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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 67 35
Rank change year-on-year -11 -32 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 266 365 522
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.77% 2.99% 6.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.63% 11.03% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 179 155 376
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,270 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £49,114
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,250 £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 1,702 3,308 2,951
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.73% 27.09% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,367 1,764 2,352
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,688 £42,500 £43,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £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 18 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 18 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 -17 137 £67,500 +12.50% 139
Yorkshire +29 104 £67,500 +16.45% 42
North East -5 27 £55,000 -20.27% 23
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
2 5 (1.88%) Confluence
3 4 (1.50%) Camunda
3 4 (1.50%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.13%) Mule
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
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
1 151 (56.77%) AWS
2 88 (33.08%) Azure
3 37 (13.91%) Serverless
4 35 (13.16%) GCP
5 18 (6.77%) SaaS
6 15 (5.64%) GitHub
7 14 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.63%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.88%) dbt
12 5 (1.88%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.88%) PaaS
12 5 (1.88%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (1.13%) Amazon S3
14 3 (1.13%) IaaS
14 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.50%) AMQP
1 4 (1.50%) SAN
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%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.03%) NoSQL
2 28 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (8.27%) MongoDB
4 20 (7.52%) MySQL
4 20 (7.52%) SQL Server
5 17 (6.39%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.63%) Big Data
8 6 (2.26%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.26%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.88%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
10 4 (1.50%) Tableau
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.13%) KDB
11 3 (1.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (11.65%) Jenkins
2 26 (9.77%) GitLab
3 17 (6.39%) Git
4 13 (4.89%) SonarQube
5 12 (4.51%) JIRA
6 10 (3.76%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.38%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.38%) Selenium
8 8 (3.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.88%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.88%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.88%) TeamCity
10 4 (1.50%) JUnit
10 4 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (1.13%) Maven
11 3 (1.13%) Postman
12 2 (0.75%) Android Studio
12 2 (0.75%) JMeter
12 2 (0.75%) Locust
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 80 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 75 (28.20%) Finance
3 18 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.39%) Games
4 17 (6.39%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.14%) Financial Institution
6 10 (3.76%) Retail
7 8 (3.01%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.26%) Electronics
9 5 (1.88%) Banking
9 5 (1.88%) Marketing
9 5 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
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%) Billing
12 2 (0.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 104 (39.10%) Developer
2 77 (28.95%) Senior
3 56 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 56 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 31 (11.65%) Lead
5 29 (10.90%) Senior Developer
6 26 (9.77%) Java Engineer
7 24 (9.02%) Architect
8 23 (8.65%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (8.27%) Senior Software Engineer
10 21 (7.89%) Software Developer
11 16 (6.02%) Lead Developer
12 15 (5.64%) Java Software Engineer
13 13 (4.89%) Graduate
14 10 (3.76%) Automation Engineer
15 9 (3.38%) AWS DevOps
15 9 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.38%) Data Engineer
15 9 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 9 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (22.56%) Spring
2 57 (21.43%) Spring Boot
3 42 (15.79%) React
4 29 (10.90%) .NET
4 29 (10.90%) CSS
4 29 (10.90%) Node.js
5 28 (10.53%) RESTful
6 21 (7.89%) AngularJS
6 21 (7.89%) REST
7 20 (7.52%) Kafka
8 14 (5.26%) HTML
9 11 (4.14%) ASP.NET
9 11 (4.14%) Hibernate
9 11 (4.14%) Micronaut
10 10 (3.76%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (3.76%) jQuery
10 10 (3.76%) Web Services
11 6 (2.26%) Amazon Corretto
12 5 (1.88%) Flutter
12 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 6 (2.26%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.50%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.13%) Wiki
11 2 (0.75%) IoT
11 2 (0.75%) NHS
11 2 (0.75%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.38%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.02%) Linux
2 9 (3.38%) Windows
3 6 (2.26%) 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
1 107 (40.23%) Agile
2 94 (35.34%) DevOps
3 89 (33.46%) Software Engineering
4 86 (32.33%) CI/CD
5 68 (25.56%) Microservices
6 59 (22.18%) Mentoring
6 59 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (18.05%) Computer Science
8 44 (16.54%) Containerisation
9 41 (15.41%) TDD
10 40 (15.04%) Clean Code
11 38 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 31 (11.65%) SDLC
13 30 (11.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 28 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
15 25 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (9.40%) User Experience
16 24 (9.02%) Enterprise Architecture
17 23 (8.65%) OO
Programming Languages
1 86 (32.33%) Python
2 76 (28.57%) SQL
3 67 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 63 (23.68%) C#
5 54 (20.30%) TypeScript
6 17 (6.39%) C++
6 17 (6.39%) PHP
7 16 (6.02%) Kotlin
8 13 (4.89%) C
8 13 (4.89%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.51%) Bash
10 11 (4.14%) Go
11 10 (3.76%) Scala
12 6 (2.26%) Perl
12 6 (2.26%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.88%) Ruby
14 4 (1.50%) R
15 3 (1.13%) Rust
16 2 (0.75%) PROC SQL
16 2 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 52 (19.55%) Degree
2 41 (15.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (11.28%) AWS Certification
4 27 (10.15%) 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 7 (2.63%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.26%) HND
10 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
11 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 60 (22.56%) 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 70 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.02%) Terraform
3 17 (6.39%) Ansible
4 10 (3.76%) Grafana
5 4 (1.50%) Control-M
5 4 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (1.50%) Kibana
6 2 (0.75%) logstash
6 2 (0.75%) Oozie
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 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%) AppDynamics
4 6 (2.26%) Atlassian
4 6 (2.26%) SAP
4 6 (2.26%) Siemens
4 6 (2.26%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.88%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.50%) Pega
6 4 (1.50%) VMware
6 4 (1.50%) WSO2
7 3 (1.13%) IBM
7 3 (1.13%) Moogsoft
7 3 (1.13%) Solace
7 3 (1.13%) Splunk
7 3 (1.13%) TIBCO
8 2 (0.75%) Databricks
8 2 (0.75%) Informatica