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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -27
Permanent jobs citing Java 23 27 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.81% 7.46% 3.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.43% 18.49% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 30
10th Percentile £36,600 £25,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £56,500 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -13.39% +4.37%
75th Percentile £73,140 £72,500 £74,827
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,500 £75,772
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,130 £56,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.73% -13.08% +4.00%

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 185 146 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.59% 40.33% 25.58%
Number of salaries quoted 150 108 210
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,075 £34,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,438 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,694 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,625 £85,000 £82,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -0.45%

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 12 March 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 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.70%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (8.70%) REST Assured
2 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
2 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) Gatling
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JMeter
3 1 (4.35%) Postman
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
1 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
1 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Software Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Java Engineer
4 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Lead
6 3 (13.04%) Senior
7 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) .NET Team Leader
8 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Java Team Leader
8 1 (4.35%) Junior
8 1 (4.35%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Software Engineering Team Leader
8 1 (4.35%) Software Team Leader
8 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) RESTful
1 3 (13.04%) Spring
1 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.70%) Playwright
2 2 (8.70%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Software Engineering
2 8 (34.78%) Microservices
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
3 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
4 5 (21.74%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) BDD
5 3 (13.04%) Coaching
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Containerisation
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Operational Stability
6 2 (8.70%) Pair Programming
6 2 (8.70%) TDD
6 2 (8.70%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) C#
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) vSphere
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) Control-M
2 2 (8.70%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (8.70%) Grafana
2 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Google