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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 61
Rank change year-on-year -25 +42 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 664 1,003 539
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.16% 10.64% 3.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.98% 37.44% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 483 224 342
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,100 £37,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 3,499 2,679 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.63% 28.41% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,657 1,425 3,633
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +2.73% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £80,000
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 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 21 July 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 21 July 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
North West -36 300 £70,000 - 70
Yorkshire +36 224 £71,250 +5.56% 29
North East +5 140 £53,750 +16.22% 31
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 12 (1.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.36%) Apache
3 8 (1.20%) Confluence
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.75%) JBoss
6 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 268 (40.36%) AWS
2 111 (16.72%) Azure
2 111 (16.72%) Serverless
3 81 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (11.60%) Amazon S3
4 77 (11.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 74 (11.14%) Amazon ECS
6 56 (8.43%) AWS Step Functions
7 41 (6.17%) GitHub
8 37 (5.57%) Amazon ECR
9 34 (5.12%) GCP
10 33 (4.97%) Apigee
10 33 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (3.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 25 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (3.31%) SaaS
14 19 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.96%) Azure AKS
15 13 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.96%) Broadband
2 2 (0.30%) AMQP
2 2 (0.30%) MQTT
2 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.94%) DynamoDB
2 53 (7.98%) NoSQL
3 43 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (5.12%) MongoDB
5 28 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
6 24 (3.61%) MySQL
7 21 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.96%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.66%) Power BI
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.20%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.75%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.60%) Big Data
14 4 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (11.45%) Jenkins
2 64 (9.64%) GitLab
3 56 (8.43%) Git
4 36 (5.42%) Maven
5 34 (5.12%) Cypress.io
6 30 (4.52%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.61%) JIRA
8 13 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.81%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.66%) JUnit
11 10 (1.51%) Selenium
12 9 (1.36%) Spock
13 8 (1.20%) Bitbucket
14 7 (1.05%) Postman
14 7 (1.05%) Storybook
15 6 (0.90%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.90%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.75%) Android Studio
16 5 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.75%) Gradle
General
1 85 (12.80%) Public Sector
2 79 (11.90%) Finance
3 68 (10.24%) Social Skills
4 35 (5.27%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.41%) Banking
7 13 (1.96%) Games
8 9 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.20%) Marketing
9 8 (1.20%) Publishing
9 8 (1.20%) Retail
10 5 (0.75%) Advertising
10 5 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
12 3 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 313 (47.14%) Developer
2 238 (35.84%) Java Developer
3 177 (26.66%) Senior
4 117 (17.62%) Software Engineer
5 114 (17.17%) Java Engineer
6 98 (14.76%) Lead
7 88 (13.25%) Senior Developer
8 70 (10.54%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (9.64%) Full-Stack Developer
10 60 (9.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.23%) Java Software Engineer
12 47 (7.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 37 (5.57%) Senior Software Engineer
13 37 (5.57%) Software Developer
14 34 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (4.97%) Senior Java Engineer
16 30 (4.52%) Lead Software Engineer
17 28 (4.22%) AWS Developer
17 28 (4.22%) Junior
17 28 (4.22%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (22.89%) Spring
2 144 (21.69%) Spring Boot
3 137 (20.63%) AngularJS
4 89 (13.40%) Node.js
5 67 (10.09%) React
6 52 (7.83%) .NET
7 42 (6.33%) RESTful
8 37 (5.57%) REST
9 32 (4.82%) Gherkin
10 27 (4.07%) Vue
11 24 (3.61%) CSS
12 23 (3.46%) HTML
12 23 (3.46%) Jest
13 22 (3.31%) Kafka
14 21 (3.16%) GraphQL
15 18 (2.71%) Android SDK
16 10 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
17 8 (1.20%) Hibernate
17 8 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
18 7 (1.05%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.96%) Social Media
7 12 (1.81%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.90%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.75%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.75%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.60%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.82%) Linux
2 20 (3.01%) Android
3 16 (2.41%) Windows
4 15 (2.26%) Unix
5 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.30%) CentOS
5 2 (0.30%) Debian
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (36.90%) Agile
2 212 (31.93%) CI/CD
3 180 (27.11%) Software Engineering
4 173 (26.05%) Full-Stack Development
5 159 (23.95%) DevOps
6 140 (21.08%) Microservices
7 139 (20.93%) Test Automation
8 128 (19.28%) Mentoring
9 104 (15.66%) TDD
10 79 (11.90%) Coaching
10 79 (11.90%) Scrum
11 78 (11.75%) AI
11 78 (11.75%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (7.98%) Containerisation
14 52 (7.83%) Clean Code
15 51 (7.68%) Continuous Integration
15 51 (7.68%) Design Patterns
15 51 (7.68%) SDLC
16 49 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 157 (23.64%) Python
2 138 (20.78%) SQL
3 123 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 89 (13.40%) TypeScript
5 61 (9.19%) C#
6 55 (8.28%) Kotlin
7 40 (6.02%) Groovy
8 34 (5.12%) Bash
9 23 (3.46%) C++
10 17 (2.56%) Scala
11 16 (2.41%) Go
12 8 (1.20%) C
12 8 (1.20%) PHP
13 7 (1.05%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) Swift
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (13.55%) Security Cleared
2 60 (9.04%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.12%) Degree
4 28 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 27 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.60%) MBA
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.37%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.92%) QA
3 15 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.96%) WCAG
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 116 (17.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (11.45%) Terraform
2 63 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.37%) Ansible
4 22 (3.31%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.96%) Argo
6 5 (0.75%) Grafana
6 5 (0.75%) Packer
7 3 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (2.86%) Adobe
2 17 (2.56%) Splunk
3 15 (2.26%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.11%) AppDynamics
5 13 (1.96%) Google
6 9 (1.36%) Oracle
7 8 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.05%) IBM
9 5 (0.75%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.60%) VMware
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.30%) Cognos
12 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.30%) NEC
12 2 (0.30%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.30%) Talend
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2
13 1 (0.15%) Veracode