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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 +42 -36
Permanent jobs citing Java 114 40 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.11% 11.70% 2.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.00% 36.36% 10.87%
Number of salaries quoted 91 25 25
10th Percentile £24,000 £16,000 £39,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -31.26% +0.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £74,987 £79,000 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year +5.26% -27.44% +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 380 110 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.05% 32.16% 24.58%
Number of salaries quoted 324 94 240
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,563 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,125 £83,759
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 7 June 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 5 (4.39%) Apache
1 5 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.39%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.88%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.88%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.18%) AWS
1 23 (20.18%) Azure
2 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.14%) GitHub
4 5 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (4.39%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
4 5 (4.39%) Firebase
4 5 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (4.39%) Google Play
5 4 (3.51%) GCP
6 3 (2.63%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (2.63%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (1.75%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.75%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) HTTP
1 1 (0.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.65%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.02%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.39%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.39%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.51%) MySQL
5 2 (1.75%) Big Data
5 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.75%) Power BI
5 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (9.65%) GitLab
2 8 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.39%) Android Studio
3 5 (4.39%) Crashlytics
3 5 (4.39%) fastlane
3 5 (4.39%) Gradle
3 5 (4.39%) JIRA
4 4 (3.51%) Git
4 4 (3.51%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.63%) Postman
5 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.75%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.88%) JMeter
7 1 (0.88%) Maven
7 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 32 (28.07%) Public Sector
2 14 (12.28%) Finance
3 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.51%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.63%) Legal
6 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (53.51%) Developer
2 52 (45.61%) Java Developer
3 21 (18.42%) Java Engineer
4 18 (15.79%) Senior
4 18 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 12 (10.53%) Lead
6 11 (9.65%) Automation Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Junior
6 11 (9.65%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
7 10 (8.77%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Lead Java Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Android Developer
9 5 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Software Developer
11 3 (2.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Lead Software Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Lead Test Engineer
11 3 (2.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.65%) RESTful
2 8 (7.02%) .NET
2 8 (7.02%) Spring
2 8 (7.02%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.14%) Node.js
4 5 (4.39%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (4.39%) Android SDK
4 5 (4.39%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (4.39%) REST
4 5 (4.39%) Retrofit
5 4 (3.51%) Playwright
6 3 (2.63%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.63%) Kafka
6 3 (2.63%) React
7 2 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.75%) PySpark
7 2 (1.75%) Spring MVC
7 2 (1.75%) Vue
8 1 (0.88%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.14%) Cloud Native
1 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.39%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.51%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.51%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.88%) IoT
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.39%) Android
1 5 (4.39%) Linux
1 5 (4.39%) Windows
2 3 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.70%) Microservices
2 29 (25.44%) Agile
3 28 (24.56%) CI/CD
3 28 (24.56%) Test Automation
4 26 (22.81%) Mentoring
5 25 (21.93%) Software Engineering
6 22 (19.30%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 21 (18.42%) DevOps
8 15 (13.16%) Coaching
9 14 (12.28%) Scrum
10 12 (10.53%) TDD
11 10 (8.77%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.02%) Design Patterns
12 8 (7.02%) Kanban
12 8 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (6.14%) Analytics
13 7 (6.14%) Clean Code
13 7 (6.14%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (6.14%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.91%) SQL
2 15 (13.16%) JavaScript
2 15 (13.16%) Python
3 11 (9.65%) C#
4 5 (4.39%) Bash
4 5 (4.39%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.63%) C++
6 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.14%) QA
3 5 (4.39%) WCAG
4 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (7.89%) Terraform
2 6 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.63%) Argo
4 2 (1.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.75%) Control-M
4 2 (1.75%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.39%) Google
3 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.75%) VMware
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce