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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 71 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 -37 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 261 359 528
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.77% 3.04% 7.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.56% 10.98% 18.81%
Number of salaries quoted 176 162 383
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,880 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £92,125 £86,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 1,677 3,271 2,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.83% 27.69% 38.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,336 1,791 2,264
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,797
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -14 121 £67,500 +12.50% 50
Yorkshire +33 119 £67,500 +22.73% 21
North East -13 23 £55,000 -6.75% 8
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 9 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.30%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.92%) Apache
3 5 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.53%) Camunda
5 3 (1.15%) Mule
6 2 (0.77%) CMS
6 2 (0.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.77%) SAS
6 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.77%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (57.47%) AWS
2 86 (32.95%) Azure
3 45 (17.24%) Serverless
4 35 (13.41%) GCP
5 23 (8.81%) Amazon ECS
6 18 (6.90%) SaaS
7 17 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (6.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.60%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.21%) GitHub
12 8 (3.07%) OpenShift
13 7 (2.68%) Amazon ECR
13 7 (2.68%) Apigee
13 7 (2.68%) AWS Step Functions
14 5 (1.92%) dbt
14 5 (1.92%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.92%) PaaS
14 5 (1.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) AMQP
2 3 (1.15%) SAN
3 2 (0.77%) HTTP
3 2 (0.77%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.77%) SSH
3 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.34%) NoSQL
1 27 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.28%) MySQL
2 19 (7.28%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.13%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.75%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.36%) DynamoDB
6 8 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.68%) Big Data
8 6 (2.30%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.53%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.53%) Tableau
11 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.15%) Power BI
12 2 (0.77%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 40 (15.33%) Jenkins
2 31 (11.88%) GitLab
3 22 (8.43%) Git
4 19 (7.28%) SonarQube
5 11 (4.21%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.83%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.83%) Maven
7 8 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.68%) JIRA
9 6 (2.30%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.30%) JUnit
9 6 (2.30%) Selenium
10 4 (1.53%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.77%) Babel
12 2 (0.77%) JMeter
12 2 (0.77%) Mockito
12 2 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 78 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.90%) Finance
3 16 (6.13%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.75%) Games
4 15 (5.75%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.75%) Retail
5 12 (4.60%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.45%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.92%) Marketing
9 4 (1.53%) Banking
9 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 2 (0.77%) Back Office
11 2 (0.77%) Billing
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Electronics
11 2 (0.77%) Law
Job Titles
1 101 (38.70%) Developer
2 69 (26.44%) Senior
3 59 (22.61%) Java Developer
4 53 (20.31%) Software Engineer
5 36 (13.79%) Lead
6 27 (10.34%) Senior Developer
7 26 (9.96%) Architect
8 23 (8.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 20 (7.66%) Software Developer
10 19 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 18 (6.90%) Java Engineer
12 16 (6.13%) Graduate
13 15 (5.75%) Lead Developer
14 13 (4.98%) Full-Stack Developer
15 10 (3.83%) Applications Architect
16 9 (3.45%) Graduate Developer
16 9 (3.45%) IT Graduate
16 9 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (3.45%) Junior
16 9 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (26.05%) Spring
2 64 (24.52%) Spring Boot
3 41 (15.71%) React
4 30 (11.49%) AngularJS
4 30 (11.49%) Node.js
5 29 (11.11%) .NET
5 29 (11.11%) CSS
6 27 (10.34%) RESTful
7 26 (9.96%) REST
8 20 (7.66%) Kafka
9 15 (5.75%) Hibernate
10 14 (5.36%) HTML
11 12 (4.60%) Micronaut
12 11 (4.21%) ASP.NET
12 11 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (4.21%) Jest
12 11 (4.21%) jQuery
13 10 (3.83%) Web Services
14 9 (3.45%) Gherkin
15 7 (2.68%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.68%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.30%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.53%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.53%) e-Learning
8 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.15%) IoT
10 2 (0.77%) DataPower
10 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.77%) NHS
10 2 (0.77%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.34%) Linux
2 9 (3.45%) Windows
3 3 (1.15%) Android
3 3 (1.15%) Unix
4 2 (0.77%) CentOS
4 2 (0.77%) Debian
4 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.77%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (40.61%) Agile
2 94 (36.02%) DevOps
3 92 (35.25%) CI/CD
4 83 (31.80%) Software Engineering
5 71 (27.20%) Microservices
6 60 (22.99%) Mentoring
7 59 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
8 51 (19.54%) Computer Science
9 43 (16.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (15.33%) Containerisation
11 38 (14.56%) Clean Code
12 37 (14.18%) TDD
13 33 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
13 33 (12.64%) SDLC
13 33 (12.64%) Test Automation
14 27 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (9.58%) Enterprise Architecture
16 24 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (8.43%) Roadmaps
17 22 (8.43%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 84 (32.18%) Python
2 74 (28.35%) SQL
3 70 (26.82%) JavaScript
4 61 (23.37%) C#
5 58 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.90%) C
6 18 (6.90%) C++
7 17 (6.51%) Bash
8 16 (6.13%) PHP
9 15 (5.75%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.21%) Go
10 11 (4.21%) PowerShell
11 10 (3.83%) Scala
12 9 (3.45%) PL/SQL
13 6 (2.30%) Groovy
13 6 (2.30%) Perl
14 4 (1.53%) R
14 4 (1.53%) Ruby
15 3 (1.15%) Rust
16 2 (0.77%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (20.69%) Degree
2 44 (16.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (13.03%) AWS Certification
4 25 (9.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (9.20%) Azure Certification
6 22 (8.43%) Security Cleared
7 17 (6.51%) SC Cleared
8 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (6.13%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.30%) HND
10 6 (2.30%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.92%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.43%) QA
2 8 (3.07%) GDPR
3 7 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.30%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.30%) NIST
5 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.77%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.77%) WCAG
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 64 (24.52%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) vSphere
3 2 (0.77%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.77%) HDFS
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Squid
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (26.05%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.05%) Terraform
3 18 (6.90%) Ansible
4 9 (3.45%) Grafana
5 7 (2.68%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.15%) Control-M
6 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.15%) Kibana
7 2 (0.77%) logstash
7 2 (0.77%) Oozie
7 2 (0.77%) Puppet
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.51%) Google
3 8 (3.07%) Oracle
4 6 (2.30%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.30%) Siemens
4 6 (2.30%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.92%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.92%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.53%) Pega
6 4 (1.53%) SAP
6 4 (1.53%) WSO2
7 3 (1.15%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.15%) VMware
8 2 (0.77%) Adobe
8 2 (0.77%) IBM
8 2 (0.77%) Informatica
8 2 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.77%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.77%) Splunk
8 2 (0.77%) TIBCO