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 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 26 35
Rank change year-on-year -26 +9 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 9 41 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.39% 7.79% 4.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.16% 18.47% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7 24 25
10th Percentile £17,800 £32,025 £41,375
25th Percentile £24,500 £45,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +17.39% -9.80%
75th Percentile £80,625 £95,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,500 £100,250 £73,463
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -9.80%

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 146 222 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.57% 42.21% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 118 101 157
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £42,500 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -14.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £83,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,375 £100,000 £77,440
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%

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 27 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 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 3 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
1 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) PHP Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Apache CXF
2 1 (11.11%) Bootstrap
2 1 (11.11%) CSS3
2 1 (11.11%) Dropwizard
2 1 (11.11%) FreeMarker
2 1 (11.11%) HTML5
2 1 (11.11%) JAX-RS
2 1 (11.11%) jQuery
2 1 (11.11%) LESS
2 1 (11.11%) Mongoose
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) Nunjucks
2 1 (11.11%) React
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) OO
4 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
5 1 (11.11%) AI
5 1 (11.11%) BDD
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
5 1 (11.11%) OOP
5 1 (11.11%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Control-M
1 2 (22.22%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) Google