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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 66
Rank change year-on-year -24 +47 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 709 960 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.02% 10.21% 2.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.84% 38.05% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 515 170 185
10th Percentile £40,950 £28,275 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.23%

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 3,573 2,523 3,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.23% 26.82% 26.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,733 1,260 2,356
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 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 13 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 13 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 -35 334 £70,000 - 156
Yorkshire +18 195 £75,000 +13.21% 68
North East +13 180 £55,000 +15.79% 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 15 (2.12%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.41%) Apache
4 9 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.99%) Confluence
5 7 (0.99%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 275 (38.79%) AWS
2 116 (16.36%) Serverless
3 104 (14.67%) Azure
4 93 (13.12%) AWS Lambda
5 76 (10.72%) Amazon S3
6 73 (10.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (9.31%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (7.62%) AWS Step Functions
9 47 (6.63%) GitHub
10 38 (5.36%) GCP
11 30 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (3.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 27 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.67%) Amazon ECR
16 23 (3.24%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (3.10%) Apigee
17 22 (3.10%) SaaS
18 20 (2.82%) Datadog
19 19 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) RIP
2 3 (0.42%) AMQP
2 3 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) 5G
3 2 (0.28%) 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 61 (8.60%) DynamoDB
2 44 (6.21%) NoSQL
3 32 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.37%) Amazon Athena
5 27 (3.81%) MongoDB
6 21 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.26%) MySQL
8 12 (1.69%) Spark SQL
9 11 (1.55%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.27%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.27%) Flink
11 9 (1.27%) Power BI
12 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.99%) Big Data
14 6 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.85%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.71%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (10.16%) Git
2 62 (8.74%) GitLab
3 61 (8.60%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.51%) Maven
5 27 (3.81%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.82%) JIRA
6 20 (2.82%) JUnit
6 20 (2.82%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.83%) Spock
8 11 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.27%) Selenium
10 8 (1.13%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.13%) Claude Code
10 8 (1.13%) Storybook
11 7 (0.99%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.85%) Postman
13 5 (0.71%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.71%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.71%) fastlane
13 5 (0.71%) Gradle
General
1 95 (13.40%) Public Sector
2 88 (12.41%) Finance
3 85 (11.99%) Social Skills
4 45 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (2.68%) Banking
6 16 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.12%) Publishing
8 11 (1.55%) Marketing
8 11 (1.55%) Retail
9 10 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.41%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.99%) Legal
10 7 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.85%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Law
13 4 (0.56%) Local Government
14 3 (0.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 289 (40.76%) Developer
2 209 (29.48%) Java Developer
2 209 (29.48%) Senior
3 144 (20.31%) Java Engineer
4 117 (16.50%) Software Engineer
5 100 (14.10%) Lead
6 96 (13.54%) Senior Developer
7 78 (11.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 69 (9.73%) Senior Java Developer
9 58 (8.18%) Senior Java Engineer
10 51 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 43 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
12 39 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
12 39 (5.50%) Java Software Engineer
13 37 (5.22%) Software Developer
14 35 (4.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 31 (4.37%) AWS Developer
16 27 (3.81%) Data Engineer
17 26 (3.67%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 24 (3.39%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (24.12%) Spring
2 145 (20.45%) Spring Boot
3 133 (18.76%) AngularJS
4 85 (11.99%) Node.js
5 83 (11.71%) Terraform
6 69 (9.73%) React
7 52 (7.33%) .NET
8 43 (6.06%) REST
9 36 (5.08%) Kafka
10 30 (4.23%) RESTful
11 24 (3.39%) Vue
12 23 (3.24%) Gherkin
13 22 (3.10%) CSS
13 22 (3.10%) PySpark
14 20 (2.82%) HTML
15 17 (2.40%) Jest
16 13 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
17 11 (1.55%) OpenAPI
18 10 (1.41%) Hibernate
19 9 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.83%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
5 11 (1.55%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.41%) Mobile App
7 8 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.99%) Blog
8 7 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.71%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.71%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.71%) Media Streaming
10 5 (0.71%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.71%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.94%) Linux
2 18 (2.54%) Windows
3 14 (1.97%) Unix
4 10 (1.41%) Android
5 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.56%) VMS
7 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 3 (0.42%) Debian
7 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (33.43%) Agile
2 227 (32.02%) CI/CD
3 196 (27.64%) Full-Stack Development
4 191 (26.94%) Software Engineering
5 173 (24.40%) DevOps
6 145 (20.45%) Microservices
7 138 (19.46%) Mentoring
8 130 (18.34%) Test Automation
9 89 (12.55%) TDD
10 80 (11.28%) Coaching
11 79 (11.14%) Continuous Improvement
12 76 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (10.58%) Scrum
14 74 (10.44%) AI
15 71 (10.01%) Containerisation
16 65 (9.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 54 (7.62%) Continuous Integration
18 47 (6.63%) SDLC
19 46 (6.49%) Clean Code
20 45 (6.35%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 173 (24.40%) Python
2 141 (19.89%) SQL
3 124 (17.49%) JavaScript
4 103 (14.53%) TypeScript
5 74 (10.44%) C#
6 43 (6.06%) Kotlin
7 41 (5.78%) C++
8 34 (4.80%) Groovy
9 29 (4.09%) Bash
10 23 (3.24%) Scala
11 13 (1.83%) Go
12 11 (1.55%) C
12 11 (1.55%) PHP
13 6 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.56%) Ruby
15 2 (0.28%) Perl
15 2 (0.28%) Swift
16 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 75 (10.58%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.36%) Degree
3 38 (5.36%) DV Cleared
4 19 (2.68%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.56%) MBA
11 2 (0.28%) PhD
12 1 (0.14%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.94%) Accessibility
2 32 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.09%) QA
4 16 (2.26%) WCAG
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (18.05%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) vSphere
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 37 (5.22%) Ansible
3 13 (1.83%) Argo
3 13 (1.83%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.71%) Grafana
4 5 (0.71%) Packer
5 4 (0.56%) Puppet
6 3 (0.42%) Control-M
6 3 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.28%) Kibana
7 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (3.39%) Adobe
2 21 (2.96%) Splunk
3 18 (2.54%) AppDynamics
4 15 (2.12%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.55%) Google
6 10 (1.41%) Oracle
7 8 (1.13%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.99%) IBM
9 4 (0.56%) NEC
9 4 (0.56%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.56%) VMware
10 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.42%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.42%) Talend
11 2 (0.28%) Apple
11 2 (0.28%) Databricks
11 2 (0.28%) New Relic
12 1 (0.14%) YouTube