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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 60 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 -24 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 292 323 659
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.48% 3.78% 5.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.78% 12.99% 16.20%
Number of salaries quoted 194 159 499
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,361 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,875 £48,869 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -1.93%
75th Percentile £77,188 £87,863 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 1,850 2,487 4,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.72% 29.14% 33.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,423 1,329 3,474
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,800 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 2 February 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 2 February 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 +15 156 £72,500 +7.41% 48
North West -12 124 £67,500 +8.00% 100
North East -37 12 £55,200 -8.00% 27
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 12 (4.11%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.77%) OpenStack
3 8 (2.74%) Apache
4 3 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.03%) JBoss
4 3 (1.03%) Mule
5 2 (0.68%) CMS
5 2 (0.68%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.34%) Confluence
6 1 (0.34%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 185 (63.36%) AWS
2 81 (27.74%) Serverless
3 80 (27.40%) Azure
4 51 (17.47%) Amazon ECS
5 45 (15.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 41 (14.04%) Amazon S3
7 40 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
8 32 (10.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 29 (9.93%) GCP
10 24 (8.22%) Amazon ECR
10 24 (8.22%) Apigee
11 22 (7.53%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (5.82%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (5.82%) SaaS
13 13 (4.45%) GitHub
14 12 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.11%) OpenShift
15 8 (2.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 8 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.37%) AMQP
1 4 (1.37%) HTTP
2 2 (0.68%) SAN
2 2 (0.68%) SSH
3 1 (0.34%) DNS
3 1 (0.34%) TCAP
3 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.67%) DynamoDB
2 27 (9.25%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.51%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.77%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.42%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.08%) Hadoop
7 9 (3.08%) MySQL
8 8 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.74%) Big Data
8 8 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.71%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.37%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 58 (19.86%) Jenkins
2 43 (14.73%) GitLab
3 36 (12.33%) Git
4 30 (10.27%) SonarQube
5 27 (9.25%) Cypress.io
6 26 (8.90%) Maven
7 8 (2.74%) JIRA
8 7 (2.40%) JUnit
9 5 (1.71%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.71%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.37%) Selenium
11 3 (1.03%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.03%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.68%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.68%) JMeter
12 2 (0.68%) Locust
12 2 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 78 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.18%) Finance
3 15 (5.14%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.14%) Retail
4 14 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.11%) Financial Institution
6 11 (3.77%) Games
7 10 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.71%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.71%) Banking
9 5 (1.71%) Marketing
10 4 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Billing
12 1 (0.34%) Electronics
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Publishing
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (37.33%) Developer
2 81 (27.74%) Java Developer
3 58 (19.86%) Software Engineer
4 56 (19.18%) Senior
5 46 (15.75%) Lead
6 31 (10.62%) Architect
7 28 (9.59%) Java Engineer
8 23 (7.88%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.51%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (6.16%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (5.14%) Software Developer
12 14 (4.79%) Applications Architect
12 14 (4.79%) Junior
13 13 (4.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 13 (4.45%) Lead Developer
13 13 (4.45%) Lead Software Engineer
14 12 (4.11%) Graduate
14 12 (4.11%) Java Software Engineer
14 12 (4.11%) Senior Java Engineer
15 11 (3.77%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (27.74%) Spring Boot
2 75 (25.68%) Spring
3 60 (20.55%) AngularJS
4 41 (14.04%) Node.js
5 37 (12.67%) React
6 32 (10.96%) REST
7 31 (10.62%) .NET
8 26 (8.90%) Gherkin
8 26 (8.90%) Jest
8 26 (8.90%) Kafka
9 25 (8.56%) RESTful
10 23 (7.88%) CSS
11 15 (5.14%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (5.14%) Web Services
12 14 (4.79%) Hibernate
13 13 (4.45%) HTML
14 12 (4.11%) Micronaut
15 8 (2.74%) gRPC
16 7 (2.40%) Mustache
17 6 (2.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.25%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (6.16%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.11%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.74%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.71%) IoT
7 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.03%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.68%) DataPower
9 2 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.34%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.34%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.34%) Life Science
10 1 (0.34%) Market Risk
10 1 (0.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.96%) Linux
2 8 (2.74%) Windows
3 4 (1.37%) CentOS
3 4 (1.37%) Debian
3 4 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.37%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.34%) SUSE
5 1 (0.34%) Unix
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (39.38%) CI/CD
2 114 (39.04%) Agile
3 101 (34.59%) DevOps
4 92 (31.51%) Software Engineering
5 81 (27.74%) Microservices
6 64 (21.92%) Mentoring
7 55 (18.84%) Computer Science
8 51 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (16.10%) Full-Stack Development
9 47 (16.10%) SDLC
10 40 (13.70%) TDD
11 38 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 36 (12.33%) Scrum
13 35 (11.99%) Containerisation
14 31 (10.62%) Data Modelling
14 31 (10.62%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (9.93%) Migration
15 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (9.93%) Test Automation
16 28 (9.59%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 98 (33.56%) Python
2 82 (28.08%) JavaScript
3 80 (27.40%) TypeScript
4 69 (23.63%) SQL
5 54 (18.49%) C#
6 30 (10.27%) Bash
7 24 (8.22%) Groovy
8 22 (7.53%) Kotlin
9 19 (6.51%) C
10 14 (4.79%) Go
11 13 (4.45%) C++
12 11 (3.77%) PHP
12 11 (3.77%) Scala
13 10 (3.42%) PL/SQL
14 8 (2.74%) PowerShell
15 6 (2.05%) Perl
16 4 (1.37%) Ruby
17 3 (1.03%) R
17 3 (1.03%) Rust
18 1 (0.34%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 58 (19.86%) Degree
2 46 (15.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (15.41%) AWS Certification
4 27 (9.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.56%) Security Cleared
6 24 (8.22%) Azure Certification
6 24 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (8.22%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (5.48%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.77%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.40%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.05%) HND
11 5 (1.71%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.68%) PhD
13 1 (0.34%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.34%) MBA
13 1 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.48%) QA
2 5 (1.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.03%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.68%) GDPR
4 2 (0.68%) WCAG
5 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 82 (28.08%) Docker
2 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.68%) vSphere
3 1 (0.34%) Squid
3 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (21.92%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.22%) HP Fortify
3 22 (7.53%) Ansible
4 21 (7.19%) Terraform
5 8 (2.74%) Grafana
6 4 (1.37%) Puppet
7 3 (1.03%) Rancher
8 2 (0.68%) Control-M
8 2 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Kibana
9 1 (0.34%) Packer
9 1 (0.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.77%) Google
3 9 (3.08%) Oracle
4 6 (2.05%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.05%) Siemens
4 6 (2.05%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.71%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.37%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.37%) Pega
6 4 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.37%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.37%) WSO2
7 3 (1.03%) VMware
8 2 (0.68%) Adobe
8 2 (0.68%) IBM
8 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Cognos
9 1 (0.34%) Databricks
9 1 (0.34%) Veracode