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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 19 70
Rank change year-on-year -23 +51 -28
Permanent jobs citing Java 751 952 378
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.12% 9.96% 2.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.86% 38.08% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 541 167 173
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,800 £87,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 3,600 2,500 3,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.97% 26.17% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,766 1,246 2,146
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 27 September 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 September 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 -33 379 £70,000 - 238
Yorkshire +25 189 £75,000 +15.38% 101
North East +15 183 £55,000 +15.79% 74
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 15 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.33%) Apache
4 9 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.80%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.67%) Confluence
8 4 (0.53%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.53%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.40%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.40%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 278 (37.02%) AWS
2 107 (14.25%) Serverless
3 103 (13.72%) Azure
4 84 (11.19%) AWS Lambda
5 70 (9.32%) Amazon S3
6 63 (8.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 61 (8.12%) Amazon ECS
8 48 (6.39%) GitHub
9 47 (6.26%) AWS Step Functions
10 38 (5.06%) GCP
11 29 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 23 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.93%) Amazon ECR
17 19 (2.53%) Datadog
17 19 (2.53%) SaaS
18 18 (2.40%) Amazon SQS
19 17 (2.26%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) RIP
2 3 (0.40%) AMQP
2 3 (0.40%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) 5G
3 2 (0.27%) MQTT
3 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.92%) DynamoDB
2 38 (5.06%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 27 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
6 23 (3.06%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.13%) MySQL
8 12 (1.60%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.20%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.20%) Flink
10 9 (1.20%) Power BI
10 9 (1.20%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.93%) Big Data
13 6 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.67%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 71 (9.45%) Git
2 60 (7.99%) GitLab
3 57 (7.59%) Jenkins
4 27 (3.60%) Maven
5 23 (3.06%) JUnit
6 22 (2.93%) Cypress.io
7 17 (2.26%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.73%) JIRA
8 13 (1.73%) Spock
9 10 (1.33%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.07%) Selenium
10 8 (1.07%) Storybook
11 7 (0.93%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.93%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.67%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.67%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.67%) fastlane
12 5 (0.67%) Gradle
General
1 97 (12.92%) Public Sector
2 90 (11.98%) Social Skills
3 84 (11.19%) Finance
4 41 (5.46%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (2.93%) Banking
5 22 (2.93%) Publishing
6 20 (2.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (1.60%) Retail
8 11 (1.46%) Marketing
9 10 (1.33%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.93%) Legal
10 7 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.80%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.67%) Law
12 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) iGaming
13 4 (0.53%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 286 (38.08%) Developer
2 227 (30.23%) Senior
3 197 (26.23%) Java Developer
4 179 (23.83%) Java Engineer
5 136 (18.11%) Software Engineer
6 107 (14.25%) Lead
7 97 (12.92%) Senior Developer
8 88 (11.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 71 (9.45%) Senior Java Engineer
10 64 (8.52%) Senior Java Developer
11 57 (7.59%) Java Software Engineer
12 53 (7.06%) Senior Software Engineer
13 44 (5.86%) Full-Stack Developer
14 42 (5.59%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (4.79%) Software Developer
16 32 (4.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 30 (3.99%) AWS Developer
17 30 (3.99%) Technical Leader
18 28 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
18 28 (3.73%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (24.90%) Spring
2 153 (20.37%) Spring Boot
3 127 (16.91%) AngularJS
4 86 (11.45%) Terraform
5 80 (10.65%) React
6 79 (10.52%) Node.js
7 48 (6.39%) Kafka
8 47 (6.26%) .NET
9 44 (5.86%) REST
10 28 (3.73%) RESTful
11 23 (3.06%) Vue
12 22 (2.93%) PySpark
13 19 (2.53%) Gherkin
14 18 (2.40%) CSS
14 18 (2.40%) HTML
15 13 (1.73%) Jest
15 13 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (1.46%) OpenAPI
17 10 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
17 10 (1.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
2 41 (5.46%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.73%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
4 12 (1.60%) Media Streaming
4 12 (1.60%) Podcast
5 10 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.20%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.07%) Blog
7 8 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.67%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.67%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.67%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.53%) Java Card
11 4 (0.53%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 37 (4.93%) Linux
2 19 (2.53%) Windows
3 15 (2.00%) Unix
4 11 (1.46%) Android
5 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.53%) VMS
7 3 (0.40%) CentOS
7 3 (0.40%) Debian
7 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (31.82%) Agile
2 233 (31.03%) CI/CD
3 218 (29.03%) Software Engineering
4 211 (28.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 180 (23.97%) DevOps
6 154 (20.51%) Microservices
7 144 (19.17%) Mentoring
8 128 (17.04%) Test Automation
9 93 (12.38%) TDD
10 91 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 83 (11.05%) Containerisation
12 82 (10.92%) AI
13 78 (10.39%) Coaching
13 78 (10.39%) Scrum
14 77 (10.25%) Problem-Solving
15 68 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
16 58 (7.72%) Continuous Integration
17 54 (7.19%) Event-Driven
18 50 (6.66%) Code Quality
19 45 (5.99%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 174 (23.17%) Python
2 133 (17.71%) SQL
3 114 (15.18%) JavaScript
4 105 (13.98%) TypeScript
5 75 (9.99%) C#
6 42 (5.59%) C++
7 40 (5.33%) Kotlin
8 29 (3.86%) Groovy
9 25 (3.33%) Bash
9 25 (3.33%) Scala
10 16 (2.13%) Go
11 11 (1.46%) C
12 9 (1.20%) PHP
13 8 (1.07%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.67%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.53%) Ruby
16 2 (0.27%) Perl
16 2 (0.27%) Rust
16 2 (0.27%) Swift
17 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.32%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.86%) DV Cleared
4 36 (4.79%) Degree
5 15 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.53%) MBA
12 2 (0.27%) PhD
13 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 32 (4.26%) QA
2 31 (4.13%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.13%) WCAG
4 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 133 (17.71%) Docker
2 3 (0.40%) vSphere
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 99 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.59%) Ansible
3 15 (2.00%) Argo
4 8 (1.07%) HP Fortify
5 7 (0.93%) Packer
6 5 (0.67%) Puppet
7 4 (0.53%) Grafana
7 4 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.40%) Control-M
8 3 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.27%) Kibana
9 2 (0.27%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.13%) logstash
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (3.20%) Adobe
2 21 (2.80%) Splunk
3 18 (2.40%) AppDynamics
4 14 (1.86%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.46%) Google
5 11 (1.46%) Oracle
6 8 (1.07%) Dynatrace
6 8 (1.07%) IBM
7 6 (0.80%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.67%) VMware
9 4 (0.53%) NEC
9 4 (0.53%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.40%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.40%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.40%) Talend
11 2 (0.27%) Apple
11 2 (0.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.27%) New Relic
12 1 (0.13%) HP