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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 21 66
Rank change year-on-year -26 +45 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 683 987 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.13% 10.30% 2.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.03% 36.57% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 492 208 259
10th Percentile £40,075 £28,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,781 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £76,636
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £82,500
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 2,699 3,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.45% 28.16% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,723 1,435 2,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,662 £72,250 £69,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,700 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +5.79% -6.92%

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 August 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 August 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 -35 306 £70,000 - 112
Yorkshire +46 222 £72,500 +9.43% 55
North East +6 155 £55,000 +15.79% 46
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 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (1.61%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.32%) Apache
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.02%) Confluence
5 6 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) JBoss
8 3 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (0.59%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 272 (39.82%) AWS
2 115 (16.84%) Azure
3 110 (16.11%) Serverless
4 82 (12.01%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (11.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 76 (11.13%) Amazon S3
7 73 (10.69%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (8.05%) AWS Step Functions
9 42 (6.15%) GitHub
10 40 (5.86%) GCP
11 35 (5.12%) Amazon ECR
12 33 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (4.39%) Apigee
14 29 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 23 (3.37%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (3.37%) SaaS
17 21 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
18 14 (2.05%) Datadog
19 13 (1.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.90%) Broadband
2 2 (0.29%) AMQP
2 2 (0.29%) MQTT
2 2 (0.29%) RIP
2 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (9.52%) DynamoDB
2 51 (7.47%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.44%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 28 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (3.66%) MySQL
6 25 (3.66%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.76%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.46%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.46%) Power BI
9 9 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.17%) Flink
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.59%) Big Data
13 4 (0.59%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 74 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 64 (9.37%) Git
3 63 (9.22%) GitLab
4 36 (5.27%) Maven
5 32 (4.69%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.95%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.07%) JIRA
8 15 (2.20%) JUnit
9 13 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.76%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.61%) Spock
12 10 (1.46%) Selenium
13 8 (1.17%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.17%) Storybook
14 7 (1.02%) Postman
15 6 (0.88%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.88%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.88%) IntelliJ
15 6 (0.88%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 87 (12.74%) Public Sector
2 84 (12.30%) Finance
3 80 (11.71%) Social Skills
4 34 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.20%) Banking
7 13 (1.90%) Games
8 10 (1.46%) Publishing
8 10 (1.46%) Retail
9 9 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.32%) Marketing
10 8 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.73%) Legal
13 4 (0.59%) Advertising
13 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.44%) Back Office
14 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 317 (46.41%) Developer
2 233 (34.11%) Java Developer
3 192 (28.11%) Senior
4 117 (17.13%) Software Engineer
5 116 (16.98%) Java Engineer
6 96 (14.06%) Lead
7 95 (13.91%) Senior Developer
8 71 (10.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (9.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 61 (8.93%) Full-Stack Developer
11 45 (6.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 44 (6.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 39 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
14 37 (5.42%) Senior Java Engineer
14 37 (5.42%) Software Developer
15 29 (4.25%) AWS Developer
16 28 (4.10%) Lead Software Engineer
17 27 (3.95%) Lead Java Engineer
18 24 (3.51%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (22.84%) Spring
2 144 (21.08%) Spring Boot
3 137 (20.06%) AngularJS
4 88 (12.88%) Node.js
5 64 (9.37%) React
6 51 (7.47%) .NET
7 41 (6.00%) RESTful
8 37 (5.42%) REST
9 30 (4.39%) Gherkin
10 26 (3.81%) Vue
11 25 (3.66%) CSS
11 25 (3.66%) HTML
11 25 (3.66%) Kafka
12 22 (3.22%) GraphQL
13 21 (3.07%) Jest
14 18 (2.64%) Android SDK
15 10 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (1.32%) Hibernate
17 8 (1.17%) MDX
17 8 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (5.12%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.51%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.90%) Social Media
7 12 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.88%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.73%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.73%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (0.73%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.59%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.98%) Linux
2 21 (3.07%) Android
3 17 (2.49%) Windows
4 15 (2.20%) Unix
5 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) CentOS
6 2 (0.29%) Debian
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (36.02%) Agile
2 220 (32.21%) CI/CD
3 184 (26.94%) Software Engineering
4 170 (24.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 169 (24.74%) DevOps
6 148 (21.67%) Microservices
7 142 (20.79%) Test Automation
8 131 (19.18%) Mentoring
9 103 (15.08%) TDD
10 84 (12.30%) AI
11 81 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (11.86%) Scrum
12 80 (11.71%) Coaching
13 67 (9.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (8.78%) Containerisation
15 58 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 57 (8.35%) Design Patterns
17 53 (7.76%) Continuous Integration
18 52 (7.61%) SDLC
19 51 (7.47%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 166 (24.30%) Python
2 139 (20.35%) SQL
3 120 (17.57%) JavaScript
4 92 (13.47%) TypeScript
5 65 (9.52%) C#
6 57 (8.35%) Kotlin
7 39 (5.71%) Groovy
8 33 (4.83%) Bash
9 26 (3.81%) C++
10 20 (2.93%) Scala
11 15 (2.20%) Go
12 10 (1.46%) PHP
13 9 (1.32%) C
14 8 (1.17%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.59%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.29%) Ruby
16 2 (0.29%) Swift
17 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.15%) Perl
17 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (14.64%) Security Cleared
2 65 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.42%) Degree
4 31 (4.54%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.81%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.59%) MBA
11 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.39%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.81%) QA
3 17 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.05%) WCAG
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 121 (17.72%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (12.01%) Terraform
2 67 (9.81%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.83%) Ansible
4 20 (2.93%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.90%) Argo
6 5 (0.73%) Grafana
7 4 (0.59%) Packer
8 3 (0.44%) Control-M
8 3 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.44%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.29%) Kibana
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (3.22%) Adobe
2 19 (2.78%) Splunk
3 16 (2.34%) AppDynamics
3 16 (2.34%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.05%) Google
5 9 (1.32%) Oracle
6 8 (1.17%) Dynatrace
7 6 (0.88%) IBM
8 5 (0.73%) Pega
9 4 (0.59%) NEC
9 4 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.59%) VMware
10 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.44%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.44%) Talend
11 2 (0.29%) Apple
11 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.29%) WSO2
12 1 (0.15%) HP