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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 60 37
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 303 328 663
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.49% 4.01% 5.36%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.00% 13.74% 16.11%
Number of salaries quoted 202 171 501
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,361 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £48,993 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,188 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 1,894 2,388 4,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.58% 29.20% 33.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,452 1,306 3,523
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £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 9 February 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 9 February 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 +9 160 £72,500 +7.41% 44
North West -14 131 £67,500 +8.00% 97
North East -38 12 £55,200 -8.00% 24
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 (3.96%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.63%) OpenStack
3 8 (2.64%) Apache
4 3 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.99%) JBoss
4 3 (0.99%) Mule
5 2 (0.66%) CMS
5 2 (0.66%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.33%) Confluence
6 1 (0.33%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 187 (61.72%) AWS
2 84 (27.72%) Serverless
3 82 (27.06%) Azure
4 51 (16.83%) Amazon ECS
5 45 (14.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 43 (14.19%) Amazon S3
7 42 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
8 34 (11.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 29 (9.57%) GCP
10 26 (8.58%) Apigee
11 25 (8.25%) Amazon ECR
12 22 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (5.94%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (5.61%) SaaS
15 14 (4.62%) GitHub
16 13 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (3.63%) OpenShift
18 9 (2.97%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 8 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
20 6 (1.98%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) AMQP
1 4 (1.32%) HTTP
2 2 (0.66%) SAN
2 2 (0.66%) SSH
3 1 (0.33%) Broadband
3 1 (0.33%) DNS
3 1 (0.33%) TCAP
3 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (12.87%) DynamoDB
2 29 (9.57%) NoSQL
3 26 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.27%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.63%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (2.97%) Hadoop
6 9 (2.97%) MySQL
6 9 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.64%) Big Data
7 8 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.65%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.32%) Neo4j
10 3 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database 12c
11 2 (0.66%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 58 (19.14%) Jenkins
2 41 (13.53%) GitLab
3 36 (11.88%) Git
4 31 (10.23%) SonarQube
5 28 (9.24%) Cypress.io
6 27 (8.91%) Maven
7 10 (3.30%) JIRA
8 7 (2.31%) JUnit
9 5 (1.65%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.65%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.32%) Selenium
11 3 (0.99%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.66%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.66%) JMeter
12 2 (0.66%) Locust
12 2 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.66%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.33%) Postman
13 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 78 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.82%) Finance
3 17 (5.61%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.95%) Retail
5 12 (3.96%) Financial Institution
5 12 (3.96%) Games
6 10 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.31%) Banking
9 5 (1.65%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.65%) Marketing
10 4 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.66%) Billing
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Publishing
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (38.61%) Developer
2 87 (28.71%) Java Developer
3 61 (20.13%) Software Engineer
4 56 (18.48%) Senior
5 47 (15.51%) Lead
6 31 (10.23%) Architect
7 29 (9.57%) Java Engineer
8 23 (7.59%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (7.59%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.27%) Senior Java Developer
10 17 (5.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 17 (5.61%) Software Developer
11 16 (5.28%) Junior
12 14 (4.62%) Applications Architect
12 14 (4.62%) Lead Software Engineer
13 13 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (4.29%) Lead Developer
14 12 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (3.96%) Senior Java Engineer
15 11 (3.63%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.72%) Spring Boot
2 77 (25.41%) Spring
3 63 (20.79%) AngularJS
4 45 (14.85%) Node.js
5 40 (13.20%) React
6 33 (10.89%) REST
7 32 (10.56%) .NET
8 27 (8.91%) Gherkin
8 27 (8.91%) Jest
9 26 (8.58%) Kafka
9 26 (8.58%) RESTful
10 24 (7.92%) CSS
11 15 (4.95%) Web Services
12 14 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (4.62%) Hibernate
12 14 (4.62%) HTML
13 12 (3.96%) Micronaut
14 8 (2.64%) gRPC
15 7 (2.31%) Mustache
16 6 (1.98%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.90%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (9.24%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.64%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.98%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.65%) IoT
8 4 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.99%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.99%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.66%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.66%) DataPower
10 2 (0.66%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.33%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.33%) Legacy Code
11 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.90%) Linux
2 6 (1.98%) Windows
3 4 (1.32%) CentOS
3 4 (1.32%) Debian
3 4 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.99%) Android
5 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.33%) SUSE
5 1 (0.33%) Unix
5 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (39.60%) Agile
1 120 (39.60%) CI/CD
2 100 (33.00%) DevOps
3 97 (32.01%) Software Engineering
4 84 (27.72%) Microservices
5 65 (21.45%) Mentoring
6 55 (18.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 54 (17.82%) Computer Science
8 52 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (16.50%) SDLC
10 43 (14.19%) TDD
11 40 (13.20%) Scrum
12 37 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (11.55%) Containerisation
14 32 (10.56%) Data Modelling
15 31 (10.23%) Test Automation
16 30 (9.90%) Architectural Patterns
17 29 (9.57%) AI
17 29 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
17 29 (9.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 100 (33.00%) Python
2 87 (28.71%) JavaScript
3 80 (26.40%) TypeScript
4 71 (23.43%) SQL
5 54 (17.82%) C#
6 28 (9.24%) Bash
7 25 (8.25%) Groovy
8 24 (7.92%) Kotlin
9 19 (6.27%) C
10 15 (4.95%) Go
11 12 (3.96%) C++
12 11 (3.63%) PL/SQL
12 11 (3.63%) Scala
13 10 (3.30%) PHP
14 6 (1.98%) Perl
14 6 (1.98%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.32%) Ruby
16 3 (0.99%) R
16 3 (0.99%) Rust
17 1 (0.33%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 57 (18.81%) Degree
2 45 (14.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (14.52%) AWS Certification
4 26 (8.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.25%) Security Cleared
6 24 (7.92%) Azure Certification
6 24 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (7.92%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (5.28%) SC Cleared
8 12 (3.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (3.96%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (3.63%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.31%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.98%) HND
12 5 (1.65%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.66%) PhD
14 1 (0.33%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.33%) MBA
14 1 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.61%) QA
2 5 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.99%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.66%) GDPR
4 2 (0.66%) WCAG
5 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (27.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.66%) vSphere
3 1 (0.33%) Squid
3 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (20.13%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.25%) HP Fortify
3 22 (7.26%) Terraform
4 20 (6.60%) Ansible
5 7 (2.31%) Grafana
6 4 (1.32%) Puppet
7 3 (0.99%) Rancher
8 2 (0.66%) Control-M
8 2 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.33%) Kibana
9 1 (0.33%) Packer
9 1 (0.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (10.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.63%) Google
3 10 (3.30%) Oracle
4 6 (1.98%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (1.98%) Siemens
4 6 (1.98%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.65%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.32%) Pega
6 4 (1.32%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.32%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.32%) WSO2
7 3 (0.99%) VMware
8 2 (0.66%) Adobe
8 2 (0.66%) IBM
8 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.66%) SAP
9 1 (0.33%) Cognos
9 1 (0.33%) New Relic
9 1 (0.33%) Veracode