Java Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Java Engineer
England > North of England

The median Java Engineer salary in the North of England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 303 346
Rank change year-on-year +27 +43 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 32 90 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.29% 0.52% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.55% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 22 68 58
10th Percentile £30,700 £48,750 £43,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £55,000 £46,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +2.69% +10.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £89,550 £108,750 £95,375
England median annual salary £107,500 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% -22.22% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the North of England

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the North of England

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the North of England

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West -9 23 £65,000 -0.36% 77
Yorkshire +63 6 £35,000 -46.54% 58
North East +46 3 £65,000 -0.71% 22
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (81.25%) Software Engineering
3 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 11 (34.38%) DevOps
4 10 (31.25%) Design Patterns
4 10 (31.25%) OO
4 10 (31.25%) Spring
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) TDD
5 9 (28.13%) Dependency Injection
6 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (25.00%) SDLC
6 8 (25.00%) CSS
6 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (25.00%) HTML
6 8 (25.00%) Customer Service
7 7 (21.88%) Law
7 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
7 7 (21.88%) OOD
7 7 (21.88%) Degree
7 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
7 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
7 7 (21.88%) Git
8 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
8 6 (18.75%) AWS
8 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 6 (18.75%) Coaching
8 6 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (18.75%) Public Sector

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (9.38%) GemFire
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) IIS
4 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
1 6 (18.75%) IBM Cloud
2 4 (12.50%) SaaS
3 2 (6.25%) Azure
4 1 (3.13%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
3 4 (12.50%) MySQL
4 3 (9.38%) Apache Ignite
4 3 (9.38%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.38%) RDBMS
4 3 (9.38%) Redis
5 1 (3.13%) KDB
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) Maven
3 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 7 (21.88%) Law
3 6 (18.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 5 (15.63%) Online Betting
4 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Cantonese Language
5 2 (6.25%) Front Office
5 2 (6.25%) Games
5 2 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (31.25%) Spring
2 8 (25.00%) CSS
2 8 (25.00%) HTML
3 6 (18.75%) XML
4 5 (15.63%) React
5 4 (12.50%) Kafka
5 4 (12.50%) Middleware
6 3 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (6.25%) jQuery
7 2 (6.25%) React Native
7 2 (6.25%) REST
7 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 1 (3.13%) FIX Protocol
8 1 (3.13%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Blockchain
1 6 (18.75%) e-Learning
1 6 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
3 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (9.38%) Derivative
3 3 (9.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.25%) Credit Derivative
4 2 (6.25%) Equities
4 2 (6.25%) Fixed Income
4 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.25%) Online Games
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
2 1 (3.13%) Solaris
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 11 (34.38%) DevOps
3 10 (31.25%) Design Patterns
3 10 (31.25%) OO
4 9 (28.13%) Agile
4 9 (28.13%) Dependency Injection
4 9 (28.13%) TDD
5 8 (25.00%) Customer Service
5 8 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 8 (25.00%) SDLC
6 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 7 (21.88%) OOD
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (18.75%) Coaching
7 6 (18.75%) Microservices
7 6 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (18.75%) SOLID
8 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) C#
4 2 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Grafana
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Red Hat
2 6 (18.75%) IBM
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Solace
3 4 (12.50%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
4 1 (3.13%) Revolut