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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 435 305 707
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.81% 4.78% 4.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.73% 16.55% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 297 225 503
10th Percentile £36,500 £37,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £49,236
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £91,797
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

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 2,454 1,843 4,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.86% 28.87% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,796 1,479 4,021
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,529 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,228 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,015 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,750 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +8 207 £70,000 - 61
North West -23 185 £70,000 +4.42% 97
North East -17 43 £52,315 -8.22% 39
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 13 (2.99%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.84%) Apache
4 7 (1.61%) JBoss
5 4 (0.92%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.69%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) CICS
7 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 225 (51.72%) AWS
2 121 (27.82%) Serverless
3 89 (20.46%) Azure
4 82 (18.85%) Amazon ECS
5 77 (17.70%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (17.24%) Amazon S3
7 71 (16.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 57 (13.10%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (9.89%) Amazon ECR
10 42 (9.66%) Apigee
11 30 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (6.21%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (5.75%) GCP
14 23 (5.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (5.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 19 (4.37%) GitHub
16 18 (4.14%) SaaS
17 12 (2.76%) dbt
18 10 (2.30%) Datadog
19 8 (1.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.99%) Broadband
2 4 (0.92%) AMQP
3 3 (0.69%) HTTP
4 2 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.23%) SAN
5 1 (0.23%) SSH
5 1 (0.23%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.40%) DynamoDB
2 49 (11.26%) NoSQL
3 39 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (6.44%) Relational Database
5 21 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (4.14%) MySQL
7 17 (3.91%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.84%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.61%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.38%) Big Data
12 5 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.92%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.92%) GIS
13 4 (0.92%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.92%) Power BI
13 4 (0.92%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 81 (18.62%) Jenkins
2 53 (12.18%) Git
3 52 (11.95%) GitLab
4 44 (10.11%) SonarQube
5 42 (9.66%) Cypress.io
6 39 (8.97%) Maven
7 20 (4.60%) JIRA
8 14 (3.22%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.30%) Selenium
10 8 (1.84%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.38%) JMeter
11 6 (1.38%) JUnit
11 6 (1.38%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.15%) Postman
13 4 (0.92%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.92%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.69%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.69%) Locust
15 2 (0.46%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 52 (11.95%) Finance
3 41 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.52%) Games
5 19 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.68%) Retail
7 10 (2.30%) Banking
8 8 (1.84%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.15%) Advertising
10 5 (1.15%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Marketing
13 2 (0.46%) Back Office
13 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.23%) Electronics
14 1 (0.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 194 (44.60%) Developer
2 150 (34.48%) Java Developer
3 107 (24.60%) Software Engineer
4 83 (19.08%) Senior
5 67 (15.40%) Lead
6 60 (13.79%) Java Engineer
7 42 (9.66%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (9.20%) Senior Developer
9 35 (8.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 34 (7.82%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (7.13%) Senior Java Developer
12 30 (6.90%) Software Developer
13 24 (5.52%) Architect
13 24 (5.52%) Lead Software Engineer
14 19 (4.37%) Junior
15 18 (4.14%) Applications Developer
15 18 (4.14%) AWS Developer
15 18 (4.14%) Senior Software Engineer
16 17 (3.91%) Senior Java Engineer
17 16 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (27.59%) Spring Boot
2 99 (22.76%) AngularJS
2 99 (22.76%) Spring
3 68 (15.63%) Node.js
4 54 (12.41%) React
5 44 (10.11%) REST
6 42 (9.66%) Gherkin
7 39 (8.97%) .NET
7 39 (8.97%) Jest
8 36 (8.28%) RESTful
9 20 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (4.37%) Kafka
11 18 (4.14%) Web Services
12 15 (3.45%) CSS
13 14 (3.22%) GraphQL
14 13 (2.99%) Android SDK
15 12 (2.76%) Hibernate
15 12 (2.76%) HTML
16 10 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
17 9 (2.07%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.52%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.29%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.83%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.99%) Social Media
6 12 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.61%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.38%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.69%) IoT
10 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.69%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.52%) Linux
2 14 (3.22%) Android
3 4 (0.92%) CentOS
3 4 (0.92%) Debian
3 4 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.92%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.69%) Unix
5 2 (0.46%) Windows
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (45.98%) Agile
2 165 (37.93%) CI/CD
3 143 (32.87%) Software Engineering
4 126 (28.97%) DevOps
5 102 (23.45%) Microservices
6 89 (20.46%) Full-Stack Development
7 84 (19.31%) Mentoring
8 64 (14.71%) Scrum
8 64 (14.71%) TDD
9 63 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (14.48%) Test Automation
10 53 (12.18%) AI
11 51 (11.72%) SDLC
12 44 (10.11%) BDD
12 44 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 42 (9.66%) Clean Code
14 38 (8.74%) Computer Science
15 37 (8.51%) Coaching
15 37 (8.51%) Containerisation
15 37 (8.51%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 107 (24.60%) Python
2 105 (24.14%) JavaScript
3 100 (22.99%) SQL
4 92 (21.15%) TypeScript
5 50 (11.49%) Kotlin
6 47 (10.80%) C#
7 42 (9.66%) Groovy
8 38 (8.74%) Bash
9 14 (3.22%) Go
9 14 (3.22%) PL/SQL
10 12 (2.76%) C
11 11 (2.53%) C++
12 7 (1.61%) Scala
13 4 (0.92%) Ruby
14 3 (0.69%) PHP
14 3 (0.69%) R
15 1 (0.23%) ABAP
15 1 (0.23%) Delphi
15 1 (0.23%) Perl
15 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (11.03%) AWS Certification
2 47 (10.80%) Security Cleared
3 39 (8.97%) Degree
4 35 (8.05%) SC Cleared
5 32 (7.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (5.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (5.06%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 17 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (3.91%) TOGAF Certification
9 13 (2.99%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.07%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.23%) MBA
12 1 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.83%) QA
2 14 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.69%) WCAG
5 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.23%) GDPR
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 105 (24.14%) Docker
2 2 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 60 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 42 (9.66%) Terraform
3 39 (8.97%) HP Fortify
4 24 (5.52%) Ansible
5 6 (1.38%) Grafana
6 5 (1.15%) Packer
7 4 (0.92%) Puppet
8 3 (0.69%) Rancher
9 2 (0.46%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.46%) Kibana
9 2 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.23%) Control-M
10 1 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (5.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.07%) Google
2 9 (2.07%) Oracle
2 9 (2.07%) Pega
3 7 (1.61%) IBM
4 6 (1.38%) WSO2
5 5 (1.15%) AppDynamics
6 4 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.92%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.92%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.46%) Cognos
7 2 (0.46%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.46%) SAP
7 2 (0.46%) VMware
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe
8 1 (0.23%) Databricks
8 1 (0.23%) Veracode