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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 31 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 +37 -42
Permanent jobs citing Java 91 42 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.54% 7.25% 2.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.76% 26.42% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 70 30 39
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -14.23% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,625 £71,991
90th Percentile £75,500 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%

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 383 159 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 19.09% 27.46% 26.00%
Number of salaries quoted 279 142 429
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,599 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,395 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 £79,680
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -5 87 £52,500 -4.55% 36
Durham -11 4 £75,000 +100.00% 1
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 (3.30%) Apache
1 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.30%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.10%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.37%) AWS
2 21 (23.08%) Azure
3 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.59%) GCP
5 4 (4.40%) dbt
5 4 (4.40%) GitHub
5 4 (4.40%) PaaS
6 3 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.30%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.30%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.30%) SaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Firebase
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.20%) Google Play
7 2 (2.20%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
1 1 (1.10%) SAN
1 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.79%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.30%) MySQL
4 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.20%) Power BI
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.10%) Redis
6 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (9.89%) GitLab
2 6 (6.59%) JIRA
3 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.40%) REST Assured
4 4 (4.40%) SonarQube
5 3 (3.30%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.30%) Git
5 3 (3.30%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (3.30%) Postman
5 3 (3.30%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.20%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.20%) Crashlytics
6 2 (2.20%) fastlane
6 2 (2.20%) Gradle
6 2 (2.20%) JMeter
7 1 (1.10%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.10%) Gatling
7 1 (1.10%) Locust
7 1 (1.10%) Selenium
General
1 22 (24.18%) Public Sector
2 13 (14.29%) Finance
3 7 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.30%) Legal
4 3 (3.30%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (45.05%) Developer
2 35 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 18 (19.78%) Java Engineer
4 15 (16.48%) Senior
4 15 (16.48%) Software Engineer
5 13 (14.29%) Lead
6 8 (8.79%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Junior
6 8 (8.79%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 7 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Lead Java Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Test Leader
11 2 (2.20%) Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.79%) .NET
2 7 (7.69%) RESTful
2 7 (7.69%) Spring
2 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.59%) Node.js
4 4 (4.40%) Playwright
4 4 (4.40%) REST
5 3 (3.30%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.30%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.30%) Kafka
5 3 (3.30%) React
6 2 (2.20%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (2.20%) Android SDK
6 2 (2.20%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (2.20%) Retrofit
6 2 (2.20%) Vue
7 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.10%) Blazor
7 1 (1.10%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.40%) Algorithms
2 4 (4.40%) Client/Server
2 4 (4.40%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.40%) Hedge funds
2 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.20%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Linux
2 6 (6.59%) Windows
3 4 (4.40%) Unix
4 2 (2.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Microservices
2 24 (26.37%) CI/CD
2 24 (26.37%) Test Automation
3 23 (25.27%) Agile
4 22 (24.18%) Software Engineering
5 18 (19.78%) DevOps
5 18 (19.78%) Mentoring
6 13 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 10 (10.99%) Coaching
7 10 (10.99%) Scrum
8 9 (9.89%) BDD
9 8 (8.79%) Computer Science
9 8 (8.79%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (8.79%) Design Patterns
9 8 (8.79%) TDD
10 7 (7.69%) Containerisation
10 7 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (6.59%) Continuous Integration
12 5 (5.49%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.78%) Python
2 14 (15.38%) SQL
3 11 (12.09%) C#
3 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.30%) Bash
4 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.20%) C++
5 2 (2.20%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) Degree
4 6 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.49%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.79%) Docker
2 3 (3.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (10.99%) Terraform
2 8 (8.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.40%) Grafana
4 3 (3.30%) Ansible
4 3 (3.30%) Argo
4 3 (3.30%) Control-M
4 3 (3.30%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.30%) Google
2 3 (3.30%) VMware
3 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace