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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 15 55
Rank change year-on-year -28 +40 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 629 1,003 659
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.21% 12.51% 3.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.35% 38.25% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 462 230 455
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £73,805
% change year-on-year -9.68% +5.01% -7.74%

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 3,251 2,622 5,292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.60% 32.69% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,438 1,375 4,356
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +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 10 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 10 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 -40 271 £70,000 -8.98% 69
Yorkshire +21 237 £72,500 +3.57% 42
North East +2 121 £52,130 +9.75% 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 (1.91%) Apache
2 11 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.79%) JBoss
5 5 (0.79%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.64%) Confluence
6 4 (0.64%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.64%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.32%) CICS
8 1 (0.16%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.16%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 268 (42.61%) AWS
2 117 (18.60%) Serverless
3 109 (17.33%) Azure
4 85 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 84 (13.35%) AWS Lambda
6 83 (13.20%) Amazon S3
7 81 (12.88%) Amazon ECS
8 65 (10.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (6.84%) Amazon ECR
10 40 (6.36%) GitHub
11 39 (6.20%) Apigee
12 33 (5.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (4.93%) GCP
14 30 (4.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 27 (4.29%) Amazon SQS
16 22 (3.50%) SaaS
17 19 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
19 15 (2.38%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.07%) Broadband
2 3 (0.48%) AMQP
3 2 (0.32%) HTTP
3 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.16%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.92%) DynamoDB
2 62 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 44 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
4 35 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 33 (5.25%) Amazon Athena
6 24 (3.82%) MySQL
7 23 (3.66%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.23%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.75%) Power BI
10 7 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.11%) Big Data
10 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.79%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.79%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.64%) GIS
Development Applications
1 83 (13.20%) Jenkins
2 67 (10.65%) GitLab
3 58 (9.22%) Git
4 37 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 37 (5.88%) Maven
5 36 (5.72%) SonarQube
6 21 (3.34%) JIRA
7 14 (2.23%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.59%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.27%) Selenium
10 6 (0.95%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.95%) JUnit
10 6 (0.95%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.79%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.79%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.79%) fastlane
11 5 (0.79%) Gradle
11 5 (0.79%) Postman
12 4 (0.64%) Spock
General
1 82 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 68 (10.81%) Finance
3 66 (10.49%) Social Skills
4 34 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.54%) Banking
7 14 (2.23%) Games
8 10 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.27%) Marketing
10 7 (1.11%) Retail
11 5 (0.79%) Advertising
11 5 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.48%) Back Office
13 3 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.48%) Legal
13 3 (0.48%) Publishing
14 2 (0.32%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 307 (48.81%) Developer
2 239 (38.00%) Java Developer
3 159 (25.28%) Senior
4 116 (18.44%) Software Engineer
5 106 (16.85%) Java Engineer
6 100 (15.90%) Lead
7 82 (13.04%) Senior Developer
8 68 (10.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 59 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
10 48 (7.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 45 (7.15%) Java Software Engineer
12 42 (6.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 37 (5.88%) Software Developer
14 33 (5.25%) Junior
14 33 (5.25%) Senior Software Engineer
15 32 (5.09%) Lead Software Engineer
15 32 (5.09%) Senior Java Engineer
16 31 (4.93%) AWS Developer
17 29 (4.61%) Lead Java Engineer
18 23 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (21.78%) Spring Boot
2 136 (21.62%) Spring
3 131 (20.83%) AngularJS
4 87 (13.83%) Node.js
5 67 (10.65%) React
6 49 (7.79%) .NET
7 41 (6.52%) RESTful
8 40 (6.36%) REST
9 36 (5.72%) Gherkin
10 29 (4.61%) Jest
11 23 (3.66%) Vue
12 22 (3.50%) CSS
13 21 (3.34%) Kafka
14 19 (3.02%) HTML
15 18 (2.86%) Android SDK
16 17 (2.70%) GraphQL
17 12 (1.91%) Elastic Stack
18 9 (1.43%) JSON
18 9 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
19 8 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
2 26 (4.13%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.97%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.07%) Social Media
7 11 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
10 8 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.11%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.79%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.64%) Algorithms
14 4 (0.64%) Contactless
14 4 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.64%) Hedge funds
14 4 (0.64%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.29%) Linux
2 18 (2.86%) Android
3 16 (2.54%) Windows
4 15 (2.38%) Unix
5 3 (0.48%) CentOS
5 3 (0.48%) Debian
5 3 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.48%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (38.31%) Agile
2 199 (31.64%) CI/CD
3 169 (26.87%) Software Engineering
4 155 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 154 (24.48%) DevOps
6 134 (21.30%) Microservices
7 126 (20.03%) Mentoring
8 118 (18.76%) Test Automation
9 85 (13.51%) TDD
10 78 (12.40%) Scrum
11 75 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (10.97%) AI
13 67 (10.65%) Coaching
14 52 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 51 (8.11%) Clean Code
16 50 (7.95%) SDLC
17 46 (7.31%) Continuous Integration
18 45 (7.15%) Design Patterns
19 42 (6.68%) Containerisation
19 42 (6.68%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 142 (22.58%) SQL
2 141 (22.42%) Python
3 120 (19.08%) JavaScript
4 94 (14.94%) TypeScript
5 63 (10.02%) C#
6 58 (9.22%) Kotlin
7 44 (7.00%) Groovy
8 34 (5.41%) Bash
9 21 (3.34%) C++
10 15 (2.38%) Go
11 9 (1.43%) Scala
12 6 (0.95%) C
12 6 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.79%) PHP
14 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.16%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.16%) Perl
15 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (11.29%) Security Cleared
2 56 (8.90%) SC Cleared
3 34 (5.41%) AWS Certification
4 31 (4.93%) Degree
5 21 (3.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 21 (3.34%) DV Cleared
5 21 (3.34%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.64%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.16%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.66%) QA
2 22 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 9 (1.43%) WCAG
5 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 108 (17.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.48%) vSphere
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (10.49%) Terraform
2 51 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 28 (4.45%) HP Fortify
4 21 (3.34%) Ansible
5 13 (2.07%) Argo
6 5 (0.79%) Packer
7 4 (0.64%) Grafana
8 3 (0.48%) Control-M
8 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.48%) Puppet
9 2 (0.32%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.32%) Kibana
9 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.32%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (3.02%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.23%) Google
3 12 (1.91%) Adobe
4 10 (1.59%) Oracle
5 9 (1.43%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.11%) IBM
7 6 (0.95%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.95%) Splunk
8 5 (0.79%) Pega
8 5 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.64%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.64%) VMware
10 3 (0.48%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.48%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.32%) Cognos
11 2 (0.32%) WSO2
12 1 (0.16%) Databricks
12 1 (0.16%) Veracode