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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 37 13
Rank change year-on-year +3 -24 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 24 34 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.25% 4.66% 9.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.00% 12.55% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 24
10th Percentile £10,000 £33,725 £48,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £45,672 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £80,000 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year -40.63% +26.48% +5.42%
75th Percentile £67,500 £95,000 £69,063
90th Percentile £70,750 £106,250 £79,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £51,250 £76,250 £63,250
% change year-on-year -32.79% +20.55% +10.00%

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 120 271 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 21.24% 37.12% 35.66%
Number of salaries quoted 93 113 86
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -1.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £78,700 £100,000 £71,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 19 November 2025.

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 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (8.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) SAN
2 2 (8.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) MySQL
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.33%) HBase
3 2 (8.33%) Impala
3 2 (8.33%) Neo4j
3 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.33%) Power BI
3 2 (8.33%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (8.33%) QlikView
3 2 (8.33%) Spark SQL
3 2 (8.33%) SQLite
3 2 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Artifactory
1 5 (20.83%) SonarQube
2 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 3 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Back Office
3 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Senior
1 9 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Senior Software Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Graduate
5 3 (12.50%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (12.50%) IT Graduate
5 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Dynamics NAV Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) PHP Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) Spring
2 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.67%) CSS
3 4 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (12.50%) jQuery
5 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (8.33%) Kafka
5 2 (8.33%) Plotly
5 2 (8.33%) PySpark
5 2 (8.33%) React
5 2 (8.33%) Regular Expression
5 2 (8.33%) Shiny
5 2 (8.33%) XML
6 1 (4.17%) Dropwizard
6 1 (4.17%) MERN Stack
6 1 (4.17%) Mongoose
6 1 (4.17%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.33%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Agile
2 12 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
5 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (20.83%) OOP
8 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (16.67%) Pair Programming
9 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.50%) Fintech
9 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
9 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (45.83%) C#
3 6 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (12.50%) C++
5 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.50%) PHP
6 2 (8.33%) Bash
6 2 (8.33%) C
6 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 2 (8.33%) PROC SQL
6 2 (8.33%) R
6 2 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) ISO 9001
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
1 4 (16.67%) vSphere
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) Apache Flume
3 2 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Control-M
2 4 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
2 4 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (8.33%) Kibana
3 2 (8.33%) logstash
3 2 (8.33%) Oozie
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 4 (16.67%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (8.33%) Databricks
4 2 (8.33%) Informatica
4 2 (8.33%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (8.33%) SAP