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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 23 34
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 -24
Permanent jobs citing Java 184 29 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.45% 5.78% 4.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.21% 30.85% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 140 18 17
10th Percentile £42,127 £10,000 £33,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -40.63% +23.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £86,626 £70,250 £107,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £57,965
% change year-on-year +7.32% -11.58% -10.82%

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 609 94 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.96% 18.73% 35.60%
Number of salaries quoted 509 75 123
10th Percentile £43,750 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £99,750
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -13.04%

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 October 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 10 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.80%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.26%) Apache
3 6 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.26%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 44 (23.91%) AWS
2 26 (14.13%) Azure
3 10 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (4.89%) Amazon S3
4 9 (4.89%) GitHub
5 8 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (4.35%) GCP
5 8 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.72%) Firebase
7 5 (2.72%) Google Play
7 5 (2.72%) Serverless
8 4 (2.17%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.63%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (1.63%) AWS KMS
9 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.63%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.98%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.80%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.26%) Flink
5 4 (2.17%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.17%) MySQL
6 3 (1.63%) Big Data
6 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.63%) Spark SQL
6 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.09%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (7.61%) GitLab
2 10 (5.43%) Git
2 10 (5.43%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.26%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.72%) Android Studio
4 5 (2.72%) Crashlytics
4 5 (2.72%) fastlane
4 5 (2.72%) Gradle
5 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.63%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.63%) Gatling
5 3 (1.63%) JIRA
5 3 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.63%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.09%) JUnit
6 2 (1.09%) Mockito
General
1 46 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 20 (10.87%) Finance
3 13 (7.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.80%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.72%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.63%) Legal
7 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (51.09%) Developer
2 74 (40.22%) Java Developer
3 37 (20.11%) Java Engineer
3 37 (20.11%) Senior
4 29 (15.76%) Software Engineer
5 22 (11.96%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (8.15%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.07%) Junior
8 13 (7.07%) Lead
9 10 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Senior Java Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (4.35%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (2.72%) Android Developer
13 5 (2.72%) Junior Developer
13 5 (2.72%) Junior Java Developer
13 5 (2.72%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.15%) Spring
1 15 (8.15%) Spring Boot
2 13 (7.07%) Terraform
3 12 (6.52%) Kafka
4 11 (5.98%) .NET
5 10 (5.43%) RESTful
6 8 (4.35%) Node.js
7 6 (3.26%) PySpark
7 6 (3.26%) REST
8 5 (2.72%) Android Jetpack
8 5 (2.72%) Android SDK
8 5 (2.72%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.72%) Jetpack Compose
8 5 (2.72%) Retrofit
9 4 (2.17%) Middleware
10 3 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.63%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.63%) JWT
10 3 (1.63%) OAuth
10 3 (1.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.89%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.72%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.17%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.17%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.09%) IoT
6 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.80%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Windows
3 5 (2.72%) Android
4 3 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (26.09%) Microservices
2 45 (24.46%) Agile
3 44 (23.91%) CI/CD
4 38 (20.65%) Software Engineering
5 33 (17.93%) DevOps
5 33 (17.93%) Mentoring
5 33 (17.93%) Test Automation
6 32 (17.39%) TDD
7 29 (15.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 21 (11.41%) Coaching
8 21 (11.41%) Scrum
9 18 (9.78%) Containerisation
9 18 (9.78%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (8.15%) Analytics
10 15 (8.15%) Data Engineering
11 14 (7.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (7.61%) Event-Driven
11 14 (7.61%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
13 11 (5.98%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 27 (14.67%) Python
2 18 (9.78%) SQL
3 16 (8.70%) C#
4 15 (8.15%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.98%) C++
6 6 (3.26%) Bash
7 5 (2.72%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 37 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.85%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.80%) Degree
5 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) QA
2 11 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.89%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.72%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (11.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.72%) Argo
3 3 (1.63%) Ansible
3 3 (1.63%) Control-M
3 3 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (3.80%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.72%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.72%) Google
3 3 (1.63%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.63%) Oracle
3 3 (1.63%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.63%) VMware
4 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.54%) Actian
5 1 (0.54%) Databricks