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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 20 68
Rank change year-on-year -26 +48 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 687 979 430
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.11% 10.21% 2.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.05% 36.46% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 495 200 251
10th Percentile £40,300 £28,225 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,781 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +3.13% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £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 2,685 3,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.34% 28.00% 26.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,734 1,422 2,952
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,049 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.78% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £76,170 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,650 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,939
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% -6.25%

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 12 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 12 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 -36 306 £70,000 - 203
Yorkshire +46 219 £75,000 +13.21% 81
North East +9 162 £55,000 +18.92% 64
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 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 12 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.31%) Apache
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.02%) Confluence
5 6 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.58%) JBoss
8 3 (0.44%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.29%) CICS
9 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.29%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 275 (40.03%) AWS
2 112 (16.30%) Azure
3 111 (16.16%) Serverless
4 83 (12.08%) AWS Lambda
5 79 (11.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 76 (11.06%) Amazon S3
7 73 (10.63%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (8.01%) AWS Step Functions
9 44 (6.40%) GitHub
10 41 (5.97%) GCP
11 33 (4.80%) Amazon ECR
11 33 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (4.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 28 (4.08%) Apigee
14 24 (3.49%) SaaS
15 23 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (3.20%) Amazon SQS
17 16 (2.33%) Datadog
18 13 (1.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.75%) Broadband
2 3 (0.44%) RIP
2 3 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.29%) MQTT
4 1 (0.15%) DNS
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (9.46%) DynamoDB
2 48 (6.99%) NoSQL
3 40 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (4.37%) MongoDB
5 29 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (3.78%) Relational Database
7 21 (3.06%) MySQL
8 13 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.46%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.46%) Power BI
10 9 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.31%) Flink
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.58%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 73 (10.63%) Jenkins
2 68 (9.90%) Git
3 61 (8.88%) GitLab
4 34 (4.95%) Maven
5 31 (4.51%) Cypress.io
6 25 (3.64%) SonarQube
7 21 (3.06%) JIRA
8 16 (2.33%) JUnit
9 13 (1.89%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.75%) Claude Code
11 11 (1.60%) Selenium
11 11 (1.60%) Spock
12 8 (1.16%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.16%) Storybook
13 7 (1.02%) Postman
14 6 (0.87%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.87%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.87%) IntelliJ
14 6 (0.87%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 87 (12.66%) Finance
2 86 (12.52%) Public Sector
3 80 (11.64%) Social Skills
4 34 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (2.18%) Banking
7 12 (1.75%) Games
8 10 (1.46%) Marketing
8 10 (1.46%) Publishing
8 10 (1.46%) Retail
9 9 (1.31%) Investment Banking
9 9 (1.31%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.87%) Legal
10 6 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.58%) Advertising
12 4 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.44%) Back Office
13 3 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 315 (45.85%) Developer
2 232 (33.77%) Java Developer
3 198 (28.82%) Senior
4 117 (17.03%) Java Engineer
5 115 (16.74%) Software Engineer
6 98 (14.26%) Lead
7 97 (14.12%) Senior Developer
8 71 (10.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 63 (9.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 60 (8.73%) Full-Stack Developer
11 43 (6.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 41 (5.97%) Senior Java Engineer
13 40 (5.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 39 (5.68%) Senior Software Engineer
15 37 (5.39%) DevOps Engineer
16 34 (4.95%) Software Developer
17 32 (4.66%) AWS Developer
18 29 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
19 27 (3.93%) Lead Java Engineer
20 22 (3.20%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (23.44%) Spring
2 145 (21.11%) Spring Boot
3 138 (20.09%) AngularJS
4 91 (13.25%) Node.js
5 65 (9.46%) React
6 52 (7.57%) .NET
7 39 (5.68%) RESTful
8 38 (5.53%) REST
9 28 (4.08%) Gherkin
10 27 (3.93%) Kafka
11 26 (3.78%) CSS
11 26 (3.78%) Vue
12 25 (3.64%) HTML
13 21 (3.06%) GraphQL
14 20 (2.91%) Jest
15 17 (2.47%) Android SDK
16 10 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
17 9 (1.31%) Hibernate
17 9 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
17 9 (1.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (4.80%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.18%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.75%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (1.75%) Social Media
7 11 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 10 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.87%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.87%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.87%) Legacy Code
10 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.73%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.58%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.95%) Linux
2 20 (2.91%) Android
3 18 (2.62%) Windows
4 15 (2.18%) Unix
5 3 (0.44%) 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 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 245 (35.66%) Agile
2 222 (32.31%) CI/CD
3 180 (26.20%) Software Engineering
4 172 (25.04%) DevOps
4 172 (25.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 147 (21.40%) Microservices
6 138 (20.09%) Test Automation
7 130 (18.92%) Mentoring
8 103 (14.99%) TDD
9 83 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
10 82 (11.94%) AI
11 80 (11.64%) Scrum
12 78 (11.35%) Coaching
13 67 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 62 (9.02%) Containerisation
15 60 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
16 59 (8.59%) Design Patterns
17 54 (7.86%) Continuous Integration
18 52 (7.57%) SDLC
19 51 (7.42%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 167 (24.31%) Python
2 136 (19.80%) SQL
3 121 (17.61%) JavaScript
4 94 (13.68%) TypeScript
5 67 (9.75%) C#
6 59 (8.59%) Kotlin
7 37 (5.39%) Groovy
8 31 (4.51%) Bash
9 28 (4.08%) C++
10 20 (2.91%) Scala
11 13 (1.89%) Go
12 10 (1.46%) C
12 10 (1.46%) PHP
13 8 (1.16%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.58%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.44%) Ruby
16 2 (0.29%) Swift
17 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.15%) Objective-C
17 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 67 (9.75%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.68%) Degree
4 32 (4.66%) DV Cleared
5 24 (3.49%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (2.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 14 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.58%) MBA
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.15%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.51%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.78%) QA
3 18 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 15 (2.18%) WCAG
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 123 (17.90%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) vSphere
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 84 (12.23%) Terraform
2 69 (10.04%) Kubernetes
3 33 (4.80%) Ansible
4 18 (2.62%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.89%) Argo
6 5 (0.73%) Grafana
7 4 (0.58%) Packer
8 3 (0.44%) Control-M
8 3 (0.44%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.44%) Puppet
9 2 (0.29%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.29%) Kibana
10 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (3.35%) Adobe
2 19 (2.77%) Splunk
3 16 (2.33%) AppDynamics
3 16 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.04%) Google
5 9 (1.31%) Oracle
6 8 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 7 (1.02%) IBM
8 5 (0.73%) Pega
9 4 (0.58%) NEC
9 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.58%) VMware
10 3 (0.44%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.44%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.44%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.44%) Talend
11 2 (0.29%) Apple
11 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.29%) WSO2
12 1 (0.15%) HP