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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 33 63
Rank change year-on-year +6 +30 -25
Permanent jobs citing Java 162 43 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.48% 4.75% 2.33%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.44% 30.94% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 123 26 26
10th Percentile £31,250 £17,000 £32,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £45,672
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -29.35% +0.71%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £74,827
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,625 £107,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 691 139 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.37% 15.36% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 561 112 338
10th Percentile £40,000 £25,000 £33,675
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,750 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 August 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 August 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 +1 159 £53,750 +16.22% 49
Durham - 3 £75,000 - 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 9 (5.56%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.70%) Apache
2 6 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.70%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.23%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.62%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.37%) AWS
2 27 (16.67%) Azure
3 13 (8.02%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (4.94%) GCP
5 7 (4.32%) GitHub
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
6 6 (3.70%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.09%) Firebase
7 5 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (3.09%) Google Play
8 4 (2.47%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.85%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.85%) dbt
9 3 (1.85%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.85%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.85%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) MQTT
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.94%) NoSQL
2 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
2 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.09%) Flink
5 3 (1.85%) Big Data
5 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.85%) MySQL
5 3 (1.85%) Power BI
5 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 12 (7.41%) GitLab
2 9 (5.56%) Git
3 8 (4.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.70%) JIRA
5 5 (3.09%) Android Studio
5 5 (3.09%) Crashlytics
5 5 (3.09%) fastlane
5 5 (3.09%) Gradle
6 4 (2.47%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.47%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.85%) Postman
7 3 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.23%) JMeter
9 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.62%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.62%) Maven
9 1 (0.62%) Selenium
General
1 37 (22.84%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.11%) Finance
3 10 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (3.09%) Financial Institution
4 5 (3.09%) Social Skills
5 3 (1.85%) Legal
6 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (53.09%) Developer
2 71 (43.83%) Java Developer
3 28 (17.28%) Senior
4 24 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 23 (14.20%) Java Engineer
6 17 (10.49%) Senior Developer
7 15 (9.26%) Lead
8 14 (8.64%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (6.79%) Test Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Junior
10 10 (6.17%) Software Developer
11 6 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.09%) Android Developer
12 5 (3.09%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.09%) Lead Java Engineer
13 4 (2.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 4 (2.47%) Graduate
13 4 (2.47%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 4 (2.47%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.79%) .NET
2 10 (6.17%) RESTful
3 9 (5.56%) Node.js
3 9 (5.56%) Spring
3 9 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.32%) Kafka
5 5 (3.09%) Android Jetpack
5 5 (3.09%) Android SDK
5 5 (3.09%) Jetpack Compose
5 5 (3.09%) Retrofit
6 4 (2.47%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.47%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.47%) Playwright
6 4 (2.47%) React
6 4 (2.47%) REST
7 3 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.85%) PySpark
7 3 (1.85%) Vue
8 2 (1.23%) Spring MVC
8 2 (1.23%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (4.94%) Product Ownership
2 7 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 6 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.70%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.09%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.47%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.85%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.23%) IoT
7 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.32%) Linux
2 6 (3.70%) Windows
3 5 (3.09%) Android
4 3 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (27.78%) Microservices
2 38 (23.46%) Agile
3 36 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 33 (20.37%) Software Engineering
4 33 (20.37%) Test Automation
5 29 (17.90%) Mentoring
6 28 (17.28%) DevOps
6 28 (17.28%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 23 (14.20%) TDD
8 16 (9.88%) Coaching
8 16 (9.88%) Scrum
9 15 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (8.02%) Containerisation
10 13 (8.02%) Design Patterns
11 12 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (6.79%) Analytics
12 11 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (6.79%) Data Pipeline
12 11 (6.79%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (6.17%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.52%) Python
2 18 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 16 (9.88%) C#
4 15 (9.26%) SQL
5 6 (3.70%) Bash
6 5 (3.09%) C++
6 5 (3.09%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.90%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.79%) Accessibility
1 11 (6.79%) QA
2 6 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.70%) WCAG
3 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (8.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (8.02%) Terraform
2 10 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.47%) Grafana
4 3 (1.85%) Ansible
4 3 (1.85%) Argo
4 3 (1.85%) Control-M
4 3 (1.85%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 11 (6.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.09%) Dynatrace
2 5 (3.09%) Google
3 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.85%) VMware
4 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.62%) Databricks
5 1 (0.62%) Red Hat