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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 +44 -43
Permanent jobs citing Java 133 39 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.36% 9.26% 2.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.98% 36.79% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 103 23 24
10th Percentile £25,050 £13,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £58,266
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -35.08% +0.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,000 -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +16.67% -31.26% +0.71%

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 459 106 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.87% 25.18% 25.04%
Number of salaries quoted 391 87 234
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £41,875 £41,406
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £89,074 £70,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,000 £83,759
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +8.11%

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 5 July 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 5 (3.76%) Apache
1 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.76%) Jupyter
2 3 (2.26%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.50%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.75%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (21.05%) AWS
2 27 (20.30%) Azure
3 13 (9.77%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.26%) GitHub
5 6 (4.51%) GCP
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
6 5 (3.76%) Firebase
6 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (3.76%) Google Play
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.26%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.26%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.26%) Serverless
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) MQTT
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) NoSQL
2 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (3.76%) DynamoDB
3 5 (3.76%) MySQL
4 3 (2.26%) Power BI
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.50%) Big Data
5 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) GitLab
2 8 (6.02%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.51%) JIRA
4 5 (3.76%) Android Studio
4 5 (3.76%) Crashlytics
4 5 (3.76%) fastlane
4 5 (3.76%) Git
4 5 (3.76%) Gradle
5 4 (3.01%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.01%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (2.26%) Postman
6 3 (2.26%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.75%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.75%) JMeter
7 1 (0.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 34 (25.56%) Public Sector
2 16 (12.03%) Finance
3 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.01%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.26%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.26%) Legal
6 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 75 (56.39%) Developer
2 63 (47.37%) Java Developer
3 23 (17.29%) Senior
4 21 (15.79%) Java Engineer
4 21 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Senior Developer
6 14 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
7 13 (9.77%) Lead
8 11 (8.27%) Automation Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Junior
9 10 (7.52%) Test Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Lead Java Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Android Developer
13 4 (3.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Java Software Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Lead Software Engineer
13 4 (3.01%) Senior Software Engineer
14 3 (2.26%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) RESTful
2 10 (7.52%) Spring
2 10 (7.52%) Spring Boot
3 9 (6.77%) .NET
3 9 (6.77%) Node.js
4 6 (4.51%) REST
5 5 (3.76%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (3.76%) Android SDK
5 5 (3.76%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (3.76%) Retrofit
6 4 (3.01%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.01%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.01%) Playwright
6 4 (3.01%) React
7 3 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.26%) Kafka
7 3 (2.26%) Vue
8 2 (1.50%) Middleware
8 2 (1.50%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.02%) Cloud Native
1 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
3 4 (3.01%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.01%) Client/Server
3 4 (3.01%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.01%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.26%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.50%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.50%) IoT
5 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.51%) Linux
1 6 (4.51%) Windows
2 5 (3.76%) Android
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (30.08%) Microservices
2 36 (27.07%) Agile
3 32 (24.06%) Test Automation
4 31 (23.31%) CI/CD
5 29 (21.80%) Software Engineering
6 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
7 25 (18.80%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 24 (18.05%) DevOps
9 20 (15.04%) TDD
10 17 (12.78%) Coaching
11 16 (12.03%) Scrum
12 11 (8.27%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (7.52%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Development
15 8 (6.02%) Clean Code
15 8 (6.02%) Containerisation
15 8 (6.02%) Design Patterns
15 8 (6.02%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (6.02%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.53%) Python
1 18 (13.53%) SQL
2 17 (12.78%) JavaScript
3 14 (10.53%) C#
4 5 (3.76%) Bash
4 5 (3.76%) Kotlin
5 3 (2.26%) C++
5 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.26%) Scala
5 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (5.26%) Degree
5 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.77%) QA
3 5 (3.76%) WCAG
4 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.52%) Terraform
2 9 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.26%) Ansible
3 3 (2.26%) Argo
3 3 (2.26%) Control-M
3 3 (2.26%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (2.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (8.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.76%) Dynatrace
2 5 (3.76%) Google
3 3 (2.26%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.26%) VMware
4 2 (1.50%) Salesforce