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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 18 63
Rank change year-on-year -27 +45 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 672 1,007 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.18% 10.60% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.98% 37.12% 11.30%
Number of salaries quoted 487 227 300
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,700 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £49,434
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £76,204
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 3,541 2,713 4,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.73% 28.55% 27.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,671 1,456 3,380
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,726 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 July 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 July 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 -36 304 £70,000 - 84
Yorkshire +34 225 £72,500 +7.41% 26
North East +2 143 £52,500 +10.53% 48
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 13 (1.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.34%) Apache
2 9 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.04%) Confluence
4 6 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.74%) JBoss
5 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.30%) CICS
7 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 271 (40.33%) AWS
2 112 (16.67%) Azure
3 111 (16.52%) Serverless
4 81 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (11.46%) Amazon S3
5 77 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 74 (11.01%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 41 (6.10%) GitHub
9 37 (5.51%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (5.36%) GCP
11 33 (4.91%) Apigee
11 33 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (3.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 25 (3.72%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.27%) SaaS
15 19 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (1.93%) Azure AKS
16 13 (1.93%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.93%) Broadband
2 2 (0.30%) AMQP
2 2 (0.30%) MQTT
2 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.82%) DynamoDB
2 53 (7.89%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 28 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (3.72%) MySQL
7 23 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.93%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.64%) Power BI
10 10 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.89%) Flink
14 4 (0.60%) Big Data
14 4 (0.60%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.60%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 77 (11.46%) Jenkins
2 63 (9.38%) GitLab
3 58 (8.63%) Git
4 37 (5.51%) Maven
5 34 (5.06%) Cypress.io
6 29 (4.32%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.42%) JIRA
8 13 (1.93%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.79%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.79%) JUnit
10 10 (1.49%) Selenium
11 9 (1.34%) Spock
12 8 (1.19%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.19%) Storybook
13 7 (1.04%) Postman
14 6 (0.89%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.74%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.74%) Gradle
General
1 85 (12.65%) Public Sector
2 79 (11.76%) Finance
3 72 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 35 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.38%) Banking
7 13 (1.93%) Games
8 9 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.34%) Publishing
8 9 (1.34%) Retail
9 8 (1.19%) Marketing
10 5 (0.74%) Advertising
10 5 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
13 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 314 (46.73%) Developer
2 237 (35.27%) Java Developer
3 182 (27.08%) Senior
4 117 (17.41%) Software Engineer
5 116 (17.26%) Java Engineer
6 99 (14.73%) Lead
7 89 (13.24%) Senior Developer
8 70 (10.42%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (9.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 60 (8.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 48 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
12 37 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
12 37 (5.51%) Software Developer
13 36 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 35 (5.21%) Senior Java Engineer
15 30 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
16 28 (4.17%) AWS Developer
16 28 (4.17%) Lead Java Engineer
17 27 (4.02%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (23.07%) Spring
2 147 (21.88%) Spring Boot
3 137 (20.39%) AngularJS
4 90 (13.39%) Node.js
5 66 (9.82%) React
6 52 (7.74%) .NET
7 41 (6.10%) RESTful
8 37 (5.51%) REST
9 32 (4.76%) Gherkin
10 27 (4.02%) Vue
11 25 (3.72%) CSS
12 24 (3.57%) HTML
12 24 (3.57%) Kafka
13 23 (3.42%) Jest
14 22 (3.27%) GraphQL
15 18 (2.68%) Android SDK
16 10 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
17 8 (1.19%) Hibernate
17 8 (1.19%) MDX
17 8 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (4.91%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.93%) Social Media
7 12 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.34%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.89%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.74%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.74%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.74%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.60%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.91%) Linux
2 20 (2.98%) Android
3 16 (2.38%) Windows
4 15 (2.23%) Unix
5 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.30%) CentOS
5 2 (0.30%) Debian
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (36.61%) Agile
2 218 (32.44%) CI/CD
3 182 (27.08%) Software Engineering
4 174 (25.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 162 (24.11%) DevOps
6 143 (21.28%) Microservices
7 142 (21.13%) Test Automation
8 130 (19.35%) Mentoring
9 105 (15.63%) TDD
10 83 (12.35%) AI
11 80 (11.90%) Coaching
11 80 (11.90%) Scrum
12 79 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 57 (8.48%) Containerisation
15 54 (8.04%) Design Patterns
15 54 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
15 54 (8.04%) SDLC
16 53 (7.89%) Clean Code
17 52 (7.74%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 162 (24.11%) Python
2 139 (20.68%) SQL
3 123 (18.30%) JavaScript
4 89 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 62 (9.23%) C#
6 55 (8.18%) Kotlin
7 40 (5.95%) Groovy
8 34 (5.06%) Bash
9 24 (3.57%) C++
10 19 (2.83%) Scala
11 16 (2.38%) Go
12 8 (1.19%) C
12 8 (1.19%) PHP
12 8 (1.19%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Perl
14 1 (0.15%) Swift
14 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 61 (9.08%) SC Cleared
3 36 (5.36%) Degree
4 29 (4.32%) DV Cleared
5 28 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.60%) MBA
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.46%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.72%) QA
3 16 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.08%) WCAG
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 118 (17.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (11.76%) Terraform
2 65 (9.67%) Kubernetes
3 31 (4.61%) Ansible
4 22 (3.27%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.93%) Argo
6 5 (0.74%) Grafana
6 5 (0.74%) Packer
7 3 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (2.98%) Adobe
2 17 (2.53%) Splunk
3 15 (2.23%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.08%) AppDynamics
5 13 (1.93%) Google
6 10 (1.49%) Oracle
7 8 (1.19%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.04%) IBM
9 5 (0.74%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.60%) VMware
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.30%) Cognos
12 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.30%) NEC
12 2 (0.30%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.30%) Talend
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2
13 1 (0.15%) Databricks