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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 30 67
Rank change year-on-year -11 +37 -25
Permanent jobs citing Java 787 648 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.27% 7.10% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.45% 29.74% 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 566 170 156
10th Percentile £42,500 £32,375 £32,875
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £100,000 £88,388
England median annual salary £71,371 £78,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% -2.50% +3.23%

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 3,506 2,179 3,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.58% 23.88% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,746 1,231 1,884
10th Percentile £38,992 £31,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,000 £41,163 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,375 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -24 423 £75,000 +7.14% 56
North East +15 188 £55,000 +7.32% 25
Yorkshire +13 176 £72,500 +7.41% 29
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 14 (1.78%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.27%) WebLogic
5 9 (1.14%) Apache
5 9 (1.14%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.76%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.64%) Confluence
8 4 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.38%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 279 (35.45%) AWS
2 106 (13.47%) Azure
3 98 (12.45%) Serverless
4 77 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (8.77%) Amazon S3
6 59 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (7.37%) Amazon ECS
8 52 (6.61%) GitHub
9 44 (5.59%) AWS Step Functions
10 36 (4.57%) GCP
11 34 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (3.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 24 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.54%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (2.54%) Datadog
17 18 (2.29%) Amazon ECR
18 15 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
19 14 (1.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.51%) RIP
2 3 (0.38%) AMQP
3 2 (0.25%) 5G
3 2 (0.25%) HTTP
3 2 (0.25%) MQTT
3 2 (0.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.10%) DynamoDB
2 40 (5.08%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.45%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
5 23 (2.92%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.16%) MySQL
7 12 (1.52%) Spark SQL
8 10 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.14%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.14%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.02%) Flink
10 8 (1.02%) Power BI
11 6 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.76%) Big Data
11 6 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.64%) Neo4j
12 5 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (8.51%) Git
2 59 (7.50%) GitLab
3 52 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 30 (3.81%) JUnit
5 26 (3.30%) Maven
6 22 (2.80%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.65%) Spock
8 9 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.14%) JIRA
8 9 (1.14%) Mockito
9 8 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.02%) Storybook
10 7 (0.89%) Selenium
11 5 (0.64%) Android Studio
11 5 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.64%) Crashlytics
11 5 (0.64%) fastlane
11 5 (0.64%) Gradle
12 4 (0.51%) Claude Code
General
1 98 (12.45%) Social Skills
2 97 (12.33%) Public Sector
3 94 (11.94%) Finance
4 40 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.18%) Banking
5 25 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (2.80%) Publishing
7 12 (1.52%) Retail
8 10 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.27%) Marketing
9 8 (1.02%) iGaming
10 7 (0.89%) Legal
10 7 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.76%) Law
11 6 (0.76%) Retail Banking
12 5 (0.64%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.64%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 268 (34.05%) Developer
2 239 (30.37%) Senior
3 200 (25.41%) Java Engineer
4 185 (23.51%) Java Developer
5 155 (19.70%) Software Engineer
6 122 (15.50%) Lead
7 98 (12.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 88 (11.18%) Senior Developer
9 83 (10.55%) Senior Java Engineer
10 67 (8.51%) Java Software Engineer
11 61 (7.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (7.24%) Senior Java Developer
13 46 (5.84%) Technical Leader
14 40 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.70%) Technical Engineer
16 35 (4.45%) Full-Stack Developer
16 35 (4.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
16 35 (4.45%) Software Developer
17 29 (3.68%) AWS Developer
18 28 (3.56%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (23.25%) Spring
2 152 (19.31%) Spring Boot
3 108 (13.72%) AngularJS
4 84 (10.67%) Terraform
5 74 (9.40%) Node.js
6 70 (8.89%) React
7 58 (7.37%) Kafka
8 44 (5.59%) .NET
8 44 (5.59%) REST
9 26 (3.30%) RESTful
10 23 (2.92%) PySpark
11 22 (2.80%) Vue
12 21 (2.67%) Gherkin
13 20 (2.54%) CSS
13 20 (2.54%) HTML
14 13 (1.65%) Jest
15 10 (1.27%) GraphQL
15 10 (1.27%) OpenAPI
15 10 (1.27%) XML
16 9 (1.14%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (1.65%) Private Cloud
5 12 (1.52%) Media Streaming
5 12 (1.52%) Podcast
6 11 (1.40%) Marketing Technology
7 10 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.14%) Blog
9 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.76%) Mobile Banking
11 5 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.64%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.51%) Distributed Computing
12 4 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.19%) Linux
2 18 (2.29%) Windows
3 12 (1.52%) Android
3 12 (1.52%) Unix
4 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.51%) VMS
6 2 (0.25%) CentOS
6 2 (0.25%) Debian
6 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) macOS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (31.00%) CI/CD
1 244 (31.00%) Software Engineering
2 241 (30.62%) Agile
3 226 (28.72%) Full-Stack Development
4 187 (23.76%) DevOps
5 158 (20.08%) Microservices
6 144 (18.30%) Mentoring
7 127 (16.14%) Test Automation
8 101 (12.83%) TDD
9 95 (12.07%) AI
10 94 (11.94%) Containerisation
10 94 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (10.29%) Coaching
12 77 (9.78%) Scrum
13 74 (9.40%) Infrastructure as Code
14 73 (9.28%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (7.24%) Event-Driven
16 56 (7.12%) Continuous Integration
17 52 (6.61%) SDLC
18 50 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (23.51%) Python
2 134 (17.03%) SQL
3 119 (15.12%) TypeScript
4 117 (14.87%) JavaScript
5 72 (9.15%) C#
6 49 (6.23%) Kotlin
7 42 (5.34%) C++
8 28 (3.56%) Bash
8 28 (3.56%) Scala
9 26 (3.30%) Groovy
10 24 (3.05%) Go
11 11 (1.40%) C
12 10 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.14%) PHP
13 9 (1.14%) Rust
14 7 (0.89%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.51%) Ruby
16 2 (0.25%) Swift
17 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 123 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 68 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.97%) DV Cleared
4 41 (5.21%) Degree
5 18 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.78%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.51%) MBA
12 2 (0.25%) PhD
13 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.45%) Accessibility
1 35 (4.45%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.56%) QA
3 16 (2.03%) WCAG
4 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 147 (18.68%) Docker
2 4 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.51%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 114 (14.49%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.21%) Ansible
3 12 (1.52%) Argo
4 8 (1.02%) HP Fortify
5 6 (0.76%) Puppet
6 4 (0.51%) Grafana
6 4 (0.51%) Packer
6 4 (0.51%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.51%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.38%) Control-M
7 3 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.13%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (2.92%) Adobe
2 21 (2.67%) Splunk
3 18 (2.29%) Oracle
4 16 (2.03%) Google
5 13 (1.65%) AppDynamics
6 12 (1.52%) Microsoft
7 8 (1.02%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.89%) VMware
9 5 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.51%) NEC
10 4 (0.51%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.38%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.38%) IBM
11 3 (0.38%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.38%) Talend
12 2 (0.25%) Actian
12 2 (0.25%) Apple
12 2 (0.25%) Databricks
12 2 (0.25%) New Relic
12 2 (0.25%) SaltStack