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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 17 56
Rank change year-on-year -39 +39 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 602 975 633
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.07% 12.66% 3.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.18% 38.28% 12.67%
Number of salaries quoted 434 215 457
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,600 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 3,138 2,547 4,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.01% 33.08% 28.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,312 1,308 4,221
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,599 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £67,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,125 £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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -50 253 £70,000 -10.43% 99
Yorkshire +19 242 £72,500 +0.71% 42
North East +2 107 £52,500 -7.08% 33
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 11 (1.83%) Apache
1 11 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.50%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.16%) JBoss
4 6 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.83%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.50%) Confluence
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
8 2 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 266 (44.19%) AWS
2 124 (20.60%) Serverless
3 108 (17.94%) Azure
4 89 (14.78%) Amazon S3
5 88 (14.62%) Amazon ECS
5 88 (14.62%) AWS CloudFormation
6 86 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 68 (11.30%) AWS Step Functions
8 48 (7.97%) Amazon ECR
9 45 (7.48%) Apigee
10 34 (5.65%) GitHub
11 30 (4.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 30 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.82%) GCP
13 28 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 23 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
15 20 (3.32%) SaaS
16 16 (2.66%) Azure AKS
17 14 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.16%) Broadband
2 3 (0.50%) AMQP
2 3 (0.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.17%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.96%) DynamoDB
2 64 (10.63%) NoSQL
3 51 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (6.15%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (4.32%) Relational Database
7 25 (4.15%) MySQL
8 13 (2.16%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.66%) Power BI
10 7 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.00%) Big Data
11 6 (1.00%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.66%) Flink
12 4 (0.66%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 90 (14.95%) Jenkins
2 74 (12.29%) GitLab
3 61 (10.13%) Git
4 42 (6.98%) Cypress.io
4 42 (6.98%) Maven
5 41 (6.81%) SonarQube
6 20 (3.32%) JIRA
7 14 (2.33%) Claude Code
8 9 (1.50%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.33%) JUnit
10 7 (1.16%) Selenium
11 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.83%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.66%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.66%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.66%) JMeter
13 4 (0.66%) Postman
13 4 (0.66%) Spock
14 3 (0.50%) fastlane
General
1 80 (13.29%) Public Sector
2 68 (11.30%) Social Skills
3 64 (10.63%) Finance
4 33 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.66%) Banking
7 14 (2.33%) Games
8 10 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.50%) Marketing
9 9 (1.50%) Retail
10 6 (1.00%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.83%) Advertising
11 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.50%) Back Office
13 3 (0.50%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.50%) Legal
13 3 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.33%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 289 (48.01%) Developer
2 227 (37.71%) Java Developer
3 155 (25.75%) Senior
4 113 (18.77%) Software Engineer
5 99 (16.45%) Lead
6 92 (15.28%) Java Engineer
7 80 (13.29%) Senior Developer
8 66 (10.96%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (10.30%) Full-Stack Developer
10 45 (7.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 40 (6.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (6.64%) Java Software Engineer
12 35 (5.81%) Software Developer
13 32 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (5.15%) Junior
15 30 (4.98%) AWS Developer
15 30 (4.98%) Senior Software Engineer
16 27 (4.49%) Lead Java Engineer
16 27 (4.49%) Senior Java Engineer
17 22 (3.65%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (23.59%) Spring Boot
2 137 (22.76%) Spring
3 131 (21.76%) AngularJS
4 88 (14.62%) Node.js
5 67 (11.13%) React
6 52 (8.64%) .NET
7 45 (7.48%) REST
8 41 (6.81%) Gherkin
8 41 (6.81%) RESTful
9 35 (5.81%) Jest
10 25 (4.15%) Kafka
11 23 (3.82%) CSS
12 20 (3.32%) HTML
13 19 (3.16%) Vue
14 16 (2.66%) Android SDK
14 16 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (2.66%) GraphQL
15 14 (2.33%) Web Services
16 10 (1.66%) JSON
17 9 (1.50%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (3.82%) Cloud Native
2 23 (3.82%) Mobile App
3 15 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (2.33%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.16%) Social Media
6 9 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
8 7 (1.16%) Legacy Code
8 7 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.83%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.66%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.66%) Contactless
11 4 (0.66%) EMV
11 4 (0.66%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.66%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.98%) Linux
2 16 (2.66%) Android
2 16 (2.66%) Windows
3 15 (2.49%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) CentOS
4 3 (0.50%) Debian
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (40.86%) Agile
2 203 (33.72%) CI/CD
3 165 (27.41%) Software Engineering
4 155 (25.75%) DevOps
5 147 (24.42%) Full-Stack Development
6 139 (23.09%) Microservices
7 124 (20.60%) Mentoring
8 110 (18.27%) Test Automation
9 83 (13.79%) Scrum
9 83 (13.79%) TDD
10 74 (12.29%) Problem-Solving
11 68 (11.30%) AI
12 64 (10.63%) Coaching
13 57 (9.47%) SDLC
14 52 (8.64%) Clean Code
15 51 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (7.48%) Design Patterns
17 43 (7.14%) Containerisation
17 43 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
17 43 (7.14%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 145 (24.09%) SQL
2 138 (22.92%) Python
3 128 (21.26%) JavaScript
4 100 (16.61%) TypeScript
5 64 (10.63%) C#
6 53 (8.80%) Kotlin
7 49 (8.14%) Groovy
8 39 (6.48%) Bash
9 23 (3.82%) C++
10 13 (2.16%) Go
11 9 (1.50%) C
12 8 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.00%) Scala
14 3 (0.50%) PHP
15 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.17%) Perl
16 1 (0.17%) R
16 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 54 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.81%) AWS Certification
4 36 (5.98%) Degree
5 23 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
6 19 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 13 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 11 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.66%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 7 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) MBA
12 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.82%) QA
2 20 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.00%) WCAG
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 114 (18.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) vSphere
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 61 (10.13%) Terraform
2 55 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.65%) HP Fortify
4 20 (3.32%) Ansible
5 13 (2.16%) Argo
6 5 (0.83%) Packer
7 3 (0.50%) Grafana
7 3 (0.50%) Puppet
7 3 (0.50%) Rancher
8 2 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.33%) Control-M
8 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) Kibana
8 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (3.49%) Microsoft
2 12 (1.99%) Google
3 11 (1.83%) Adobe
4 10 (1.66%) Oracle
5 9 (1.50%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.16%) IBM
7 5 (0.83%) Pega
8 4 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.66%) Splunk
9 3 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.50%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.50%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.50%) VMware
10 2 (0.33%) Cognos
10 2 (0.33%) WSO2
11 1 (0.17%) Databricks
11 1 (0.17%) Veracode