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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 33 63
Rank change year-on-year -12 +30 -37
Permanent jobs citing Java 60 37 54
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.40% 6.74% 2.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.13% 22.16% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 44 28 43
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,315 £55,750 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% -14.84% +4.74%
75th Percentile £61,250 £69,063 £71,991
90th Percentile £74,996 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%

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 331 167 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.74% 30.42% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 231 148 428
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,105 £32,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,632 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £77,500
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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -17 54 £47,500 -13.64% 35
Durham -9 6 £70,079 +86.88% 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 1 (1.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (1.67%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.00%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) dbt
3 5 (8.33%) PaaS
4 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) GCP
4 4 (6.67%) SaaS
5 2 (3.33%) Datadog
5 2 (3.33%) GitHub
5 2 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.33%) Serverless
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.67%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) HTTP
1 1 (1.67%) SAN
1 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) GitLab
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
1 4 (6.67%) REST Assured
2 3 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) JMeter
2 3 (5.00%) Postman
3 2 (3.33%) Locust
3 2 (3.33%) Selenium
3 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.67%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.67%) Gatling
4 1 (1.67%) JUnit
4 1 (1.67%) Maven
4 1 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.33%) Finance
3 4 (6.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) Java Engineer
3 15 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
5 13 (21.67%) Lead
6 10 (16.67%) Senior
7 6 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Junior
7 6 (10.00%) Lead Java Engineer
8 5 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Software Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Test Engineer
9 4 (6.67%) Test Leader
10 2 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 1 (1.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Spring
1 8 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 6 (10.00%) .NET
3 4 (6.67%) Playwright
3 4 (6.67%) REST
3 4 (6.67%) RESTful
4 3 (5.00%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.00%) Kafka
4 3 (5.00%) Node.js
5 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.33%) Django
5 2 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.33%) Gherkin
5 2 (3.33%) React
5 2 (3.33%) Vue
6 1 (1.67%) EJB
6 1 (1.67%) Flask
6 1 (1.67%) JDBC
6 1 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (5.00%) Client/Server
1 3 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (5.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Culture of Ownership
3 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Unix
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Software Engineering
2 17 (28.33%) Test Automation
3 16 (26.67%) Agile
3 16 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 13 (21.67%) Microservices
5 12 (20.00%) DevOps
5 12 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 11 (18.33%) BDD
7 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.67%) Design Patterns
9 6 (10.00%) Event-Driven
9 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.00%) Test Strategy
10 5 (8.33%) Computer Science
10 5 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 5 (8.33%) Scrum
10 5 (8.33%) TDD
11 4 (6.67%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (6.67%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 14 (23.33%) Python
2 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 8 (13.33%) SQL
3 7 (11.67%) C#
4 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.67%) C++
5 1 (1.67%) Delphi
5 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.00%) QA
3 2 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.33%) Terraform
3 4 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (1.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.67%) Argo
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Copilot
4 1 (1.67%) Control-M
4 1 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.67%) Google
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle
2 1 (1.67%) VMware