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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 -32
Permanent jobs citing Java 109 34 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.15% 10.66% 2.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.11% 32.38% 11.41%
Number of salaries quoted 87 22 25
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £27,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £47,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.75% -27.44% +2.69%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,688 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,625 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,130 £51,250 £65,465
% change year-on-year +1.72% -21.71% +2.69%

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 362 105 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.08% 32.92% 24.40%
Number of salaries quoted 306 92 235
10th Percentile £34,375 £35,375 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +6.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,632 £70,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,875 £83,759
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%

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 31 May 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.59%) Apache
1 5 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.59%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.92%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.02%) AWS
2 23 (21.10%) Azure
3 12 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.50%) GitHub
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.67%) Firebase
6 4 (3.67%) GCP
6 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.67%) Google Play
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.75%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.83%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.92%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.09%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.34%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.59%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.67%) MySQL
5 2 (1.83%) Big Data
5 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.83%) Power BI
5 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) GitLab
2 7 (6.42%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.59%) JIRA
4 4 (3.67%) Android Studio
4 4 (3.67%) Crashlytics
4 4 (3.67%) fastlane
4 4 (3.67%) Git
4 4 (3.67%) Gradle
4 4 (3.67%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.75%) Postman
5 3 (2.75%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.83%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.83%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.83%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.92%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.92%) JMeter
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) Selenium
General
1 31 (28.44%) Public Sector
2 15 (13.76%) Finance
3 7 (6.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.59%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.75%) Legal
6 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 56 (51.38%) Developer
2 48 (44.04%) Java Developer
3 21 (19.27%) Java Engineer
4 18 (16.51%) Senior
5 17 (15.60%) Software Engineer
6 13 (11.93%) Lead
7 11 (10.09%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (10.09%) Junior
7 11 (10.09%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 10 (9.17%) Test Engineer
9 6 (5.50%) Lead Java Engineer
10 5 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Android Developer
11 4 (3.67%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.67%) Software Developer
12 3 (2.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (2.75%) Lead Software Engineer
12 3 (2.75%) Lead Test Engineer
12 3 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) RESTful
2 9 (8.26%) .NET
3 8 (7.34%) Spring
3 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.42%) Node.js
5 4 (3.67%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (3.67%) Android SDK
5 4 (3.67%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (3.67%) Playwright
5 4 (3.67%) REST
5 4 (3.67%) Retrofit
6 3 (2.75%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.75%) Kafka
6 3 (2.75%) React
7 2 (1.83%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.83%) PySpark
7 2 (1.83%) Spring MVC
7 2 (1.83%) Vue
8 1 (0.92%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.67%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.67%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.67%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.67%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.83%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Linux
1 5 (4.59%) Windows
2 4 (3.67%) Android
3 3 (2.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.36%) Microservices
2 28 (25.69%) Agile
3 27 (24.77%) CI/CD
3 27 (24.77%) Test Automation
4 26 (23.85%) Mentoring
5 25 (22.94%) Software Engineering
6 20 (18.35%) DevOps
7 18 (16.51%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 15 (13.76%) Coaching
9 13 (11.93%) Scrum
10 11 (10.09%) TDD
11 9 (8.26%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (7.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.34%) Design Patterns
12 8 (7.34%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (6.42%) Computer Science
13 7 (6.42%) Kanban
14 6 (5.50%) BDD
14 6 (5.50%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (5.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.51%) SQL
2 15 (13.76%) JavaScript
2 15 (13.76%) Python
3 11 (10.09%) C#
4 5 (4.59%) Bash
5 4 (3.67%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.75%) C++
7 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.42%) Degree
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.42%) QA
3 4 (3.67%) WCAG
4 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (6.42%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) Terraform
2 6 (5.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.75%) Argo
4 2 (1.83%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Control-M
4 2 (1.83%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.83%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.67%) Dynatrace
2 4 (3.67%) Google
3 2 (1.83%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.83%) VMware