Java Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 11 40 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.93% 7.43% 7.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.09% 17.62% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 9 23 24
10th Percentile £20,900 £30,750 £44,375
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,000 £101,000 £75,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year - +10.64% -9.62%

All Programming Languages
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 136 227 121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.90% 42.19% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 111 102 104
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £42,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +13.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £84,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £100,000 £67,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Java job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Salary Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
1 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Scala Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Software Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Scala Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Scala Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Scala Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Spring
1 4 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) CSS
2 2 (18.18%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Apache CXF
3 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
3 1 (9.09%) CSS3
3 1 (9.09%) Dropwizard
3 1 (9.09%) FreeMarker
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) HTML5
3 1 (9.09%) JAX-RS
3 1 (9.09%) jQuery
3 1 (9.09%) MERN Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Mongoose
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) Nunjucks
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Agile
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Pair Programming
3 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) MVC
5 1 (9.09%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) C++
4 1 (9.09%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
1 2 (18.18%) vSphere
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Control-M
1 2 (18.18%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Google