Java Jobs in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 59 36
Rank change year-on-year +36 -23 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,041 685 1,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 8.79% 3.34% 7.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.19% 12.20% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 257 465 566
10th Percentile £34,000 £36,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £92,500 £75,772 £77,741
90th Percentile £113,500 £85,000 £88,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

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 3,045 5,613 6,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.70% 27.38% 39.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,684 4,486 3,420
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the North of England.

Salary trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 June 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 19 June 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 +26 883 £67,500 +12.50% 846
Yorkshire +43 112 £70,000 +16.67% 471
North East +44 46 £47,500 -27.44% 152
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 77 (7.40%) Confluence
2 11 (1.06%) Apache
3 7 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.29%) GemFire
4 3 (0.29%) SAS
4 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.19%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.19%) WordPress
6 1 (0.096%) IIS
6 1 (0.096%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.096%) nginx
6 1 (0.096%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.096%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.096%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 439 (42.17%) AWS
2 391 (37.56%) Azure
3 290 (27.86%) GCP
4 21 (2.02%) Serverless
5 18 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (1.63%) GitHub
7 12 (1.15%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
9 7 (0.67%) Amazon S3
9 7 (0.67%) SaaS
10 6 (0.58%) Power Platform
11 5 (0.48%) Apigee
11 5 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (0.38%) Pulumi
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (0.29%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (0.29%) Cloud Composer
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 391 (37.56%) DNS
2 390 (37.46%) VPN
3 5 (0.48%) HTTP
3 5 (0.48%) SAN
4 4 (0.38%) Broadband
5 3 (0.29%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.19%) FCoE
6 2 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.19%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.19%) LAN
6 2 (0.19%) Multicast
6 2 (0.19%) NAS
6 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.096%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.096%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (14.22%) SQL Server
2 62 (5.96%) NoSQL
3 41 (3.94%) MongoDB
4 40 (3.84%) MySQL
5 33 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.92%) Big Data
8 16 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.15%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.96%) Cloud Spanner
12 7 (0.67%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.67%) Redis
13 6 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.58%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.48%) KDB
14 5 (0.48%) Tableau
15 4 (0.38%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.38%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.38%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 160 (15.37%) JIRA
2 143 (13.74%) GitLab
3 131 (12.58%) SonarQube
4 130 (12.49%) Selenium
5 127 (12.20%) Cucumber
6 120 (11.53%) Maven
6 120 (11.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 115 (11.05%) Bitbucket
8 42 (4.03%) Git
9 32 (3.07%) Jenkins
10 14 (1.34%) JUnit
11 7 (0.67%) Postman
12 6 (0.58%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.48%) JMeter
14 4 (0.38%) Appium
14 4 (0.38%) Eclipse RCP
14 4 (0.38%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.38%) Jaeger
14 4 (0.38%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 679 (65.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 648 (62.25%) Finance
3 420 (40.35%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (18.06%) Banking
5 106 (10.18%) Social Skills
6 76 (7.30%) Retail
7 72 (6.92%) Corporate Banking
7 72 (6.92%) Investment Banking
8 10 (0.96%) Games
9 9 (0.86%) Law
9 9 (0.86%) Marketing
10 8 (0.77%) Public Sector
11 7 (0.67%) Cantonese Language
12 6 (0.58%) Advertising
12 6 (0.58%) Electronics
12 6 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
13 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.48%) Online Betting
14 4 (0.38%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 464 (44.57%) Developer
2 401 (38.52%) Software Engineer
3 393 (37.75%) Software Developer
4 274 (26.32%) Senior
5 224 (21.52%) Senior Software Engineer
6 81 (7.78%) Lead
7 42 (4.03%) Java Engineer
8 38 (3.65%) Java Developer
9 24 (2.31%) Senior Developer
10 22 (2.11%) Java Software Engineer
11 21 (2.02%) Architect
12 19 (1.83%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (1.63%) Lead Software Engineer
14 16 (1.54%) Senior Java Developer
15 15 (1.44%) Graduate
15 15 (1.44%) Lead Systems Engineer
15 15 (1.44%) Systems Engineer
16 14 (1.34%) Data Engineer
17 13 (1.25%) Graduate Developer
18 12 (1.15%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (20.56%) Node.js
2 206 (19.79%) .NET
3 190 (18.25%) Spring
4 185 (17.77%) Spring Boot
5 171 (16.43%) React
6 158 (15.18%) Kafka
7 146 (14.02%) CSS
7 146 (14.02%) HTML
8 114 (10.95%) JPA
8 114 (10.95%) Redux
9 113 (10.85%) RESTful
10 91 (8.74%) REST
11 76 (7.30%) Jest
12 74 (7.11%) HTML5
13 72 (6.92%) CSS3
13 72 (6.92%) Sass
14 50 (4.80%) Hibernate
15 28 (2.69%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.54%) jQuery
17 14 (1.34%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 561 (53.89%) Cyberattack
2 172 (16.52%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (16.52%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (13.45%) Product Ownership
4 117 (11.24%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 15 (1.44%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.15%) Private Cloud
11 8 (0.77%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.77%) e-Learning
11 8 (0.77%) Wiki
12 7 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 7 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
13 5 (0.48%) AI Agents
13 5 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 594 (57.06%) Linux
2 396 (38.04%) Android
3 17 (1.63%) Unix
4 11 (1.06%) Windows
5 3 (0.29%) Solaris
6 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 857 (82.32%) Agile
2 472 (45.34%) Software Engineering
3 432 (41.50%) OO
4 421 (40.44%) OOP
5 414 (39.77%) Microservices
6 403 (38.71%) Line Management
7 400 (38.42%) Mathematics
8 399 (38.33%) Design Patterns
9 392 (37.66%) Android Development
10 327 (31.41%) Mentoring
11 281 (26.99%) User Experience
12 248 (23.82%) DevOps
13 229 (22.00%) CI/CD
14 206 (19.79%) Scrum
15 203 (19.50%) Machine Learning
16 190 (18.25%) Containerisation
16 190 (18.25%) Test Automation
17 188 (18.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 184 (17.68%) Data Engineering
19 174 (16.71%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 695 (66.76%) Python
2 597 (57.35%) C++
3 583 (56.00%) Go
4 390 (37.46%) JavaScript
5 206 (19.79%) SQL
6 197 (18.92%) Rust
7 148 (14.22%) TypeScript
8 73 (7.01%) C#
9 31 (2.98%) PHP
10 28 (2.69%) C
11 17 (1.63%) R
12 14 (1.34%) Ruby
13 13 (1.25%) Dart
13 13 (1.25%) MATLAB
14 12 (1.15%) Bash
15 11 (1.06%) PowerShell
16 8 (0.77%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.58%) Scala
18 4 (0.38%) Ada
19 3 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 579 (55.62%) Security Cleared
2 566 (54.37%) DV Cleared
3 192 (18.44%) AWS Certification
4 182 (17.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (16.52%) AWS Certified Developer
6 86 (8.26%) Degree
7 47 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.44%) HND
9 12 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.96%) SC Cleared
11 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.38%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.096%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (12.87%) QA
2 78 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.15%) GDPR
4 8 (0.77%) HIPAA
4 8 (0.77%) NIST
5 5 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 601 (57.73%) Docker
2 15 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.29%) HDFS
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) KVM
5 2 (0.19%) NFS
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) SRDF
5 2 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.19%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 405 (38.90%) Ansible
2 227 (21.81%) Kubernetes
3 50 (4.80%) Terraform
4 10 (0.96%) Grafana
5 7 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.48%) Argo
6 5 (0.48%) Istio
6 5 (0.48%) Kibana
7 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.29%) logstash
8 3 (0.29%) Oozie
9 2 (0.19%) Control-M
9 2 (0.19%) Puppet
9 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.096%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 120 (11.53%) Solace
2 46 (4.42%) Google
3 25 (2.40%) Microsoft
4 17 (1.63%) Oracle
5 12 (1.15%) Bloomberg
6 8 (0.77%) IBM
6 8 (0.77%) TIBCO
7 5 (0.48%) SAP
7 5 (0.48%) VMware
8 4 (0.38%) AppDynamics
8 4 (0.38%) Databricks
8 4 (0.38%) Informatica
8 4 (0.38%) Splunk
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe
9 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.29%) MicroStrategy
9 3 (0.29%) Moogsoft
9 3 (0.29%) New Relic
10 2 (0.19%) Cisco
10 2 (0.19%) EMC