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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 70 34
Rank change year-on-year -7 -36 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 266 373 524
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.81% 3.06% 7.15%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.54% 11.17% 18.57%
Number of salaries quoted 179 167 380
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,530 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,500 £47,250 £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 £76,875 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,250 £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 1,712 3,340 2,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.08% 27.42% 38.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,374 1,832 2,276
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £82,548
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 26 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 26 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 -18 131 £67,500 +10.20% 61
Yorkshire +29 112 £67,500 +22.73% 18
North East -2 25 £55,000 -5.11% 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 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.88%) Apache
2 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.50%) Camunda
3 4 (1.50%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.13%) Mule
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.75%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (57.14%) AWS
2 88 (33.08%) Azure
3 41 (15.41%) Serverless
4 35 (13.16%) GCP
5 19 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 19 (7.14%) SaaS
6 18 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (4.14%) GitHub
9 9 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.63%) OpenShift
12 6 (2.26%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (2.26%) Apigee
12 6 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (1.88%) dbt
13 5 (1.88%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.88%) PaaS
13 5 (1.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) AMQP
1 4 (1.50%) SAN
2 2 (0.75%) HTTP
2 2 (0.75%) PuTTY
2 2 (0.75%) SSH
2 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.38%) DNS
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.28%) NoSQL
2 25 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (7.52%) MongoDB
3 20 (7.52%) SQL Server
4 19 (7.14%) MySQL
5 15 (5.64%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.89%) DynamoDB
7 8 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.63%) Big Data
9 6 (2.26%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.88%) Neo4j
10 5 (1.88%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.50%) Tableau
12 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.13%) Power BI
13 2 (0.75%) Cloudera CDH
13 2 (0.75%) Impala
Development Applications
1 37 (13.91%) Jenkins
2 29 (10.90%) GitLab
3 19 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 18 (6.77%) Git
5 11 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.76%) JIRA
7 9 (3.38%) Maven
8 8 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.26%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.26%) Selenium
10 5 (1.88%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.88%) JUnit
10 5 (1.88%) TeamCity
11 4 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.75%) Android Studio
12 2 (0.75%) Babel
12 2 (0.75%) Mockito
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.75%) webpack
General
1 77 (28.95%) Social Skills
2 69 (25.94%) Finance
3 16 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (6.02%) Games
3 16 (6.02%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.89%) Retail
5 11 (4.14%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.76%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.26%) Electronics
8 6 (2.26%) Marketing
9 5 (1.88%) Banking
10 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Legal
11 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.75%) Back Office
12 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 105 (39.47%) Developer
2 71 (26.69%) Senior
3 57 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 54 (20.30%) Software Engineer
5 37 (13.91%) Lead
6 28 (10.53%) Senior Developer
7 24 (9.02%) Architect
8 23 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (7.89%) Java Engineer
9 21 (7.89%) Software Developer
10 18 (6.77%) Lead Developer
10 18 (6.77%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (5.64%) Graduate
12 12 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (3.38%) Applications Architect
13 9 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.38%) Graduate Developer
13 9 (3.38%) IT Graduate
13 9 (3.38%) Junior
13 9 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (22.93%) Spring
2 59 (22.18%) Spring Boot
3 41 (15.41%) React
4 31 (11.65%) Node.js
5 30 (11.28%) CSS
6 29 (10.90%) .NET
7 28 (10.53%) AngularJS
7 28 (10.53%) RESTful
8 21 (7.89%) REST
9 18 (6.77%) Kafka
10 15 (5.64%) HTML
11 11 (4.14%) ASP.NET
11 11 (4.14%) Hibernate
11 11 (4.14%) Micronaut
12 10 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (3.76%) Jest
12 10 (3.76%) jQuery
13 8 (3.01%) Gherkin
13 8 (3.01%) Web Services
14 6 (2.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (4.89%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.26%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.88%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.13%) IoT
9 3 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.75%) NHS
10 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.75%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.38%) Life Science
11 1 (0.38%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.77%) Linux
2 9 (3.38%) Windows
3 7 (2.63%) Android
4 3 (1.13%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) CentOS
5 2 (0.75%) Debian
5 2 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.38%) SUSE
6 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (40.60%) Agile
2 92 (34.59%) DevOps
3 86 (32.33%) CI/CD
4 85 (31.95%) Software Engineering
5 65 (24.44%) Microservices
6 61 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (22.18%) Mentoring
8 50 (18.80%) Computer Science
9 40 (15.04%) Containerisation
9 40 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (14.29%) Clean Code
11 37 (13.91%) TDD
12 34 (12.78%) Test Automation
13 31 (11.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 28 (10.53%) SDLC
15 27 (10.15%) Infrastructure as Code
16 24 (9.02%) Enterprise Architecture
17 23 (8.65%) OO
17 23 (8.65%) OOP
17 23 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 86 (32.33%) Python
2 74 (27.82%) SQL
3 70 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 63 (23.68%) C#
5 59 (22.18%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.77%) C++
7 17 (6.39%) Bash
7 17 (6.39%) Kotlin
8 16 (6.02%) C
8 16 (6.02%) PHP
9 13 (4.89%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.76%) Go
10 10 (3.76%) Scala
11 8 (3.01%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.26%) Perl
13 5 (1.88%) Groovy
13 5 (1.88%) R
13 5 (1.88%) Ruby
14 3 (1.13%) Rust
15 2 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (20.30%) Degree
2 43 (16.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 32 (12.03%) AWS Certification
4 28 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 24 (9.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 23 (8.65%) Azure Certification
7 20 (7.52%) SC Cleared
8 14 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 8 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.26%) HND
10 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.02%) QA
2 10 (3.76%) GDPR
3 7 (2.63%) HIPAA
3 7 (2.63%) NIST
4 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.75%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.75%) WCAG
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 63 (23.68%) Docker
2 4 (1.50%) vSphere
3 3 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.75%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.75%) HDFS
4 2 (0.75%) Squid
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (24.81%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.27%) Terraform
3 17 (6.39%) Ansible
4 10 (3.76%) Grafana
5 6 (2.26%) HP Fortify
6 4 (1.50%) Control-M
6 4 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (1.50%) Kibana
7 2 (0.75%) logstash
7 2 (0.75%) Oozie
7 2 (0.75%) Puppet
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (10.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.14%) Google
3 11 (4.14%) Oracle
4 6 (2.26%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.26%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.26%) SAP
4 6 (2.26%) Siemens
4 6 (2.26%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.88%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.50%) Pega
6 4 (1.50%) VMware
6 4 (1.50%) WSO2
7 3 (1.13%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.75%) Databricks
8 2 (0.75%) Moogsoft
8 2 (0.75%) New Relic
8 2 (0.75%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.75%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.75%) Solace
8 2 (0.75%) Splunk