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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 36 9
Rank change year-on-year +15 -27 +11
Permanent jobs citing Java 29 32 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.91% 4.27% 10.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.85% 11.94% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 18 17 26
10th Percentile £10,000 £33,300 £48,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +23.08% +13.04%
75th Percentile £66,875 £95,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,250 £107,500 £78,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £57,965 £65,000
% change year-on-year -18.05% -10.82% +13.04%

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 94 268 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 19.14% 35.73% 37.07%
Number of salaries quoted 72 114 90
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,991 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,850 £100,000 £72,875
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 21 October 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
1 3 (10.34%) SAS
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 16 (55.17%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) GitHub
5 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.90%) SaaS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) PuTTY
1 3 (10.34%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.69%) MySQL
3 3 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (10.34%) Apache Hive
3 3 (10.34%) Big Data
3 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
3 3 (10.34%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
3 3 (10.34%) HBase
3 3 (10.34%) Impala
3 3 (10.34%) Neo4j
3 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.34%) Power BI
3 3 (10.34%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (10.34%) QlikView
3 3 (10.34%) Spark SQL
3 3 (10.34%) SQLite
3 3 (10.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (24.14%) SonarQube
2 6 (20.69%) Bitbucket
2 6 (20.69%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) Artifactory
3 4 (13.79%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) GitLab
3 4 (13.79%) Maven
3 4 (13.79%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.34%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (10.34%) Selenium
4 3 (10.34%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Banking
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.90%) Back Office
5 2 (6.90%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Software Engineer
2 11 (37.93%) Senior
3 9 (31.03%) Senior Software Engineer
4 8 (27.59%) Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Graduate
5 3 (10.34%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (10.34%) IT Graduate
5 3 (10.34%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Dynamics NAV Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Graduate C# Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Java Scala Developer
6 2 (6.90%) SaaS Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Scala Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Scala Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Java Software Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) .NET
2 7 (24.14%) CSS
2 7 (24.14%) Spring
2 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (20.69%) Kafka
4 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 5 (17.24%) HTML
4 5 (17.24%) React
5 3 (10.34%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (10.34%) ASP.NET
5 3 (10.34%) CSS3
5 3 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (10.34%) HTML5
5 3 (10.34%) Plotly
5 3 (10.34%) PySpark
5 3 (10.34%) Redux
5 3 (10.34%) Regular Expression
5 3 (10.34%) REST
5 3 (10.34%) Sass
5 3 (10.34%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Greenfield Project
1 5 (17.24%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.90%) NHS
4 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Linux
1 3 (10.34%) Unix
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 17 (58.62%) Software Engineering
3 14 (48.28%) DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) Computer Science
4 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
5 8 (27.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
6 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) User Experience
7 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (17.24%) Fintech
7 5 (17.24%) OOP
7 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
8 4 (13.79%) AI
8 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.79%) Front End Development
8 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
8 4 (13.79%) Microservices
8 4 (13.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 11 (37.93%) C#
2 11 (37.93%) TypeScript
3 9 (31.03%) SQL
4 7 (24.14%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) C++
5 4 (13.79%) PHP
5 4 (13.79%) R
6 3 (10.34%) Bash
6 3 (10.34%) C
6 3 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 3 (10.34%) PROC SQL
7 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
7 2 (6.90%) Scala
8 1 (3.45%) Dart
8 1 (3.45%) MATLAB
8 1 (3.45%) Ruby
8 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (31.03%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (27.59%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) ISO 9001
3 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Flume
2 3 (10.34%) HDFS
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Control-M
3 3 (10.34%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (10.34%) Grafana
3 3 (10.34%) Kibana
3 3 (10.34%) logstash
3 3 (10.34%) Oozie
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
2 3 (10.34%) Databricks
2 3 (10.34%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) Informatica
2 3 (10.34%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (10.34%) SAP
2 3 (10.34%) Solace
2 3 (10.34%) VMware