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 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 54 42
Rank change year-on-year -10 -12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 398 301 690
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.71% 4.53% 4.62%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.51% 15.56% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 277 218 506
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,100 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £49,364
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £91,592
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -8.72%

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 2,273 1,934 4,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.50% 29.10% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,706 1,460 3,908
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,588 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 21 March 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 21 March 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
Yorkshire +7 187 £70,000 - 61
North West -20 175 £70,000 +7.69% 95
North East -19 36 £52,130 -8.54% 34
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 (3.02%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.51%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.01%) Apache
4 6 (1.51%) JBoss
5 4 (1.01%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.50%) CICS
7 2 (0.50%) Confluence
7 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.25%) Mule
8 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 213 (53.52%) AWS
2 106 (26.63%) Serverless
3 94 (23.62%) Azure
4 68 (17.09%) Amazon ECS
5 61 (15.33%) Amazon S3
5 61 (15.33%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (15.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 48 (12.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (9.30%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (9.05%) Apigee
10 29 (7.29%) GCP
11 24 (6.03%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (4.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 18 (4.52%) SaaS
13 17 (4.27%) GitHub
14 11 (2.76%) dbt
15 9 (2.26%) OpenShift
16 8 (2.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.27%) Broadband
2 4 (1.01%) AMQP
3 3 (0.75%) HTTP
4 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (14.07%) DynamoDB
2 43 (10.80%) NoSQL
3 36 (9.05%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (6.28%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 16 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (4.02%) MySQL
7 10 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.76%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.51%) Big Data
11 5 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.01%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.01%) GIS
12 4 (1.01%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.01%) Power BI
12 4 (1.01%) QGIS
12 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (18.09%) Jenkins
2 46 (11.56%) GitLab
3 43 (10.80%) Git
4 38 (9.55%) Cypress.io
5 36 (9.05%) SonarQube
6 34 (8.54%) Maven
7 14 (3.52%) JIRA
8 8 (2.01%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.01%) Selenium
9 7 (1.76%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.51%) JUnit
10 6 (1.51%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.26%) Postman
12 4 (1.01%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.01%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.01%) JMeter
13 3 (0.75%) Eclipse
14 2 (0.50%) Gatling
14 2 (0.50%) Locust
14 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 63 (15.83%) Social Skills
2 48 (12.06%) Finance
3 37 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.03%) Games
5 18 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.02%) Retail
7 9 (2.26%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.01%) Banking
9 6 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.26%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.75%) Advertising
11 3 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.75%) Marketing
12 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.25%) Electronics
13 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 171 (42.96%) Developer
2 129 (32.41%) Java Developer
3 98 (24.62%) Software Engineer
4 77 (19.35%) Senior
5 62 (15.58%) Lead
6 49 (12.31%) Java Engineer
7 35 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 34 (8.54%) Senior Developer
9 30 (7.54%) Java Software Engineer
10 29 (7.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 29 (7.29%) Software Developer
11 27 (6.78%) Senior Java Developer
12 25 (6.28%) Architect
13 23 (5.78%) Lead Software Engineer
14 18 (4.52%) Applications Developer
14 18 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
15 17 (4.27%) Junior
16 16 (4.02%) AWS Developer
16 16 (4.02%) Senior Java Engineer
17 15 (3.77%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (26.13%) Spring Boot
2 87 (21.86%) Spring
3 81 (20.35%) AngularJS
4 62 (15.58%) Node.js
5 45 (11.31%) React
6 40 (10.05%) .NET
7 36 (9.05%) Gherkin
8 34 (8.54%) Jest
8 34 (8.54%) REST
8 34 (8.54%) RESTful
9 21 (5.28%) Kafka
10 15 (3.77%) Web Services
11 14 (3.52%) CSS
11 14 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (3.52%) GraphQL
12 13 (3.27%) Android SDK
12 13 (3.27%) Hibernate
13 11 (2.76%) HTML
14 7 (1.76%) SOAP
14 7 (1.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (6.28%) Cloud Native
3 24 (6.03%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (5.28%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.27%) Social Media
6 11 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.01%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.26%) IoT
8 5 (1.26%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.75%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.50%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.78%) Linux
2 15 (3.77%) Android
3 4 (1.01%) CentOS
3 4 (1.01%) Debian
3 4 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.01%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.75%) Unix
4 3 (0.75%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (45.98%) Agile
2 155 (38.94%) CI/CD
3 136 (34.17%) Software Engineering
4 114 (28.64%) DevOps
5 97 (24.37%) Microservices
6 80 (20.10%) Mentoring
7 75 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
8 63 (15.83%) TDD
9 59 (14.82%) Scrum
10 57 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (13.32%) Test Automation
12 51 (12.81%) AI
13 48 (12.06%) SDLC
14 41 (10.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 40 (10.05%) Computer Science
16 39 (9.80%) BDD
16 39 (9.80%) Containerisation
17 36 (9.05%) Clean Code
17 36 (9.05%) Coaching
18 35 (8.79%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 104 (26.13%) Python
2 100 (25.13%) JavaScript
3 90 (22.61%) SQL
4 84 (21.11%) TypeScript
5 50 (12.56%) C#
6 45 (11.31%) Kotlin
7 34 (8.54%) Bash
7 34 (8.54%) Groovy
8 13 (3.27%) C
8 13 (3.27%) Go
8 13 (3.27%) PL/SQL
9 12 (3.02%) C++
10 7 (1.76%) Scala
11 4 (1.01%) PHP
11 4 (1.01%) Ruby
12 3 (0.75%) R
13 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.25%) ABAP
14 1 (0.25%) Delphi
14 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (11.31%) AWS Certification
2 42 (10.55%) Degree
3 35 (8.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 34 (8.54%) Security Cleared
5 23 (5.78%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (4.77%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (4.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 18 (4.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 18 (4.52%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (3.27%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.01%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.25%) MBA
12 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.52%) QA
2 10 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 96 (24.12%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) Squid
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (14.32%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.54%) HP Fortify
3 33 (8.29%) Terraform
4 18 (4.52%) Ansible
5 6 (1.51%) Grafana
6 4 (1.01%) Puppet
7 3 (0.75%) Rancher
8 2 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.50%) Packer
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Control-M
9 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (6.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.51%) Google
3 9 (2.26%) Oracle
4 8 (2.01%) Pega
5 5 (1.26%) WSO2
6 4 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.01%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.01%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.50%) Cognos
7 2 (0.50%) IBM
7 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.50%) SAP
7 2 (0.50%) VMware
8 1 (0.25%) Adobe
8 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.25%) Databricks
8 1 (0.25%) New Relic
8 1 (0.25%) Veracode