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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 56 40
Rank change year-on-year -9 -16 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 371 308 682
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.70% 4.22% 5.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.19% 14.53% 15.92%
Number of salaries quoted 257 191 507
10th Percentile £34,000 £40,000 £38,300
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £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% -7.05%

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 2,158 2,120 4,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.68% 29.03% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 1,355 3,668
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,540 £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 6 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 6 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 +12 189 £70,000 +3.70% 53
North West -21 160 £70,000 +7.69% 92
North East -22 22 £53,565 -6.03% 30
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 13 (3.50%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.96%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.43%) Apache
4 5 (1.35%) JBoss
5 4 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.81%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.81%) Mule
7 2 (0.54%) CICS
7 2 (0.54%) CMS
7 2 (0.54%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.27%) Confluence
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.27%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.27%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 216 (58.22%) AWS
2 103 (27.76%) Serverless
3 95 (25.61%) Azure
4 64 (17.25%) Amazon ECS
5 58 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (15.36%) Amazon S3
6 57 (15.36%) AWS Lambda
7 45 (12.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 35 (9.43%) GCP
9 34 (9.16%) Amazon ECR
10 33 (8.89%) Apigee
11 23 (6.20%) Amazon EKS
12 22 (5.93%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (5.12%) GitHub
14 18 (4.85%) SaaS
15 17 (4.58%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 11 (2.96%) OpenShift
17 10 (2.70%) dbt
18 8 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.89%) Broadband
2 4 (1.08%) AMQP
2 4 (1.08%) HTTP
3 3 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.54%) SAN
4 2 (0.54%) SSH
5 1 (0.27%) DNS
5 1 (0.27%) TCAP
5 1 (0.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.02%) DynamoDB
2 43 (11.59%) NoSQL
3 36 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (6.47%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.85%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (4.04%) MySQL
7 10 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.43%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.16%) Big Data
10 7 (1.89%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.08%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.08%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 70 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 45 (12.13%) GitLab
3 41 (11.05%) Git
4 37 (9.97%) SonarQube
5 35 (9.43%) Cypress.io
6 33 (8.89%) Maven
7 11 (2.96%) JIRA
8 7 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.89%) JUnit
9 6 (1.62%) Selenium
10 5 (1.35%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.08%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.81%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.81%) IntelliJ
13 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.54%) JMeter
13 2 (0.54%) Locust
13 2 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.54%) Vagrant
General
1 69 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.21%) Finance
3 29 (7.82%) Public Sector
4 18 (4.85%) Games
5 17 (4.58%) Retail
6 15 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.70%) Financial Institution
8 10 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (2.43%) Banking
9 9 (2.43%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.35%) Marketing
11 4 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.54%) Advertising
12 2 (0.54%) Billing
12 2 (0.54%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.27%) Back Office
13 1 (0.27%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (42.05%) Developer
2 119 (32.08%) Java Developer
3 87 (23.45%) Software Engineer
4 66 (17.79%) Senior
5 55 (14.82%) Lead
6 46 (12.40%) Java Engineer
7 31 (8.36%) Senior Developer
8 30 (8.09%) Architect
8 30 (8.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (8.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 25 (6.74%) Software Developer
10 24 (6.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 24 (6.47%) Senior Java Developer
11 20 (5.39%) Lead Software Engineer
12 17 (4.58%) Junior
13 16 (4.31%) Applications Developer
13 16 (4.31%) AWS Developer
14 15 (4.04%) Senior Java Engineer
15 13 (3.50%) Applications Architect
15 13 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (26.42%) Spring Boot
2 83 (22.37%) Spring
3 77 (20.75%) AngularJS
4 58 (15.63%) Node.js
5 43 (11.59%) React
6 36 (9.70%) .NET
6 36 (9.70%) RESTful
7 34 (9.16%) Gherkin
7 34 (9.16%) Jest
7 34 (9.16%) REST
8 28 (7.55%) Kafka
9 15 (4.04%) CSS
10 14 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (3.77%) HTML
10 14 (3.77%) Web Services
11 13 (3.50%) Hibernate
12 10 (2.70%) Micronaut
13 9 (2.43%) GraphQL
14 8 (2.16%) gRPC
14 8 (2.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.09%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (6.74%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.16%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.89%) Social Media
7 5 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.35%) IoT
7 5 (1.35%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (0.81%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.81%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.81%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.54%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.54%) DataPower
9 2 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.54%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 25 (6.74%) Linux
2 9 (2.43%) Android
3 5 (1.35%) Windows
4 4 (1.08%) CentOS
4 4 (1.08%) Debian
4 4 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.08%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.81%) Unix
6 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.27%) SUSE
6 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (42.86%) Agile
2 147 (39.62%) CI/CD
3 128 (34.50%) Software Engineering
4 117 (31.54%) DevOps
5 100 (26.95%) Microservices
6 80 (21.56%) Mentoring
7 67 (18.06%) Full-Stack Development
8 61 (16.44%) TDD
9 53 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 50 (13.48%) Scrum
10 50 (13.48%) SDLC
11 45 (12.13%) Computer Science
12 44 (11.86%) AI
13 43 (11.59%) Test Automation
14 40 (10.78%) Containerisation
15 36 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 35 (9.43%) Architectural Patterns
17 34 (9.16%) Data Modelling
18 33 (8.89%) Open Source
19 32 (8.63%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 103 (27.76%) Python
2 99 (26.68%) JavaScript
3 90 (24.26%) TypeScript
4 86 (23.18%) SQL
5 55 (14.82%) C#
6 37 (9.97%) Kotlin
7 33 (8.89%) Bash
8 32 (8.63%) Groovy
9 14 (3.77%) Go
9 14 (3.77%) PL/SQL
10 13 (3.50%) C
11 9 (2.43%) C++
12 7 (1.89%) Scala
13 4 (1.08%) PHP
13 4 (1.08%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.08%) Ruby
14 3 (0.81%) R
15 2 (0.54%) Rust
16 1 (0.27%) ABAP
16 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 48 (12.94%) AWS Certification
2 45 (12.13%) Degree
3 40 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (7.55%) Security Cleared
5 26 (7.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 23 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (6.20%) TOGAF Certification
7 18 (4.85%) SC Cleared
8 16 (4.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 16 (4.31%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (3.23%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.54%) PhD
13 1 (0.27%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.27%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.27%) MBA
13 1 (0.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.12%) QA
2 5 (1.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.81%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.54%) GDPR
4 2 (0.54%) WCAG
5 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (26.42%) Docker
2 2 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.54%) vSphere
3 1 (0.27%) Squid
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.63%) HP Fortify
3 30 (8.09%) Terraform
4 18 (4.85%) Ansible
5 7 (1.89%) Grafana
6 4 (1.08%) Puppet
7 3 (0.81%) Rancher
8 2 (0.54%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.54%) Control-M
8 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.54%) Packer
8 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.27%) Kibana
9 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.04%) Google
3 12 (3.23%) Oracle
4 7 (1.89%) Pega
5 5 (1.35%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.08%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.08%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.08%) WSO2
7 3 (0.81%) AppDynamics
7 3 (0.81%) VMware
8 2 (0.54%) Adobe
8 2 (0.54%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.54%) SAP
9 1 (0.27%) Cognos
9 1 (0.27%) Databricks
9 1 (0.27%) IBM
9 1 (0.27%) New Relic
9 1 (0.27%) Veracode