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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 52
Rank change year-on-year -3 +35 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 79 34 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.89% 11.04% 3.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.24% 27.20% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 60 24 26
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,315 £55,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -15.98% +0.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,315 £55,750 £65,465
% change year-on-year -6.16% -14.84% +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 290 125 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.31% 40.58% 24.63%
Number of salaries quoted 231 108 231
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,000 £71,632 £71,620
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,625 £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 10 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 2 (2.53%) Apache
1 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.53%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.32%) AWS
2 19 (24.05%) Azure
3 9 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (6.33%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) GitHub
6 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.53%) Firebase
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.53%) Google Play
7 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.53%) Serverless
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) HTTP
1 1 (1.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.59%) MongoDB
2 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.53%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.53%) MySQL
4 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) GitLab
2 6 (7.59%) JIRA
3 5 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.06%) REST Assured
4 4 (5.06%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.80%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.80%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.80%) Git
5 3 (3.80%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.80%) Postman
5 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.53%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.53%) Crashlytics
6 2 (2.53%) fastlane
6 2 (2.53%) Gradle
7 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.27%) Gatling
7 1 (1.27%) JMeter
7 1 (1.27%) Maven
7 1 (1.27%) Selenium
General
1 19 (24.05%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.92%) Finance
3 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.80%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (45.57%) Developer
2 30 (37.97%) Java Developer
3 18 (22.78%) Java Engineer
4 13 (16.46%) Senior
4 13 (16.46%) Software Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Junior
5 8 (10.13%) Lead
6 7 (8.86%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Lead Java Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.59%) Test Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Software Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Android Developer
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) .NET
1 7 (8.86%) Spring
1 7 (8.86%) Spring Boot
2 6 (7.59%) RESTful
3 5 (6.33%) Node.js
4 4 (5.06%) Playwright
4 4 (5.06%) REST
5 3 (3.80%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.80%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.80%) Kafka
5 3 (3.80%) React
6 2 (2.53%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (2.53%) Android SDK
6 2 (2.53%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.53%) Retrofit
6 2 (2.53%) Vue
7 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.27%) Blazor
7 1 (1.27%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.80%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.80%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.53%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
1 6 (7.59%) Windows
2 3 (3.80%) Unix
3 2 (2.53%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) Microservices
2 21 (26.58%) CI/CD
3 20 (25.32%) Software Engineering
3 20 (25.32%) Test Automation
4 19 (24.05%) Agile
5 16 (20.25%) Mentoring
6 15 (18.99%) DevOps
7 11 (13.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 10 (12.66%) Scrum
9 8 (10.13%) Coaching
10 7 (8.86%) Computer Science
10 7 (8.86%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (8.86%) Design Patterns
11 6 (7.59%) BDD
11 6 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (7.59%) TDD
12 5 (6.33%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (6.33%) Event-Driven
12 5 (6.33%) Kanban
12 5 (6.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.19%) Python
1 12 (15.19%) SQL
2 10 (12.66%) C#
2 10 (12.66%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.53%) Bash
4 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
4 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 17 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Degree
4 6 (7.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.80%) QA
3 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
1 7 (8.86%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Ansible
2 3 (3.80%) Argo
2 3 (3.80%) Control-M
2 3 (3.80%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (3.80%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.80%) VMware
3 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.53%) Google