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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 70
Rank change year-on-year -25 +51 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 696 969 418
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.04% 10.21% 2.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.39% 36.98% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 502 184 215
10th Percentile £40,800 £25,900 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,125 £47,433 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,019 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +5.63% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,750 £110,000 £83,250
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 3,590 2,620 3,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.68% 27.62% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,744 1,360 2,675
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -35 317 £70,000 - 214
Yorkshire +26 200 £75,000 +15.38% 86
North East +8 179 £55,000 +15.79% 58
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 14 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 9 (1.29%) Apache
3 9 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.01%) Confluence
4 7 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.86%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.29%) CICS
7 2 (0.29%) JBoss
7 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.57%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 271 (38.94%) AWS
2 109 (15.66%) Serverless
3 108 (15.52%) Azure
4 86 (12.36%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (10.20%) Amazon S3
5 71 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 64 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
7 50 (7.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 43 (6.18%) GitHub
9 40 (5.75%) GCP
10 33 (4.74%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (4.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (3.88%) Amazon ECR
13 25 (3.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 24 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
14 24 (3.45%) SaaS
15 23 (3.30%) Apigee
16 22 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
17 19 (2.73%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.86%) Broadband
2 3 (0.43%) HTTP
2 3 (0.43%) RIP
3 2 (0.29%) 5G
3 2 (0.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.29%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (8.48%) DynamoDB
2 42 (6.03%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
4 27 (3.88%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.44%) MySQL
7 12 (1.72%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.58%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.44%) Flink
9 10 (1.44%) Power BI
10 9 (1.29%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.86%) Big Data
13 5 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.72%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (10.49%) Git
2 67 (9.63%) Jenkins
3 64 (9.20%) GitLab
4 32 (4.60%) Maven
5 28 (4.02%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.02%) JIRA
7 20 (2.87%) JUnit
7 20 (2.87%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.87%) Spock
9 11 (1.58%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.44%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.44%) Selenium
11 8 (1.15%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.15%) IntelliJ
11 8 (1.15%) Storybook
12 7 (1.01%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.01%) Postman
13 6 (0.86%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.86%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.72%) Crashlytics
General
1 98 (14.08%) Public Sector
2 93 (13.36%) Finance
3 83 (11.93%) Social Skills
4 44 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (2.44%) Banking
7 12 (1.72%) Publishing
8 10 (1.44%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.44%) Marketing
8 10 (1.44%) Retail
9 9 (1.29%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.01%) Games
10 7 (1.01%) Legal
10 7 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.72%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
13 3 (0.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 295 (42.39%) Developer
2 213 (30.60%) Java Developer
3 207 (29.74%) Senior
4 129 (18.53%) Java Engineer
5 112 (16.09%) Software Engineer
6 94 (13.51%) Lead
7 93 (13.36%) Senior Developer
8 71 (10.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 68 (9.77%) Senior Java Developer
10 56 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
11 54 (7.76%) Senior Java Engineer
12 42 (6.03%) Senior Software Engineer
13 40 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (5.60%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 36 (5.17%) Java Software Engineer
15 36 (5.17%) Software Developer
16 29 (4.17%) AWS Developer
17 25 (3.59%) Data Engineer
17 25 (3.59%) Lead Java Engineer
18 24 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (23.99%) Spring
2 142 (20.40%) Spring Boot
3 135 (19.40%) AngularJS
4 83 (11.93%) Terraform
5 82 (11.78%) Node.js
6 68 (9.77%) React
7 56 (8.05%) .NET
8 43 (6.18%) REST
9 35 (5.03%) RESTful
10 34 (4.89%) Kafka
11 25 (3.59%) CSS
11 25 (3.59%) Vue
12 23 (3.30%) Gherkin
12 23 (3.30%) HTML
13 20 (2.87%) PySpark
14 17 (2.44%) Jest
15 15 (2.16%) GraphQL
16 11 (1.58%) Android SDK
16 11 (1.58%) RabbitMQ
17 10 (1.44%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.61%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (4.60%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.44%) Mobile App
4 13 (1.87%) Private Cloud
5 12 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (1.72%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.86%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.86%) Blog
9 6 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 6 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (0.86%) Social Media
9 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.89%) Linux
2 18 (2.59%) Windows
3 15 (2.16%) Android
4 14 (2.01%) Unix
5 4 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.57%) VMS
6 2 (0.29%) CentOS
6 2 (0.29%) Debian
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (34.48%) Agile
2 226 (32.47%) CI/CD
3 187 (26.87%) Full-Stack Development
4 182 (26.15%) Software Engineering
5 170 (24.43%) DevOps
6 144 (20.69%) Microservices
7 136 (19.54%) Test Automation
8 134 (19.25%) Mentoring
9 89 (12.79%) TDD
10 82 (11.78%) Coaching
11 80 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
12 78 (11.21%) AI
13 77 (11.06%) Scrum
14 75 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 69 (9.91%) Containerisation
16 64 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (7.47%) Design Patterns
18 50 (7.18%) Continuous Integration
19 49 (7.04%) SDLC
20 46 (6.61%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 172 (24.71%) Python
2 142 (20.40%) SQL
3 128 (18.39%) JavaScript
4 95 (13.65%) TypeScript
5 74 (10.63%) C#
6 46 (6.61%) Kotlin
7 41 (5.89%) C++
8 34 (4.89%) Groovy
9 29 (4.17%) Bash
10 22 (3.16%) Scala
11 12 (1.72%) Go
12 11 (1.58%) C
12 11 (1.58%) PHP
13 9 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.57%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.57%) Ruby
15 2 (0.29%) Perl
15 2 (0.29%) Swift
16 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 115 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.89%) Degree
4 37 (5.32%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.57%) MBA
12 2 (0.29%) PhD
13 1 (0.14%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.74%) Accessibility
2 30 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.88%) QA
4 16 (2.30%) WCAG
5 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 125 (17.96%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) vSphere
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 76 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 38 (5.46%) Ansible
3 13 (1.87%) Argo
3 13 (1.87%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.72%) Grafana
5 3 (0.43%) Control-M
5 3 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.43%) Packer
5 3 (0.43%) Puppet
6 2 (0.29%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (3.30%) Adobe
2 21 (3.02%) Splunk
3 18 (2.59%) AppDynamics
4 17 (2.44%) Microsoft
5 12 (1.72%) Oracle
6 10 (1.44%) Google
7 8 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.15%) IBM
8 5 (0.72%) Pega
9 4 (0.57%) NEC
9 4 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.57%) VMware
10 3 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.43%) Talend
11 2 (0.29%) Apple
11 2 (0.29%) Databricks
11 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.29%) WSO2