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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +37 -26
Permanent jobs citing Java 790 645 354
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.27% 7.07% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.36% 29.70% 10.39%
Number of salaries quoted 567 167 155
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,000 £32,450
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £88,250
England median annual salary £72,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -7.10% -3.13% +3.23%

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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,533 2,172 3,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.64% 23.81% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 1,223 1,878
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £40,872 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -25 425 £75,000 +7.14% 207
North East +17 191 £55,000 +7.32% 85
Yorkshire +14 174 £72,500 +7.41% 98
Java
England

Java Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Programming Languages

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Python23.7%187
2SQL16.8%133
3TypeScript15.6%123
4JavaScript15.1%119
5C#9.4%74
6Kotlin6.2%49
7C++5.4%43
8Bash3.5%28
9Scala3.4%27
10Groovy3.3%26
11Go3.2%25
12C1.4%11
13PL/SQL1.3%10
13Rust1.3%10
15PHP1.1%9
16PowerShell0.9%7
17Ruby0.5%4
18Swift0.3%2
19Apex Code0.1%1
19Objective-C0.1%1