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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 17 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 -34
Permanent jobs citing Java 101 33 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.93% 11.30% 2.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.97% 32.67% 11.97%
Number of salaries quoted 80 21 26
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -27.44% +0.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.98% +0.71%

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 337 101 259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.47% 34.59% 24.67%
Number of salaries quoted 280 86 232
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,875 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,063 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £74,985 £73,507 £71,435
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,375 £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 24 May 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 4 (3.96%) Apache
1 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.96%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.99%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.99%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.77%) AWS
2 22 (21.78%) Azure
3 11 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.95%) GitHub
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (3.96%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.96%) GCP
6 3 (2.97%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.97%) Firebase
6 3 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.97%) Google Play
7 2 (1.98%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.98%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.98%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.92%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.92%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.96%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.96%) MySQL
4 2 (1.98%) Power BI
4 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.99%) Big Data
5 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) GitLab
2 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.95%) JIRA
4 4 (3.96%) Git
4 4 (3.96%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.97%) Android Studio
5 3 (2.97%) Crashlytics
5 3 (2.97%) fastlane
5 3 (2.97%) Gradle
5 3 (2.97%) Postman
5 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.98%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.98%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.98%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.99%) Gatling
7 1 (0.99%) JMeter
7 1 (0.99%) Maven
7 1 (0.99%) Selenium
General
1 29 (28.71%) Public Sector
2 14 (13.86%) Finance
3 6 (5.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.96%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.97%) Legal
6 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 50 (49.50%) Developer
2 43 (42.57%) Java Developer
3 20 (19.80%) Java Engineer
4 18 (17.82%) Senior
5 17 (16.83%) Software Engineer
6 12 (11.88%) Lead
7 11 (10.89%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.90%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (9.90%) Junior
8 10 (9.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (8.91%) Test Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Lead Java Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Java Software Engineer
12 4 (3.96%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.97%) Android Developer
13 3 (2.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 3 (2.97%) Lead Software Engineer
13 3 (2.97%) Senior DevOps
13 3 (2.97%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) .NET
1 9 (8.91%) RESTful
2 8 (7.92%) Spring
2 8 (7.92%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.93%) Node.js
4 4 (3.96%) Playwright
4 4 (3.96%) REST
5 3 (2.97%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.97%) Android Jetpack
5 3 (2.97%) Android SDK
5 3 (2.97%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.97%) Jetpack Compose
5 3 (2.97%) Kafka
5 3 (2.97%) React
5 3 (2.97%) Retrofit
6 2 (1.98%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.98%) Spring MVC
6 2 (1.98%) Vue
7 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.99%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.95%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.96%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.96%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.96%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.96%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.98%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
1 5 (4.95%) Windows
2 3 (2.97%) Android
2 3 (2.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (27.72%) Microservices
2 26 (25.74%) Agile
3 25 (24.75%) CI/CD
3 25 (24.75%) Software Engineering
3 25 (24.75%) Test Automation
4 24 (23.76%) Mentoring
5 18 (17.82%) DevOps
6 14 (13.86%) Coaching
6 14 (13.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 12 (11.88%) Scrum
8 10 (9.90%) TDD
9 8 (7.92%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (7.92%) Design Patterns
10 7 (6.93%) Computer Science
10 7 (6.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (6.93%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (5.94%) BDD
11 6 (5.94%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (5.94%) Kanban
11 6 (5.94%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.83%) SQL
2 15 (14.85%) JavaScript
3 14 (13.86%) Python
4 11 (10.89%) C#
5 4 (3.96%) Bash
6 3 (2.97%) C++
6 3 (2.97%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (18.81%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.93%) Degree
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.93%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.94%) QA
3 3 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (7.92%) Terraform
2 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.97%) Argo
4 2 (1.98%) Ansible
4 2 (1.98%) Control-M
4 2 (1.98%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.97%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.97%) Google
3 2 (1.98%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.98%) VMware