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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 31 13
Rank change year-on-year +12 -18 +6
Permanent jobs citing Java 35 34 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.34% 4.44% 11.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 35.35% 12.83% 28.67%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 37
10th Percentile £10,000 £40,250 £48,088
25th Percentile £25,000 £55,188 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £72,732 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.13% +11.90% +13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £67,625 £106,250 £85,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £62,732 £65,000
% change year-on-year -24.28% -3.49% +18.18%

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 99 265 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 20.75% 34.64% 39.61%
Number of salaries quoted 76 127 125
10th Percentile £26,625 £31,250 £37,898
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,894 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -0.88% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,991 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £51,875 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% -9.09% +4.76%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Newcastle upon Tyne

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
1 3 (8.57%) SAS
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) Azure
2 18 (51.43%) AWS
3 6 (17.14%) GCP
3 6 (17.14%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.71%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) PuTTY
2 2 (5.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 8 (22.86%) MySQL
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
3 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
3 3 (8.57%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.57%) HBase
3 3 (8.57%) Impala
3 3 (8.57%) Metadata
3 3 (8.57%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Power BI
3 3 (8.57%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (8.57%) QlikView
3 3 (8.57%) Spark SQL
3 3 (8.57%) SQLite
3 3 (8.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) SonarQube
2 5 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 4 (11.43%) Git
3 4 (11.43%) GitLab
3 4 (11.43%) Maven
3 4 (11.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (8.57%) Artifactory
4 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
4 3 (8.57%) Selenium
5 2 (5.71%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.71%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.71%) Back Office
5 2 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Software Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 11 (31.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (28.57%) Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Graduate
5 4 (11.43%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (11.43%) IT Graduate
6 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) PHP Developer
7 2 (5.71%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.71%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) .NET
2 8 (22.86%) CSS
3 7 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 7 (20.00%) Spring
3 7 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 6 (17.14%) Kafka
5 5 (14.29%) HTML
5 5 (14.29%) React
6 4 (11.43%) ASP.NET
6 4 (11.43%) jQuery
7 3 (8.57%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (8.57%) CSS3
7 3 (8.57%) HTML5
7 3 (8.57%) JPA
7 3 (8.57%) PySpark
7 3 (8.57%) Redux
7 3 (8.57%) Regular Expression
7 3 (8.57%) REST
7 3 (8.57%) Sass
7 3 (8.57%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.71%) NHS
5 1 (2.86%) Derivative
5 1 (2.86%) Equities
5 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) Agile
2 21 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (45.71%) DevOps
4 10 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (25.71%) Computer Science
5 9 (25.71%) Mentoring
5 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.71%) User Experience
6 7 (20.00%) Fintech
6 7 (20.00%) OOP
7 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 5 (14.29%) OO
8 5 (14.29%) TDD
8 5 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.43%) Artificial Intelligence
9 4 (11.43%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) Python
2 14 (40.00%) C#
3 13 (37.14%) TypeScript
4 10 (28.57%) SQL
5 7 (20.00%) C++
5 7 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (14.29%) PHP
7 4 (11.43%) R
8 3 (8.57%) Bash
8 3 (8.57%) C
8 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
8 3 (8.57%) PROC SQL
9 2 (5.71%) Kotlin
9 2 (5.71%) Scala
10 1 (2.86%) Dart
10 1 (2.86%) MATLAB
10 1 (2.86%) Ruby
10 1 (2.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Degree
2 9 (25.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.71%) ISO 9001
3 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (8.57%) Apache Flume
2 3 (8.57%) HDFS
3 2 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Kibana
2 3 (8.57%) logstash
2 3 (8.57%) Oozie
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 2 (5.71%) Control-M
3 2 (5.71%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (5.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Databricks
2 3 (8.57%) Informatica
2 3 (8.57%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (8.57%) SAP
2 3 (8.57%) Solace
3 2 (5.71%) Atlassian
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) VMware
4 1 (2.86%) Capita