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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 21 67
Rank change year-on-year -26 +46 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 686 985 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.13% 10.29% 2.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.03% 36.60% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 494 206 258
10th Percentile £40,225 £28,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,594 £49,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £89,375 £77,068
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 3,605 2,691 3,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.46% 28.13% 26.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,732 1,428 2,978
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,343 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,456 £71,717 £69,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +4.92% -6.15%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -37 309 £70,000 - 115
Yorkshire +43 222 £72,500 +9.43% 52
North East +6 155 £55,000 +15.79% 44
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 13 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.31%) Apache
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.02%) Confluence
5 6 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) JBoss
8 3 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 277 (40.38%) AWS
2 116 (16.91%) Azure
3 112 (16.33%) Serverless
4 84 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
5 80 (11.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 77 (11.22%) Amazon S3
7 74 (10.79%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (8.16%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (6.27%) GitHub
10 41 (5.98%) GCP
11 35 (5.10%) Amazon ECR
12 33 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (4.37%) Apigee
14 27 (3.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 23 (3.35%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (3.35%) SaaS
16 21 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (2.04%) Datadog
18 13 (1.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.75%) Broadband
2 3 (0.44%) RIP
3 2 (0.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.29%) MQTT
3 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.62%) DynamoDB
2 52 (7.58%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (4.96%) MongoDB
5 29 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (3.64%) MySQL
6 25 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.75%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.46%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.46%) Power BI
9 9 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.17%) Flink
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.58%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (11.08%) Jenkins
2 66 (9.62%) Git
3 63 (9.18%) GitLab
4 36 (5.25%) Maven
5 33 (4.81%) Cypress.io
6 27 (3.94%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.06%) JIRA
8 16 (2.33%) JUnit
9 13 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.75%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.60%) Selenium
11 11 (1.60%) Spock
12 8 (1.17%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.17%) Storybook
13 7 (1.02%) Postman
14 6 (0.87%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.87%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.87%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.87%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 89 (12.97%) Public Sector
2 85 (12.39%) Finance
3 79 (11.52%) Social Skills
4 34 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (2.04%) Banking
7 12 (1.75%) Games
8 10 (1.46%) Marketing
8 10 (1.46%) Publishing
8 10 (1.46%) Retail
9 9 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.87%) Legal
10 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Advertising
12 4 (0.58%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.44%) Back Office
13 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 316 (46.06%) Developer
2 233 (33.97%) Java Developer
3 193 (28.13%) Senior
4 119 (17.35%) Software Engineer
5 117 (17.06%) Java Engineer
6 98 (14.29%) Lead
7 96 (13.99%) Senior Developer
8 71 (10.35%) Senior Java Developer
9 62 (9.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 60 (8.75%) Full-Stack Developer
11 46 (6.71%) Java Software Engineer
12 43 (6.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 39 (5.69%) Senior Software Engineer
14 37 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
14 37 (5.39%) Senior Java Engineer
15 36 (5.25%) Software Developer
16 30 (4.37%) AWS Developer
17 29 (4.23%) Lead Software Engineer
18 27 (3.94%) Lead Java Engineer
19 24 (3.50%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (23.18%) Spring
2 146 (21.28%) Spring Boot
3 139 (20.26%) AngularJS
4 90 (13.12%) Node.js
5 66 (9.62%) React
6 51 (7.43%) .NET
7 43 (6.27%) RESTful
8 37 (5.39%) REST
9 30 (4.37%) Gherkin
10 26 (3.79%) CSS
10 26 (3.79%) Vue
11 25 (3.64%) HTML
11 25 (3.64%) Kafka
12 22 (3.21%) Jest
13 21 (3.06%) GraphQL
14 17 (2.48%) Android SDK
15 10 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (1.31%) Hibernate
17 8 (1.17%) MDX
17 8 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (5.69%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (5.25%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (1.75%) Social Media
7 11 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.73%) Algorithms
11 5 (0.73%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.73%) Hedge funds
11 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.58%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.96%) Linux
2 20 (2.92%) Android
3 17 (2.48%) Windows
4 15 (2.19%) Unix
5 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.29%) CentOS
6 2 (0.29%) Debian
6 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (36.44%) Agile
2 222 (32.36%) CI/CD
3 186 (27.11%) Software Engineering
4 172 (25.07%) DevOps
5 171 (24.93%) Full-Stack Development
6 149 (21.72%) Microservices
7 142 (20.70%) Test Automation
8 134 (19.53%) Mentoring
9 106 (15.45%) TDD
10 82 (11.95%) AI
10 82 (11.95%) Coaching
11 81 (11.81%) Problem-Solving
11 81 (11.81%) Scrum
12 67 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 62 (9.04%) Containerisation
14 59 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
15 57 (8.31%) Design Patterns
16 53 (7.73%) Continuous Integration
17 52 (7.58%) SDLC
18 51 (7.43%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 166 (24.20%) Python
2 140 (20.41%) SQL
3 121 (17.64%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.70%) TypeScript
5 66 (9.62%) C#
6 58 (8.45%) Kotlin
7 39 (5.69%) Groovy
8 33 (4.81%) Bash
9 27 (3.94%) C++
10 20 (2.92%) Scala
11 14 (2.04%) Go
12 10 (1.46%) C
12 10 (1.46%) PHP
13 8 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.58%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.44%) Ruby
16 2 (0.29%) Swift
17 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.15%) Perl
17 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.39%) Degree
4 32 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.79%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
7 13 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.58%) MBA
11 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.52%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.79%) QA
3 17 (2.48%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.19%) WCAG
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (18.08%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 84 (12.24%) Terraform
2 69 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.81%) Ansible
4 20 (2.92%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.90%) Argo
6 5 (0.73%) Grafana
7 4 (0.58%) Packer
8 3 (0.44%) Control-M
8 3 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.44%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.29%) Kibana
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (3.35%) Adobe
2 19 (2.77%) Splunk
3 16 (2.33%) AppDynamics
3 16 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.04%) Google
5 9 (1.31%) Oracle
6 8 (1.17%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.02%) IBM
8 5 (0.73%) Pega
9 4 (0.58%) NEC
9 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.58%) VMware
10 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.44%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.44%) Talend
11 2 (0.29%) Apple
11 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.29%) WSO2
12 1 (0.15%) HP