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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 20 69
Rank change year-on-year -25 +49 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 690 972 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.07% 10.15% 2.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.13% 36.61% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 494 191 228
10th Percentile £41,325 £25,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £48,188 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,076 £67,037 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +4.34% -1.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £77,500
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 3,607 2,655 3,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.06% 27.73% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,733 1,397 2,863
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,305
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.95% -5.68%

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 21 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 21 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 -37 310 £70,000 - 75
Yorkshire +33 210 £75,000 +15.38% 41
North East +9 170 £55,000 +22.22% 38
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 (1.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 13 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.30%) Apache
3 7 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.01%) Confluence
4 6 (0.87%) Jupyter
4 6 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (0.43%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.29%) CICS
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
6 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) IIS
7 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 269 (38.99%) AWS
2 111 (16.09%) Azure
3 107 (15.51%) Serverless
4 80 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
5 75 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
6 73 (10.58%) Amazon S3
7 68 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (7.68%) AWS Step Functions
9 47 (6.81%) GitHub
10 40 (5.80%) GCP
11 33 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (4.06%) Amazon ECR
13 28 (4.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 26 (3.77%) SaaS
15 25 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.48%) Apigee
17 20 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.61%) Datadog
19 13 (1.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.74%) Broadband
2 3 (0.43%) RIP
3 2 (0.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.29%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (9.13%) DynamoDB
2 46 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 26 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.61%) MySQL
7 13 (1.88%) SQL Server
8 10 (1.45%) Flink
8 10 (1.45%) Power BI
9 9 (1.30%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (0.72%) Big Data
12 5 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.58%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.58%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 74 (10.72%) Git
2 69 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 60 (8.70%) GitLab
4 30 (4.35%) Maven
5 29 (4.20%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.19%) JIRA
7 21 (3.04%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.61%) JUnit
9 12 (1.74%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 11 (1.59%) Spock
11 10 (1.45%) Selenium
12 8 (1.16%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.16%) Storybook
13 7 (1.01%) Postman
14 6 (0.87%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.87%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.87%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.87%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 91 (13.19%) Finance
2 88 (12.75%) Public Sector
3 82 (11.88%) Social Skills
4 34 (4.93%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.32%) Banking
7 13 (1.88%) Games
8 12 (1.74%) Retail
9 10 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.45%) Marketing
9 10 (1.45%) Publishing
10 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.01%) Legal
12 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.72%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.72%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.58%) Advertising
14 4 (0.58%) Local Government
14 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 308 (44.64%) Developer
2 223 (32.32%) Java Developer
3 205 (29.71%) Senior
4 117 (16.96%) Java Engineer
5 116 (16.81%) Software Engineer
6 101 (14.64%) Lead
7 98 (14.20%) Senior Developer
8 72 (10.43%) Senior Java Developer
9 65 (9.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 58 (8.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 46 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (6.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 41 (5.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 40 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (5.22%) Software Developer
16 35 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
17 30 (4.35%) AWS Developer
18 29 (4.20%) Lead Software Engineer
19 27 (3.91%) Lead Java Engineer
20 23 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (23.77%) Spring
2 142 (20.58%) Spring Boot
3 136 (19.71%) AngularJS
4 92 (13.33%) Node.js
5 85 (12.32%) Terraform
6 67 (9.71%) React
7 52 (7.54%) .NET
8 41 (5.94%) REST
9 36 (5.22%) RESTful
10 29 (4.20%) Kafka
11 27 (3.91%) CSS
12 26 (3.77%) Vue
13 25 (3.62%) HTML
14 24 (3.48%) Gherkin
15 21 (3.04%) GraphQL
16 18 (2.61%) Jest
17 17 (2.46%) Android SDK
18 10 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
18 10 (1.45%) OpenAPI
18 10 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.04%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.03%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.74%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (1.74%) Social Media
6 11 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.87%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.87%) Blog
9 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.87%) Hedge funds
9 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.72%) Legacy Code
10 5 (0.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.78%) Linux
2 21 (3.04%) Android
3 18 (2.61%) Windows
4 13 (1.88%) Unix
5 4 (0.58%) 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
7 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (34.78%) Agile
2 228 (33.04%) CI/CD
3 183 (26.52%) Software Engineering
4 174 (25.22%) Full-Stack Development
5 173 (25.07%) DevOps
6 144 (20.87%) Microservices
7 136 (19.71%) Test Automation
8 124 (17.97%) Mentoring
9 97 (14.06%) TDD
10 84 (12.17%) AI
10 84 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (11.59%) Scrum
12 74 (10.72%) Coaching
13 70 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (9.71%) Containerisation
15 64 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
16 60 (8.70%) Design Patterns
17 52 (7.54%) Continuous Integration
18 51 (7.39%) SDLC
19 48 (6.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 174 (25.22%) Python
2 138 (20.00%) SQL
3 123 (17.83%) JavaScript
4 96 (13.91%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.71%) C#
6 57 (8.26%) Kotlin
7 33 (4.78%) Groovy
8 30 (4.35%) C++
9 28 (4.06%) Bash
10 21 (3.04%) Scala
11 13 (1.88%) Go
12 11 (1.59%) C
12 11 (1.59%) PHP
13 8 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.58%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.58%) Ruby
15 2 (0.29%) Swift
16 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.14%) Perl
16 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (15.94%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.14%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.65%) Degree
4 34 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 12 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.58%) MBA
11 1 (0.14%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 29 (4.20%) QA
3 18 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.32%) WCAG
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (17.97%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) vSphere
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 37 (5.36%) Ansible
3 14 (2.03%) HP Fortify
4 13 (1.88%) Argo
5 5 (0.72%) Grafana
6 3 (0.43%) Control-M
6 3 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.43%) Packer
6 3 (0.43%) Puppet
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (3.33%) Adobe
2 19 (2.75%) Splunk
3 17 (2.46%) Microsoft
4 16 (2.32%) AppDynamics
5 11 (1.59%) Google
6 10 (1.45%) Oracle
7 8 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.16%) IBM
8 5 (0.72%) Pega
9 4 (0.58%) NEC
9 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.58%) VMware
10 3 (0.43%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.43%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.43%) Talend
11 2 (0.29%) Apple
11 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.29%) WSO2
12 1 (0.14%) TIBCO