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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 64 44
Rank change year-on-year +45 -20 -26
Permanent jobs citing Java 951 403 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.11% 2.86% 5.81%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.77% 10.75% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 160 183 393
10th Percentile £26,125 £37,500 £40,200
25th Percentile £49,625 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,688 £78,750 £77,542
90th Percentile £100,000 £84,750 £87,419
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%

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 2,518 3,748 3,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.76% 26.60% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,254 2,307 2,641
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +42 823 £70,000 +12.00% 124
Yorkshire +30 92 £65,000 +8.33% 63
North East +14 38 £47,500 -18.05% 31
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (5.15%) Confluence
2 9 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.42%) Apache
3 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.42%) Camunda
4 3 (0.32%) SAS
5 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.21%) CMS
5 2 (0.21%) Mule
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.11%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 412 (43.32%) AWS
2 357 (37.54%) Azure
3 252 (26.50%) GCP
4 22 (2.31%) Serverless
5 16 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (1.68%) GitHub
6 10 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (1.05%) SaaS
7 7 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (0.53%) Entra ID
8 5 (0.53%) OpenShift
8 5 (0.53%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.42%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.32%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (0.32%) Amazon S3
10 3 (0.32%) Apigee
10 3 (0.32%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (0.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 388 (40.80%) DNS
1 388 (40.80%) VPN
2 5 (0.53%) HTTP
3 3 (0.32%) PuTTY
3 3 (0.32%) SAN
4 2 (0.21%) AMQP
5 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.11%) SSH
5 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (14.62%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.05%) NoSQL
3 31 (3.26%) MySQL
4 29 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 28 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.37%) Relational Database
7 10 (1.05%) Big Data
7 10 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (1.05%) DynamoDB
8 6 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (0.63%) Tableau
9 5 (0.53%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.53%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.42%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.42%) KDB
10 4 (0.42%) Neo4j
10 4 (0.42%) Power BI
11 3 (0.32%) Metadata
11 3 (0.32%) Qlik Sense
11 3 (0.32%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 143 (15.04%) GitLab
2 135 (14.20%) JIRA
3 129 (13.56%) Selenium
4 128 (13.46%) SonarQube
5 123 (12.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 121 (12.72%) Bitbucket
7 120 (12.62%) Cucumber
8 118 (12.41%) Maven
9 27 (2.84%) Jenkins
10 23 (2.42%) Git
11 11 (1.16%) JUnit
12 7 (0.74%) Postman
13 5 (0.53%) Appium
13 5 (0.53%) JMeter
14 4 (0.42%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.42%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.42%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.32%) Android Studio
15 3 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 673 (70.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 574 (60.36%) Finance
3 407 (42.80%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (13.04%) Banking
5 75 (7.89%) Retail
6 72 (7.57%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (7.57%) Investment Banking
7 70 (7.36%) Social Skills
8 11 (1.16%) Games
8 11 (1.16%) Public Sector
9 8 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 7 (0.74%) Marketing
11 6 (0.63%) Electronics
12 4 (0.42%) Cantonese Language
12 4 (0.42%) Legal
12 4 (0.42%) Mandarin Language
12 4 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.21%) Advertising
13 2 (0.21%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 484 (50.89%) Developer
2 406 (42.69%) Software Developer
3 346 (36.38%) Software Engineer
4 271 (28.50%) Senior
5 205 (21.56%) Senior Software Engineer
6 55 (5.78%) Java Developer
7 31 (3.26%) Java Engineer
7 31 (3.26%) Senior Developer
8 30 (3.15%) Lead
9 25 (2.63%) Senior Java Developer
10 19 (2.00%) Architect
10 19 (2.00%) Java Software Engineer
11 14 (1.47%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (1.47%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (1.37%) AWS Architect
12 13 (1.37%) AWS Solution Architect
12 13 (1.37%) Data Engineer
12 13 (1.37%) Lead Developer
13 12 (1.26%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (1.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (21.87%) .NET
2 185 (19.45%) Node.js
3 170 (17.88%) Spring
4 169 (17.77%) Spring Boot
5 157 (16.51%) React
6 149 (15.67%) CSS
7 145 (15.25%) HTML
8 142 (14.93%) Kafka
9 116 (12.20%) Redux
10 113 (11.88%) JPA
11 109 (11.46%) RESTful
12 90 (9.46%) REST
13 75 (7.89%) CSS3
13 75 (7.89%) HTML5
14 74 (7.78%) Jest
15 73 (7.68%) Sass
16 50 (5.26%) Hibernate
17 21 (2.21%) AngularJS
18 13 (1.37%) ASP.NET
18 13 (1.37%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 560 (58.89%) Cyberattack
2 173 (18.19%) Linux Command Line
2 173 (18.19%) Self-Motivation
3 129 (13.56%) Product Ownership
4 116 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.52%) Cloud Native
6 17 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
8 9 (0.95%) AI Agents
9 8 (0.84%) e-Learning
10 7 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (0.74%) Wiki
11 6 (0.63%) Onboarding
12 5 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.53%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 3 (0.32%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.32%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 583 (61.30%) Linux
2 395 (41.54%) Android
3 6 (0.63%) Unix
3 6 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (82.44%) Agile
2 414 (43.53%) OO
3 412 (43.32%) OOP
4 391 (41.11%) Android Development
4 391 (41.11%) Design Patterns
5 389 (40.90%) Line Management
5 389 (40.90%) Mathematics
6 376 (39.54%) Software Engineering
7 352 (37.01%) Microservices
8 289 (30.39%) User Experience
9 284 (29.86%) Mentoring
10 211 (22.19%) DevOps
11 194 (20.40%) CI/CD
12 193 (20.29%) Machine Learning
13 186 (19.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 184 (19.35%) Scrum
15 181 (19.03%) Data Engineering
16 173 (18.19%) Cloud Security
17 158 (16.61%) Containerisation
17 158 (16.61%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 669 (70.35%) Python
2 590 (62.04%) C++
3 575 (60.46%) Go
4 363 (38.17%) JavaScript
5 214 (22.50%) SQL
6 189 (19.87%) Rust
7 140 (14.72%) TypeScript
8 79 (8.31%) C#
9 30 (3.15%) PHP
10 21 (2.21%) C
11 17 (1.79%) R
12 14 (1.47%) Ruby
13 13 (1.37%) Bash
13 13 (1.37%) Dart
13 13 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 13 (1.37%) MATLAB
13 13 (1.37%) PowerShell
14 9 (0.95%) Scala
15 6 (0.63%) Perl
16 3 (0.32%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 579 (60.88%) Security Cleared
2 564 (59.31%) DV Cleared
3 198 (20.82%) AWS Certification
4 190 (19.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (18.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 52 (5.47%) Degree
7 42 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.89%) Azure Certification
9 14 (1.47%) SC Cleared
10 7 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.63%) HND
12 4 (0.42%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (14.09%) QA
2 74 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.68%) GDPR
4 12 (1.26%) HIPAA
4 12 (1.26%) NIST
5 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.21%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 562 (59.10%) Docker
2 3 (0.32%) Apache Flume
2 3 (0.32%) HDFS
2 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.32%) vSphere
3 2 (0.21%) Squid
Systems Management
1 398 (41.85%) Ansible
2 184 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.52%) Terraform
4 5 (0.53%) Kibana
5 4 (0.42%) Grafana
6 3 (0.32%) Control-M
6 3 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.32%) Istio
6 3 (0.32%) logstash
6 3 (0.32%) Oozie
7 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.11%) Argo
8 1 (0.11%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 116 (12.20%) Solace
2 20 (2.10%) Google
3 18 (1.89%) Microsoft
4 12 (1.26%) Oracle
5 11 (1.16%) Bloomberg
6 6 (0.63%) Allen-Bradley
6 6 (0.63%) AppDynamics
6 6 (0.63%) IBM
6 6 (0.63%) Siemens
6 6 (0.63%) Toshiba
7 5 (0.53%) SAP
8 4 (0.42%) Moogsoft
8 4 (0.42%) Splunk
8 4 (0.42%) TIBCO
9 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.32%) Databricks
9 3 (0.32%) Informatica
9 3 (0.32%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (0.32%) VMware
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe