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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +47 -44
Permanent jobs citing Java 125 40 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.35% 11.08% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.21% 38.46% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 98 25 23
10th Percentile £24,000 £16,000 £38,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £58,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,315 £45,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -31.26% +0.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,250 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,315 £45,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +16.26% -31.26% +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 428 104 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.59% 28.81% 24.42%
Number of salaries quoted 365 88 242
10th Percentile £40,000 £29,619 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £71,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,875 £83,759
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% -

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 21 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 (4.00%) Apache
1 5 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (4.00%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.80%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.80%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.80%) AWS
1 26 (20.80%) Azure
2 13 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.60%) GitHub
4 6 (4.80%) GCP
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (4.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.00%) Firebase
5 5 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (4.00%) Google Play
6 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (2.40%) Azure AKS
6 3 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (2.40%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.40%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.40%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.40%) Serverless
7 2 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) MQTT
2 1 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.60%) NoSQL
2 8 (6.40%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.20%) MySQL
5 3 (2.40%) Power BI
5 3 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.60%) Big Data
6 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.80%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) GitLab
2 8 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.80%) JIRA
4 5 (4.00%) Android Studio
4 5 (4.00%) Crashlytics
4 5 (4.00%) fastlane
4 5 (4.00%) Git
4 5 (4.00%) Gradle
5 4 (3.20%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.20%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.40%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.40%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.40%) Postman
6 3 (2.40%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.80%) JMeter
7 1 (0.80%) Maven
7 1 (0.80%) Selenium
General
1 33 (26.40%) Public Sector
2 16 (12.80%) Finance
3 8 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.20%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.40%) Legal
6 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (54.40%) Developer
2 57 (45.60%) Java Developer
3 21 (16.80%) Java Engineer
3 21 (16.80%) Senior
4 20 (16.00%) Software Engineer
5 13 (10.40%) Senior Developer
6 12 (9.60%) Lead
6 12 (9.60%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (8.80%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) Junior
8 10 (8.00%) Test Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Lead Java Engineer
9 6 (4.80%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Android Developer
11 4 (3.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
12 3 (2.40%) Lead Test Engineer
12 3 (2.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.60%) RESTful
2 9 (7.20%) .NET
2 9 (7.20%) Spring
2 9 (7.20%) Spring Boot
3 8 (6.40%) Node.js
4 6 (4.80%) REST
5 5 (4.00%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (4.00%) Android SDK
5 5 (4.00%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (4.00%) Retrofit
6 4 (3.20%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.20%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.20%) Playwright
6 4 (3.20%) React
7 3 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.40%) Kafka
7 3 (2.40%) Vue
8 2 (1.60%) PySpark
8 2 (1.60%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.60%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.40%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.40%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.20%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.20%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.20%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.40%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.60%) IoT
5 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.80%) Linux
1 6 (4.80%) Windows
2 5 (4.00%) Android
3 3 (2.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (28.00%) Microservices
2 33 (26.40%) Agile
3 30 (24.00%) CI/CD
3 30 (24.00%) Test Automation
4 28 (22.40%) Software Engineering
5 27 (21.60%) Mentoring
6 25 (20.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 23 (18.40%) DevOps
8 16 (12.80%) Coaching
9 14 (11.20%) Scrum
9 14 (11.20%) TDD
10 11 (8.80%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (6.40%) Analytics
12 8 (6.40%) Clean Code
12 8 (6.40%) Design Patterns
12 8 (6.40%) Kanban
12 8 (6.40%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (6.40%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.40%) Python
1 18 (14.40%) SQL
2 16 (12.80%) JavaScript
3 14 (11.20%) C#
4 5 (4.00%) Bash
4 5 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.40%) C++
5 3 (2.40%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.40%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 24 (19.20%) SC Cleared
3 10 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.60%) Degree
5 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.00%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.60%) QA
3 5 (4.00%) WCAG
4 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (7.20%) Docker
2 3 (2.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (8.00%) Terraform
2 8 (6.40%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.40%) Ansible
3 3 (2.40%) Argo
3 3 (2.40%) Control-M
3 3 (2.40%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (2.40%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.00%) Google
3 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.40%) VMware
4 2 (1.60%) Salesforce