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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 32 68
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 -43
Permanent jobs citing Java 110 39 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.99% 6.51% 2.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.07% 28.47% 9.47%
Number of salaries quoted 87 26 38
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,750 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% -14.54% +4.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,688 £71,991
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 457 137 507
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 20.72% 22.87% 26.24%
Number of salaries quoted 351 122 446
10th Percentile £33,750 £25,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,688 £41,281
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,053 £72,395 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -2 106 £52,315 +2.08% 31
Durham - 4 £75,000 - 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 4 (3.64%) Apache
1 4 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (3.64%) Jupyter
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.91%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.91%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.73%) AWS
2 24 (21.82%) Azure
3 12 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.45%) GitHub
5 5 (4.55%) GCP
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.64%) dbt
6 4 (3.64%) Firebase
6 4 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (3.64%) Google Play
6 4 (3.64%) PaaS
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.73%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.73%) SaaS
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) HTTP
1 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.18%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.27%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.64%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.64%) MySQL
5 2 (1.82%) Power BI
5 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.91%) Big Data
6 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.91%) Redis
6 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) GitLab
2 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.55%) JIRA
4 4 (3.64%) Android Studio
4 4 (3.64%) Crashlytics
4 4 (3.64%) fastlane
4 4 (3.64%) Git
4 4 (3.64%) Gradle
4 4 (3.64%) REST Assured
5 3 (2.73%) Postman
5 3 (2.73%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.82%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.82%) JMeter
6 2 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.91%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.91%) Maven
7 1 (0.91%) Selenium
General
1 30 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 15 (13.64%) Finance
3 9 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.64%) Social Skills
5 3 (2.73%) Legal
6 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 55 (50.00%) Developer
2 47 (42.73%) Java Developer
3 20 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 19 (17.27%) Senior
5 17 (15.45%) Software Engineer
6 15 (13.64%) Lead
7 11 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 10 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
8 10 (9.09%) Junior
8 10 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (8.18%) Test Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Lead Java Engineer
11 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.64%) Android Developer
12 4 (3.64%) Java Software Engineer
12 4 (3.64%) Software Developer
13 3 (2.73%) Lead Software Engineer
13 3 (2.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 3 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
13 3 (2.73%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.09%) RESTful
2 9 (8.18%) .NET
3 8 (7.27%) Spring
3 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.36%) Node.js
5 4 (3.64%) Android Jetpack
5 4 (3.64%) Android SDK
5 4 (3.64%) Jetpack Compose
5 4 (3.64%) Playwright
5 4 (3.64%) REST
5 4 (3.64%) Retrofit
6 3 (2.73%) .NET Core
6 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.73%) Kafka
6 3 (2.73%) React
7 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.82%) Spring MVC
7 2 (1.82%) Vue
8 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (0.91%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.45%) Cloud Native
1 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.64%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.64%) Client/Server
2 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.64%) Hedge funds
2 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
4 2 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.45%) Linux
2 5 (4.55%) Windows
3 4 (3.64%) Android
3 4 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.18%) Microservices
2 29 (26.36%) Agile
2 29 (26.36%) Test Automation
3 28 (25.45%) CI/CD
4 25 (22.73%) Software Engineering
5 24 (21.82%) Mentoring
6 21 (19.09%) DevOps
7 17 (15.45%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 14 (12.73%) Coaching
9 13 (11.82%) Scrum
10 12 (10.91%) TDD
11 10 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (8.18%) BDD
13 8 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (7.27%) Design Patterns
14 7 (6.36%) Clean Code
14 7 (6.36%) Computer Science
14 7 (6.36%) Containerisation
14 7 (6.36%) Continuous Integration
14 7 (6.36%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.36%) Python
2 17 (15.45%) SQL
3 15 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 11 (10.00%) C#
5 4 (3.64%) Bash
5 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
6 3 (2.73%) C++
7 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (6.36%) Degree
5 1 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.36%) QA
3 5 (4.55%) WCAG
4 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (7.27%) Docker
2 2 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (9.09%) Terraform
2 7 (6.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.73%) Argo
3 3 (2.73%) Grafana
4 2 (1.82%) Ansible
4 2 (1.82%) Control-M
4 2 (1.82%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 9 (8.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.55%) Google
3 4 (3.64%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.82%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.82%) VMware