Java Job Trends in the North East

Java
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 55 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -31 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 30 40 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.74% 3.09% 6.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.07% 8.85% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 22 20 32
10th Percentile £10,000 £34,575 £48,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £49,063 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £68,982 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +6.13% +13.04%
75th Percentile £66,875 £95,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £103,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

All Programming Languages
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 166 452 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 15.16% 34.96% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 128 237 141
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £64,063 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,887 £95,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Java job vacancy trend in the North East

Java
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the North East over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the North East

Java
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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 8 November 2025. 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 +7 28 £47,500 -40.63% 39
Durham 0 2 £62,639 +14.41%
Java
England

Java
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 3 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (10.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 17 (56.67%) AWS
2 15 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) GitHub
4 6 (20.00%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) SaaS
6 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.33%) Datadog
8 1 (3.33%) dbt
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.33%) PaaS
8 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) PuTTY
1 3 (10.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) MySQL
3 4 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 3 (10.00%) Big Data
4 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (10.00%) HBase
4 3 (10.00%) Impala
4 3 (10.00%) Neo4j
4 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (10.00%) Power BI
4 3 (10.00%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (10.00%) QlikView
4 3 (10.00%) Spark SQL
4 3 (10.00%) SQLite
4 3 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
1 5 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 4 (13.33%) Artifactory
2 4 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 4 (13.33%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 3 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (10.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.67%) Maven
4 2 (6.67%) Selenium
4 2 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.33%) JMeter
5 1 (3.33%) JUnit
5 1 (3.33%) Locust
General
1 8 (26.67%) Finance
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Back Office
3 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Games
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Senior
1 11 (36.67%) Software Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Graduate
4 3 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
4 3 (10.00%) IT Graduate
4 3 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Java Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Java Scala Developer
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Scala Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) .NET
1 7 (23.33%) Spring
1 7 (23.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (16.67%) CSS
3 4 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 4 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (13.33%) Kafka
4 3 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (10.00%) HTML
4 3 (10.00%) jQuery
4 3 (10.00%) Plotly
4 3 (10.00%) PySpark
4 3 (10.00%) React
4 3 (10.00%) Regular Expression
4 3 (10.00%) Shiny
5 2 (6.67%) CSS3
5 2 (6.67%) HTML5
5 2 (6.67%) REST
5 2 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Online Games
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Unix
1 3 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Agile
2 17 (56.67%) Software Engineering
3 13 (43.33%) DevOps
4 10 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 9 (30.00%) Computer Science
6 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
7 7 (23.33%) Containerisation
8 5 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (16.67%) OOP
8 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 5 (16.67%) User Experience
9 4 (13.33%) AI
9 4 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 4 (13.33%) Pair Programming
9 4 (13.33%) TDD
9 4 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Python
2 12 (40.00%) C#
3 9 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (23.33%) SQL
5 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (13.33%) C++
6 4 (13.33%) PHP
6 4 (13.33%) R
7 3 (10.00%) Bash
7 3 (10.00%) C
7 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (10.00%) PROC SQL
8 2 (6.67%) Kotlin
8 2 (6.67%) Scala
9 1 (3.33%) Dart
9 1 (3.33%) Delphi
9 1 (3.33%) MATLAB
9 1 (3.33%) Ruby
9 1 (3.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.67%) ISO 9001
3 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.00%) Apache Flume
2 3 (10.00%) HDFS
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.67%) Grafana
2 5 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) Control-M
3 3 (10.00%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (10.00%) Kibana
3 3 (10.00%) logstash
3 3 (10.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (10.00%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Informatica
2 3 (10.00%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (10.00%) SAP
2 3 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Solace