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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 28 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 +39 -44
Permanent jobs citing Java 73 38 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.91% 6.79% 2.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.53% 23.31% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 54 29 40
10th Percentile £25,575 £25,000 £37,613
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £56,500 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -13.39% +4.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £74,987 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -2.67% +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 339 163 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.14% 29.11% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 236 145 425
10th Percentile £30,875 £32,459 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,777 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £79,840
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 1 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 1 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 -10 68 £52,500 -5.83% 34
Durham -11 5 £72,539 +93.44%
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 2 (2.74%) Apache
1 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.74%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.37%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.40%) AWS
2 15 (20.55%) Azure
3 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.48%) dbt
4 4 (5.48%) GCP
4 4 (5.48%) PaaS
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (4.11%) Azure AKS
5 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (4.11%) SaaS
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub
6 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.74%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.74%) Serverless
7 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) HTTP
1 1 (1.37%) SAN
1 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) NoSQL
1 8 (10.96%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.85%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.74%) MySQL
3 2 (2.74%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) GitLab
2 4 (5.48%) JIRA
2 4 (5.48%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.11%) Git
3 3 (4.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.11%) Postman
4 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.74%) JMeter
4 2 (2.74%) Selenium
4 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.37%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.37%) Gatling
5 1 (1.37%) JUnit
5 1 (1.37%) Locust
5 1 (1.37%) Maven
5 1 (1.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (21.92%) Public Sector
2 8 (10.96%) Finance
3 4 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (5.48%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (42.47%) Developer
2 26 (35.62%) Java Developer
3 16 (21.92%) Java Engineer
4 14 (19.18%) Senior
5 13 (17.81%) Software Engineer
6 11 (15.07%) Lead
7 7 (9.59%) Senior Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Junior
8 6 (8.22%) Lead Java Engineer
8 6 (8.22%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (8.22%) Test Engineer
9 5 (6.85%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
11 3 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (4.11%) Test Leader
12 2 (2.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 2 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) Spring
1 8 (10.96%) Spring Boot
2 6 (8.22%) .NET
3 5 (6.85%) Node.js
4 4 (5.48%) Playwright
4 4 (5.48%) REST
4 4 (5.48%) RESTful
5 3 (4.11%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.11%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.74%) Django
6 2 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.74%) React
6 2 (2.74%) Vue
7 1 (1.37%) Flask
7 1 (1.37%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.37%) GWT
7 1 (1.37%) JPA
7 1 (1.37%) PostGIS
7 1 (1.37%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.11%) Client/Server
2 3 (4.11%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.11%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.85%) Linux
2 4 (5.48%) Unix
2 4 (5.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) Software Engineering
1 21 (28.77%) Test Automation
2 20 (27.40%) Microservices
3 19 (26.03%) CI/CD
4 18 (24.66%) Agile
5 15 (20.55%) Mentoring
6 13 (17.81%) DevOps
7 10 (13.70%) BDD
8 9 (12.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 8 (10.96%) Coaching
9 8 (10.96%) Scrum
10 7 (9.59%) Containerisation
10 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.59%) Design Patterns
11 6 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (8.22%) Event-Driven
11 6 (8.22%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (8.22%) TDD
12 5 (6.85%) Computer Science
12 5 (6.85%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) Python
2 10 (13.70%) SQL
3 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
4 7 (9.59%) C#
5 2 (2.74%) Bash
5 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.37%) C++
6 1 (1.37%) Delphi
6 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.48%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.22%) Terraform
3 3 (4.11%) Argo
3 3 (4.11%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Ansible
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (1.37%) Control-M
4 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (9.59%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.37%) Google
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle
2 1 (1.37%) VMware