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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 18 57
Rank change year-on-year -23 +39 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 656 1,012 653
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.20% 11.43% 3.40%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.10% 38.06% 12.18%
Number of salaries quoted 486 235 443
10th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,313 £50,000 £46,875
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 £93,139 £76,636
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 3,434 2,659 5,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.73% 30.03% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,605 1,404 4,329
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,355 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,777 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -37 291 £70,000 - 89
Yorkshire +22 230 £72,500 +3.57% 48
North East +2 135 £55,000 +22.22% 32
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 (1.83%) Apache
2 9 (1.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.07%) Confluence
5 6 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.76%) JBoss
6 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.61%) GeoServer
8 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.30%) CICS
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 276 (42.07%) AWS
2 118 (17.99%) Serverless
3 111 (16.92%) Azure
4 88 (13.41%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (12.96%) AWS CloudFormation
6 84 (12.80%) Amazon S3
7 81 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
8 63 (9.60%) AWS Step Functions
9 42 (6.40%) Amazon ECR
9 42 (6.40%) GitHub
10 38 (5.79%) Apigee
11 35 (5.34%) GCP
12 33 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (4.73%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (4.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 24 (3.66%) SaaS
16 19 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
18 14 (2.13%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.98%) Broadband
2 3 (0.46%) AMQP
3 2 (0.30%) MQTT
3 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.13%) DynamoDB
2 58 (8.84%) NoSQL
3 45 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (5.49%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.57%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (3.96%) MySQL
7 23 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.83%) Power BI
10 8 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.76%) Big Data
13 5 (0.76%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.76%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 84 (12.80%) Jenkins
2 67 (10.21%) GitLab
3 57 (8.69%) Git
4 39 (5.95%) Cypress.io
5 37 (5.64%) Maven
6 35 (5.34%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.51%) JIRA
8 14 (2.13%) Claude Code
9 13 (1.98%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.52%) Selenium
11 8 (1.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.07%) JUnit
12 7 (1.07%) Postman
13 6 (0.91%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.91%) REST Assured
13 6 (0.91%) Spock
14 5 (0.76%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.76%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.76%) fastlane
14 5 (0.76%) Gradle
General
1 84 (12.80%) Public Sector
2 75 (11.43%) Finance
3 59 (8.99%) Social Skills
4 33 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.29%) Banking
7 13 (1.98%) Games
8 9 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.22%) Marketing
10 6 (0.91%) Retail
11 5 (0.76%) Advertising
11 5 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.61%) Publishing
13 3 (0.46%) Back Office
13 3 (0.46%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.46%) Legal
14 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 317 (48.32%) Developer
2 246 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 170 (25.91%) Senior
4 119 (18.14%) Software Engineer
5 112 (17.07%) Java Engineer
6 98 (14.94%) Lead
7 87 (13.26%) Senior Developer
8 74 (11.28%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
10 52 (7.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
12 47 (7.16%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 40 (6.10%) Software Developer
14 37 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
15 33 (5.03%) Lead Software Engineer
15 33 (5.03%) Senior Java Engineer
16 32 (4.88%) Junior
17 31 (4.73%) AWS Developer
18 30 (4.57%) Lead Java Engineer
19 27 (4.12%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (22.26%) Spring
2 145 (22.10%) Spring Boot
3 137 (20.88%) AngularJS
4 89 (13.57%) Node.js
5 70 (10.67%) React
6 48 (7.32%) .NET
7 43 (6.55%) RESTful
8 41 (6.25%) REST
9 37 (5.64%) Gherkin
10 28 (4.27%) Jest
10 28 (4.27%) Vue
11 23 (3.51%) Kafka
12 21 (3.20%) CSS
13 18 (2.74%) Android SDK
13 18 (2.74%) GraphQL
13 18 (2.74%) HTML
14 11 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (1.37%) Hibernate
15 9 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (1.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (4.73%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.98%) Social Media
7 11 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.07%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.91%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.76%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.61%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.61%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.61%) Distributed Architecture
13 4 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.57%) Linux
2 18 (2.74%) Android
3 16 (2.44%) Windows
4 15 (2.29%) Unix
5 3 (0.46%) CentOS
5 3 (0.46%) Debian
5 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (38.11%) Agile
2 205 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 181 (27.59%) Software Engineering
4 165 (25.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 156 (23.78%) DevOps
6 134 (20.43%) Microservices
7 130 (19.82%) Test Automation
8 124 (18.90%) Mentoring
9 97 (14.79%) TDD
10 77 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
11 76 (11.59%) Coaching
12 75 (11.43%) Scrum
13 71 (10.82%) AI
14 59 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (8.08%) Clean Code
16 52 (7.93%) SDLC
17 48 (7.32%) Containerisation
17 48 (7.32%) Secure Coding
18 47 (7.16%) Continuous Integration
18 47 (7.16%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 145 (22.10%) Python
2 140 (21.34%) SQL
3 121 (18.45%) JavaScript
4 90 (13.72%) TypeScript
5 59 (8.99%) C#
6 56 (8.54%) Kotlin
7 45 (6.86%) Groovy
8 37 (5.64%) Bash
9 21 (3.20%) C++
10 17 (2.59%) Go
11 13 (1.98%) Scala
12 6 (0.91%) PHP
12 6 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.76%) C
14 3 (0.46%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 63 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 31 (4.73%) AWS Certification
4 28 (4.27%) Degree
5 24 (3.66%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
7 14 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.07%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.61%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.46%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.81%) Accessibility
2 24 (3.66%) QA
3 15 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 10 (1.52%) WCAG
5 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 114 (17.38%) Docker
2 3 (0.46%) vSphere
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 71 (10.82%) Terraform
2 59 (8.99%) Kubernetes
3 27 (4.12%) HP Fortify
4 24 (3.66%) Ansible
5 13 (1.98%) Argo
6 5 (0.76%) Grafana
6 5 (0.76%) Packer
7 3 (0.46%) Control-M
7 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.46%) Puppet
8 2 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (2.29%) Adobe
2 14 (2.13%) Google
2 14 (2.13%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.98%) Splunk
4 11 (1.68%) AppDynamics
5 9 (1.37%) Oracle
6 8 (1.22%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.07%) IBM
8 5 (0.76%) Pega
8 5 (0.76%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.61%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.61%) VMware
10 3 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.46%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.30%) Cognos
11 2 (0.30%) WSO2
12 1 (0.15%) Veracode