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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 17 59
Rank change year-on-year -27 +42 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 643 1,009 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.23% 12.38% 3.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.46% 38.37% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 469 232 459
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 3,304 2,630 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.61% 32.28% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,494 1,380 4,427
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,593 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -37 278 £70,000 -6.67% 57
Yorkshire +23 239 £72,500 +3.57% 41
North East +1 126 £52,500 +10.53% 25
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 (1.87%) Apache
2 11 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.78%) Confluence
5 5 (0.78%) JBoss
5 5 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.62%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.31%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 275 (42.77%) AWS
2 122 (18.97%) Serverless
3 111 (17.26%) Azure
4 89 (13.84%) AWS Lambda
5 87 (13.53%) Amazon S3
5 87 (13.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 84 (13.06%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (10.42%) AWS Step Functions
8 44 (6.84%) Amazon ECR
9 42 (6.53%) GitHub
10 40 (6.22%) Apigee
11 34 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (5.13%) GCP
13 30 (4.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 30 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.42%) SaaS
15 20 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (2.49%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (2.18%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.02%) Broadband
2 3 (0.47%) AMQP
3 2 (0.31%) HTTP
3 2 (0.31%) MQTT
3 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.82%) DynamoDB
2 61 (9.49%) NoSQL
3 43 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 33 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (3.58%) MySQL
6 23 (3.58%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.18%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.71%) Power BI
9 7 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.09%) Big Data
9 7 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.78%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.78%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.62%) GIS
Development Applications
1 86 (13.37%) Jenkins
2 69 (10.73%) GitLab
3 60 (9.33%) Git
4 39 (6.07%) Cypress.io
5 38 (5.91%) Maven
6 37 (5.75%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.42%) JIRA
8 14 (2.18%) Claude Code
9 11 (1.71%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.40%) Selenium
11 8 (1.24%) JUnit
12 6 (0.93%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.93%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.93%) Postman
12 6 (0.93%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.93%) Spock
13 5 (0.78%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.78%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.78%) fastlane
13 5 (0.78%) Gradle
General
1 82 (12.75%) Public Sector
2 73 (11.35%) Finance
3 67 (10.42%) Social Skills
4 34 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.49%) Banking
7 14 (2.18%) Games
8 10 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.24%) Marketing
10 7 (1.09%) Retail
11 5 (0.78%) Advertising
11 5 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.47%) Back Office
13 3 (0.47%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.47%) Legal
13 3 (0.47%) Publishing
14 2 (0.31%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 316 (49.14%) Developer
2 247 (38.41%) Java Developer
3 167 (25.97%) Senior
4 118 (18.35%) Software Engineer
5 108 (16.80%) Java Engineer
6 98 (15.24%) Lead
7 85 (13.22%) Senior Developer
8 71 (11.04%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (9.80%) Full-Stack Developer
10 50 (7.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 46 (7.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 46 (7.15%) Java Software Engineer
12 38 (5.91%) Software Developer
13 36 (5.60%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (5.13%) Senior Java Engineer
15 32 (4.98%) AWS Developer
15 32 (4.98%) Junior
16 30 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
17 29 (4.51%) Lead Java Engineer
18 24 (3.73%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (21.93%) Spring
1 141 (21.93%) Spring Boot
2 137 (21.31%) AngularJS
3 87 (13.53%) Node.js
4 68 (10.58%) React
5 47 (7.31%) .NET
6 42 (6.53%) RESTful
7 41 (6.38%) REST
8 38 (5.91%) Gherkin
9 30 (4.67%) Jest
10 24 (3.73%) Vue
11 22 (3.42%) CSS
11 22 (3.42%) Kafka
12 19 (2.95%) HTML
13 18 (2.80%) Android SDK
14 17 (2.64%) GraphQL
15 12 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (1.40%) JSON
16 9 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
17 8 (1.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.89%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.02%) Social Media
7 11 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
10 7 (1.09%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.93%) Private Cloud
12 5 (0.78%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.78%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.62%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.62%) Hedge funds
13 4 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.20%) Linux
2 18 (2.80%) Android
3 16 (2.49%) Windows
4 15 (2.33%) Unix
5 3 (0.47%) CentOS
5 3 (0.47%) Debian
5 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (38.41%) Agile
2 205 (31.88%) CI/CD
3 174 (27.06%) Software Engineering
4 163 (25.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 157 (24.42%) DevOps
6 136 (21.15%) Microservices
7 127 (19.75%) Mentoring
8 123 (19.13%) Test Automation
9 88 (13.69%) TDD
10 79 (12.29%) Scrum
11 76 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
12 73 (11.35%) AI
13 70 (10.89%) Coaching
14 55 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (8.09%) Clean Code
15 52 (8.09%) SDLC
16 47 (7.31%) Continuous Integration
17 46 (7.15%) Design Patterns
17 46 (7.15%) Secure Coding
18 43 (6.69%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 143 (22.24%) Python
1 143 (22.24%) SQL
2 122 (18.97%) JavaScript
3 98 (15.24%) TypeScript
4 64 (9.95%) C#
5 59 (9.18%) Kotlin
6 46 (7.15%) Groovy
7 36 (5.60%) Bash
8 21 (3.27%) C++
9 15 (2.33%) Go
10 11 (1.71%) Scala
11 6 (0.93%) C
11 6 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.78%) PHP
13 3 (0.47%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
14 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (11.82%) Security Cleared
2 59 (9.18%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.60%) AWS Certification
4 32 (4.98%) Degree
5 22 (3.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 22 (3.42%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.93%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.47%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 1 (0.16%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.73%) Accessibility
1 24 (3.73%) QA
2 15 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.40%) WCAG
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 116 (18.04%) Docker
2 3 (0.47%) vSphere
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (10.26%) Terraform
2 55 (8.55%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.51%) HP Fortify
4 21 (3.27%) Ansible
5 13 (2.02%) Argo
6 5 (0.78%) Packer
7 4 (0.62%) Grafana
8 3 (0.47%) Control-M
8 3 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.47%) Puppet
9 2 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.31%) Kibana
9 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (2.95%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.18%) Google
3 12 (1.87%) Adobe
4 11 (1.71%) AppDynamics
5 10 (1.56%) Oracle
5 10 (1.56%) Splunk
6 7 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.09%) IBM
7 6 (0.93%) Salesforce
8 5 (0.78%) Pega
9 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.62%) VMware
10 3 (0.47%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.47%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.31%) Cognos
11 2 (0.31%) WSO2
12 1 (0.16%) Databricks
12 1 (0.16%) Veracode