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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 26 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 -28
Permanent jobs citing Java 36 29 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 4.07% 9.76% 3.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.14% 23.39% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 27 23 28
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £40,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% -13.69% +4.74%
75th Percentile £55,972 £72,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £75,884 £83,500 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £47,500 £56,500 £65,465
% change year-on-year -15.93% -13.69% +4.74%

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 210 124 243
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 23.73% 41.75% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 166 105 220
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £68,476
90th Percentile £89,375 £94,500 £82,500
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,130 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% - -

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 26 March 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (22.22%) AWS
1 8 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.56%) MySQL
2 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) JIRA
1 4 (11.11%) REST Assured
2 3 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.78%) Gatling
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) JMeter
3 1 (2.78%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (2.78%) Selenium
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
General
1 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Developer
3 10 (27.78%) Java Engineer
4 9 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Lead
6 5 (13.89%) Senior
7 4 (11.11%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (11.11%) Test Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) Junior
8 3 (8.33%) Lead Java Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (5.56%) Software Developer
10 1 (2.78%) .NET Team Leader
10 1 (2.78%) Graduate
10 1 (2.78%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 1 (2.78%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Playwright
1 4 (11.11%) Spring
1 4 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 3 (8.33%) .NET
2 3 (8.33%) REST
2 3 (8.33%) RESTful
3 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.78%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
2 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
2 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 10 (27.78%) Agile
3 9 (25.00%) Microservices
3 9 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
6 6 (16.67%) DevOps
7 5 (13.89%) BDD
7 5 (13.89%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
8 4 (11.11%) Test Strategy
9 3 (8.33%) API Testing
9 3 (8.33%) Coaching
9 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (8.33%) Event-Driven
9 3 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
9 3 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
9 3 (8.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (13.89%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
1 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Control-M
2 1 (2.78%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (2.78%) Grafana
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.78%) VMware