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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 67 32
Rank change year-on-year -9 -35 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 262 348 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.78% 3.10% 7.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.40% 11.00% 18.62%
Number of salaries quoted 176 157 366
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,011 £86,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 1,701 3,164 2,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 18.07% 28.21% 38.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 1,729 2,200
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,297
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -18 121 £67,500 +12.50% 117
Yorkshire +27 120 £67,500 +22.73% 77
North East -9 23 £55,000 -6.75% 25
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 10 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.29%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.91%) Apache
3 5 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.53%) Camunda
5 3 (1.15%) Mule
6 2 (0.76%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) JBoss
6 2 (0.76%) SAS
6 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.38%) Confluence
7 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.76%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 151 (57.63%) AWS
2 85 (32.44%) Azure
3 47 (17.94%) Serverless
4 35 (13.36%) GCP
5 25 (9.54%) Amazon ECS
6 19 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (6.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (6.87%) SaaS
8 14 (5.34%) Amazon S3
9 13 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (4.20%) GitHub
11 9 (3.44%) Amazon ECR
11 9 (3.44%) Apigee
11 9 (3.44%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (3.05%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.91%) dbt
13 5 (1.91%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.91%) PaaS
13 5 (1.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) AMQP
2 3 (1.15%) HTTP
2 3 (1.15%) SAN
3 2 (0.76%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.76%) SSH
3 2 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) TCAP
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.31%) NoSQL
2 26 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (7.25%) MySQL
3 19 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 16 (6.11%) DynamoDB
4 16 (6.11%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.34%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.67%) Big Data
6 7 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.67%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.91%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.53%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.53%) Tableau
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.15%) Power BI
10 2 (0.76%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 42 (16.03%) Jenkins
2 33 (12.60%) GitLab
3 22 (8.40%) Git
4 21 (8.02%) SonarQube
5 13 (4.96%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.58%) Maven
7 10 (3.82%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.05%) JIRA
8 8 (3.05%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (2.67%) JUnit
10 6 (2.29%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.29%) Selenium
11 4 (1.53%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.53%) TeamCity
12 3 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.76%) Babel
13 2 (0.76%) Locust
13 2 (0.76%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.76%) Postman
13 2 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 77 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 65 (24.81%) Finance
3 16 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (5.73%) Games
4 15 (5.73%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.73%) Retail
5 12 (4.58%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.44%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.91%) Marketing
9 4 (1.53%) Banking
9 4 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 2 (0.76%) Back Office
11 2 (0.76%) Billing
11 2 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Electronics
11 2 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 99 (37.79%) Developer
2 69 (26.34%) Senior
3 59 (22.52%) Java Developer
4 53 (20.23%) Software Engineer
5 37 (14.12%) Lead
6 26 (9.92%) Architect
6 26 (9.92%) Senior Developer
7 23 (8.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 19 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (7.25%) Software Developer
9 17 (6.49%) Java Engineer
10 16 (6.11%) Graduate
11 14 (5.34%) Lead Developer
12 13 (4.96%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.82%) Applications Architect
14 9 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
14 9 (3.44%) Graduate Developer
14 9 (3.44%) IT Graduate
14 9 (3.44%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (26.34%) Spring
2 66 (25.19%) Spring Boot
3 41 (15.65%) React
4 33 (12.60%) AngularJS
5 30 (11.45%) CSS
6 29 (11.07%) .NET
6 29 (11.07%) Node.js
7 28 (10.69%) REST
8 27 (10.31%) RESTful
9 21 (8.02%) Kafka
10 15 (5.73%) Hibernate
10 15 (5.73%) HTML
11 13 (4.96%) Jest
12 12 (4.58%) Micronaut
13 11 (4.20%) ASP.NET
13 11 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (4.20%) Gherkin
13 11 (4.20%) jQuery
14 9 (3.44%) Web Services
15 7 (2.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.16%) Cloud Native
1 24 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.87%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.91%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.53%) e-Learning
7 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.15%) IoT
9 2 (0.76%) DataPower
9 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.76%) NHS
9 2 (0.76%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.38%) Life Science
10 1 (0.38%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 27 (10.31%) Linux
2 9 (3.44%) Windows
3 3 (1.15%) Android
3 3 (1.15%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) CentOS
4 2 (0.76%) Debian
4 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (41.60%) Agile
2 95 (36.26%) DevOps
3 94 (35.88%) CI/CD
4 83 (31.68%) Software Engineering
5 74 (28.24%) Microservices
6 60 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (22.52%) Mentoring
8 51 (19.47%) Computer Science
9 44 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (15.65%) Containerisation
11 37 (14.12%) Clean Code
11 37 (14.12%) TDD
12 36 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 33 (12.60%) Test Automation
14 31 (11.83%) SDLC
15 27 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (9.54%) Enterprise Architecture
17 24 (9.16%) Technical Leadership
18 23 (8.78%) Data Modelling
19 22 (8.40%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 85 (32.44%) Python
2 73 (27.86%) SQL
3 70 (26.72%) JavaScript
4 61 (23.28%) C#
4 61 (23.28%) TypeScript
5 19 (7.25%) Bash
6 18 (6.87%) C
6 18 (6.87%) C++
7 16 (6.11%) PHP
8 15 (5.73%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.20%) Go
9 11 (4.20%) PowerShell
10 10 (3.82%) Scala
11 9 (3.44%) PL/SQL
12 8 (3.05%) Groovy
13 6 (2.29%) Perl
14 5 (1.91%) R
15 4 (1.53%) Ruby
16 3 (1.15%) Rust
17 2 (0.76%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (20.61%) Degree
2 43 (16.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (13.36%) AWS Certification
4 25 (9.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (9.16%) Azure Certification
6 21 (8.02%) Security Cleared
7 16 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (6.11%) SC Cleared
7 16 (6.11%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.67%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.29%) HND
10 5 (1.91%) DV Cleared
11 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.76%) PhD
13 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.38%) MBA
13 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.40%) QA
2 8 (3.05%) GDPR
3 7 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.29%) HIPAA
4 6 (2.29%) NIST
5 3 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.76%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.76%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.76%) WCAG
7 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 66 (25.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.15%) vSphere
3 2 (0.76%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.76%) HDFS
3 2 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) Squid
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 21 (8.02%) Terraform
3 18 (6.87%) Ansible
4 9 (3.44%) Grafana
4 9 (3.44%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.15%) Control-M
5 3 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.15%) Kibana
6 2 (0.76%) logstash
6 2 (0.76%) Oozie
6 2 (0.76%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.49%) Google
3 8 (3.05%) Oracle
4 6 (2.29%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.29%) Siemens
4 6 (2.29%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.91%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.53%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.53%) Pega
6 4 (1.53%) SAP
6 4 (1.53%) WSO2
7 3 (1.15%) VMware
8 2 (0.76%) Adobe
8 2 (0.76%) Databricks
8 2 (0.76%) Informatica
8 2 (0.76%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.76%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.38%) TIBCO