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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 18 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 172 37 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.67% 7.74% 4.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.34% 36.27% 14.34%
Number of salaries quoted 130 21 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £10,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £55,985
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -35.08% -1.19%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £100,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year +15.79% -27.44% -1.19%

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 567 102 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.59% 21.34% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 474 78 149
10th Percentile £42,500 £25,000 £33,050
25th Percentile £47,000 £38,750 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -10.42% +5.26%
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +19.05% - -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 31 August 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 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.49%) Apache
2 6 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.49%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.16%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.58%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (20.35%) AWS
2 28 (16.28%) Azure
3 13 (7.56%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.23%) GCP
5 7 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (4.07%) Amazon EMR
5 7 (4.07%) GitHub
6 6 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.49%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.91%) Firebase
7 5 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.91%) Google Play
8 4 (2.33%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (2.33%) Serverless
9 3 (1.74%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.74%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.74%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.74%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.74%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) MQTT
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.65%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.07%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.49%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.49%) Flink
4 3 (1.74%) Big Data
4 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.74%) MySQL
4 3 (1.74%) Power BI
4 3 (1.74%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (6.98%) GitLab
2 11 (6.40%) Git
3 8 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.49%) JIRA
5 5 (2.91%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.91%) Crashlytics
5 5 (2.91%) fastlane
5 5 (2.91%) Gradle
6 4 (2.33%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.74%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.74%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.74%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.74%) Postman
7 3 (1.74%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.58%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) Maven
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
General
1 42 (24.42%) Public Sector
2 18 (10.47%) Finance
3 9 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (3.49%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.74%) Legal
7 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 89 (51.74%) Developer
2 70 (40.70%) Java Developer
3 31 (18.02%) Senior
4 27 (15.70%) Java Engineer
4 27 (15.70%) Software Engineer
5 19 (11.05%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.14%) Senior Java Developer
6 14 (8.14%) Software Developer
7 12 (6.98%) Lead
8 11 (6.40%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) Automation Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) Junior
10 7 (4.07%) Data Engineer
11 6 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Android Developer
12 5 (2.91%) Lead Java Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Senior Java Engineer
13 4 (2.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (2.33%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 4 (2.33%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.98%) .NET
1 12 (6.98%) Terraform
2 10 (5.81%) RESTful
3 9 (5.23%) Node.js
3 9 (5.23%) Spring
3 9 (5.23%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.65%) Kafka
5 5 (2.91%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (2.91%) Android SDK
5 5 (2.91%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (2.91%) Retrofit
6 4 (2.33%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.33%) Playwright
6 4 (2.33%) PySpark
6 4 (2.33%) React
6 4 (2.33%) REST
7 3 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.74%) Vue
8 2 (1.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.49%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.49%) Hedge funds
5 5 (2.91%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.74%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.16%) IoT
8 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.07%) Linux
2 6 (3.49%) Windows
3 5 (2.91%) Android
4 3 (1.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (25.00%) Microservices
2 38 (22.09%) Agile
3 37 (21.51%) CI/CD
3 37 (21.51%) Software Engineering
4 30 (17.44%) Mentoring
4 30 (17.44%) Test Automation
5 28 (16.28%) DevOps
6 27 (15.70%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 23 (13.37%) TDD
8 17 (9.88%) Coaching
9 16 (9.30%) Scrum
10 15 (8.72%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (8.72%) Design Patterns
11 13 (7.56%) Containerisation
11 13 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (6.98%) Analytics
12 12 (6.98%) Data Engineering
12 12 (6.98%) Data Pipeline
13 11 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (6.40%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.86%) Python
2 20 (11.63%) JavaScript
3 17 (9.88%) C#
4 16 (9.30%) SQL
5 6 (3.49%) Bash
5 6 (3.49%) C++
6 5 (2.91%) Kotlin
6 5 (2.91%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.74%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.74%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.23%) Degree
5 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.81%) Accessibility
1 10 (5.81%) QA
2 8 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.91%) WCAG
4 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (6.98%) Docker
2 3 (1.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.74%) Ansible
2 3 (1.74%) Argo
2 3 (1.74%) Control-M
2 3 (1.74%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (6.40%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.91%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.91%) Google
3 3 (1.74%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.74%) VMware
4 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.58%) Databricks
5 1 (0.58%) Red Hat