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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 24 13
Rank change year-on-year -21 -11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Java 12 43 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.07% 7.41% 9.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.09% 17.00% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 24
10th Percentile £20,900 £30,750 -
25th Percentile £25,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +14.89% -9.62%
75th Percentile £68,750 £95,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £93,000 £107,500 £77,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 132 253 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.72% 43.62% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 104 122 86
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £42,241 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £70,000 £84,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £100,000 £69,375
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

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 27 December 2025.

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Back Office
3 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics NAV Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Scala Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Java Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Scala Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Scala Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Scala Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Python Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) CSS
2 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) Apache CXF
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) Dropwizard
3 1 (8.33%) FreeMarker
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) JAX-RS
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) LESS
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 4 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 3 (25.00%) OOP
4 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) Clean Code
5 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Inventory Management
5 2 (16.67%) OO
5 2 (16.67%) Quality Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) C
4 2 (16.67%) Kotlin
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (16.67%) Scala
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) C++
5 1 (8.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) ISO 9001
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
1 2 (16.67%) vSphere
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Ansible
1 2 (16.67%) Control-M
1 2 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Google