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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 20 67
Rank change year-on-year -25 +47 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 683 1,000 463
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.18% 10.50% 2.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.07% 36.95% 11.12%
Number of salaries quoted 494 220 279
10th Percentile £40,000 £30,300 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,788 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,484 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,250 £82,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -

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 3,581 2,706 4,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.67% 28.41% 26.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,711 1,452 3,221
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £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 31 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 31 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 -33 311 £70,000 - 85
Yorkshire +39 226 £72,500 +7.41% 38
North East +6 146 £55,000 +18.92% 32
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 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 10 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.32%) Apache
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.02%) Confluence
5 6 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.59%) GeoServer
7 4 (0.59%) JBoss
8 2 (0.29%) CICS
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.44%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 273 (39.97%) AWS
2 115 (16.84%) Azure
3 111 (16.25%) Serverless
4 82 (12.01%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (11.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 77 (11.27%) Amazon S3
7 74 (10.83%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (8.20%) AWS Step Functions
9 42 (6.15%) GitHub
10 39 (5.71%) GCP
11 36 (5.27%) Amazon ECR
12 33 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
13 32 (4.69%) Apigee
14 30 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (3.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 24 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
17 22 (3.22%) SaaS
18 20 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (1.90%) Anthropic Claude
19 13 (1.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.90%) Broadband
2 2 (0.29%) AMQP
2 2 (0.29%) MQTT
2 2 (0.29%) RIP
2 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.66%) DynamoDB
2 53 (7.76%) NoSQL
3 45 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 29 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (3.81%) MySQL
7 24 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.76%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.61%) Power BI
10 10 (1.46%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.02%) Flink
12 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.59%) Big Data
14 4 (0.59%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (11.27%) Jenkins
2 64 (9.37%) GitLab
3 63 (9.22%) Git
4 37 (5.42%) Maven
5 33 (4.83%) Cypress.io
6 28 (4.10%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.37%) JIRA
8 15 (2.20%) JUnit
9 13 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.76%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.61%) Spock
12 10 (1.46%) Selenium
13 8 (1.17%) Bitbucket
13 8 (1.17%) Storybook
14 7 (1.02%) Postman
15 6 (0.88%) Artifactory
15 6 (0.88%) Eclipse
15 6 (0.88%) IntelliJ
15 6 (0.88%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 86 (12.59%) Public Sector
2 82 (12.01%) Finance
3 79 (11.57%) Social Skills
4 35 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.34%) Banking
7 13 (1.90%) Games
8 10 (1.46%) Publishing
8 10 (1.46%) Retail
9 9 (1.32%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.32%) Marketing
10 8 (1.17%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.73%) Advertising
12 5 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.59%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.59%) Legal
14 3 (0.44%) Back Office
14 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 316 (46.27%) Developer
2 236 (34.55%) Java Developer
3 188 (27.53%) Senior
4 119 (17.42%) Software Engineer
5 116 (16.98%) Java Engineer
6 97 (14.20%) Lead
7 92 (13.47%) Senior Developer
8 70 (10.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
10 63 (9.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 47 (6.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 47 (6.88%) Java Software Engineer
12 38 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
13 37 (5.42%) DevOps Engineer
13 37 (5.42%) Software Developer
14 36 (5.27%) Senior Java Engineer
15 29 (4.25%) AWS Developer
15 29 (4.25%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (3.95%) Lead Java Engineer
17 26 (3.81%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (23.13%) Spring
2 147 (21.52%) Spring Boot
3 139 (20.35%) AngularJS
4 91 (13.32%) Node.js
5 66 (9.66%) React
6 52 (7.61%) .NET
7 42 (6.15%) RESTful
8 37 (5.42%) REST
9 31 (4.54%) Gherkin
10 27 (3.95%) Vue
11 26 (3.81%) CSS
12 25 (3.66%) HTML
13 24 (3.51%) Kafka
14 22 (3.22%) GraphQL
14 22 (3.22%) Jest
15 18 (2.64%) Android SDK
16 10 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (1.32%) Hibernate
18 8 (1.17%) MDX
18 8 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 34 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.90%) Social Media
7 12 (1.76%) Marketing Technology
8 11 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.88%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.88%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.73%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.73%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.59%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.83%) Linux
2 21 (3.07%) Android
3 16 (2.34%) Windows
4 15 (2.20%) Unix
5 3 (0.44%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (36.46%) Agile
2 222 (32.50%) CI/CD
3 186 (27.23%) Software Engineering
4 177 (25.92%) Full-Stack Development
5 166 (24.30%) DevOps
6 147 (21.52%) Microservices
7 144 (21.08%) Test Automation
8 131 (19.18%) Mentoring
9 106 (15.52%) TDD
10 85 (12.45%) AI
11 82 (12.01%) Scrum
12 81 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
13 80 (11.71%) Coaching
14 69 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (8.64%) Containerisation
16 56 (8.20%) Design Patterns
17 55 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
17 55 (8.05%) SDLC
18 53 (7.76%) Continuous Integration
19 52 (7.61%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 166 (24.30%) Python
2 139 (20.35%) SQL
3 124 (18.16%) JavaScript
4 93 (13.62%) TypeScript
5 64 (9.37%) C#
6 58 (8.49%) Kotlin
7 40 (5.86%) Groovy
8 33 (4.83%) Bash
9 25 (3.66%) C++
10 20 (2.93%) Scala
11 16 (2.34%) Go
12 9 (1.32%) C
12 9 (1.32%) PHP
12 9 (1.32%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.44%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.29%) Swift
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) Ruby
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (14.20%) Security Cleared
2 64 (9.37%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.42%) Degree
4 30 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.32%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.59%) MBA
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.39%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.81%) QA
3 16 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 14 (2.05%) WCAG
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 121 (17.72%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (11.86%) Terraform
2 65 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 32 (4.69%) Ansible
4 21 (3.07%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.90%) Argo
6 5 (0.73%) Grafana
7 4 (0.59%) Packer
8 3 (0.44%) Control-M
8 3 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.29%) Kibana
9 2 (0.29%) Puppet
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 22 (3.22%) Adobe
2 19 (2.78%) Splunk
3 16 (2.34%) AppDynamics
4 15 (2.20%) Microsoft
5 14 (2.05%) Google
6 10 (1.46%) Oracle
7 8 (1.17%) Dynatrace
8 6 (0.88%) IBM
9 5 (0.73%) Pega
10 4 (0.59%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.44%) NEC
11 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
11 3 (0.44%) VMware
12 2 (0.29%) Apple
12 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.29%) Talend
12 2 (0.29%) WSO2
13 1 (0.15%) HP