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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 19 70
Rank change year-on-year -26 +51 -29
Permanent jobs citing Java 741 955 384
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.09% 10.13% 2.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.38% 38.05% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 533 166 172
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,813
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,636 2,510 3,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.15% 26.62% 26.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,773 1,255 2,186
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.81% -3.67% -

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 24 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 24 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 -34 367 £70,000 - 256
Yorkshire +25 193 £75,000 +15.38% 109
North East +10 181 £55,000 +15.79% 81
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 15 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.35%) Apache
4 9 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.81%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.67%) Confluence
8 4 (0.54%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) JBoss
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 281 (37.92%) AWS
2 112 (15.11%) Serverless
3 103 (13.90%) Azure
4 90 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (9.99%) Amazon S3
6 69 (9.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (7.15%) AWS Step Functions
9 49 (6.61%) GitHub
10 38 (5.13%) GCP
11 29 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (3.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 27 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (3.51%) Amazon ECR
15 23 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (2.83%) Apigee
16 21 (2.83%) Datadog
17 20 (2.70%) SaaS
18 18 (2.43%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) RIP
2 3 (0.40%) AMQP
2 3 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) 5G
3 2 (0.27%) MQTT
3 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.83%) DynamoDB
2 41 (5.53%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.18%) MongoDB
5 29 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
6 22 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.29%) MySQL
8 12 (1.62%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.21%) Flink
10 9 (1.21%) Power BI
10 9 (1.21%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.94%) Big Data
13 6 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.67%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (9.72%) Git
2 63 (8.50%) GitLab
3 60 (8.10%) Jenkins
4 31 (4.18%) Maven
5 26 (3.51%) Cypress.io
6 23 (3.10%) JUnit
7 20 (2.70%) SonarQube
8 14 (1.89%) JIRA
9 13 (1.75%) Spock
10 11 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.21%) Selenium
12 8 (1.08%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.08%) Storybook
13 7 (0.94%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.94%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.67%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.67%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.67%) fastlane
14 5 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 95 (12.82%) Public Sector
2 92 (12.42%) Social Skills
3 86 (11.61%) Finance
4 42 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (2.97%) Publishing
6 21 (2.83%) Banking
7 20 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.62%) Retail
9 11 (1.48%) Marketing
10 10 (1.35%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.94%) Legal
11 7 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.81%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.67%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.67%) Law
13 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.54%) Local Government
15 3 (0.40%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 289 (39.00%) Developer
2 221 (29.82%) Senior
3 200 (26.99%) Java Developer
4 170 (22.94%) Java Engineer
5 131 (17.68%) Software Engineer
6 105 (14.17%) Lead
7 95 (12.82%) Senior Developer
8 85 (11.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 68 (9.18%) Senior Java Engineer
10 63 (8.50%) Senior Java Developer
11 53 (7.15%) Java Software Engineer
12 51 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
13 48 (6.48%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.99%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (4.18%) AWS Developer
17 31 (4.18%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 28 (3.78%) Technical Leader
19 27 (3.64%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (25.10%) Spring
2 156 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 133 (17.95%) AngularJS
4 88 (11.88%) Terraform
5 81 (10.93%) Node.js
6 80 (10.80%) React
7 47 (6.34%) .NET
8 46 (6.21%) Kafka
9 43 (5.80%) REST
10 29 (3.91%) RESTful
11 24 (3.24%) Vue
12 23 (3.10%) Gherkin
13 22 (2.97%) PySpark
14 19 (2.56%) CSS
14 19 (2.56%) HTML
15 17 (2.29%) Jest
16 13 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
17 11 (1.48%) OpenAPI
18 10 (1.35%) Hibernate
18 10 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (5.53%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.75%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
4 12 (1.62%) Media Streaming
4 12 (1.62%) Podcast
5 10 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 9 (1.21%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.08%) Blog
7 8 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.67%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.67%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.54%) Java Card
11 4 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.99%) Linux
2 19 (2.56%) Windows
3 15 (2.02%) Unix
4 11 (1.48%) Android
5 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.54%) VMS
7 3 (0.40%) CentOS
7 3 (0.40%) Debian
7 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (32.79%) Agile
2 236 (31.85%) CI/CD
3 212 (28.61%) Software Engineering
4 208 (28.07%) Full-Stack Development
5 184 (24.83%) DevOps
6 152 (20.51%) Microservices
7 145 (19.57%) Mentoring
8 126 (17.00%) Test Automation
9 90 (12.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 90 (12.15%) TDD
10 83 (11.20%) Containerisation
11 81 (10.93%) AI
12 79 (10.66%) Coaching
13 78 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
14 76 (10.26%) Scrum
15 69 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
16 58 (7.83%) Continuous Integration
17 53 (7.15%) Event-Driven
18 50 (6.75%) Code Quality
19 46 (6.21%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 175 (23.62%) Python
2 135 (18.22%) SQL
3 115 (15.52%) JavaScript
4 110 (14.84%) TypeScript
5 74 (9.99%) C#
6 43 (5.80%) Kotlin
7 42 (5.67%) C++
8 33 (4.45%) Groovy
9 29 (3.91%) Bash
10 24 (3.24%) Scala
11 15 (2.02%) Go
12 11 (1.48%) C
13 9 (1.21%) PHP
14 7 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.67%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.54%) Ruby
17 2 (0.27%) Perl
17 2 (0.27%) Rust
17 2 (0.27%) Swift
18 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 123 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.94%) DV Cleared
4 36 (4.86%) Degree
5 18 (2.43%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 10 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.21%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.54%) MBA
12 2 (0.27%) PhD
13 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.32%) Accessibility
1 32 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 31 (4.18%) QA
3 17 (2.29%) WCAG
4 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 137 (18.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) vSphere
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 96 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.67%) Ansible
3 14 (1.89%) Argo
4 12 (1.62%) HP Fortify
5 7 (0.94%) Packer
6 5 (0.67%) Grafana
6 5 (0.67%) Puppet
7 4 (0.54%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.40%) Control-M
8 3 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.27%) Kibana
9 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (3.24%) Adobe
2 21 (2.83%) Splunk
3 18 (2.43%) AppDynamics
4 14 (1.89%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.48%) Google
5 11 (1.48%) Oracle
6 8 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.08%) IBM
7 5 (0.67%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.67%) VMware
8 4 (0.54%) NEC
8 4 (0.54%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.40%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.40%) Talend
10 2 (0.27%) Apple
10 2 (0.27%) Databricks
10 2 (0.27%) New Relic
11 1 (0.13%) HP