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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 17 57
Rank change year-on-year -26 +40 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 646 1,009 650
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.18% 11.81% 3.39%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.00% 38.13% 12.14%
Number of salaries quoted 479 233 447
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
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 £93,778 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +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 3,400 2,646 5,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.76% 30.98% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,575 1,394 4,341
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,355 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £73,750 £67,500
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 27 June 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 27 June 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 -34 284 £70,000 -6.67% 64
Yorkshire +22 230 £72,500 +3.57% 37
North East +6 132 £52,500 +13.51% 27
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 (1.70%) Apache
2 9 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.24%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.93%) Confluence
4 6 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.77%) JBoss
5 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.31%) CICS
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 271 (41.95%) AWS
2 119 (18.42%) Serverless
3 107 (16.56%) Azure
4 88 (13.62%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (13.16%) Amazon S3
5 85 (13.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 82 (12.69%) Amazon ECS
7 65 (10.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 43 (6.66%) GitHub
9 42 (6.50%) Amazon ECR
10 38 (5.88%) Apigee
11 33 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (5.11%) GCP
12 31 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
13 29 (4.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 24 (3.72%) SaaS
15 20 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
16 14 (2.17%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.01%) Broadband
2 2 (0.31%) AMQP
2 2 (0.31%) MQTT
2 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (11.46%) DynamoDB
2 60 (9.29%) NoSQL
3 42 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 32 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (3.56%) MySQL
7 20 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 13 (2.01%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.86%) Power BI
10 8 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.24%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.62%) Flink
14 4 (0.62%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.62%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 85 (13.16%) Jenkins
2 67 (10.37%) GitLab
3 59 (9.13%) Git
4 38 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 37 (5.73%) Maven
6 35 (5.42%) SonarQube
7 22 (3.41%) JIRA
8 14 (2.17%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.86%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.55%) Selenium
11 7 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.08%) JUnit
11 7 (1.08%) Postman
12 6 (0.93%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.93%) REST Assured
12 6 (0.93%) Spock
13 5 (0.77%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.77%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.77%) fastlane
13 5 (0.77%) Gradle
General
1 81 (12.54%) Public Sector
2 74 (11.46%) Finance
3 62 (9.60%) Social Skills
4 32 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.32%) Banking
7 13 (2.01%) Games
8 9 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.24%) Marketing
10 6 (0.93%) Retail
11 5 (0.77%) Advertising
11 5 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.62%) Publishing
13 3 (0.46%) Back Office
13 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.46%) Legal
14 2 (0.31%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 316 (48.92%) Developer
2 246 (38.08%) Java Developer
3 168 (26.01%) Senior
4 115 (17.80%) Software Engineer
5 110 (17.03%) Java Engineer
6 95 (14.71%) Lead
7 86 (13.31%) Senior Developer
8 73 (11.30%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (9.91%) Full-Stack Developer
10 50 (7.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.43%) Java Software Engineer
12 47 (7.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 39 (6.04%) Software Developer
14 37 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (5.11%) Senior Java Engineer
16 32 (4.95%) AWS Developer
16 32 (4.95%) Junior
17 30 (4.64%) Lead Java Engineer
17 30 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
18 26 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (22.14%) Spring
2 142 (21.98%) Spring Boot
3 136 (21.05%) AngularJS
4 86 (13.31%) Node.js
5 68 (10.53%) React
6 47 (7.28%) .NET
7 43 (6.66%) RESTful
8 40 (6.19%) REST
9 37 (5.73%) Gherkin
10 28 (4.33%) Jest
11 27 (4.18%) Vue
12 22 (3.41%) Kafka
13 21 (3.25%) CSS
14 18 (2.79%) Android SDK
14 18 (2.79%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.79%) HTML
15 11 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (1.39%) Hibernate
17 8 (1.24%) JSON
17 8 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 34 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.72%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.01%) Social Media
7 10 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.55%) Marketing Technology
8 8 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.08%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.93%) Private Cloud
10 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.77%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.62%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.62%) Contactless
12 4 (0.62%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.33%) Linux
2 18 (2.79%) Android
3 16 (2.48%) Windows
4 15 (2.32%) Unix
5 2 (0.31%) CentOS
5 2 (0.31%) Debian
5 2 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (38.08%) Agile
2 205 (31.73%) CI/CD
3 176 (27.24%) Software Engineering
4 163 (25.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 156 (24.15%) DevOps
6 131 (20.28%) Microservices
7 128 (19.81%) Test Automation
8 123 (19.04%) Mentoring
9 92 (14.24%) TDD
10 75 (11.61%) Problem-Solving
11 74 (11.46%) Scrum
12 72 (11.15%) Coaching
13 70 (10.84%) AI
14 58 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (8.20%) Clean Code
16 52 (8.05%) SDLC
17 48 (7.43%) Continuous Integration
17 48 (7.43%) Secure Coding
18 47 (7.28%) Design Patterns
19 46 (7.12%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 141 (21.83%) Python
1 141 (21.83%) SQL
2 117 (18.11%) JavaScript
3 92 (14.24%) TypeScript
4 61 (9.44%) C#
5 58 (8.98%) Kotlin
6 45 (6.97%) Groovy
7 36 (5.57%) Bash
8 21 (3.25%) C++
9 17 (2.63%) Go
10 12 (1.86%) Scala
11 6 (0.93%) PHP
11 6 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.77%) C
13 3 (0.46%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Perl
14 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 61 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 28 (4.33%) Degree
5 22 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 22 (3.41%) DV Cleared
5 22 (3.41%) ITIL Certification
6 13 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.62%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.31%) MBA
11 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.87%) Accessibility
2 24 (3.72%) QA
3 15 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.55%) WCAG
5 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 114 (17.65%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) vSphere
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 69 (10.68%) Terraform
2 56 (8.67%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.18%) HP Fortify
4 22 (3.41%) Ansible
5 13 (2.01%) Argo
6 5 (0.77%) Grafana
6 5 (0.77%) Packer
7 3 (0.46%) Control-M
7 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.31%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.31%) Kibana
8 2 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.31%) Puppet
9 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (2.48%) Microsoft
2 14 (2.17%) Adobe
3 13 (2.01%) Google
4 12 (1.86%) Splunk
5 11 (1.70%) AppDynamics
6 9 (1.39%) Oracle
7 8 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.08%) IBM
9 5 (0.77%) Pega
9 5 (0.77%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.62%) VMware
11 2 (0.31%) Cognos
11 2 (0.31%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.31%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.31%) WSO2
12 1 (0.15%) Veracode