Java Job Trends in Darlington

Java
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Permanent jobs citing Java 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Darlington 3.70% 1.61% -
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.00% 5.56% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £37,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% - -
75th Percentile £74,066 £38,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median annual salary £62,639 £46,125 £60,000
% change year-on-year +35.80% -23.13% +50.00%

All Programming Languages
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4 18 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Darlington 14.81% 29.03% 30.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 24
10th Percentile £66,907 £39,072 £31,250
25th Percentile £68,132 £64,471 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £75,400 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% +59.58% -27.31%
75th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £61,875
90th Percentile - - £69,800
Durham median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +26.01% +29.41%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Darlington.

Java job vacancy trend in Darlington

Java
Salary Trend in Darlington

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Darlington citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform