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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 47 54
Rank change year-on-year +22 +7 -34
Permanent jobs citing Java 191 31 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.43% 3.20% 3.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.20% 24.60% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 147 20 23
10th Percentile £42,500 £10,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,250 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -11.58% -10.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £82,583 £69,250 £101,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 758 126 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.55% 13.00% 34.72%
Number of salaries quoted 626 98 264
10th Percentile £42,000 £28,138 £34,750
25th Percentile £46,572 £38,813 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,404
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.73% -6.54%
75th Percentile £87,000 £66,875 £68,113
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +9 185 £55,000 +7.32% 100
Durham - 6 £80,000 - 45
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 10 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.66%) WebLogic
3 6 (3.14%) Apache
3 6 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.14%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.52%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.56%) AWS
2 27 (14.14%) Azure
3 11 (5.76%) GitHub
4 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (4.71%) Amazon S3
5 9 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (4.19%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (4.19%) GCP
7 6 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (2.62%) Firebase
8 5 (2.62%) Google Play
8 5 (2.62%) Serverless
9 4 (2.09%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.57%) AWS KMS
10 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.57%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.57%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) MQTT
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) MongoDB
2 10 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (3.66%) NoSQL
4 6 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (3.14%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.14%) Flink
5 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.09%) MySQL
6 3 (1.57%) Big Data
6 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.57%) Spark SQL
6 3 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.05%) Power BI
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (7.33%) GitLab
2 10 (5.24%) Git
2 10 (5.24%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.62%) Android Studio
4 5 (2.62%) Crashlytics
4 5 (2.62%) fastlane
4 5 (2.62%) Gradle
5 3 (1.57%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.57%) Gatling
5 3 (1.57%) JIRA
5 3 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.57%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.05%) JUnit
6 2 (1.05%) Mockito
7 1 (0.52%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.52%) Maven
General
1 47 (24.61%) Public Sector
2 20 (10.47%) Finance
3 13 (6.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.19%) Social Skills
5 5 (2.62%) Financial Institution
6 3 (1.57%) Legal
7 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.52%) Law
8 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (52.36%) Developer
2 75 (39.27%) Java Developer
3 41 (21.47%) Senior
4 37 (19.37%) Java Engineer
5 29 (15.18%) Software Engineer
6 26 (13.61%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Software Developer
8 14 (7.33%) Lead
9 12 (6.28%) Junior
10 10 (5.24%) Data Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Senior Java Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (4.19%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.14%) Java Software Engineer
14 5 (2.62%) Android Developer
14 5 (2.62%) Backend Developer
14 5 (2.62%) Senior Backend Developer
14 5 (2.62%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.85%) Spring
1 15 (7.85%) Spring Boot
2 14 (7.33%) Terraform
3 12 (6.28%) Kafka
4 11 (5.76%) .NET
5 10 (5.24%) RESTful
6 8 (4.19%) Node.js
7 6 (3.14%) PySpark
7 6 (3.14%) REST
8 5 (2.62%) Android Jetpack
8 5 (2.62%) Android SDK
8 5 (2.62%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.62%) Jetpack Compose
8 5 (2.62%) Retrofit
9 4 (2.09%) Middleware
10 3 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.57%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.57%) JWT
10 3 (1.57%) OAuth
10 3 (1.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.24%) Cloud Native
1 10 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.62%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.62%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.09%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.09%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.05%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.05%) IoT
5 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Linux
2 6 (3.14%) Windows
3 5 (2.62%) Android
4 4 (2.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (25.13%) Microservices
2 46 (24.08%) Agile
3 45 (23.56%) CI/CD
4 39 (20.42%) Software Engineering
5 34 (17.80%) Mentoring
5 34 (17.80%) Test Automation
6 33 (17.28%) DevOps
7 32 (16.75%) TDD
8 29 (15.18%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 22 (11.52%) Coaching
10 21 (10.99%) Scrum
11 19 (9.95%) Containerisation
12 18 (9.42%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (7.85%) Analytics
14 15 (7.85%) Data Engineering
14 15 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (7.33%) Event-Driven
16 13 (6.81%) Clean Code
17 12 (6.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.28%) Python
2 22 (11.52%) C#
3 19 (9.95%) SQL
4 16 (8.38%) JavaScript
5 11 (5.76%) C++
6 6 (3.14%) Bash
7 5 (2.62%) Go
7 5 (2.62%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.57%) Scala
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (19.37%) Security Cleared
2 31 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.66%) Degree
5 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.28%) QA
2 11 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.71%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.62%) WCAG
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (11.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.62%) Argo
3 3 (1.57%) Ansible
3 3 (1.57%) Control-M
3 3 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 8 (4.19%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.62%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.62%) Google
3 3 (1.57%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.57%) Oracle
3 3 (1.57%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.57%) VMware
4 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.52%) Actian
5 1 (0.52%) Databricks