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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 34
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 174 33 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.33% 6.83% 4.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.49% 33.00% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 131 20 18
10th Percentile £38,772 £10,000 £33,725
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £45,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £72,732
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -34.69% +11.90%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,250 £106,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £58,982
% change year-on-year +15.79% -19.47% -9.26%

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 590 100 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.23% 20.70% 35.09%
Number of salaries quoted 492 79 129
10th Percentile £43,750 £27,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £37,789
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% -2.65%
75th Percentile £90,000 £68,125 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £95,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £63,076 £51,125 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.38% +2.25% -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 21 September 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 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.45%) Apache
2 6 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.45%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.72%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.57%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (21.26%) AWS
2 24 (13.79%) Azure
3 10 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (5.17%) GCP
5 8 (4.60%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (4.60%) GitHub
6 7 (4.02%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.87%) Firebase
8 5 (2.87%) Google Play
8 5 (2.87%) Serverless
9 4 (2.30%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.72%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.15%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) MQTT
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.60%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.45%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.45%) Flink
3 6 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.72%) Big Data
4 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.72%) MySQL
4 3 (1.72%) Spark SQL
4 3 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.15%) Power BI
5 2 (1.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 12 (6.90%) GitLab
2 10 (5.75%) Git
3 8 (4.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.87%) Android Studio
4 5 (2.87%) Crashlytics
4 5 (2.87%) fastlane
4 5 (2.87%) Gradle
4 5 (2.87%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.72%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.72%) JIRA
5 3 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.72%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.57%) Gatling
6 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 41 (23.56%) Public Sector
2 18 (10.34%) Finance
3 10 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.45%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.87%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.72%) Legal
8 2 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (54.02%) Developer
2 73 (41.95%) Java Developer
3 34 (19.54%) Senior
4 30 (17.24%) Java Engineer
5 24 (13.79%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.64%) Senior Developer
7 16 (9.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 16 (9.20%) Software Developer
8 12 (6.90%) Junior
9 11 (6.32%) Lead
10 9 (5.17%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (5.17%) Data Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Senior Java Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.87%) Android Developer
13 5 (2.87%) Senior Software Developer
14 4 (2.30%) Lead Java Engineer
14 4 (2.30%) Lead Test Engineer
15 3 (1.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.90%) .NET
1 12 (6.90%) Terraform
2 9 (5.17%) RESTful
2 9 (5.17%) Spring
2 9 (5.17%) Spring Boot
3 8 (4.60%) Kafka
3 8 (4.60%) Node.js
4 6 (3.45%) PySpark
5 5 (2.87%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (2.87%) Android SDK
5 5 (2.87%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (2.87%) Retrofit
6 4 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.72%) Middleware
7 3 (1.72%) React
7 3 (1.72%) REST
8 2 (1.15%) OAuth
8 2 (1.15%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.02%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.87%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.87%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.87%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.72%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.15%) IoT
6 2 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.02%) Linux
2 6 (3.45%) Windows
3 5 (2.87%) Android
4 3 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (23.56%) Microservices
2 35 (20.11%) Agile
2 35 (20.11%) CI/CD
3 34 (19.54%) Software Engineering
4 30 (17.24%) Mentoring
5 26 (14.94%) DevOps
5 26 (14.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 26 (14.94%) Test Automation
6 25 (14.37%) TDD
7 18 (10.34%) Coaching
8 16 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (8.62%) Scrum
10 14 (8.05%) Analytics
10 14 (8.05%) Containerisation
10 14 (8.05%) Data Engineering
11 13 (7.47%) Design Patterns
11 13 (7.47%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (6.90%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (6.90%) Event-Driven
13 11 (6.32%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.52%) Python
2 17 (9.77%) C#
2 17 (9.77%) SQL
3 16 (9.20%) JavaScript
4 9 (5.17%) C++
5 6 (3.45%) Bash
6 5 (2.87%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.30%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.72%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.60%) Degree
5 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) QA
2 10 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.87%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (8.05%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (6.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.30%) Argo
3 3 (1.72%) Ansible
3 3 (1.72%) Control-M
3 3 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.72%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (5.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.87%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.87%) Google
3 3 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.72%) VMware
4 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.57%) Databricks