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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 21 49
Rank change year-on-year -44 +28 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 475 699 660
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.69% 10.00% 4.01%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.06% 31.32% 13.56%
Number of salaries quoted 321 235 482
10th Percentile £32,000 £37,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,139 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +2.04% -8.13%

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 2,785 2,232 4,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.75% 31.93% 29.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,970 1,511 4,147
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,410 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £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 22 April 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 22 April 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
Yorkshire +3 218 £71,250 +1.79% 40
North West -65 193 £70,000 +4.42% 77
North East -18 64 £52,315 -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 10 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.89%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.68%) Apache
4 7 (1.47%) JBoss
5 4 (0.84%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.63%) Confluence
7 2 (0.42%) CICS
7 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.21%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (49.05%) AWS
2 120 (25.26%) Serverless
3 92 (19.37%) Azure
4 83 (17.47%) AWS Lambda
5 82 (17.26%) Amazon ECS
6 81 (17.05%) Amazon S3
7 79 (16.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 63 (13.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 48 (10.11%) Amazon ECR
10 47 (9.89%) Apigee
11 28 (5.89%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (5.89%) GCP
12 24 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (5.05%) Amazon EKS
12 24 (5.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 21 (4.42%) GitHub
14 19 (4.00%) SaaS
15 14 (2.95%) dbt
16 13 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
17 11 (2.32%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.74%) Broadband
2 4 (0.84%) AMQP
2 4 (0.84%) HTTP
3 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.21%) SAN
4 1 (0.21%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (15.37%) DynamoDB
2 52 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 40 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.84%) MongoDB
5 22 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (4.63%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.79%) MySQL
7 9 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (1.89%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.47%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.26%) Big Data
10 5 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.05%) Power BI
10 5 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.84%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (0.84%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.84%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 79 (16.63%) Jenkins
2 60 (12.63%) GitLab
3 48 (10.11%) Git
4 46 (9.68%) SonarQube
5 43 (9.05%) Cypress.io
6 42 (8.84%) Maven
7 20 (4.21%) JIRA
8 14 (2.95%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.11%) Claude Code
9 10 (2.11%) Selenium
10 6 (1.26%) JMeter
10 6 (1.26%) JUnit
10 6 (1.26%) REST Assured
11 5 (1.05%) Postman
12 4 (0.84%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.84%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.84%) IntelliJ
13 3 (0.63%) Locust
14 2 (0.42%) Gatling
General
1 63 (13.26%) Social Skills
2 47 (9.89%) Finance
3 44 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 20 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (3.58%) Games
7 12 (2.53%) Banking
7 12 (2.53%) Retail
8 7 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (1.26%) Investment Banking
9 6 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.05%) Advertising
10 5 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.63%) Marketing
13 2 (0.42%) Back Office
13 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.21%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (45.68%) Developer
2 166 (34.95%) Java Developer
3 104 (21.89%) Senior
4 102 (21.47%) Software Engineer
5 74 (15.58%) Lead
6 70 (14.74%) Java Engineer
7 51 (10.74%) Senior Developer
8 47 (9.89%) Full-Stack Developer
9 38 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 35 (7.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 33 (6.95%) Java Software Engineer
12 30 (6.32%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.84%) Junior
13 23 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
14 22 (4.63%) Architect
14 22 (4.63%) AWS Developer
15 20 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (4.00%) Senior Java Engineer
17 18 (3.79%) Applications Developer
18 17 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (26.53%) Spring Boot
2 109 (22.95%) Spring
3 105 (22.11%) AngularJS
4 69 (14.53%) Node.js
5 61 (12.84%) React
6 43 (9.05%) Gherkin
7 42 (8.84%) .NET
8 41 (8.63%) REST
9 40 (8.42%) Jest
10 33 (6.95%) RESTful
11 21 (4.42%) Kafka
12 16 (3.37%) CSS
12 16 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (2.95%) GraphQL
13 14 (2.95%) Web Services
14 13 (2.74%) Android SDK
14 13 (2.74%) HTML
15 11 (2.32%) Hibernate
16 10 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
16 10 (2.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (4.42%) Mobile App
4 13 (2.74%) Product Ownership
4 13 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.74%) Social Media
5 7 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.26%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.26%) Legacy Code
7 5 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.84%) Algorithms
8 4 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.63%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.63%) IoT
9 3 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.11%) Linux
2 14 (2.95%) Android
3 10 (2.11%) Unix
4 9 (1.89%) Windows
5 4 (0.84%) CentOS
5 4 (0.84%) Debian
5 4 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (43.58%) Agile
2 167 (35.16%) CI/CD
3 146 (30.74%) Software Engineering
4 132 (27.79%) DevOps
5 104 (21.89%) Microservices
6 99 (20.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 91 (19.16%) Mentoring
8 76 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 66 (13.89%) Scrum
10 65 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (12.84%) TDD
12 53 (11.16%) AI
13 52 (10.95%) SDLC
14 45 (9.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 43 (9.05%) Clean Code
16 42 (8.84%) BDD
17 39 (8.21%) Coaching
17 39 (8.21%) Containerisation
17 39 (8.21%) Secure Coding
18 38 (8.00%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 120 (25.26%) Python
2 107 (22.53%) SQL
3 98 (20.63%) JavaScript
4 96 (20.21%) TypeScript
5 48 (10.11%) C#
6 47 (9.89%) Kotlin
7 43 (9.05%) Groovy
8 39 (8.21%) Bash
9 14 (2.95%) Go
10 13 (2.74%) C++
11 12 (2.53%) C
11 12 (2.53%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.84%) PHP
12 4 (0.84%) Scala
13 2 (0.42%) R
14 1 (0.21%) ABAP
14 1 (0.21%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.21%) Perl
14 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 47 (9.89%) AWS Certification
3 44 (9.26%) SC Cleared
4 39 (8.21%) Degree
5 29 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (4.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 23 (4.84%) ITIL Certification
7 18 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (3.58%) DV Cleared
9 15 (3.16%) Azure Certification
9 15 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.16%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.89%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.21%) MBA
12 1 (0.21%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.21%) QA
2 13 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.63%) WCAG
5 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.21%) GDPR
6 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 104 (21.89%) Docker
2 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (12.21%) Kubernetes
2 47 (9.89%) Terraform
3 40 (8.42%) HP Fortify
4 18 (3.79%) Ansible
5 7 (1.47%) Argo
6 6 (1.26%) Grafana
7 5 (1.05%) Packer
8 4 (0.84%) Puppet
9 3 (0.63%) Rancher
10 2 (0.42%) AWS Copilot
10 2 (0.42%) Kibana
10 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.21%) Control-M
11 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (5.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (1.89%) Google
3 7 (1.47%) IBM
3 7 (1.47%) Oracle
4 5 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.05%) Pega
5 4 (0.84%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.84%) SaltStack
6 3 (0.63%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.42%) Adobe
7 2 (0.42%) Cognos
7 2 (0.42%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.42%) VMware
7 2 (0.42%) WSO2
8 1 (0.21%) Databricks
8 1 (0.21%) SAP
8 1 (0.21%) Veracode