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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 26 45
Rank change year-on-year -24 +19 -26
Permanent jobs citing Java 17 29 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.23% 6.90% 3.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.77% 16.76% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 26
10th Percentile £26,100 £25,425 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £57,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.54% -12.31% +1.96%
75th Percentile £61,979 £73,750 £74,827
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,625 £75,772
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,130 £57,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.54% -8.80% -1.96%

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 174 173 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.80% 41.19% 25.72%
Number of salaries quoted 142 104 192
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,762 £35,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £91,625 £92,000 £80,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -1.79%

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 2 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 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Artifactory
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
1 2 (11.76%) Octopus Deploy
1 2 (11.76%) SonarQube
1 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Java Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Java Software Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) Lead
5 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.88%) .NET Team Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Java Team Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Junior
7 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Python Team Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Senior
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering Team Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Software Team Leader
7 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) RESTful
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Microservices
3 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.76%) BDD
5 2 (11.76%) Coaching
5 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Open Source
5 2 (11.76%) Operational Stability
5 2 (11.76%) Pair Programming
5 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
1 2 (11.76%) vSphere
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Ansible
2 2 (11.76%) Control-M
2 2 (11.76%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) VMware
2 1 (5.88%) Google