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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 17 52
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 -33
Permanent jobs citing Java 64 32 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 5.96% 10.32% 3.26%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.20% 25.40% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 46 24 27
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £39,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,563 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,315 £55,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -15.98% +2.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,315 £55,750 £65,465
% change year-on-year -6.16% -14.84% +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 254 126 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.67% 40.65% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 196 110 229
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,444 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,000 £83,759
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%

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 29 April 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 1 (1.56%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.56%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.44%) AWS
2 14 (21.88%) Azure
3 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.69%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) HTTP
1 1 (1.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.13%) MySQL
4 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) GitLab
2 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.69%) Postman
4 2 (3.13%) Git
4 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.56%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.56%) Gatling
5 1 (1.56%) JMeter
5 1 (1.56%) Maven
5 1 (1.56%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.56%) Selenium
5 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (4.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (43.75%) Developer
2 24 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 16 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 13 (20.31%) Software Engineer
5 12 (18.75%) Senior
6 8 (12.50%) Lead
7 6 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Junior
7 6 (9.38%) Lead Java Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Senior Developer
7 6 (9.38%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (4.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (1.56%) Software Engineering Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) Spring
1 7 (10.94%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.38%) .NET
3 5 (7.81%) Node.js
4 4 (6.25%) Playwright
4 4 (6.25%) REST
4 4 (6.25%) RESTful
5 3 (4.69%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.69%) Kafka
6 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.13%) React
6 2 (3.13%) Vue
7 1 (1.56%) EJB
7 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.56%) GWT
7 1 (1.56%) JDBC
7 1 (1.56%) JPA
7 1 (1.56%) Middleware
7 1 (1.56%) PostGIS
7 1 (1.56%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.69%) Algorithms
1 3 (4.69%) Client/Server
1 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
1 3 (4.69%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
1 4 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Software Engineering
2 17 (26.56%) Microservices
3 15 (23.44%) Test Automation
4 14 (21.88%) Agile
4 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 12 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 10 (15.63%) DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) Scrum
8 7 (10.94%) Design Patterns
8 7 (10.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 6 (9.38%) BDD
9 6 (9.38%) Coaching
9 6 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (7.81%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.81%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (7.81%) Event-Driven
10 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.81%) Sprint Planning
10 5 (7.81%) Sprint Retrospective
11 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.06%) JavaScript
2 8 (12.50%) Python
2 8 (12.50%) SQL
3 7 (10.94%) C#
4 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.56%) C++
5 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.81%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) Terraform
3 3 (4.69%) Argo
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Control-M
4 1 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.56%) VMware