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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 184 38 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.39% 4.01% 3.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.47% 28.36% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 141 23 23
10th Percentile £42,500 £12,800 £30,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £25,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -18.05% -10.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,500 £101,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.46%

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 752 134 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.05% 14.14% 33.85%
Number of salaries quoted 615 105 281
10th Percentile £41,550 £28,025 £34,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £87,000 £67,500 £68,113
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +1 178 £55,000 +15.79% 58
Durham - 6 £77,500 - 6
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 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.26%) Apache
2 6 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.26%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.63%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.54%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.20%) AWS
2 27 (14.67%) Azure
3 12 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (4.89%) GCP
4 9 (4.89%) GitHub
5 8 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (3.80%) Amazon S3
6 7 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (2.72%) Amazon ECR
8 5 (2.72%) Firebase
8 5 (2.72%) Google Play
8 5 (2.72%) Serverless
9 3 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.63%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.63%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (1.09%) Datadog
10 2 (1.09%) PaaS
10 2 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.09%) MQTT
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 8 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (3.26%) DynamoDB
2 6 (3.26%) Flink
2 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.63%) Big Data
3 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.63%) MySQL
3 3 (1.63%) Spark SQL
3 3 (1.63%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.09%) Power BI
4 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (6.52%) GitLab
2 10 (5.43%) Git
3 8 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.72%) Android Studio
4 5 (2.72%) Crashlytics
4 5 (2.72%) fastlane
4 5 (2.72%) Gradle
4 5 (2.72%) JIRA
4 5 (2.72%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.63%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.09%) Postman
6 2 (1.09%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.54%) JMeter
7 1 (0.54%) Locust
7 1 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 44 (23.91%) Public Sector
2 18 (9.78%) Finance
3 11 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.80%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.72%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.63%) Legal
8 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (54.35%) Developer
2 75 (40.76%) Java Developer
3 38 (20.65%) Senior
4 30 (16.30%) Java Engineer
5 26 (14.13%) Senior Developer
6 24 (13.04%) Software Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
7 16 (8.70%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.07%) Lead
9 12 (6.52%) Junior
10 9 (4.89%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Data Engineer
10 9 (4.89%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.72%) Android Developer
13 5 (2.72%) Senior Software Developer
14 4 (2.17%) Backend Developer
14 4 (2.17%) Lead Java Engineer
14 4 (2.17%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.61%) Terraform
2 12 (6.52%) .NET
3 9 (4.89%) RESTful
3 9 (4.89%) Spring
3 9 (4.89%) Spring Boot
4 8 (4.35%) Kafka
4 8 (4.35%) Node.js
5 6 (3.26%) PySpark
6 5 (2.72%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (2.72%) Android SDK
6 5 (2.72%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (2.72%) Retrofit
7 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.63%) Middleware
8 3 (1.63%) React
8 3 (1.63%) REST
9 2 (1.09%) OAuth
9 2 (1.09%) Spring MVC
9 2 (1.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (3.80%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.72%) Algorithms
3 5 (2.72%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.72%) Hedge funds
3 5 (2.72%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.63%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.09%) IoT
6 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.09%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.35%) Linux
2 6 (3.26%) Windows
3 5 (2.72%) Android
4 4 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (22.28%) Microservices
2 39 (21.20%) Agile
2 39 (21.20%) CI/CD
3 35 (19.02%) Software Engineering
4 31 (16.85%) Mentoring
5 30 (16.30%) Test Automation
6 29 (15.76%) DevOps
7 26 (14.13%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 25 (13.59%) TDD
9 19 (10.33%) Coaching
10 17 (9.24%) Scrum
11 16 (8.70%) Containerisation
11 16 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 14 (7.61%) Analytics
12 14 (7.61%) Data Engineering
12 14 (7.61%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (7.07%) Design Patterns
14 12 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
14 12 (6.52%) Event-Driven
14 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.93%) Python
2 22 (11.96%) C#
3 18 (9.78%) JavaScript
4 17 (9.24%) SQL
5 9 (4.89%) C++
6 6 (3.26%) Bash
7 5 (2.72%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.17%) Go
8 4 (2.17%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.63%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (0.54%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) QA
2 10 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.26%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (8.70%) Docker
2 3 (1.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.17%) Argo
2 4 (2.17%) Grafana
3 3 (1.63%) Ansible
3 3 (1.63%) Control-M
3 3 (1.63%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (0.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (4.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.72%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.72%) Google
3 3 (1.63%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.63%) VMware
4 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.54%) Databricks