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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -31
Permanent jobs citing Java 185 34 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.29% 3.52% 3.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.73% 25.95% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 142 22 23
10th Percentile £42,500 £11,400 £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 £68,625 £101,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 748 131 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.38% 13.58% 34.76%
Number of salaries quoted 617 102 268
10th Percentile £41,700 £27,913 £34,525
25th Percentile £46,500 £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 £65,000 £68,534
90th Percentile £100,000 £79,900 £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 30 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 30 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 +8 179 £55,000 +15.79% 64
Durham - 6 £80,000 - 3
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 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.24%) Apache
2 6 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.24%) Jupyter
3 5 (2.70%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.54%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.70%) AWS
2 26 (14.05%) Azure
3 10 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (5.41%) GitHub
4 9 (4.86%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (4.86%) GCP
5 8 (4.32%) Amazon EMR
5 8 (4.32%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (3.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (2.70%) Amazon ECR
7 5 (2.70%) Firebase
7 5 (2.70%) Google Play
7 5 (2.70%) Serverless
8 3 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.62%) Azure AKS
8 3 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.08%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) MQTT
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
2 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.86%) MongoDB
2 8 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (3.24%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.24%) Flink
3 6 (3.24%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.62%) Big Data
4 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
4 3 (1.62%) MySQL
4 3 (1.62%) Spark SQL
4 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.08%) Power BI
5 2 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (7.03%) GitLab
2 10 (5.41%) Git
3 9 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.24%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.70%) Android Studio
5 5 (2.70%) Crashlytics
5 5 (2.70%) fastlane
5 5 (2.70%) Gradle
6 3 (1.62%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.62%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.62%) JIRA
6 3 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.62%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.08%) Gatling
8 1 (0.54%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.54%) Maven
General
1 44 (23.78%) Public Sector
2 19 (10.27%) Finance
3 11 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.78%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.62%) Legal
8 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.54%) Law
9 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 101 (54.59%) Developer
2 75 (40.54%) Java Developer
3 40 (21.62%) Senior
4 31 (16.76%) Java Engineer
5 27 (14.59%) Senior Developer
6 26 (14.05%) Software Engineer
7 16 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 16 (8.65%) Software Developer
8 12 (6.49%) Junior
8 12 (6.49%) Lead
9 9 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (4.32%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.78%) Senior Java Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) Android Developer
13 5 (2.70%) Backend Developer
13 5 (2.70%) Lead Test Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) Senior Backend Developer
13 5 (2.70%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.57%) Terraform
2 12 (6.49%) .NET
2 12 (6.49%) Spring
2 12 (6.49%) Spring Boot
3 9 (4.86%) Kafka
3 9 (4.86%) RESTful
4 8 (4.32%) Node.js
5 6 (3.24%) PySpark
6 5 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (2.70%) Android SDK
6 5 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (2.70%) Retrofit
7 4 (2.16%) Middleware
7 4 (2.16%) REST
8 3 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.62%) JWT
8 3 (1.62%) OAuth
8 3 (1.62%) React
9 2 (1.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.70%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.70%) Hedge funds
4 5 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.62%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.62%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) IoT
7 2 (1.08%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.32%) Linux
2 6 (3.24%) Windows
3 5 (2.70%) Android
4 4 (2.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.32%) Microservices
2 41 (22.16%) Agile
2 41 (22.16%) CI/CD
3 37 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 32 (17.30%) Mentoring
5 31 (16.76%) Test Automation
6 30 (16.22%) DevOps
7 28 (15.14%) TDD
8 27 (14.59%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 21 (11.35%) Coaching
10 18 (9.73%) Containerisation
10 18 (9.73%) Scrum
11 17 (9.19%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (7.57%) Analytics
13 14 (7.57%) Data Engineering
14 13 (7.03%) Event-Driven
15 12 (6.49%) Clean Code
15 12 (6.49%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 33 (17.84%) Python
2 23 (12.43%) C#
3 17 (9.19%) SQL
4 16 (8.65%) JavaScript
5 10 (5.41%) C++
6 6 (3.24%) Bash
7 5 (2.70%) Go
7 5 (2.70%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.16%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.62%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.62%) Scala
10 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 34 (18.38%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.32%) 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 (6.49%) QA
2 10 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.86%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.70%) WCAG
5 1 (0.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (10.27%) Docker
2 3 (1.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.70%) Argo
3 3 (1.62%) Ansible
3 3 (1.62%) Control-M
3 3 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.62%) Grafana
4 1 (0.54%) logstash
Vendors
1 9 (4.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.70%) Dynatrace
2 5 (2.70%) Google
3 3 (1.62%) Atlassian
3 3 (1.62%) Red Hat
3 3 (1.62%) VMware
4 2 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.54%) Databricks
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle