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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 181 29 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.21% 5.86% 4.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.34% 30.85% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 139 18 17
10th Percentile £42,500 £10,000 £33,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -40.63% +23.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £95,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £70,250 £107,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £51,250 £57,965
% change year-on-year +7.32% -11.58% -10.82%

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 617 94 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.99% 18.99% 35.76%
Number of salaries quoted 519 74 116
10th Percentile £44,447 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £31,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,700 £100,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% - -13.04%

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 12 October 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 (5.52%) Apache Spark
1 10 (5.52%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.31%) Apache
2 6 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.31%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.86%) AWS
2 24 (13.26%) Azure
3 10 (5.52%) Amazon S3
3 10 (5.52%) GitHub
4 9 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.97%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (4.42%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (3.87%) GCP
7 6 (3.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.76%) Firebase
8 5 (2.76%) Google Play
8 5 (2.76%) Serverless
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon ECR
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (2.21%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.08%) MongoDB
2 7 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.31%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.31%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.31%) Flink
3 6 (3.31%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.21%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.21%) MySQL
5 3 (1.66%) Big Data
5 3 (1.66%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.66%) Spark SQL
5 3 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.10%) Power BI
7 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.55%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (7.73%) GitLab
2 11 (6.08%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.52%) Git
4 6 (3.31%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.76%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.76%) Crashlytics
5 5 (2.76%) fastlane
5 5 (2.76%) Gradle
5 5 (2.76%) JUnit
5 5 (2.76%) Mockito
6 4 (2.21%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.21%) Gatling
7 3 (1.66%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.66%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.66%) JIRA
7 3 (1.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.66%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (24.86%) Public Sector
2 21 (11.60%) Finance
3 14 (7.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.87%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.76%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.66%) Legal
7 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 93 (51.38%) Developer
2 74 (40.88%) Java Developer
3 37 (20.44%) Java Engineer
3 37 (20.44%) Senior
4 29 (16.02%) Software Engineer
5 21 (11.60%) Senior Developer
6 15 (8.29%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (7.73%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.18%) Lead
9 11 (6.08%) Junior
9 11 (6.08%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (5.52%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.42%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.87%) Java Software Engineer
13 6 (3.31%) Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.76%) Android Developer
14 5 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.76%) Junior Developer
14 5 (2.76%) Lead Test Engineer
14 5 (2.76%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.94%) Spring
1 18 (9.94%) Spring Boot
2 15 (8.29%) Kafka
3 12 (6.63%) Terraform
4 10 (5.52%) .NET
4 10 (5.52%) RESTful
5 8 (4.42%) REST
6 7 (3.87%) Node.js
7 6 (3.31%) PySpark
8 5 (2.76%) Android Jetpack
8 5 (2.76%) Android SDK
8 5 (2.76%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.76%) Jetpack Compose
8 5 (2.76%) Retrofit
9 4 (2.21%) Gherkin
9 4 (2.21%) Middleware
10 3 (1.66%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.66%) JWT
10 3 (1.66%) OAuth
10 3 (1.66%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.18%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.76%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.66%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.10%) IoT
8 2 (1.10%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.55%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.31%) Linux
2 5 (2.76%) Android
2 5 (2.76%) Windows
3 2 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (28.18%) Microservices
2 48 (26.52%) Agile
3 46 (25.41%) CI/CD
4 37 (20.44%) Software Engineering
5 36 (19.89%) DevOps
5 36 (19.89%) TDD
6 34 (18.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 33 (18.23%) Test Automation
8 32 (17.68%) Mentoring
9 24 (13.26%) Scrum
10 20 (11.05%) Coaching
11 19 (10.50%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.39%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (8.29%) Analytics
13 15 (8.29%) Data Engineering
14 14 (7.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (7.73%) Event-Driven
14 14 (7.73%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (6.63%) Data Pipeline
15 12 (6.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (14.36%) Python
2 17 (9.39%) SQL
3 15 (8.29%) C#
3 15 (8.29%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.63%) C++
5 6 (3.31%) Bash
6 5 (2.76%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.21%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.66%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.31%) Degree
5 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.63%) QA
2 11 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.97%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.76%) WCAG
5 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (13.81%) Docker
2 3 (1.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (12.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.21%) Argo
3 3 (1.66%) Ansible
3 3 (1.66%) Control-M
3 3 (1.66%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.66%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft
1 6 (3.31%) Oracle
2 5 (2.76%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.76%) Google
3 3 (1.66%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.66%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.66%) VMware
4 2 (1.10%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.55%) Actian
5 1 (0.55%) Databricks