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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 67
Rank change year-on-year -24 +48 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 690 975 422
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.08% 10.13% 2.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.06% 36.71% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 491 194 244
10th Percentile £40,750 £28,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,125 £48,031 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £76,204
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £82,500
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 3,621 2,656 3,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.17% 27.59% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,745 1,396 2,887
10th Percentile £36,500 £32,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -34 309 £70,000 - 74
Yorkshire +42 217 £75,000 +13.21% 37
North East +7 164 £55,000 +15.79% 35
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 (1.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.30%) Apache
4 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.01%) Confluence
5 6 (0.87%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.43%) JBoss
6 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.29%) CICS
7 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 270 (39.13%) AWS
2 110 (15.94%) Serverless
3 109 (15.80%) Azure
4 83 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
6 76 (11.01%) Amazon S3
7 71 (10.29%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (7.97%) AWS Step Functions
9 46 (6.67%) GitHub
10 40 (5.80%) GCP
11 33 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (4.49%) Amazon ECR
14 28 (4.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 27 (3.91%) Apigee
16 25 (3.62%) SaaS
17 23 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
19 16 (2.32%) Datadog
20 13 (1.88%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.74%) Broadband
2 3 (0.43%) RIP
3 2 (0.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.29%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.57%) DynamoDB
2 46 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 26 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.46%) MySQL
7 13 (1.88%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 9 (1.30%) Flink
8 9 (1.30%) Power BI
9 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.72%) Big Data
12 5 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.58%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.58%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 73 (10.58%) Jenkins
2 71 (10.29%) Git
3 62 (8.99%) GitLab
4 33 (4.78%) Maven
5 32 (4.64%) Cypress.io
6 24 (3.48%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.19%) JIRA
8 18 (2.61%) JUnit
9 12 (1.74%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.74%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.59%) Selenium
10 11 (1.59%) Spock
11 8 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.16%) Storybook
12 7 (1.01%) Postman
13 6 (0.87%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.87%) Eclipse
13 6 (0.87%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.87%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 90 (13.04%) Finance
2 87 (12.61%) Public Sector
3 83 (12.03%) Social Skills
4 34 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.32%) Banking
7 13 (1.88%) Games
8 12 (1.74%) Retail
9 10 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.45%) Marketing
9 10 (1.45%) Publishing
10 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.01%) Legal
12 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.72%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.58%) Advertising
14 4 (0.58%) Local Government
14 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 313 (45.36%) Developer
2 230 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 201 (29.13%) Senior
4 114 (16.52%) Java Engineer
4 114 (16.52%) Software Engineer
5 100 (14.49%) Lead
6 97 (14.06%) Senior Developer
7 71 (10.29%) Senior Java Developer
8 65 (9.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 59 (8.55%) Full-Stack Developer
10 43 (6.23%) Senior Java Engineer
11 42 (6.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 41 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
13 40 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 34 (4.93%) Java Software Engineer
15 33 (4.78%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.64%) AWS Developer
17 29 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
18 27 (3.91%) Lead Java Engineer
19 23 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (23.62%) Spring
2 144 (20.87%) Spring Boot
3 138 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 92 (13.33%) Node.js
5 67 (9.71%) React
6 52 (7.54%) .NET
7 41 (5.94%) REST
8 36 (5.22%) RESTful
9 28 (4.06%) Kafka
10 27 (3.91%) CSS
10 27 (3.91%) Gherkin
11 26 (3.77%) Vue
12 25 (3.62%) HTML
13 21 (3.04%) GraphQL
13 21 (3.04%) Jest
14 17 (2.46%) Android SDK
15 10 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (1.45%) OpenAPI
15 10 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
16 9 (1.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (4.20%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.04%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (1.74%) Social Media
7 11 (1.59%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.87%) Blog
10 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.87%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.78%) Linux
2 21 (3.04%) Android
3 18 (2.61%) Windows
4 13 (1.88%) Unix
5 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) CentOS
6 2 (0.29%) Debian
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (34.93%) Agile
2 227 (32.90%) CI/CD
3 181 (26.23%) Software Engineering
4 175 (25.36%) DevOps
5 174 (25.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 143 (20.72%) Microservices
7 136 (19.71%) Test Automation
8 124 (17.97%) Mentoring
9 97 (14.06%) TDD
10 85 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
11 84 (12.17%) AI
12 80 (11.59%) Scrum
13 75 (10.87%) Coaching
14 71 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 67 (9.71%) Containerisation
16 63 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
17 60 (8.70%) Design Patterns
18 53 (7.68%) SDLC
19 51 (7.39%) Continuous Integration
20 50 (7.25%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 172 (24.93%) Python
2 137 (19.86%) SQL
3 123 (17.83%) JavaScript
4 95 (13.77%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.71%) C#
6 58 (8.41%) Kotlin
7 36 (5.22%) Groovy
8 31 (4.49%) Bash
9 30 (4.35%) C++
10 21 (3.04%) Scala
11 13 (1.88%) Go
12 11 (1.59%) C
13 10 (1.45%) PHP
14 8 (1.16%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.58%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.58%) Ruby
16 2 (0.29%) Swift
17 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.14%) Perl
17 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 108 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 69 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.80%) Degree
4 34 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.58%) MBA
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 29 (4.20%) QA
3 17 (2.46%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.32%) WCAG
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (18.26%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) vSphere
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 86 (12.46%) Terraform
2 72 (10.43%) Kubernetes
3 37 (5.36%) Ansible
4 17 (2.46%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.88%) Argo
6 5 (0.72%) Grafana
7 3 (0.43%) Control-M
7 3 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.43%) Packer
7 3 (0.43%) Puppet
8 2 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (3.33%) Adobe
2 19 (2.75%) Splunk
3 16 (2.32%) AppDynamics
3 16 (2.32%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.59%) Google
5 10 (1.45%) Oracle
6 8 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.16%) IBM
7 5 (0.72%) Pega
8 4 (0.58%) NEC
8 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.58%) VMware
9 3 (0.43%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.43%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.43%) Talend
10 2 (0.29%) Apple
10 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.29%) WSO2
11 1 (0.14%) TIBCO