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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 33 53
Rank change year-on-year -36 +20 -38
Permanent jobs citing Java 17 49 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.35% 5.98% 3.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.23% 17.88% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 11 30 43
10th Percentile £24,000 £30,600 £41,600
25th Percentile £48,289 £45,125 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £71,408 £92,188 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 235 274 381
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.71% 33.46% 28.71%
Number of salaries quoted 175 140 340
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,600 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +7.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,444 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,790 £95,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 14 February 2026.

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 14 February 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 -31 14 £55,000 -8.33% 26
Durham +4 3 £62,639 +35.80% 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 7 (41.18%) Azure
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) dbt
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Datadog
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.88%) Pulumi
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) NoSQL
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Artifactory
1 3 (17.65%) SonarQube
2 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.88%) JMeter
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Locust
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Java Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) Software Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Java Software Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
6 1 (5.88%) .NET Team Leader
6 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.88%) Junior
6 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Python Team Leader
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering Team Leader
6 1 (5.88%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Spring
1 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
2 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (11.76%) Django
3 2 (11.76%) REST
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) Apache CXF
4 1 (5.88%) Bootstrap
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) CSS3
4 1 (5.88%) FreeMarker
4 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) HTML5
4 1 (5.88%) JAX-RS
4 1 (5.88%) Kafka
4 1 (5.88%) LESS
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Software Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 5 (29.41%) BDD
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) Mentoring
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) TDD
3 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Open Source
5 3 (17.65%) Pair Programming
6 2 (11.76%) Coaching
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Delphi
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) vSphere
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Grafana
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Control-M
3 2 (11.76%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Atlassian
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle