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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 52 31
Rank change year-on-year +14 -21 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 38 43 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 4.03% 3.03% 6.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.36% 8.98% 19.71%
Number of salaries quoted 23 23 37
10th Percentile £12,800 £30,750 £48,088
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,965 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -10.82% +18.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £68,500 £101,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%

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 134 479 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 14.19% 33.80% 32.45%
Number of salaries quoted 105 281 175
10th Percentile £28,025 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,113 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +17 38 £47,500 -19.47% 21
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (7.89%) Apache Spark
1 3 (7.89%) SAS
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 21 (55.26%) AWS
1 21 (55.26%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) GCP
3 6 (15.79%) GitHub
4 5 (13.16%) SaaS
5 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) PuTTY
1 3 (7.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (21.05%) MySQL
3 3 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (7.89%) Apache Hive
3 3 (7.89%) BigQuery
3 3 (7.89%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.89%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.89%) HBase
3 3 (7.89%) Impala
3 3 (7.89%) Metadata
3 3 (7.89%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.89%) Power BI
3 3 (7.89%) Qlik Sense
3 3 (7.89%) QlikView
3 3 (7.89%) Spark SQL
3 3 (7.89%) SQLite
3 3 (7.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) SonarQube
2 6 (15.79%) Bitbucket
2 6 (15.79%) JIRA
3 4 (10.53%) Artifactory
3 4 (10.53%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) GitLab
3 4 (10.53%) Maven
3 4 (10.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
4 3 (7.89%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (7.89%) Selenium
4 3 (7.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Games
4 3 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.26%) Back Office
5 2 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.26%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 13 (34.21%) Senior
3 11 (28.95%) Developer
3 11 (28.95%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Java Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Graduate
5 4 (10.53%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (10.53%) IT Graduate
5 4 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) C# Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Java Scala Developer
7 2 (5.26%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (28.95%) .NET
2 8 (21.05%) CSS
3 7 (18.42%) AngularJS
3 7 (18.42%) Spring
3 7 (18.42%) Spring Boot
4 6 (15.79%) Kafka
5 5 (13.16%) HTML
5 5 (13.16%) React
6 4 (10.53%) ASP.NET
6 4 (10.53%) jQuery
7 3 (7.89%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (7.89%) CSS3
7 3 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (7.89%) HTML5
7 3 (7.89%) JPA
7 3 (7.89%) PySpark
7 3 (7.89%) Redux
7 3 (7.89%) Regular Expression
7 3 (7.89%) REST
7 3 (7.89%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Greenfield Project
1 7 (18.42%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (7.89%) Online Games
2 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Derivative
4 1 (2.63%) Equities
4 1 (2.63%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Unix
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Agile
2 23 (60.53%) Software Engineering
3 16 (42.11%) DevOps
4 10 (26.32%) Computer Science
4 10 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (23.68%) Mentoring
5 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (23.68%) User Experience
6 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
6 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
6 7 (18.42%) Fintech
6 7 (18.42%) OOP
7 6 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.16%) Machine Learning
8 5 (13.16%) OO
8 5 (13.16%) Test Automation
9 4 (10.53%) Data Analysis
9 4 (10.53%) MVC
9 4 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (50.00%) Python
2 17 (44.74%) C#
3 13 (34.21%) TypeScript
4 10 (26.32%) SQL
5 7 (18.42%) C++
5 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
6 5 (13.16%) PHP
7 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
7 4 (10.53%) R
8 3 (7.89%) Bash
8 3 (7.89%) C
8 3 (7.89%) PROC SQL
9 2 (5.26%) Kotlin
9 2 (5.26%) Scala
10 1 (2.63%) Dart
10 1 (2.63%) MATLAB
10 1 (2.63%) Ruby
10 1 (2.63%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 10 (26.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.89%) AWS Certification
3 3 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.26%) ISO 9001
3 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Flume
2 3 (7.89%) HDFS
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
3 3 (7.89%) Control-M
3 3 (7.89%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (7.89%) Grafana
3 3 (7.89%) Kibana
3 3 (7.89%) logstash
3 3 (7.89%) Oozie
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) Atlassian
2 3 (7.89%) Databricks
2 3 (7.89%) Google
2 3 (7.89%) Informatica
2 3 (7.89%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (7.89%) SAP
2 3 (7.89%) Solace
2 3 (7.89%) VMware
3 1 (2.63%) Capita