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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 19 68
Rank change year-on-year -24 +49 -26
Permanent jobs citing Java 751 954 380
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.12% 10.05% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.63% 38.04% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 542 166 172
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £77,813
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 3,640 2,508 3,710
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.14% 26.43% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,791 1,253 2,198
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
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 £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -33 372 £70,000 - 258
Yorkshire +28 195 £75,000 +15.38% 113
North East +14 184 £55,000 +15.79% 82
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 15 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.33%) Apache
4 9 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.67%) Confluence
8 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 282 (37.55%) AWS
2 112 (14.91%) Serverless
3 103 (13.72%) Azure
4 89 (11.85%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (9.99%) Amazon S3
6 68 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
7 66 (8.79%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (6.92%) AWS Step Functions
9 50 (6.66%) GitHub
10 38 (5.06%) GCP
11 30 (3.99%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (3.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 27 (3.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 27 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
15 23 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (2.80%) Datadog
17 20 (2.66%) Apigee
17 20 (2.66%) SaaS
18 19 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) RIP
2 3 (0.40%) AMQP
2 3 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) 5G
3 2 (0.27%) MQTT
3 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.59%) DynamoDB
2 40 (5.33%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 29 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.13%) MySQL
8 12 (1.60%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.20%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.20%) Flink
10 9 (1.20%) Power BI
10 9 (1.20%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.93%) Big Data
13 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.67%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (9.59%) Git
2 63 (8.39%) GitLab
3 61 (8.12%) Jenkins
4 30 (3.99%) Maven
5 25 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 23 (3.06%) JUnit
7 19 (2.53%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.73%) JIRA
8 13 (1.73%) Spock
9 12 (1.60%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.20%) Selenium
11 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.07%) Storybook
12 7 (0.93%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.93%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.67%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.67%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.67%) fastlane
13 5 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 97 (12.92%) Public Sector
2 91 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 85 (11.32%) Finance
4 42 (5.59%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (2.93%) Publishing
6 21 (2.80%) Banking
6 21 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.60%) Retail
8 11 (1.46%) Marketing
9 10 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.93%) Legal
10 7 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.67%) Law
12 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Local Government
14 3 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 293 (39.01%) Developer
2 225 (29.96%) Senior
3 203 (27.03%) Java Developer
4 172 (22.90%) Java Engineer
5 133 (17.71%) Software Engineer
6 108 (14.38%) Lead
7 98 (13.05%) Senior Developer
8 86 (11.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 68 (9.05%) Senior Java Engineer
10 65 (8.66%) Senior Java Developer
11 54 (7.19%) Java Software Engineer
12 52 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
13 47 (6.26%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.93%) Software Developer
16 31 (4.13%) AWS Developer
16 31 (4.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 31 (4.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 31 (4.13%) Technical Leader
17 27 (3.60%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (24.90%) Spring
2 156 (20.77%) Spring Boot
3 131 (17.44%) AngularJS
4 88 (11.72%) Terraform
5 82 (10.92%) Node.js
6 80 (10.65%) React
7 48 (6.39%) Kafka
8 47 (6.26%) .NET
9 44 (5.86%) REST
10 28 (3.73%) RESTful
11 23 (3.06%) Gherkin
11 23 (3.06%) Vue
12 22 (2.93%) PySpark
13 18 (2.40%) CSS
13 18 (2.40%) HTML
14 16 (2.13%) Jest
15 13 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (1.46%) OpenAPI
17 10 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (1.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (5.46%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.73%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
4 12 (1.60%) Media Streaming
4 12 (1.60%) Podcast
5 10 (1.33%) Mobile App
5 10 (1.33%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.07%) Blog
6 8 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.67%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.67%) Hedge funds
9 5 (0.67%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.53%) Java Card
10 4 (0.53%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.93%) Linux
2 19 (2.53%) Windows
3 15 (2.00%) Unix
4 11 (1.46%) Android
5 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.53%) VMS
7 3 (0.40%) CentOS
7 3 (0.40%) Debian
7 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (32.36%) Agile
2 237 (31.56%) CI/CD
3 214 (28.50%) Software Engineering
4 212 (28.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 184 (24.50%) DevOps
6 153 (20.37%) Microservices
7 146 (19.44%) Mentoring
8 128 (17.04%) Test Automation
9 92 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 92 (12.25%) TDD
10 84 (11.19%) Containerisation
11 81 (10.79%) AI
12 79 (10.52%) Coaching
13 78 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
14 77 (10.25%) Scrum
15 69 (9.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 58 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
17 54 (7.19%) Event-Driven
18 50 (6.66%) Code Quality
19 46 (6.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 176 (23.44%) Python
2 135 (17.98%) SQL
3 115 (15.31%) JavaScript
4 109 (14.51%) TypeScript
5 75 (9.99%) C#
6 43 (5.73%) Kotlin
7 42 (5.59%) C++
8 32 (4.26%) Groovy
9 28 (3.73%) Bash
10 24 (3.20%) Scala
11 16 (2.13%) Go
12 11 (1.46%) C
13 9 (1.20%) PHP
14 8 (1.07%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.67%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.53%) Ruby
17 2 (0.27%) Perl
17 2 (0.27%) Rust
17 2 (0.27%) Swift
18 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 123 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.59%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.86%) DV Cleared
4 36 (4.79%) Degree
5 17 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.53%) MBA
11 2 (0.27%) PhD
12 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.26%) Accessibility
1 32 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 32 (4.26%) QA
2 17 (2.26%) WCAG
3 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 14443
3 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 7816
4 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 138 (18.38%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) vSphere
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (13.05%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.59%) Ansible
3 14 (1.86%) Argo
4 11 (1.46%) HP Fortify
5 7 (0.93%) Packer
6 5 (0.67%) Grafana
6 5 (0.67%) Puppet
7 4 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.40%) Control-M
8 3 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.27%) Kibana
9 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (3.20%) Adobe
2 21 (2.80%) Splunk
3 18 (2.40%) AppDynamics
4 14 (1.86%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.46%) Google
5 11 (1.46%) Oracle
6 8 (1.07%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.07%) IBM
7 5 (0.67%) Red Hat
7 5 (0.67%) VMware
8 4 (0.53%) NEC
8 4 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.40%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.40%) Talend
10 2 (0.27%) Apple
10 2 (0.27%) Databricks
10 2 (0.27%) New Relic
11 1 (0.13%) HP