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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 -28
Permanent jobs citing Java 191 31 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.29% 3.16% 3.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.84% 23.31% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 147 20 22
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 £69,375 £65,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £87,133 £69,250 £101,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 769 133 465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.31% 13.57% 34.88%
Number of salaries quoted 640 102 252
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,250 £34,775
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 £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 14 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 14 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 +7 184 £55,000 +7.32% 76
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 11 (5.76%) WebLogic
2 10 (5.24%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.14%) Apache
3 6 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (3.14%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
Cloud Services
1 47 (24.61%) AWS
2 25 (13.09%) Azure
3 11 (5.76%) GitHub
4 10 (5.24%) Amazon S3
4 10 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (4.71%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.19%) Amazon EMR
7 7 (3.66%) GCP
8 6 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.62%) Firebase
9 5 (2.62%) Google Play
9 5 (2.62%) Serverless
10 4 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.09%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (1.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) MQTT
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (5.76%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.14%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.14%) Flink
3 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.09%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.09%) MySQL
5 3 (1.57%) Big Data
5 3 (1.57%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.57%) Spark SQL
5 3 (1.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.05%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.52%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (7.33%) GitLab
2 11 (5.76%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.24%) Git
4 6 (3.14%) JUnit
4 6 (3.14%) Mockito
4 6 (3.14%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.62%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.62%) Crashlytics
5 5 (2.62%) fastlane
5 5 (2.62%) Gradle
6 4 (2.09%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.09%) Gatling
7 3 (1.57%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.57%) JIRA
7 3 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.57%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (24.08%) Public Sector
2 22 (11.52%) Finance
3 14 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (4.71%) Social Skills
5 8 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.62%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.57%) Legal
8 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Law
9 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (53.40%) Developer
2 75 (39.27%) Java Developer
3 44 (23.04%) Senior
4 38 (19.90%) Java Engineer
5 29 (15.18%) Software Engineer
6 28 (14.66%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Senior Java Developer
7 15 (7.85%) Software Developer
8 13 (6.81%) Lead
9 11 (5.76%) Junior
9 11 (5.76%) Senior Java Engineer
10 10 (5.24%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.19%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Backend Developer
12 7 (3.66%) Java Software Engineer
12 7 (3.66%) Senior Backend Developer
13 6 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
14 5 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.62%) Junior Developer
14 5 (2.62%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.95%) Spring
1 19 (9.95%) Spring Boot
2 16 (8.38%) Kafka
3 13 (6.81%) Terraform
4 11 (5.76%) .NET
5 10 (5.24%) RESTful
6 9 (4.71%) REST
7 7 (3.66%) Node.js
8 6 (3.14%) PySpark
9 5 (2.62%) Android Jetpack
9 5 (2.62%) Android SDK
9 5 (2.62%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.62%) Jetpack Compose
9 5 (2.62%) Retrofit
10 4 (2.09%) Gherkin
10 4 (2.09%) Middleware
11 3 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.57%) JWT
11 3 (1.57%) OAuth
11 3 (1.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.62%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.57%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) IoT
8 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.52%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.66%) Linux
2 5 (2.62%) Android
2 5 (2.62%) Windows
3 3 (1.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.23%) Microservices
2 50 (26.18%) Agile
3 48 (25.13%) CI/CD
4 39 (20.42%) Software Engineering
5 37 (19.37%) DevOps
5 37 (19.37%) TDD
6 35 (18.32%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 34 (17.80%) Test Automation
8 33 (17.28%) Mentoring
9 25 (13.09%) Scrum
10 21 (10.99%) Coaching
11 20 (10.47%) Containerisation
12 17 (8.90%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (7.85%) Analytics
13 15 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (7.85%) Data Engineering
13 15 (7.85%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (7.33%) Clean Code
14 14 (7.33%) Event-Driven
15 12 (6.28%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 34 (17.80%) Python
2 24 (12.57%) C#
3 17 (8.90%) SQL
4 15 (7.85%) JavaScript
5 12 (6.28%) C++
6 7 (3.66%) Go
7 6 (3.14%) Bash
8 5 (2.62%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.09%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.57%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.52%) Perl
11 1 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 39 (20.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.66%) Degree
5 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
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 27 (14.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (12.57%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.09%) 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 7 (3.66%) Oracle
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.62%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.62%) Google
4 3 (1.57%) Atlassian
4 3 (1.57%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.57%) VMware
5 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.52%) Actian
6 1 (0.52%) Databricks