Java Job Trends in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 55 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 -16 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 362 299 696
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.59% 4.32% 4.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.85% 14.56% 15.33%
Number of salaries quoted 254 206 519
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,298 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,188 £93,458 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -7.22%

All Programming Languages
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,148 2,054 4,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.34% 29.67% 31.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,621 1,436 3,891
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,870 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,863 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Java job vacancy trend in the North of England

Java
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in the North of England

Java
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 March 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 +8 180 £70,000 +3.70% 58
North West -26 157 £70,000 +7.69% 78
North East -27 25 £52,500 -7.89% 32
Java
England

Java
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 11 (3.04%) Apache Spark
1 11 (3.04%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.49%) Apache
3 5 (1.38%) JBoss
4 4 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.83%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.55%) CICS
6 2 (0.55%) Mule
6 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) IIS
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 205 (56.63%) AWS
2 99 (27.35%) Serverless
3 91 (25.14%) Azure
4 63 (17.40%) Amazon ECS
5 57 (15.75%) Amazon S3
5 57 (15.75%) AWS Lambda
6 56 (15.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (12.43%) AWS Step Functions
8 34 (9.39%) Amazon ECR
9 33 (9.12%) Apigee
10 32 (8.84%) GCP
11 23 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (6.08%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (5.25%) GitHub
14 18 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (4.97%) SaaS
15 17 (4.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (3.04%) dbt
17 10 (2.76%) OpenShift
18 8 (2.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.93%) Broadband
2 4 (1.10%) AMQP
3 3 (0.83%) HTTP
3 3 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.55%) SAN
4 2 (0.55%) SSH
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) TCAP
5 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.36%) DynamoDB
2 39 (10.77%) NoSQL
3 36 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.63%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.14%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (4.14%) MySQL
7 10 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.93%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.93%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.66%) Big Data
10 5 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.10%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.10%) Neo4j
11 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.83%) GIS
Development Applications
1 68 (18.78%) Jenkins
2 43 (11.88%) GitLab
3 40 (11.05%) Git
4 36 (9.94%) SonarQube
5 35 (9.67%) Cypress.io
6 33 (9.12%) Maven
7 11 (3.04%) JIRA
8 7 (1.93%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.66%) JUnit
9 6 (1.66%) Selenium
10 5 (1.38%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.10%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.83%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.83%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.55%) JMeter
13 2 (0.55%) Locust
13 2 (0.55%) Postman
13 2 (0.55%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.55%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (17.96%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.26%) Finance
3 28 (7.73%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.97%) Games
5 16 (4.42%) Retail
6 15 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.76%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (2.49%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.21%) Banking
11 5 (1.38%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.10%) Marketing
13 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Advertising
14 2 (0.55%) Billing
14 2 (0.55%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.28%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (43.09%) Developer
2 120 (33.15%) Java Developer
3 88 (24.31%) Software Engineer
4 65 (17.96%) Senior
5 55 (15.19%) Lead
6 45 (12.43%) Java Engineer
7 31 (8.56%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (8.29%) Senior Developer
9 29 (8.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 26 (7.18%) Architect
11 25 (6.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 25 (6.91%) Software Developer
12 23 (6.35%) Senior Java Developer
13 19 (5.25%) Lead Software Engineer
14 17 (4.70%) Junior
15 16 (4.42%) Applications Developer
15 16 (4.42%) AWS Developer
16 15 (4.14%) Senior Java Engineer
16 15 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
17 12 (3.31%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (26.80%) Spring Boot
2 82 (22.65%) Spring
3 76 (20.99%) AngularJS
4 58 (16.02%) Node.js
5 43 (11.88%) React
6 34 (9.39%) Gherkin
6 34 (9.39%) Jest
7 33 (9.12%) .NET
7 33 (9.12%) RESTful
8 32 (8.84%) REST
9 22 (6.08%) Kafka
10 14 (3.87%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.87%) Web Services
11 13 (3.59%) Hibernate
12 12 (3.31%) CSS
13 11 (3.04%) HTML
14 10 (2.76%) Micronaut
15 8 (2.21%) GraphQL
15 8 (2.21%) XML
16 7 (1.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (6.91%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (6.63%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.87%) Mobile App
5 11 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.21%) Driving Licence
6 8 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.93%) Social Media
8 5 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.38%) IoT
8 5 (1.38%) Legacy Code
9 3 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.83%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.83%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.55%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.55%) DataPower
10 2 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.91%) Linux
2 9 (2.49%) Android
3 5 (1.38%) Windows
4 4 (1.10%) CentOS
4 4 (1.10%) Debian
4 4 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.10%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.83%) Unix
6 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.28%) SUSE
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (43.09%) Agile
2 140 (38.67%) CI/CD
3 127 (35.08%) Software Engineering
4 113 (31.22%) DevOps
5 94 (25.97%) Microservices
6 75 (20.72%) Mentoring
7 67 (18.51%) Full-Stack Development
8 57 (15.75%) TDD
9 51 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (13.81%) Scrum
11 44 (12.15%) SDLC
11 44 (12.15%) Test Automation
12 42 (11.60%) AI
12 42 (11.60%) Computer Science
13 39 (10.77%) Containerisation
14 36 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (9.12%) BDD
15 33 (9.12%) Open Source
16 31 (8.56%) Architectural Patterns
16 31 (8.56%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 97 (26.80%) Python
2 93 (25.69%) JavaScript
3 83 (22.93%) TypeScript
4 81 (22.38%) SQL
5 47 (12.98%) C#
6 37 (10.22%) Kotlin
7 32 (8.84%) Bash
7 32 (8.84%) Groovy
8 13 (3.59%) C
8 13 (3.59%) Go
8 13 (3.59%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.49%) C++
10 7 (1.93%) Scala
11 4 (1.10%) Ruby
12 3 (0.83%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.83%) R
13 2 (0.55%) PHP
14 1 (0.28%) ABAP
14 1 (0.28%) Delphi
14 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (12.43%) AWS Certification
2 42 (11.60%) Degree
3 37 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (7.46%) Security Cleared
5 23 (6.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (5.80%) Azure Certification
6 21 (5.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (5.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 17 (4.70%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (3.31%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.21%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.55%) PhD
13 1 (0.28%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.28%) MBA
13 1 (0.28%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.25%) QA
2 5 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.83%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.55%) GDPR
4 2 (0.55%) WCAG
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 95 (26.24%) Docker
2 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.55%) vSphere
3 1 (0.28%) Squid
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 57 (15.75%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.84%) HP Fortify
3 29 (8.01%) Terraform
4 17 (4.70%) Ansible
5 7 (1.93%) Grafana
6 4 (1.10%) Puppet
7 3 (0.83%) Rancher
8 2 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.55%) Control-M
8 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.55%) Packer
8 2 (0.55%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.28%) Kibana
9 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (6.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.59%) Google
3 10 (2.76%) Oracle
4 7 (1.93%) Pega
5 5 (1.38%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.10%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.10%) WSO2
7 3 (0.83%) VMware
8 2 (0.55%) Adobe
8 2 (0.55%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.55%) SAP
9 1 (0.28%) Cognos
9 1 (0.28%) Databricks
9 1 (0.28%) IBM
9 1 (0.28%) New Relic
9 1 (0.28%) Veracode