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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 28 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 -15 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 19 41 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.50% 5.99% 9.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.10% 14.64% 31.03%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 23
10th Percentile £24,300 £30,750 -
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.07% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £95,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £85,375 £100,250 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -5.88%

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 118 280 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.73% 40.88% 30.96%
Number of salaries quoted 90 128 75
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £30,438 £41,991 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £64,688 £80,875 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,350 £100,000 £71,500
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 5 December 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
1 2 (10.53%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) AWS
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) GitHub
5 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) SAN
2 2 (10.53%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
3 2 (10.53%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.53%) HBase
3 2 (10.53%) Impala
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (10.53%) Neo4j
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) QlikView
3 2 (10.53%) Spark SQL
3 2 (10.53%) SQLite
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Artifactory
1 4 (21.05%) SonarQube
2 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (15.79%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
3 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Back Office
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate
3 3 (15.79%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (15.79%) IT Graduate
4 2 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Dynamics NAV Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Graduate C# Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Scala Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) .NET
1 4 (21.05%) CSS
1 4 (21.05%) Spring
1 4 (21.05%) Spring Boot
2 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
2 3 (15.79%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (15.79%) jQuery
3 2 (10.53%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Plotly
3 2 (10.53%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) Regular Expression
3 2 (10.53%) Shiny
3 2 (10.53%) XML
4 1 (5.26%) Dropwizard
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) MERN Stack
4 1 (5.26%) Mongoose
4 1 (5.26%) Nunjucks
4 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) OOP
7 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (21.05%) OO
7 4 (21.05%) Pair Programming
8 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
8 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
8 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (15.79%) MVC
8 3 (15.79%) TDD
9 2 (10.53%) Business Strategy
9 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
9 2 (10.53%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) Python
3 5 (26.32%) SQL
4 3 (15.79%) C++
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 3 (15.79%) PHP
4 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) C
5 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
5 2 (10.53%) PROC SQL
5 2 (10.53%) R
5 2 (10.53%) Scala
5 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 8 (42.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.53%) ISO 9001
2 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
1 3 (15.79%) vSphere
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Flume
2 2 (10.53%) HDFS
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
1 3 (15.79%) Control-M
1 3 (15.79%) Docker Swarm
1 3 (15.79%) Grafana
1 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kibana
2 2 (10.53%) logstash
2 2 (10.53%) Oozie
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Atlassian
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (10.53%) SAP