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

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 53 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 -12 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 380 298 693
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.68% 4.33% 4.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.12% 14.68% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 264 207 519
10th Percentile £33,250 £38,050 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £49,236
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £77,885 £93,778 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%

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 2,220 2,030 4,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.65% 29.52% 31.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,679 1,441 3,900
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 13 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 13 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 +7 189 £70,000 +3.70% 53
North West -17 163 £70,000 +7.69% 85
North East -24 28 £52,500 -7.89% 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 12 (3.16%) OpenStack
2 11 (2.89%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.37%) Apache
4 6 (1.58%) JBoss
5 4 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.79%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.53%) CICS
7 2 (0.53%) Mule
7 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.26%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 212 (55.79%) AWS
2 103 (27.11%) Serverless
3 94 (24.74%) Azure
4 66 (17.37%) Amazon ECS
5 59 (15.53%) Amazon S3
5 59 (15.53%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (15.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (12.37%) AWS Step Functions
8 36 (9.47%) Amazon ECR
9 35 (9.21%) Apigee
10 32 (8.42%) GCP
11 24 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (6.05%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (5.00%) GitHub
13 19 (5.00%) SaaS
14 17 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (4.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (2.89%) dbt
16 9 (2.37%) OpenShift
17 8 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.42%) Broadband
2 4 (1.05%) AMQP
3 3 (0.79%) HTTP
3 3 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.53%) SAN
5 1 (0.26%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) SSH
5 1 (0.26%) TCAP
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.21%) DynamoDB
2 41 (10.79%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.74%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.47%) MongoDB
6 16 (4.21%) MySQL
7 15 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (2.11%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.84%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.58%) Big Data
12 5 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.05%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.05%) Power BI
13 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (18.68%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.84%) GitLab
3 41 (10.79%) Git
4 38 (10.00%) Cypress.io
5 36 (9.47%) SonarQube
6 33 (8.68%) Maven
7 10 (2.63%) JIRA
8 8 (2.11%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.84%) Selenium
10 6 (1.58%) Claude Code
10 6 (1.58%) JUnit
11 5 (1.32%) Bitbucket
12 4 (1.05%) IntelliJ
12 4 (1.05%) JMeter
13 3 (0.79%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.79%) REST Assured
14 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.53%) Locust
14 2 (0.53%) Postman
14 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
General
1 65 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 50 (13.16%) Finance
3 32 (8.42%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.32%) Games
5 18 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.21%) Retail
7 15 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (2.37%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.11%) Banking
10 5 (1.32%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.79%) Marketing
12 2 (0.53%) Advertising
12 2 (0.53%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Back Office
13 1 (0.26%) Electronics
13 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 163 (42.89%) Developer
2 122 (32.11%) Java Developer
3 91 (23.95%) Software Engineer
4 72 (18.95%) Senior
5 56 (14.74%) Lead
6 47 (12.37%) Java Engineer
7 33 (8.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (7.89%) Java Software Engineer
8 30 (7.89%) Senior Developer
9 26 (6.84%) Architect
9 26 (6.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 26 (6.84%) Software Developer
10 23 (6.05%) Senior Java Developer
11 20 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
12 18 (4.74%) Applications Developer
13 17 (4.47%) Junior
13 17 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (4.21%) AWS Developer
14 16 (4.21%) Senior Java Engineer
15 15 (3.95%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (26.84%) Spring Boot
2 86 (22.63%) Spring
3 80 (21.05%) AngularJS
4 60 (15.79%) Node.js
5 44 (11.58%) React
6 36 (9.47%) .NET
7 35 (9.21%) Gherkin
7 35 (9.21%) Jest
7 35 (9.21%) RESTful
8 33 (8.68%) REST
9 22 (5.79%) Kafka
10 15 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (3.95%) Web Services
11 14 (3.68%) GraphQL
12 13 (3.42%) Android SDK
12 13 (3.42%) Hibernate
13 11 (2.89%) CSS
14 10 (2.63%) HTML
15 9 (2.37%) Micronaut
16 8 (2.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.58%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (5.53%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.42%) Social Media
5 12 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.11%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.32%) IoT
7 5 (1.32%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.79%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.79%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.79%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.53%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.53%) DataPower
9 2 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.53%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.32%) Linux
2 15 (3.95%) Android
3 5 (1.32%) Windows
4 4 (1.05%) CentOS
4 4 (1.05%) Debian
4 4 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.05%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.79%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) SUSE
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (44.74%) Agile
2 150 (39.47%) CI/CD
3 131 (34.47%) Software Engineering
4 114 (30.00%) DevOps
5 97 (25.53%) Microservices
6 78 (20.53%) Mentoring
7 71 (18.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 60 (15.79%) TDD
9 59 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
10 52 (13.68%) Scrum
11 50 (13.16%) AI
12 48 (12.63%) Test Automation
13 45 (11.84%) SDLC
14 43 (11.32%) Computer Science
15 41 (10.79%) Containerisation
16 39 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
17 36 (9.47%) BDD
18 34 (8.95%) Clean Code
18 34 (8.95%) Open Source
19 33 (8.68%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 100 (26.32%) Python
2 94 (24.74%) JavaScript
3 85 (22.37%) SQL
3 85 (22.37%) TypeScript
4 49 (12.89%) C#
5 44 (11.58%) Kotlin
6 33 (8.68%) Bash
6 33 (8.68%) Groovy
7 13 (3.42%) C
7 13 (3.42%) PL/SQL
8 12 (3.16%) Go
9 10 (2.63%) C++
10 7 (1.84%) Scala
11 4 (1.05%) Ruby
12 3 (0.79%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.79%) R
13 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 1 (0.26%) ABAP
14 1 (0.26%) Delphi
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (12.11%) AWS Certification
2 45 (11.84%) Degree
3 37 (9.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.63%) Security Cleared
5 23 (6.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (5.53%) Azure Certification
6 21 (5.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (5.53%) TOGAF Certification
7 18 (4.74%) SC Cleared
8 17 (4.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.47%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (3.42%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.26%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.26%) MBA
12 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.00%) QA
2 7 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.05%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.53%) GDPR
5 2 (0.53%) WCAG
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 97 (25.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.53%) vSphere
3 1 (0.26%) Squid
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (15.26%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.68%) HP Fortify
3 31 (8.16%) Terraform
4 19 (5.00%) Ansible
5 7 (1.84%) Grafana
6 4 (1.05%) Puppet
7 3 (0.79%) Rancher
8 2 (0.53%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.53%) Control-M
8 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.53%) Packer
8 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Kibana
9 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.42%) Google
3 10 (2.63%) Oracle
4 8 (2.11%) Pega
5 5 (1.32%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.32%) WSO2
6 4 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.05%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.79%) VMware
8 2 (0.53%) Cognos
8 2 (0.53%) IBM
8 2 (0.53%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.53%) SAP
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe
9 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.26%) Databricks
9 1 (0.26%) New Relic
9 1 (0.26%) Veracode