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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 18 53
Rank change year-on-year -40 +35 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 577 982 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.06% 12.66% 3.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.18% 36.74% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 411 231 466
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £48,866 £47,500
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 £79,429
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%

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 3,009 2,673 4,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.96% 34.45% 29.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 1,445 4,184
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £53,674
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +2.47% -2.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,540 £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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -51 243 £70,000 -6.04% 113
Yorkshire +12 239 £72,500 +2.12% 98
North East -4 95 £52,500 -4.55% 53
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 10 (1.73%) Apache
1 10 (1.73%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.56%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.21%) JBoss
4 6 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.52%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) CICS
8 2 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 261 (45.23%) AWS
2 124 (21.49%) Serverless
3 106 (18.37%) Azure
4 89 (15.42%) Amazon ECS
4 89 (15.42%) Amazon S3
5 88 (15.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 87 (15.08%) AWS Lambda
7 69 (11.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 51 (8.84%) Amazon ECR
9 49 (8.49%) Apigee
10 29 (5.03%) Amazon SQS
10 29 (5.03%) GCP
10 29 (5.03%) GitHub
11 28 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
12 27 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 26 (4.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 23 (3.99%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.64%) SaaS
16 16 (2.77%) Azure AKS
17 13 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.25%) Broadband
2 4 (0.69%) HTTP
3 3 (0.52%) AMQP
4 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (13.69%) DynamoDB
2 62 (10.75%) NoSQL
3 50 (8.67%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (6.41%) MongoDB
5 27 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (4.51%) Relational Database
7 24 (4.16%) MySQL
8 12 (2.08%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (1.39%) Power BI
10 7 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.04%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.87%) Big Data
13 4 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.69%) Flink
Development Applications
1 90 (15.60%) Jenkins
2 77 (13.34%) GitLab
3 59 (10.23%) Git
4 47 (8.15%) Maven
4 47 (8.15%) SonarQube
5 46 (7.97%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.64%) JIRA
7 14 (2.43%) Claude Code
8 10 (1.73%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.56%) JUnit
10 8 (1.39%) Selenium
11 6 (1.04%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.87%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.69%) Eclipse
13 4 (0.69%) IntelliJ
13 4 (0.69%) JMeter
13 4 (0.69%) Postman
13 4 (0.69%) Spock
14 2 (0.35%) fastlane
General
1 74 (12.82%) Public Sector
2 61 (10.57%) Finance
2 61 (10.57%) Social Skills
3 29 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (2.60%) Banking
6 14 (2.43%) Games
7 12 (2.08%) Retail
8 9 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.39%) Marketing
10 6 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.87%) Advertising
11 5 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.69%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.52%) Back Office
13 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.52%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.52%) Legal
14 2 (0.35%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (46.97%) Developer
2 213 (36.92%) Java Developer
3 148 (25.65%) Senior
4 114 (19.76%) Software Engineer
5 98 (16.98%) Lead
6 88 (15.25%) Java Engineer
7 76 (13.17%) Senior Developer
8 62 (10.75%) Senior Java Developer
9 57 (9.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (7.28%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 40 (6.93%) Java Software Engineer
12 39 (6.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 34 (5.89%) Software Developer
14 30 (5.20%) Lead Software Engineer
15 28 (4.85%) AWS Developer
15 28 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
16 27 (4.68%) Senior Java Engineer
17 26 (4.51%) Junior
17 26 (4.51%) Lead Java Engineer
18 20 (3.47%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (24.78%) Spring Boot
2 136 (23.57%) Spring
3 128 (22.18%) AngularJS
4 83 (14.38%) Node.js
5 67 (11.61%) React
6 51 (8.84%) .NET
7 45 (7.80%) REST
8 44 (7.63%) Gherkin
9 41 (7.11%) Jest
10 40 (6.93%) RESTful
11 25 (4.33%) Kafka
12 21 (3.64%) CSS
13 18 (3.12%) HTML
13 18 (3.12%) Vue
14 16 (2.77%) Elastic Stack
15 15 (2.60%) Android SDK
15 15 (2.60%) GraphQL
16 14 (2.43%) Web Services
17 10 (1.73%) Hibernate
17 10 (1.73%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.28%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (4.16%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.99%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 13 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.25%) Social Media
6 9 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.21%) Legacy Code
8 6 (1.04%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 5 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (0.69%) Driving Licence
10 4 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.69%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.55%) Linux
2 16 (2.77%) Android
2 16 (2.77%) Windows
3 15 (2.60%) Unix
4 3 (0.52%) CentOS
4 3 (0.52%) Debian
4 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.52%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (42.63%) Agile
2 198 (34.32%) CI/CD
3 165 (28.60%) Software Engineering
4 153 (26.52%) DevOps
5 138 (23.92%) Full-Stack Development
6 132 (22.88%) Microservices
7 118 (20.45%) Mentoring
8 102 (17.68%) Test Automation
9 83 (14.38%) Scrum
10 77 (13.34%) TDD
11 72 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
12 69 (11.96%) AI
13 60 (10.40%) Coaching
14 57 (9.88%) SDLC
15 51 (8.84%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (8.67%) Clean Code
17 43 (7.45%) Design Patterns
17 43 (7.45%) Secure Coding
18 41 (7.11%) Continuous Integration
19 39 (6.76%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 138 (23.92%) SQL
2 133 (23.05%) Python
3 121 (20.97%) JavaScript
4 104 (18.02%) TypeScript
5 59 (10.23%) C#
6 51 (8.84%) Groovy
6 51 (8.84%) Kotlin
7 43 (7.45%) Bash
8 23 (3.99%) C++
9 14 (2.43%) Go
10 12 (2.08%) C
11 10 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.04%) Scala
13 3 (0.52%) PHP
14 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.35%) R
15 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 51 (8.84%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.45%) AWS Certification
4 37 (6.41%) Degree
5 23 (3.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (3.99%) ITIL Certification
6 22 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (3.29%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.73%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.35%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) MBA
12 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (3.64%) QA
2 18 (3.12%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.43%) Data Quality
4 4 (0.69%) WCAG
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 115 (19.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.35%) vSphere
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (10.05%) Terraform
2 55 (9.53%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.93%) HP Fortify
4 19 (3.29%) Ansible
5 13 (2.25%) Argo
6 5 (0.87%) Packer
7 3 (0.52%) Grafana
7 3 (0.52%) Puppet
7 3 (0.52%) Rancher
8 2 (0.35%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.35%) Control-M
8 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (3.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (1.91%) Google
3 9 (1.56%) AppDynamics
3 9 (1.56%) Oracle
4 8 (1.39%) Adobe
5 7 (1.21%) IBM
6 5 (0.87%) Pega
7 4 (0.69%) Splunk
8 3 (0.52%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.52%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.52%) VMware
9 2 (0.35%) Cognos
9 2 (0.35%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.35%) WSO2
10 1 (0.17%) Databricks
10 1 (0.17%) Veracode