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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 64 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 -30 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 264 312 498
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.52% 3.28% 6.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.08% 11.50% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 169 149 353
10th Percentile £32,000 £40,810 £41,227
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,500 £94,022 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 1,751 2,714 2,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.70% 28.57% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 1,483 2,222
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,050 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 +35 143 £72,500 +31.82% 79
North West -19 108 £67,500 +12.50% 124
North East -27 15 £60,100 +0.17% 42
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 11 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.79%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.27%) Apache
4 4 (1.52%) Camunda
5 3 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.14%) Mule
6 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) JBoss
6 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 165 (62.50%) AWS
2 81 (30.68%) Azure
3 68 (25.76%) Serverless
4 40 (15.15%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (11.36%) GCP
7 29 (10.98%) Amazon S3
8 28 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (7.95%) AWS Step Functions
10 19 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (6.82%) SaaS
12 17 (6.44%) Amazon ECR
12 17 (6.44%) Apigee
13 13 (4.92%) GitHub
14 10 (3.79%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 7 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
18 6 (2.27%) dbt
19 5 (1.89%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.89%) AMQP
2 4 (1.52%) HTTP
3 2 (0.76%) SAN
3 2 (0.76%) SSH
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) TCAP
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.47%) DynamoDB
1 25 (9.47%) NoSQL
2 24 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.82%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.55%) MySQL
5 11 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.03%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.65%) Big Data
8 6 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.89%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.14%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 55 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 40 (15.15%) GitLab
3 30 (11.36%) Git
4 27 (10.23%) SonarQube
5 21 (7.95%) Cypress.io
6 19 (7.20%) Maven
7 9 (3.41%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.65%) JIRA
8 7 (2.65%) JUnit
8 7 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.89%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.89%) Selenium
10 3 (1.14%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.14%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.76%) JMeter
11 2 (0.76%) Locust
11 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.76%) Postman
12 1 (0.38%) MLflow
General
1 81 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.45%) Finance
3 20 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.68%) Retail
6 12 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.55%) Games
7 9 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.89%) Banking
8 5 (1.89%) Marketing
9 4 (1.52%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Legal
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Billing
11 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (36.74%) Developer
2 64 (24.24%) Java Developer
3 57 (21.59%) Senior
4 55 (20.83%) Software Engineer
5 43 (16.29%) Lead
6 32 (12.12%) Architect
7 22 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 18 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (6.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (6.06%) Software Developer
10 15 (5.68%) Java Engineer
10 15 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 14 (5.30%) Applications Architect
11 14 (5.30%) Lead Developer
12 12 (4.55%) Graduate
13 11 (4.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 11 (4.17%) Software Architect
14 10 (3.79%) Lead Java Developer
15 9 (3.41%) Junior
15 9 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (27.27%) Spring
1 72 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 47 (17.80%) AngularJS
3 39 (14.77%) React
4 35 (13.26%) Node.js
5 32 (12.12%) REST
6 27 (10.23%) .NET
7 25 (9.47%) RESTful
8 24 (9.09%) CSS
9 23 (8.71%) Kafka
10 19 (7.20%) Gherkin
10 19 (7.20%) Jest
11 14 (5.30%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (5.30%) HTML
11 14 (5.30%) Web Services
12 12 (4.55%) Hibernate
12 12 (4.55%) Micronaut
13 7 (2.65%) gRPC
13 7 (2.65%) XML
14 6 (2.27%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.30%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.03%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.14%) IoT
8 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.14%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.76%) DataPower
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.76%) NHS
9 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.98%) Linux
2 8 (3.03%) Windows
3 3 (1.14%) CentOS
3 3 (1.14%) Debian
3 3 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.76%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (39.77%) CI/CD
2 102 (38.64%) Agile
3 98 (37.12%) DevOps
4 81 (30.68%) Software Engineering
5 80 (30.30%) Microservices
6 63 (23.86%) Mentoring
7 57 (21.59%) Computer Science
8 52 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (16.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 40 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (14.39%) SDLC
12 37 (14.02%) Containerisation
12 37 (14.02%) TDD
13 32 (12.12%) Scrum
14 30 (11.36%) Data Modelling
15 29 (10.98%) Enterprise Architecture
15 29 (10.98%) Migration
15 29 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (10.98%) Test Automation
16 28 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 96 (36.36%) Python
2 81 (30.68%) JavaScript
3 74 (28.03%) TypeScript
4 66 (25.00%) SQL
5 61 (23.11%) C#
6 24 (9.09%) Bash
7 20 (7.58%) C
8 18 (6.82%) Kotlin
9 16 (6.06%) Groovy
10 14 (5.30%) C++
11 13 (4.92%) Scala
12 12 (4.55%) Go
13 11 (4.17%) PHP
14 10 (3.79%) PL/SQL
15 9 (3.41%) PowerShell
16 6 (2.27%) Perl
17 4 (1.52%) Ruby
18 3 (1.14%) R
18 3 (1.14%) Rust
19 1 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 60 (22.73%) Degree
2 48 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (15.91%) AWS Certification
4 30 (11.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.23%) Azure Certification
6 24 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
7 20 (7.58%) Security Cleared
8 14 (5.30%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.65%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.27%) HND
11 5 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.76%) PhD
14 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.38%) MBA
14 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.82%) QA
2 6 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.89%) GDPR
4 3 (1.14%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.14%) NIST
4 3 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.76%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.76%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 73 (27.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) Squid
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (24.24%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.58%) Ansible
3 18 (6.82%) Terraform
4 17 (6.44%) HP Fortify
5 8 (3.03%) Grafana
6 3 (1.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.76%) Control-M
7 2 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.76%) Rancher
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.92%) Google
3 9 (3.41%) Oracle
4 6 (2.27%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.27%) Siemens
4 6 (2.27%) Toshiba
5 4 (1.52%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.52%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.52%) Pega
5 4 (1.52%) WSO2
6 3 (1.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.14%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.76%) Adobe
7 2 (0.76%) SAP
7 2 (0.76%) VMware
8 1 (0.38%) IBM
8 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.38%) New Relic
8 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.38%) Splunk