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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 17 55
Rank change year-on-year -39 +38 -22
Permanent jobs citing Java 602 989 639
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.03% 12.71% 3.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.77% 38.41% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 436 220 458
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
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 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 3,208 2,575 5,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.16% 33.09% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,374 1,328 4,238
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,879 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,965 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £67,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £89,125 £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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -51 256 £70,000 -9.68% 85
Yorkshire +15 236 £72,500 +0.71% 40
North East +4 110 £52,500 -5.83% 35
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 11 (1.83%) Apache
1 11 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.83%) JBoss
5 5 (0.83%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.50%) Confluence
8 2 (0.33%) CICS
9 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 261 (43.36%) AWS
2 120 (19.93%) Serverless
3 108 (17.94%) Azure
4 88 (14.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 87 (14.45%) Amazon S3
5 87 (14.45%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
7 69 (11.46%) AWS Step Functions
8 48 (7.97%) Amazon ECR
9 45 (7.48%) Apigee
10 37 (6.15%) GitHub
11 32 (5.32%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 30 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
14 29 (4.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 29 (4.82%) GCP
15 21 (3.49%) SaaS
16 19 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
17 17 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (2.49%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.16%) Broadband
2 3 (0.50%) AMQP
2 3 (0.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.17%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.96%) DynamoDB
2 63 (10.47%) NoSQL
3 46 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (5.98%) MongoDB
5 31 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
6 24 (3.99%) MySQL
6 24 (3.99%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.16%) SQL Server
8 11 (1.83%) Power BI
9 7 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.16%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.00%) Big Data
10 6 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (1.00%) Hadoop
11 4 (0.66%) Flink
11 4 (0.66%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 89 (14.78%) Jenkins
2 72 (11.96%) GitLab
3 59 (9.80%) Git
4 43 (7.14%) Maven
5 42 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 41 (6.81%) SonarQube
7 20 (3.32%) JIRA
8 14 (2.33%) Claude Code
9 9 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.33%) Selenium
11 7 (1.16%) JUnit
12 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.83%) Artifactory
13 5 (0.83%) Postman
14 4 (0.66%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.66%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.66%) Crashlytics
14 4 (0.66%) Gradle
14 4 (0.66%) IntelliJ
14 4 (0.66%) Spock
General
1 80 (13.29%) Public Sector
2 67 (11.13%) Social Skills
3 66 (10.96%) Finance
4 33 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.66%) Banking
7 14 (2.33%) Games
8 10 (1.66%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.33%) Marketing
9 8 (1.33%) Retail
10 5 (0.83%) Advertising
10 5 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.50%) Back Office
12 3 (0.50%) Legal
12 3 (0.50%) Publishing
13 2 (0.33%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.33%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 292 (48.50%) Developer
2 228 (37.87%) Java Developer
3 154 (25.58%) Senior
4 111 (18.44%) Software Engineer
5 101 (16.78%) Lead
6 93 (15.45%) Java Engineer
7 80 (13.29%) Senior Developer
8 66 (10.96%) Senior Java Developer
9 58 (9.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 42 (6.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 41 (6.81%) Java Software Engineer
12 40 (6.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 35 (5.81%) Software Developer
14 32 (5.32%) Junior
14 32 (5.32%) Lead Software Engineer
15 31 (5.15%) AWS Developer
16 29 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
17 28 (4.65%) Senior Java Engineer
18 27 (4.49%) Lead Java Engineer
19 22 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (23.42%) Spring Boot
2 134 (22.26%) Spring
3 131 (21.76%) AngularJS
4 87 (14.45%) Node.js
5 66 (10.96%) React
6 49 (8.14%) .NET
7 42 (6.98%) REST
8 41 (6.81%) Gherkin
8 41 (6.81%) RESTful
9 35 (5.81%) Jest
10 24 (3.99%) Kafka
11 23 (3.82%) CSS
12 20 (3.32%) HTML
13 19 (3.16%) Vue
14 17 (2.82%) Android SDK
14 17 (2.82%) GraphQL
15 14 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
16 11 (1.83%) Web Services
17 10 (1.66%) JSON
18 9 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (3.99%) Mobile App
3 23 (3.82%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.16%) Social Media
7 10 (1.66%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.33%) Marketing Technology
9 7 (1.16%) Legacy Code
9 7 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.00%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.66%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.66%) Contactless
12 4 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.66%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.66%) Private Cloud
12 4 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.49%) Linux
2 17 (2.82%) Android
3 15 (2.49%) Unix
3 15 (2.49%) Windows
4 3 (0.50%) CentOS
4 3 (0.50%) Debian
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 243 (40.37%) Agile
2 202 (33.55%) CI/CD
3 163 (27.08%) Software Engineering
4 155 (25.75%) DevOps
5 145 (24.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 134 (22.26%) Microservices
7 124 (20.60%) Mentoring
8 112 (18.60%) Test Automation
9 83 (13.79%) Scrum
9 83 (13.79%) TDD
10 73 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
11 67 (11.13%) AI
12 64 (10.63%) Coaching
13 54 (8.97%) SDLC
14 51 (8.47%) Clean Code
15 50 (8.31%) Continuous Improvement
16 45 (7.48%) Design Patterns
16 45 (7.48%) Secure Coding
17 44 (7.31%) Continuous Integration
18 42 (6.98%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 141 (23.42%) SQL
2 136 (22.59%) Python
3 123 (20.43%) JavaScript
4 101 (16.78%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.30%) C#
6 56 (9.30%) Kotlin
7 49 (8.14%) Groovy
8 39 (6.48%) Bash
9 22 (3.65%) C++
10 12 (1.99%) Go
11 8 (1.33%) Scala
12 7 (1.16%) C
12 7 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.66%) PHP
14 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.17%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
15 1 (0.17%) R
15 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 54 (8.97%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.31%) AWS Certification
4 33 (5.48%) Degree
5 23 (3.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (3.82%) ITIL Certification
6 21 (3.49%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.33%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.66%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.17%) MBA
13 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.99%) QA
2 21 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.49%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.33%) WCAG
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 113 (18.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.33%) vSphere
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 62 (10.30%) Terraform
2 52 (8.64%) Kubernetes
3 34 (5.65%) HP Fortify
4 20 (3.32%) Ansible
5 13 (2.16%) Argo
6 5 (0.83%) Packer
7 3 (0.50%) Grafana
7 3 (0.50%) Puppet
8 2 (0.33%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.33%) Control-M
8 2 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.33%) Kibana
8 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 20 (3.32%) Microsoft
2 13 (2.16%) Google
3 11 (1.83%) Adobe
4 10 (1.66%) Oracle
5 9 (1.50%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.16%) IBM
7 5 (0.83%) Dynatrace
7 5 (0.83%) Pega
7 5 (0.83%) Splunk
8 4 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.50%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.50%) Red Hat
9 3 (0.50%) SaltStack
9 3 (0.50%) VMware
10 2 (0.33%) Cognos
10 2 (0.33%) WSO2
11 1 (0.17%) Databricks
11 1 (0.17%) Veracode