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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 69 34
Rank change year-on-year -8 -35 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 267 361 528
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.83% 3.01% 7.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.72% 10.92% 18.73%
Number of salaries quoted 182 162 382
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,880 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,188 £75,000 £77,671
90th Percentile £87,250 £92,125 £86,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 1,698 3,306 2,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.03% 27.53% 38.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,812 2,271
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £71,125
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 29 November 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 29 November 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
North West -12 126 £67,500 +12.50% 48
Yorkshire +26 119 £67,500 +22.73% 20
North East -8 24 £55,000 -5.11% 7
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 9 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.25%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.87%) Apache
3 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.50%) Camunda
5 3 (1.12%) Mule
6 2 (0.75%) CMS
6 2 (0.75%) Confluence
6 2 (0.75%) JBoss
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (57.68%) AWS
2 88 (32.96%) Azure
3 45 (16.85%) Serverless
4 36 (13.48%) GCP
5 23 (8.61%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (7.12%) SaaS
7 17 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.49%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.12%) GitHub
12 8 (3.00%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.62%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (2.62%) Apigee
13 7 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.87%) dbt
14 5 (1.87%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.87%) PaaS
14 5 (1.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) AMQP
1 4 (1.50%) SAN
2 2 (0.75%) HTTP
2 2 (0.75%) PuTTY
2 2 (0.75%) SSH
2 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.37%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.11%) NoSQL
1 27 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.49%) MySQL
2 20 (7.49%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.99%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.99%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.24%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.62%) Big Data
7 6 (2.25%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.87%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.50%) Tableau
10 3 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.12%) Power BI
11 2 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 40 (14.98%) Jenkins
2 31 (11.61%) GitLab
3 22 (8.24%) Git
4 20 (7.49%) SonarQube
5 12 (4.49%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.75%) Maven
8 9 (3.37%) JIRA
9 8 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.25%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.25%) JUnit
10 6 (2.25%) Selenium
11 5 (1.87%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.87%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.75%) Babel
13 2 (0.75%) JMeter
13 2 (0.75%) Mockito
13 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 79 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.72%) Finance
3 17 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.62%) Games
4 15 (5.62%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.62%) Retail
5 12 (4.49%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.87%) Marketing
9 4 (1.50%) Banking
9 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.12%) Electronics
10 3 (1.12%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Back Office
11 2 (0.75%) Billing
11 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 106 (39.70%) Developer
2 70 (26.22%) Senior
3 59 (22.10%) Java Developer
4 53 (19.85%) Software Engineer
5 37 (13.86%) Lead
6 28 (10.49%) Senior Developer
7 26 (9.74%) Architect
8 23 (8.61%) Senior Java Developer
9 20 (7.49%) Software Developer
10 19 (7.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (6.74%) Java Engineer
12 16 (5.99%) Graduate
12 16 (5.99%) Lead Developer
13 13 (4.87%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (3.75%) Applications Architect
15 9 (3.37%) Graduate Developer
15 9 (3.37%) IT Graduate
15 9 (3.37%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (3.37%) Junior
15 9 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (25.47%) Spring
2 64 (23.97%) Spring Boot
3 43 (16.10%) React
4 31 (11.61%) CSS
5 30 (11.24%) .NET
5 30 (11.24%) AngularJS
5 30 (11.24%) Node.js
6 28 (10.49%) RESTful
7 26 (9.74%) REST
8 20 (7.49%) Kafka
9 16 (5.99%) HTML
10 15 (5.62%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.49%) ASP.NET
11 12 (4.49%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (4.49%) Micronaut
12 11 (4.12%) Jest
12 11 (4.12%) jQuery
12 11 (4.12%) Web Services
13 9 (3.37%) Gherkin
14 7 (2.62%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.87%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.62%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.25%) Mobile App
6 6 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.50%) e-Learning
8 3 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.12%) IoT
9 2 (0.75%) DataPower
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.75%) NHS
9 2 (0.75%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.86%) Linux
2 10 (3.75%) Windows
3 6 (2.25%) Android
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) CentOS
5 2 (0.75%) Debian
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) SUSE
6 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (40.45%) Agile
2 95 (35.58%) DevOps
3 93 (34.83%) CI/CD
4 84 (31.46%) Software Engineering
5 71 (26.59%) Microservices
6 61 (22.85%) Mentoring
6 61 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (19.85%) Computer Science
8 43 (16.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 41 (15.36%) Containerisation
10 38 (14.23%) Clean Code
10 38 (14.23%) TDD
11 35 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 33 (12.36%) SDLC
12 33 (12.36%) Test Automation
13 28 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
14 25 (9.36%) Enterprise Architecture
15 24 (8.99%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (8.61%) OO
16 23 (8.61%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 85 (31.84%) Python
2 75 (28.09%) SQL
3 72 (26.97%) JavaScript
4 63 (23.60%) C#
5 58 (21.72%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.74%) C
6 18 (6.74%) C++
7 17 (6.37%) Bash
8 16 (5.99%) Kotlin
8 16 (5.99%) PHP
9 12 (4.49%) PowerShell
10 11 (4.12%) Go
11 10 (3.75%) Scala
12 9 (3.37%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.25%) Groovy
13 6 (2.25%) Perl
14 5 (1.87%) Ruby
15 4 (1.50%) R
16 3 (1.12%) Rust
17 2 (0.75%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (20.97%) Degree
2 46 (17.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (12.73%) AWS Certification
4 25 (9.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (8.99%) Azure Certification
6 22 (8.24%) Security Cleared
7 17 (6.37%) SC Cleared
8 16 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (5.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.25%) HND
10 6 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.87%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.37%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.24%) QA
2 8 (3.00%) GDPR
3 7 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.25%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.25%) NIST
5 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) WCAG
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 65 (24.34%) Docker
2 4 (1.50%) vSphere
3 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.75%) HDFS
5 1 (0.37%) Squid
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (25.84%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.24%) Terraform
3 19 (7.12%) Ansible
4 10 (3.75%) Grafana
5 7 (2.62%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.50%) Control-M
6 4 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.75%) logstash
8 2 (0.75%) Oozie
8 2 (0.75%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.37%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.74%) Google
3 9 (3.37%) Oracle
4 6 (2.25%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.25%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.25%) Siemens
4 6 (2.25%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.87%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.50%) Pega
6 4 (1.50%) SAP
6 4 (1.50%) VMware
6 4 (1.50%) WSO2
7 3 (1.12%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.75%) Adobe
8 2 (0.75%) IBM
8 2 (0.75%) Informatica
8 2 (0.75%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.75%) Splunk
8 2 (0.75%) TIBCO