Java Software Engineer Jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java Software Engineer
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Newcastle upon Tyne is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 78 -
Rank change year-on-year +35 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.33% 0.68% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.69% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £58,938 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,465 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,991 -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £65,000 £65,465 -
% change year-on-year -0.71% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 286 1,012 646
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 97.59% 84.67%
Number of salaries quoted 195 847 400
10th Percentile £25,900 £30,000 £31,437
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,299 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,603 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £75,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £48,000 £47,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.52% -9.05% +16.67%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Java Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform