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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 40
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 159 39 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.59% 8.26% 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.78% 37.14% 11.69%
Number of salaries quoted 120 23 24
10th Percentile £31,250 £12,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £55,985
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £42,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -35.08% -4.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £77,454
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £100,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £53,750 £46,250 £65,465
% change year-on-year +16.22% -29.35% -4.78%

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 534 105 231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.85% 22.25% 29.73%
Number of salaries quoted 450 82 162
10th Percentile £42,500 £25,000 £31,475
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,125 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,500 £84,964
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -4.35%

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 17 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 9 (5.66%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.77%) Apache
2 6 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.77%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.26%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.63%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.75%) AWS
2 28 (17.61%) Azure
3 13 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.66%) GCP
5 7 (4.40%) GitHub
6 6 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
6 6 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.14%) Firebase
7 5 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.14%) Google Play
8 4 (2.52%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.89%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.89%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.89%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.89%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.89%) Serverless
10 2 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.26%) MQTT
2 1 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (5.03%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.40%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.77%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.14%) Flink
5 3 (1.89%) Big Data
5 3 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.89%) MySQL
5 3 (1.89%) Power BI
5 3 (1.89%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 12 (7.55%) GitLab
2 10 (6.29%) Git
3 8 (5.03%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.77%) JIRA
5 5 (3.14%) Android Studio
5 5 (3.14%) Crashlytics
5 5 (3.14%) fastlane
5 5 (3.14%) Gradle
6 4 (2.52%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.52%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.89%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.89%) Postman
7 3 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.63%) JMeter
8 1 (0.63%) Maven
8 1 (0.63%) Selenium
General
1 37 (23.27%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.32%) Finance
3 9 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (3.77%) Social Skills
5 5 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.14%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.89%) Legal
7 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (54.09%) Developer
2 71 (44.65%) Java Developer
3 28 (17.61%) Senior
4 24 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 22 (13.84%) Java Engineer
6 17 (10.69%) Senior Developer
7 14 (8.81%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (7.55%) Lead
9 11 (6.92%) Test Engineer
10 10 (6.29%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.29%) Junior
10 10 (6.29%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.77%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Android Developer
12 5 (3.14%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Lead Java Engineer
13 4 (2.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (2.52%) Graduate
13 4 (2.52%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 4 (2.52%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.92%) .NET
2 10 (6.29%) RESTful
3 9 (5.66%) Node.js
3 9 (5.66%) Spring
3 9 (5.66%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.40%) Kafka
5 5 (3.14%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (3.14%) Android SDK
5 5 (3.14%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (3.14%) Retrofit
6 4 (2.52%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.52%) Playwright
6 4 (2.52%) React
6 4 (2.52%) REST
7 3 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.89%) PySpark
7 3 (1.89%) Vue
8 2 (1.26%) Middleware
8 2 (1.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (5.03%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.40%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.77%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.77%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.14%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.52%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.89%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.26%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.26%) IoT
7 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.40%) Linux
2 6 (3.77%) Windows
3 5 (3.14%) Android
4 3 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (28.30%) Microservices
2 37 (23.27%) Agile
3 35 (22.01%) CI/CD
4 33 (20.75%) Software Engineering
5 30 (18.87%) Test Automation
6 29 (18.24%) Mentoring
7 28 (17.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 27 (16.98%) DevOps
9 23 (14.47%) TDD
10 16 (10.06%) Coaching
10 16 (10.06%) Scrum
11 15 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (8.81%) Design Patterns
13 13 (8.18%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (7.55%) Containerisation
15 11 (6.92%) Analytics
15 11 (6.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (6.92%) Data Pipeline
16 10 (6.29%) Data Engineering
16 10 (6.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.61%) Python
2 19 (11.95%) JavaScript
3 16 (10.06%) C#
4 15 (9.43%) SQL
5 6 (3.77%) Bash
6 5 (3.14%) C++
6 5 (3.14%) Kotlin
6 5 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (21.38%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.24%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.66%) Degree
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.29%) Accessibility
1 10 (6.29%) QA
2 6 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.14%) WCAG
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (7.55%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (7.55%) Terraform
2 9 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.89%) Ansible
3 3 (1.89%) Argo
3 3 (1.89%) Control-M
3 3 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (6.92%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.14%) Dynatrace
2 5 (3.14%) Google
3 3 (1.89%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.89%) VMware
4 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.63%) Databricks
5 1 (0.63%) Red Hat