Java Developer Job Trends in the North of England

Java Developer
England > North of England

The median Java Developer salary in the North of England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 240 288
Rank change year-on-year +69 +48 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 163 21 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.92% 0.30% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.33% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 107 16 70
10th Percentile £45,000 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,063 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £84,375 £100,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -7.81% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 16,209 6,304 15,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 90.68% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 10,445 3,814 12,514
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,716 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,100 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the North of England

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the North of England

Java Developer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Yorkshire +19 87 £75,000 +68.54% 8
North West +16 59 £67,500 - 6
North East -24 17 £45,000 - 12
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 21 April 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 163 (100.00%) Java
2 89 (54.60%) AWS
3 82 (50.31%) CI/CD
4 71 (43.56%) DevOps
5 68 (41.72%) Serverless
6 65 (39.88%) Agile
6 65 (39.88%) Docker
6 65 (39.88%) Spring Boot
7 61 (37.42%) Amazon ECS
8 60 (36.81%) AngularJS
9 59 (36.20%) Amazon S3
10 57 (34.97%) AWS Lambda
10 57 (34.97%) Jenkins
11 53 (32.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 50 (30.67%) DynamoDB
13 45 (27.61%) AWS Step Functions
14 44 (26.99%) TypeScript
15 41 (25.15%) Full-Stack Development
16 40 (24.54%) SQL
17 39 (23.93%) Spring
18 35 (21.47%) Git
18 35 (21.47%) Node.js
19 32 (19.63%) GitLab
19 32 (19.63%) SDLC
19 32 (19.63%) SonarQube
20 30 (18.40%) Groovy
20 30 (18.40%) Microservices
21 29 (17.79%) Maven
22 28 (17.18%) Amazon ECR
22 28 (17.18%) Apigee

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (4.91%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.84%) JBoss
3 2 (1.23%) CICS
4 1 (0.61%) Confluence
4 1 (0.61%) PegaRULES
4 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.61%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 89 (54.60%) AWS
2 68 (41.72%) Serverless
3 61 (37.42%) Amazon ECS
4 59 (36.20%) Amazon S3
5 57 (34.97%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (32.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (27.61%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (17.18%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (17.18%) Apigee
9 27 (16.56%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (13.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (13.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 19 (11.66%) GitHub
12 13 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (7.36%) Azure
14 8 (4.91%) Datadog
14 8 (4.91%) GCP
14 8 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.84%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (30.67%) DynamoDB
2 26 (15.95%) NoSQL
3 22 (13.50%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (8.59%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.75%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.45%) MySQL
7 2 (1.23%) DB2
7 2 (1.23%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (34.97%) Jenkins
2 35 (21.47%) Git
3 32 (19.63%) GitLab
3 32 (19.63%) SonarQube
4 29 (17.79%) Maven
5 28 (17.18%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.91%) JIRA
7 4 (2.45%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.45%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.84%) IntelliJ
9 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.23%) Selenium
10 1 (0.61%) JUnit
General
1 15 (9.20%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.36%) Finance
3 6 (3.68%) Banking
4 5 (3.07%) Advertising
4 5 (3.07%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.84%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.23%) Games
7 1 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (39.88%) Spring Boot
2 60 (36.81%) AngularJS
3 39 (23.93%) Spring
4 35 (21.47%) Node.js
5 28 (17.18%) Gherkin
5 28 (17.18%) Jest
6 19 (11.66%) React
7 15 (9.20%) REST
8 12 (7.36%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (6.75%) RESTful
10 10 (6.13%) Kafka
11 9 (5.52%) Web Services
12 7 (4.29%) CSS
12 7 (4.29%) Hibernate
12 7 (4.29%) HTML
12 7 (4.29%) Mustache
13 5 (3.07%) Vue
14 4 (2.45%) J2EE
14 4 (2.45%) JPA
14 4 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (1.23%) Mainframe
2 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.23%) Sports Betting
3 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (50.31%) CI/CD
2 71 (43.56%) DevOps
3 65 (39.88%) Agile
4 41 (25.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 32 (19.63%) SDLC
6 30 (18.40%) Microservices
7 28 (17.18%) Clean Code
8 22 (13.50%) ITIL
8 22 (13.50%) Secure Coding
8 22 (13.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 21 (12.88%) Scrum
9 21 (12.88%) TDD
10 17 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (10.43%) DevSecOps
11 16 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (7.98%) Containerisation
12 13 (7.98%) Prototyping
12 13 (7.98%) Software Engineering
13 10 (6.13%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (6.13%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 163 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (26.99%) TypeScript
3 40 (24.54%) SQL
4 30 (18.40%) Groovy
5 28 (17.18%) Bash
6 26 (15.95%) Kotlin
7 23 (14.11%) JavaScript
8 11 (6.75%) Python
9 5 (3.07%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.84%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (16.56%) AWS Certification
2 25 (15.34%) Security Cleared
3 22 (13.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.50%) ITIL Certification
3 22 (13.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.84%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.45%) QA
System Software
1 65 (39.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (17.18%) HP Fortify
2 22 (13.50%) Kubernetes
3 9 (5.52%) Terraform
4 7 (4.29%) Ansible
5 2 (1.23%) Kibana
5 2 (1.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (3.07%) IBM
2 4 (2.45%) AppDynamics
2 4 (2.45%) Oracle
2 4 (2.45%) Pega
3 1 (0.61%) Cognos
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.61%) Veracode
3 1 (0.61%) VMware
3 1 (0.61%) WSO2