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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 175 32 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.22% 6.49% 4.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.56% 32.32% 12.23%
Number of salaries quoted 132 20 18
10th Percentile £42,500 £10,000 £33,725
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £45,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -40.63% +23.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £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 592 99 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 27.82% 20.08% 35.46%
Number of salaries quoted 495 79 125
10th Percentile £43,750 £27,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,000 £95,000
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £63,076 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +26.15% - -9.91%

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 28 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 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.43%) Apache
2 6 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.43%) Jupyter
3 4 (2.29%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.57%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.29%) AWS
2 24 (13.71%) Azure
3 10 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (5.14%) GCP
4 9 (5.14%) GitHub
5 8 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (4.57%) Amazon S3
6 7 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.86%) Firebase
8 5 (2.86%) Google Play
8 5 (2.86%) Serverless
9 4 (2.29%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.71%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (1.14%) AWS KMS
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) MQTT
2 1 (0.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.14%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.43%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.43%) Flink
3 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.71%) Big Data
4 3 (1.71%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.71%) MySQL
4 3 (1.71%) Spark SQL
4 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.14%) Power BI
5 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 13 (7.43%) GitLab
2 10 (5.71%) Git
3 9 (5.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.43%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.86%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.86%) Crashlytics
5 5 (2.86%) fastlane
5 5 (2.86%) Gradle
6 3 (1.71%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.71%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.71%) JIRA
6 3 (1.71%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.14%) Gatling
8 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 41 (23.43%) Public Sector
2 19 (10.86%) Finance
3 11 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.43%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.71%) Legal
8 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 95 (54.29%) Developer
2 74 (42.29%) Java Developer
3 34 (19.43%) Senior
4 30 (17.14%) Java Engineer
5 25 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 22 (12.57%) Senior Developer
7 16 (9.14%) Senior Java Developer
7 16 (9.14%) Software Developer
8 12 (6.86%) Junior
9 10 (5.71%) Lead
10 9 (5.14%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.43%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.86%) Android Developer
14 5 (2.86%) Senior Software Developer
15 4 (2.29%) Junior Developer
15 4 (2.29%) Junior Java Developer
15 4 (2.29%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.86%) .NET
1 12 (6.86%) Terraform
2 11 (6.29%) Spring
2 11 (6.29%) Spring Boot
3 9 (5.14%) Kafka
3 9 (5.14%) RESTful
4 8 (4.57%) Node.js
5 6 (3.43%) PySpark
6 5 (2.86%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (2.86%) Android SDK
6 5 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.86%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (2.86%) Retrofit
7 4 (2.29%) Middleware
8 3 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.71%) JWT
8 3 (1.71%) OAuth
8 3 (1.71%) React
8 3 (1.71%) REST
9 2 (1.14%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.14%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.86%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.29%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.71%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) IoT
6 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.00%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
3 5 (2.86%) Android
4 3 (1.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.00%) Microservices
2 37 (21.14%) Agile
2 37 (21.14%) CI/CD
3 35 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 29 (16.57%) Mentoring
5 28 (16.00%) DevOps
5 28 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 27 (15.43%) TDD
7 26 (14.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 18 (10.29%) Coaching
9 17 (9.71%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (9.71%) Scrum
10 16 (9.14%) Containerisation
11 14 (8.00%) Analytics
11 14 (8.00%) Data Engineering
11 14 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (7.43%) Event-Driven
13 12 (6.86%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (6.86%) Design Patterns
14 11 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.43%) Python
2 17 (9.71%) C#
2 17 (9.71%) SQL
3 16 (9.14%) JavaScript
4 10 (5.71%) C++
5 6 (3.43%) Bash
6 5 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.29%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.57%) Degree
5 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) QA
2 10 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.86%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (9.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.86%) Argo
3 3 (1.71%) Ansible
3 3 (1.71%) Control-M
3 3 (1.71%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (5.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.86%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.86%) Google
3 3 (1.71%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.71%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.71%) VMware
4 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.57%) Databricks