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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 16 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 +33 -30
Permanent jobs citing Java 66 32 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.20% 10.39% 3.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.09% 25.40% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 48 24 27
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £39,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,563 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.98% +2.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,500 £55,750 £65,465
% change year-on-year -5.83% -14.84% +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 253 126 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.76% 40.91% 24.83%
Number of salaries quoted 196 110 230
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.35%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,444 £71,806
90th Percentile £100,000 £94,000 £83,759
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%

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 30 April 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 (3.03%) Apache
1 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.03%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.52%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.52%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) AWS
2 14 (21.21%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.55%) Azure AKS
4 3 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (4.55%) GCP
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.03%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.03%) Serverless
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
1 1 (1.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.58%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.03%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) Power BI
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (10.61%) GitLab
2 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 4 (6.06%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.55%) Postman
4 2 (3.03%) Git
4 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.03%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.52%) Gatling
5 1 (1.52%) JMeter
5 1 (1.52%) Maven
5 1 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.52%) Selenium
5 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (24.24%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.12%) Finance
3 3 (4.55%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.03%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Developer
2 24 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 16 (24.24%) Java Engineer
4 13 (19.70%) Software Engineer
5 12 (18.18%) Senior
6 8 (12.12%) Lead
7 6 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Junior
7 6 (9.09%) Lead Java Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 6 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (9.09%) Test Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Software Developer
9 3 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (1.52%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.61%) Spring
1 7 (10.61%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.09%) .NET
3 5 (7.58%) Node.js
4 4 (6.06%) Playwright
4 4 (6.06%) REST
4 4 (6.06%) RESTful
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.55%) Kafka
6 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.03%) React
6 2 (3.03%) Vue
7 1 (1.52%) EJB
7 1 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.52%) GWT
7 1 (1.52%) JDBC
7 1 (1.52%) JPA
7 1 (1.52%) Middleware
7 1 (1.52%) PostGIS
7 1 (1.52%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.55%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.55%) Client/Server
2 3 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.55%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.03%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.03%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.06%) Linux
1 4 (6.06%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.30%) Software Engineering
2 17 (25.76%) Microservices
2 17 (25.76%) Test Automation
3 16 (24.24%) Agile
3 16 (24.24%) CI/CD
4 14 (21.21%) Mentoring
5 10 (15.15%) DevOps
6 8 (12.12%) Coaching
6 8 (12.12%) Scrum
7 7 (10.61%) Design Patterns
7 7 (10.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (9.09%) BDD
8 6 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (7.58%) Computer Science
9 5 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (7.58%) Event-Driven
9 5 (7.58%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (7.58%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (7.58%) Sprint Retrospective
9 5 (7.58%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.15%) Python
1 10 (15.15%) SQL
2 9 (13.64%) JavaScript
3 7 (10.61%) C#
4 2 (3.03%) Bash
4 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.52%) C++
5 1 (1.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (7.58%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.06%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Control-M
4 1 (1.52%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.52%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.52%) VMware