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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 67 35
Rank change year-on-year -2 -32 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 282 312 619
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.46% 3.51% 5.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.44% 12.45% 16.73%
Number of salaries quoted 185 148 472
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,328 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -1.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.00%

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 1,826 2,506 3,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.94% 28.16% 33.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 1,347 3,122
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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
Yorkshire +21 152 £72,500 +16.24% 62
North West -6 119 £67,500 +8.00% 95
North East -36 11 £55,200 -9.88% 29
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 12 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.90%) OpenStack
3 8 (2.84%) Apache
4 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.06%) Mule
5 2 (0.71%) CMS
5 2 (0.71%) JBoss
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 180 (63.83%) AWS
2 79 (28.01%) Azure
2 79 (28.01%) Serverless
3 50 (17.73%) Amazon ECS
4 44 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 40 (14.18%) Amazon S3
6 39 (13.83%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (10.99%) AWS Step Functions
8 29 (10.28%) GCP
9 23 (8.16%) Amazon ECR
9 23 (8.16%) Apigee
10 22 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (6.03%) SaaS
12 16 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (4.61%) GitHub
14 12 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.26%) OpenShift
15 8 (2.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.13%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.42%) AMQP
1 4 (1.42%) HTTP
2 2 (0.71%) SAN
2 2 (0.71%) SSH
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) TCAP
3 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.77%) DynamoDB
2 26 (9.22%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.74%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.90%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.55%) MySQL
7 9 (3.19%) Hadoop
7 9 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 8 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.84%) Big Data
8 8 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.77%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.42%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.71%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 59 (20.92%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.60%) GitLab
3 36 (12.77%) Git
4 31 (10.99%) SonarQube
5 26 (9.22%) Cypress.io
6 25 (8.87%) Maven
7 8 (2.84%) JIRA
8 7 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.48%) JUnit
9 5 (1.77%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.42%) Selenium
10 4 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.06%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.71%) JMeter
12 2 (0.71%) Locust
12 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
13 1 (0.35%) CA Release Automation
13 1 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 80 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.86%) Finance
3 16 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.32%) Retail
5 13 (4.61%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.90%) Games
8 10 (3.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (3.19%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.77%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.77%) Banking
10 5 (1.77%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.71%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Electronics
13 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.35%) Publishing
13 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 105 (37.23%) Developer
2 77 (27.30%) Java Developer
3 56 (19.86%) Senior
3 56 (19.86%) Software Engineer
4 44 (15.60%) Lead
5 31 (10.99%) Architect
6 24 (8.51%) Java Engineer
7 23 (8.16%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.74%) Senior Java Developer
9 17 (6.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 14 (4.96%) Applications Architect
10 14 (4.96%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.61%) Junior
11 13 (4.61%) Lead Developer
12 12 (4.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 12 (4.26%) Graduate
12 12 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 12 (4.26%) Senior Java Engineer
13 11 (3.90%) Software Architect
14 10 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (27.30%) Spring Boot
2 72 (25.53%) Spring
3 59 (20.92%) AngularJS
4 40 (14.18%) Node.js
5 37 (13.12%) React
6 32 (11.35%) REST
7 28 (9.93%) .NET
8 25 (8.87%) Gherkin
8 25 (8.87%) Jest
8 25 (8.87%) Kafka
8 25 (8.87%) RESTful
9 23 (8.16%) CSS
10 15 (5.32%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (5.32%) Web Services
11 14 (4.96%) Hibernate
12 13 (4.61%) HTML
13 12 (4.26%) Micronaut
14 8 (2.84%) gRPC
15 7 (2.48%) Mustache
16 6 (2.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.57%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (6.03%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.84%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.77%) IoT
8 4 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.06%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.71%) DataPower
10 2 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.35%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.35%) Life Science
11 1 (0.35%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.99%) Linux
2 8 (2.84%) Windows
3 4 (1.42%) CentOS
3 4 (1.42%) Debian
3 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) SUSE
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (39.72%) CI/CD
2 110 (39.01%) Agile
3 101 (35.82%) DevOps
4 86 (30.50%) Software Engineering
5 79 (28.01%) Microservices
6 61 (21.63%) Mentoring
7 55 (19.50%) Computer Science
8 52 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (15.96%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (15.96%) SDLC
10 37 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (13.12%) TDD
11 35 (12.41%) Containerisation
12 34 (12.06%) Scrum
13 31 (10.99%) Data Modelling
14 30 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (10.28%) Migration
15 29 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (9.93%) Architectural Patterns
17 27 (9.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (33.69%) Python
2 79 (28.01%) JavaScript
2 79 (28.01%) TypeScript
3 67 (23.76%) SQL
4 52 (18.44%) C#
5 29 (10.28%) Bash
6 23 (8.16%) Groovy
7 21 (7.45%) Kotlin
8 19 (6.74%) C
9 14 (4.96%) Go
10 13 (4.61%) C++
11 11 (3.90%) PHP
11 11 (3.90%) Scala
12 10 (3.55%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.84%) PowerShell
14 6 (2.13%) Perl
15 4 (1.42%) Ruby
16 3 (1.06%) R
16 3 (1.06%) Rust
17 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (20.57%) Degree
2 46 (16.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (15.60%) AWS Certification
4 27 (9.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.87%) Security Cleared
6 24 (8.51%) Azure Certification
6 24 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (8.51%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (5.67%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.90%) DV Cleared
9 10 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (2.48%) Master's Degree
11 6 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.13%) HND
12 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.71%) PhD
14 1 (0.35%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.35%) MBA
14 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.67%) QA
2 5 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) WCAG
5 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 80 (28.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.71%) vSphere
3 1 (0.35%) Squid
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 23 (8.16%) HP Fortify
3 22 (7.80%) Ansible
4 20 (7.09%) Terraform
5 8 (2.84%) Grafana
6 4 (1.42%) Puppet
7 3 (1.06%) Rancher
8 2 (0.71%) Control-M
8 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (11.70%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.90%) Google
3 9 (3.19%) Oracle
4 6 (2.13%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.13%) Siemens
4 6 (2.13%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.42%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.42%) Pega
6 4 (1.42%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.42%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.42%) WSO2
7 2 (0.71%) Adobe
7 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.71%) SAP
7 2 (0.71%) VMware
8 1 (0.35%) IBM
8 1 (0.35%) New Relic
8 1 (0.35%) Splunk
8 1 (0.35%) Veracode