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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 +38 -32
Permanent jobs citing Java 92 38 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 7.65% 11.88% 3.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.87% 30.89% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 72 26 26
10th Percentile £24,525 £25,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £30,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,250 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -21.71% +2.69%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,688 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.98% +2.69%

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 308 123 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.60% 38.44% 24.25%
Number of salaries quoted 250 106 230
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,875 £33,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,063 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,938 £71,806
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,375 £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 17 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 3 (3.26%) Apache
1 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.26%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.09%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (1.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.09%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.91%) AWS
2 21 (22.83%) Azure
3 10 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.35%) GCP
4 4 (4.35%) GitHub
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (3.26%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.26%) Azure AKS
5 3 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.17%) Firebase
6 2 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.17%) Google Play
6 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.17%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.17%) Serverless
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.35%) MySQL
4 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.17%) Power BI
5 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) GitLab
2 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.43%) JIRA
3 4 (4.35%) Git
3 4 (4.35%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.26%) Postman
4 3 (3.26%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.17%) Android Studio
5 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.17%) Crashlytics
5 2 (2.17%) fastlane
5 2 (2.17%) Gradle
5 2 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.09%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.09%) JMeter
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 26 (28.26%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.13%) Finance
3 5 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.26%) Legal
5 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.17%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (47.83%) Developer
2 38 (41.30%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.57%) Java Engineer
4 17 (18.48%) Software Engineer
5 16 (17.39%) Senior
6 11 (11.96%) Lead
7 9 (9.78%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Junior
8 8 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (8.70%) Test Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Lead Java Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 3 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
12 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.78%) .NET
2 8 (8.70%) RESTful
3 7 (7.61%) Node.js
3 7 (7.61%) Spring
3 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.35%) Playwright
4 4 (4.35%) REST
5 3 (3.26%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.26%) Kafka
5 3 (3.26%) React
6 2 (2.17%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (2.17%) Android SDK
6 2 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.17%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.17%) Retrofit
6 2 (2.17%) Vue
7 1 (1.09%) Entity Framework
7 1 (1.09%) PostGIS
7 1 (1.09%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.35%) Client/Server
2 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.35%) Hedge funds
2 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Linux
1 5 (5.43%) Windows
2 3 (3.26%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (28.26%) Microservices
2 25 (27.17%) Software Engineering
3 23 (25.00%) Agile
3 23 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 22 (23.91%) Test Automation
5 21 (22.83%) Mentoring
6 16 (17.39%) DevOps
7 13 (14.13%) Coaching
7 13 (14.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 10 (10.87%) Scrum
9 8 (8.70%) Design Patterns
9 8 (8.70%) TDD
10 7 (7.61%) Computer Science
10 7 (7.61%) Deployment Automation
11 6 (6.52%) BDD
11 6 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (5.43%) Event-Driven
12 5 (5.43%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.39%) SQL
2 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
3 13 (14.13%) Python
4 11 (11.96%) C#
5 3 (3.26%) Bash
5 3 (3.26%) C++
6 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.61%) Degree
4 6 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.43%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (7.61%) Terraform
2 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.26%) Argo
4 2 (2.17%) Ansible
4 2 (2.17%) Control-M
4 2 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (2.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.17%) Atlassian
2 2 (2.17%) Dynatrace
2 2 (2.17%) Google
2 2 (2.17%) VMware