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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 47 48
Rank change year-on-year +15 +1 -24
Permanent jobs citing Java 188 31 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.18% 3.17% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.51% 22.96% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 146 20 22
10th Percentile £45,000 £10,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £45,304 £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 £73,750 £65,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £87,302 £69,250 £101,750
England median annual salary £71,371 £78,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% -2.50% +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 767 135 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.15% 13.79% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 644 102 249
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,250 £34,950
25th Percentile £47,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,000 £65,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,661 £81,000
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 16 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 16 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 +14 181 £55,000 +7.32% 23
Durham - 7 £80,000 -
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 (5.32%) Apache Spark
1 10 (5.32%) WebLogic
2 6 (3.19%) Apache
2 6 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.19%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 45 (23.94%) AWS
2 25 (13.30%) Azure
3 11 (5.85%) GitHub
4 10 (5.32%) Amazon S3
4 10 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.72%) GCP
8 6 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.66%) Firebase
9 5 (2.66%) Google Play
10 4 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.13%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.13%) Serverless
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) MQTT
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.85%) MongoDB
2 9 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.19%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.19%) Flink
4 5 (2.66%) Data Lake
4 5 (2.66%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.13%) MySQL
5 4 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.60%) Big Data
6 3 (1.60%) Spark SQL
6 3 (1.60%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.53%) Power BI
7 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (6.91%) GitLab
2 10 (5.32%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.79%) Git
4 6 (3.19%) JUnit
4 6 (3.19%) Mockito
5 5 (2.66%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.66%) Crashlytics
5 5 (2.66%) fastlane
5 5 (2.66%) Gradle
5 5 (2.66%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.13%) Gatling
7 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.60%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.60%) JIRA
7 3 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (24.47%) Public Sector
2 21 (11.17%) Finance
3 15 (7.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (5.32%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.66%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.60%) Legal
8 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (53.72%) Developer
2 74 (39.36%) Java Developer
3 44 (23.40%) Senior
4 36 (19.15%) Java Engineer
5 29 (15.43%) Software Engineer
6 28 (14.89%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.98%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (7.98%) Software Developer
8 13 (6.91%) Lead
9 11 (5.85%) Data Engineer
9 11 (5.85%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Junior
11 8 (4.26%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.72%) Senior Backend Developer
13 5 (2.66%) Automation Engineer
13 5 (2.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.66%) Junior Developer
13 5 (2.66%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.04%) Spring
1 17 (9.04%) Spring Boot
2 16 (8.51%) Kafka
3 13 (6.91%) Terraform
4 10 (5.32%) .NET
5 9 (4.79%) REST
5 9 (4.79%) RESTful
6 6 (3.19%) Node.js
6 6 (3.19%) PySpark
7 5 (2.66%) Android Jetpack
7 5 (2.66%) Android SDK
7 5 (2.66%) Jetpack Compose
7 5 (2.66%) Retrofit
8 4 (2.13%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.13%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.60%) JWT
9 3 (1.60%) Middleware
9 3 (1.60%) OAuth
10 2 (1.06%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.66%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.66%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.60%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.06%) IoT
8 1 (0.53%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.72%) Linux
2 5 (2.66%) Android
2 5 (2.66%) Windows
3 3 (1.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (27.13%) Microservices
2 49 (26.06%) Agile
3 46 (24.47%) CI/CD
4 38 (20.21%) Software Engineering
5 36 (19.15%) DevOps
5 36 (19.15%) TDD
6 35 (18.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 33 (17.55%) Test Automation
8 32 (17.02%) Mentoring
9 24 (12.77%) Scrum
10 21 (11.17%) Coaching
11 18 (9.57%) Containerisation
12 17 (9.04%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (8.51%) Analytics
13 16 (8.51%) Data Engineering
14 15 (7.98%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.91%) Clean Code
16 13 (6.91%) Event-Driven
16 13 (6.91%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.55%) Python
2 23 (12.23%) C#
3 18 (9.57%) SQL
4 14 (7.45%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.38%) C++
6 7 (3.72%) Go
7 6 (3.19%) Bash
8 5 (2.66%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.60%) Scala
9 3 (1.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) Perl
10 1 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 34 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.72%) Degree
5 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.85%) QA
3 9 (4.79%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.66%) WCAG
5 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (13.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (12.23%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.13%) Argo
3 3 (1.60%) Ansible
3 3 (1.60%) Control-M
3 3 (1.60%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.60%) Grafana
4 1 (0.53%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (3.72%) Oracle
2 5 (2.66%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.66%) Google
2 5 (2.66%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.60%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.60%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.60%) VMware
4 2 (1.06%) Actian
4 2 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.53%) Databricks