Java Developer Job Trends in the North East

Java Developer
England > North East

The median Java Developer salary in the North East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 67 119
Rank change year-on-year +6 +52 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 56 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.28% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 0.16% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 44 0 5
10th Percentile - - £37,550
25th Percentile £45,000 - £37,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - £42,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.93%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - £65,800
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 2,343 608 2,116
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.28% 88.76% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,710 353 1,669
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £46,382
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +3.49% -7.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,258 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North East

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North East.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North East

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North East over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the North East

Java Developer
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the North East region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +4 56 £50,000 - 8
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 20 June 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (44.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 24 (42.86%) Microservices
4 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 9 (16.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.36%) Scrum
7 3 (5.36%) Spring
7 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
7 3 (5.36%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (5.36%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (5.36%) TDD
8 2 (3.57%) Agile
8 2 (3.57%) Backlog Refinement
8 2 (3.57%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (3.57%) MVC
8 2 (3.57%) QA
8 2 (3.57%) Spring MVC
8 2 (3.57%) Sprint Review
8 2 (3.57%) Test Automation
9 1 (1.79%) AI
9 1 (1.79%) AWS
9 1 (1.79%) BDD
9 1 (1.79%) CI/CD
9 1 (1.79%) Containerisation
9 1 (1.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (1.79%) Docker
9 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
9 1 (1.79%) EJB

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (1.79%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.79%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.79%) AWS
1 1 (1.79%) GitHub
1 1 (1.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
1 1 (1.79%) GitLab
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.79%) Maven
1 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (14.29%) Finance
2 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.79%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.36%) Spring
1 3 (5.36%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.57%) Spring MVC
3 1 (1.79%) EJB
3 1 (1.79%) GWT
3 1 (1.79%) JDBC
3 1 (1.79%) JPA
3 1 (1.79%) Middleware
3 1 (1.79%) PostGIS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 24 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (5.36%) Scrum
3 3 (5.36%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (5.36%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (5.36%) TDD
4 2 (3.57%) Agile
4 2 (3.57%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (3.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (3.57%) MVC
4 2 (3.57%) Sprint Review
4 2 (3.57%) Test Automation
5 1 (1.79%) AI
5 1 (1.79%) BDD
5 1 (1.79%) CI/CD
5 1 (1.79%) Containerisation
5 1 (1.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office Automation
5 1 (1.79%) Office Automation
5 1 (1.79%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (5.36%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.07%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft