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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 19 59
Rank change year-on-year -23 +40 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 676 1,014 624
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.27% 10.82% 3.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.52% 37.60% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 489 234 417
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,100 £37,100
25th Percentile £50,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,079 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.58% +3.33% -6.25%

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 3,463 2,697 5,134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.76% 28.77% 27.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 1,436 4,103
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,933
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £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 10 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 10 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 -36 305 £70,000 - 76
Yorkshire +29 231 £72,500 +3.57% 37
North East +2 140 £53,750 +19.44% 21
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 12 (1.78%) Apache
2 9 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.33%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.18%) Confluence
4 6 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.74%) JBoss
5 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.59%) 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 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 279 (41.27%) AWS
2 120 (17.75%) Serverless
3 112 (16.57%) Azure
4 90 (13.31%) AWS Lambda
5 87 (12.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 85 (12.57%) Amazon S3
7 82 (12.13%) Amazon ECS
8 64 (9.47%) AWS Step Functions
9 44 (6.51%) GitHub
10 42 (6.21%) Amazon ECR
11 38 (5.62%) Apigee
12 36 (5.33%) GCP
13 33 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 30 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
16 28 (4.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 23 (3.40%) SaaS
18 20 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
19 14 (2.07%) Anthropic Claude
19 14 (2.07%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.92%) Broadband
2 3 (0.44%) AMQP
3 2 (0.30%) MQTT
3 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (11.09%) DynamoDB
2 59 (8.73%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (5.33%) MongoDB
5 31 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (3.85%) MySQL
7 22 (3.25%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.92%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.78%) Power BI
10 9 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.33%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.74%) Big Data
14 5 (0.74%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.74%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 83 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 69 (10.21%) GitLab
3 59 (8.73%) Git
4 39 (5.77%) Cypress.io
5 38 (5.62%) Maven
6 35 (5.18%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.55%) JIRA
8 13 (1.92%) Claude Code
8 13 (1.92%) Cucumber
9 10 (1.48%) JUnit
9 10 (1.48%) Selenium
10 9 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.18%) Spock
12 7 (1.04%) Postman
13 6 (0.89%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.89%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.74%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.74%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.74%) fastlane
14 5 (0.74%) Gradle
General
1 84 (12.43%) Public Sector
2 81 (11.98%) Finance
3 65 (9.62%) Social Skills
4 35 (5.18%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.37%) Banking
7 13 (1.92%) Games
8 9 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.18%) Marketing
10 7 (1.04%) Retail
11 5 (0.74%) Advertising
11 5 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.59%) Publishing
13 3 (0.44%) Back Office
13 3 (0.44%) Legal
14 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 320 (47.34%) Developer
2 250 (36.98%) Java Developer
3 177 (26.18%) Senior
4 119 (17.60%) Software Engineer
5 114 (16.86%) Java Engineer
6 100 (14.79%) Lead
7 86 (12.72%) Senior Developer
8 73 (10.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (9.47%) Full-Stack Developer
10 59 (8.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 47 (6.95%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 47 (6.95%) Java Software Engineer
12 40 (5.92%) Software Developer
13 37 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
14 35 (5.18%) Senior Java Engineer
15 33 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
16 32 (4.73%) AWS Developer
16 32 (4.73%) Lead Software Engineer
17 29 (4.29%) Lead Java Engineer
18 28 (4.14%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (22.78%) Spring
2 151 (22.34%) Spring Boot
3 143 (21.15%) AngularJS
4 90 (13.31%) Node.js
5 71 (10.50%) React
6 50 (7.40%) .NET
7 43 (6.36%) RESTful
8 40 (5.92%) REST
9 37 (5.47%) Gherkin
10 28 (4.14%) Jest
10 28 (4.14%) Vue
11 22 (3.25%) Kafka
12 21 (3.11%) CSS
13 18 (2.66%) Android SDK
13 18 (2.66%) GraphQL
13 18 (2.66%) HTML
14 10 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (1.33%) Hibernate
15 9 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (1.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.40%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.92%) Social Media
7 11 (1.63%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.18%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.04%) Legacy Code
12 6 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.74%) Algorithms
13 5 (0.74%) Data Structures
13 5 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.74%) Hedge funds
13 5 (0.74%) Onboarding
14 4 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.88%) Linux
2 19 (2.81%) Android
3 16 (2.37%) Windows
4 15 (2.22%) Unix
5 3 (0.44%) CentOS
5 3 (0.44%) Debian
5 3 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (37.72%) Agile
2 216 (31.95%) CI/CD
3 184 (27.22%) Software Engineering
4 172 (25.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 166 (24.56%) DevOps
6 141 (20.86%) Microservices
7 135 (19.97%) Test Automation
8 123 (18.20%) Mentoring
9 101 (14.94%) TDD
10 79 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
11 78 (11.54%) Coaching
12 77 (11.39%) Scrum
13 76 (11.24%) AI
14 61 (9.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 55 (8.14%) Containerisation
16 54 (7.99%) Clean Code
17 53 (7.84%) Continuous Integration
18 51 (7.54%) SDLC
19 50 (7.40%) Infrastructure as Code
20 49 (7.25%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 158 (23.37%) Python
2 144 (21.30%) SQL
3 121 (17.90%) JavaScript
4 93 (13.76%) TypeScript
5 59 (8.73%) C#
6 57 (8.43%) Kotlin
7 46 (6.80%) Groovy
8 39 (5.77%) Bash
9 22 (3.25%) C++
10 18 (2.66%) Go
11 16 (2.37%) Scala
12 7 (1.04%) C
13 6 (0.89%) PHP
13 6 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.44%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 62 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.73%) AWS Certification
3 32 (4.73%) Degree
4 30 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 22 (3.25%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.59%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 26 (3.85%) QA
2 16 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.48%) WCAG
4 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 123 (18.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (11.39%) Terraform
2 65 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.44%) Ansible
4 27 (3.99%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.92%) Argo
6 5 (0.74%) Grafana
6 5 (0.74%) Packer
7 3 (0.44%) Control-M
7 3 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.44%) Puppet
8 2 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (2.37%) Splunk
2 15 (2.22%) Adobe
2 15 (2.22%) Microsoft
3 14 (2.07%) Google
4 13 (1.92%) AppDynamics
5 9 (1.33%) Oracle
6 8 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.04%) IBM
8 5 (0.74%) Pega
8 5 (0.74%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.59%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.59%) VMware
10 3 (0.44%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.30%) Cognos
11 2 (0.30%) WSO2
12 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.15%) Talend
12 1 (0.15%) Veracode