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

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 66 32
Rank change year-on-year -16 -34 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 249 347 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.49% 3.19% 7.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.73% 11.13% 18.63%
Number of salaries quoted 166 157 372
10th Percentile £32,000 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,011 £86,250
England median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +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 1,691 3,118 2,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.89% 28.66% 38.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,330 1,712 2,227
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,548
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 12 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 12 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 +17 120 £67,500 +22.73% 153
North West -20 113 £67,500 +12.50% 183
North East -20 18 £55,200 -6.41% 31
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 10 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.81%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.01%) Apache
3 5 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.61%) Camunda
5 3 (1.20%) Mule
6 2 (0.80%) CMS
6 2 (0.80%) JBoss
6 2 (0.80%) SAS
6 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.40%) Confluence
7 1 (0.40%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.80%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (59.84%) AWS
2 81 (32.53%) Azure
3 49 (19.68%) Serverless
4 33 (13.25%) GCP
5 26 (10.44%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (7.23%) SaaS
7 15 (6.02%) Amazon S3
8 14 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (4.42%) GitHub
10 9 (3.61%) Amazon ECR
10 9 (3.61%) Apigee
10 9 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (3.21%) OpenShift
12 5 (2.01%) dbt
12 5 (2.01%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (2.01%) PaaS
12 5 (2.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.61%) AMQP
2 3 (1.20%) HTTP
2 3 (1.20%) SAN
3 2 (0.80%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.80%) SSH
3 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) TCAP
4 1 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.84%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (10.44%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.02%) DynamoDB
3 15 (6.02%) MySQL
3 15 (6.02%) Relational Database
3 15 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 14 (5.62%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.81%) Big Data
5 7 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.81%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.01%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.61%) Neo4j
7 4 (1.61%) Tableau
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.20%) Power BI
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 43 (17.27%) Jenkins
2 33 (13.25%) GitLab
3 23 (9.24%) Git
4 21 (8.43%) SonarQube
5 13 (5.22%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.82%) Maven
7 10 (4.02%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.21%) JIRA
8 8 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.81%) JUnit
10 6 (2.41%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.41%) Selenium
11 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.61%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.80%) Babel
13 2 (0.80%) JMeter
13 2 (0.80%) Mockito
13 2 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 75 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.69%) Finance
3 16 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.62%) Games
5 14 (5.62%) Retail
6 12 (4.82%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.61%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.01%) Marketing
10 4 (1.61%) Banking
10 4 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.20%) Legal
12 2 (0.80%) Back Office
12 2 (0.80%) Billing
12 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Electronics
12 2 (0.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 94 (37.75%) Developer
2 61 (24.50%) Senior
3 58 (23.29%) Java Developer
4 47 (18.88%) Software Engineer
5 37 (14.86%) Lead
6 27 (10.84%) Architect
7 24 (9.64%) Senior Developer
8 21 (8.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (7.63%) Software Developer
10 16 (6.43%) Java Engineer
11 15 (6.02%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (5.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 14 (5.62%) Lead Developer
13 12 (4.82%) Graduate
14 11 (4.42%) Applications Architect
15 9 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 9 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
16 8 (3.21%) Junior
16 8 (3.21%) Software Architect
16 8 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (27.31%) Spring
2 65 (26.10%) Spring Boot
3 38 (15.26%) React
4 31 (12.45%) AngularJS
5 30 (12.05%) Node.js
6 29 (11.65%) REST
7 27 (10.84%) RESTful
8 26 (10.44%) CSS
9 25 (10.04%) .NET
10 20 (8.03%) Kafka
11 15 (6.02%) Hibernate
11 15 (6.02%) HTML
12 12 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (4.82%) Jest
12 12 (4.82%) Micronaut
13 11 (4.42%) Gherkin
14 10 (4.02%) Web Services
15 7 (2.81%) ASP.NET
15 7 (2.81%) jQuery
16 6 (2.41%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.04%) Distributed Systems
2 22 (8.84%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.03%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.81%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.41%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.01%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.20%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.20%) IoT
9 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.80%) DataPower
10 2 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.80%) NHS
10 2 (0.80%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.84%) Linux
2 9 (3.61%) Windows
3 3 (1.20%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Android
4 2 (0.80%) CentOS
4 2 (0.80%) Debian
4 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.80%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.40%) SUSE
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (38.55%) Agile
2 93 (37.35%) CI/CD
3 90 (36.14%) DevOps
4 77 (30.92%) Software Engineering
5 75 (30.12%) Microservices
6 60 (24.10%) Mentoring
7 55 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (20.08%) Computer Science
9 40 (16.06%) Containerisation
10 39 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (14.46%) TDD
12 35 (14.06%) Clean Code
13 34 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 32 (12.85%) SDLC
15 30 (12.05%) Test Automation
16 27 (10.84%) Infrastructure as Code
17 25 (10.04%) Data Modelling
17 25 (10.04%) Enterprise Architecture
18 24 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
19 23 (9.24%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 85 (34.14%) Python
2 73 (29.32%) JavaScript
3 70 (28.11%) SQL
4 59 (23.69%) TypeScript
5 58 (23.29%) C#
6 19 (7.63%) Bash
7 18 (7.23%) C
8 14 (5.62%) C++
8 14 (5.62%) Kotlin
9 12 (4.82%) PHP
10 11 (4.42%) Go
10 11 (4.42%) PowerShell
11 10 (4.02%) Scala
12 9 (3.61%) PL/SQL
13 8 (3.21%) Groovy
14 6 (2.41%) Perl
15 5 (2.01%) R
16 4 (1.61%) Ruby
17 3 (1.20%) Rust
18 2 (0.80%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (21.29%) Degree
2 41 (16.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (14.46%) AWS Certification
4 26 (10.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (10.04%) Azure Certification
6 21 (8.43%) Security Cleared
7 18 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (7.23%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (6.43%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (2.81%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.41%) HND
11 5 (2.01%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.80%) PhD
14 1 (0.40%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.40%) MBA
14 1 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.84%) QA
2 7 (2.81%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.81%) GDPR
3 5 (2.01%) HIPAA
3 5 (2.01%) NIST
4 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.80%) WCAG
6 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 65 (26.10%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) vSphere
3 2 (0.80%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.80%) HDFS
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Squid
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 67 (26.91%) Kubernetes
2 20 (8.03%) Terraform
3 18 (7.23%) Ansible
4 9 (3.61%) Grafana
4 9 (3.61%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.20%) Control-M
5 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.20%) Kibana
6 2 (0.80%) logstash
6 2 (0.80%) Oozie
6 2 (0.80%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 32 (12.85%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.02%) Google
3 8 (3.21%) Oracle
4 6 (2.41%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.41%) Siemens
4 6 (2.41%) Toshiba
5 5 (2.01%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.61%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.61%) Pega
6 4 (1.61%) SAP
6 4 (1.61%) WSO2
7 3 (1.20%) VMware
8 2 (0.80%) Adobe
8 2 (0.80%) Databricks
8 2 (0.80%) Informatica
8 2 (0.80%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.80%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.40%) Moogsoft
9 1 (0.40%) OpenAI