ADO
11 5 (3.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.73%) Cloud Native
1 19 (11.73%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (9.88%) Legacy Applications
3 14 (8.64%) Mainframe
4 9 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.32%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 5 (3.09%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.62%) IoT
11 1 (0.62%) Mobile Wallet
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.96%) Linux
2 5 (3.09%) Windows
3 4 (2.47%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.62%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (46.91%) Agile
2 68 (41.98%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (39.51%) CI/CD
4 58 (35.80%) Mentoring
5 41 (25.31%) Scrum
6 38 (23.46%) DevOps
7 34 (20.99%) Test Automation
8 33 (20.37%) Software Engineering
9 32 (19.75%) Technical Leadership
10 30 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 25 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (15.43%) Microservices
12 24 (14.81%) SDLC
13 23 (14.20%) Software Testing
14 20 (12.35%) Coaching
14 20 (12.35%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
14 20 (12.35%) TDD
15 19 (11.73%) AI
16 18 (11.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.69%) JavaScript
2 39 (24.07%) SQL
3 29 (17.90%) Python
4 19 (11.73%) C#
5 15 (9.26%) C
5 15 (9.26%) PL/SQL
6 14 (8.64%) COBOL
6 14 (8.64%) JCL
7 11 (6.79%) Bash
7 11 (6.79%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.56%) Embedded C
8 9 (5.56%) MATLAB
9 8 (4.94%) C++
10 7 (4.32%) ABAP
11 6 (3.70%) R
12 3 (1.85%) Go
13 1 (0.62%) PHP
13 1 (0.62%) Scala
13 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 27 (16.67%) Degree
4 10 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.70%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.09%) ISEB
6 5 (3.09%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.64%) QA
2 10 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.62%) GDPR
6 1 (0.62%) GxP
6 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.62%) PSD2
6 1 (0.62%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (11.73%) Docker
2 11 (6.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 11 (6.79%) Firmware
3 1 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.70%) Grafana
3 4 (2.47%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.23%) Ansible
4 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.62%) Argo
5 1 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 18 (11.11%) Oracle
2 12 (7.41%) SAP
3 9 (5.56%) Broadcom
4 6 (3.70%) Databricks
4 6 (3.70%) iManage
4 6 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.09%) Pega
6 4 (2.47%) Veracode
7 3 (1.85%) OpenText
8 1 (0.62%) Denodo
8 1 (0.62%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.62%) Google
8 1 (0.62%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.62%) VMware