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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 37 33
Rank change year-on-year -30 -4 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 14 54 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.35% 5.62% 5.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.22% 13.74% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 12 34 34
10th Percentile £24,100 £32,025 £48,750
25th Percentile £45,550 £43,063 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +2.13% -6.00%
75th Percentile £70,079 £95,000 £68,438
90th Percentile £90,657 £100,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 194 393 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.74% 40.89% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 147 208 170
10th Percentile £28,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +1.45% +0.49%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,569 £63,438
90th Percentile £78,000 £95,375 £69,820
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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -25 12 £60,000 - 27
Durham +5 2 £62,639 +35.80%
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) Datadog
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
1 3 (21.43%) SonarQube
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (14.29%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Locust
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Scala Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Scala Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Scala Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (7.14%) Apache CXF
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.14%) Bootstrap
4 1 (7.14%) CSS3
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) FreeMarker
4 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) HTML5
4 1 (7.14%) JAX-RS
4 1 (7.14%) jQuery
4 1 (7.14%) LESS
4 1 (7.14%) Node.js
4 1 (7.14%) Sass
4 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Culture of Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
1 1 (7.14%) Online Games
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 4 (28.57%) Pair Programming
3 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 3 (21.43%) BDD
4 3 (21.43%) Code Quality
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) C#
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) C++
5 1 (7.14%) Delphi
5 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) ISO 9001
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Grafana
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) Ansible
3 2 (14.29%) Control-M
3 2 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle