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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 19 54
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 590 981 637
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.06% 12.39% 3.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.22% 36.88% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 419 226 464
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,625 £36,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £48,931 £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 £77,715
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -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 3,069 2,660 4,933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.93% 33.60% 28.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,230 1,426 4,180
10th Percentile £34,500 £31,599 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +4.67% -2.73%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £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 21 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 21 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 -51 246 £70,000 -6.04% 158
Yorkshire +26 244 £72,500 +0.71% 151
North East -3 100 £52,500 -4.55% 75
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 (1.69%) Apache
1 10 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.53%) OpenStack
3 7 (1.19%) JBoss
4 6 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.02%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.51%) Confluence
7 2 (0.34%) CICS
7 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.17%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 265 (44.92%) AWS
2 128 (21.69%) Serverless
3 108 (18.31%) Azure
4 92 (15.59%) Amazon ECS
4 92 (15.59%) Amazon S3
5 91 (15.42%) AWS CloudFormation
6 90 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
7 72 (12.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 52 (8.81%) Amazon ECR
9 50 (8.47%) Apigee
10 32 (5.42%) GitHub
11 30 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
12 29 (4.92%) GCP
13 28 (4.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 23 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.56%) SaaS
16 16 (2.71%) Azure AKS
17 14 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.20%) Broadband
2 4 (0.68%) HTTP
3 3 (0.51%) AMQP
4 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.17%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (13.90%) DynamoDB
2 65 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 51 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (6.44%) MongoDB
5 29 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
6 26 (4.41%) Relational Database
7 25 (4.24%) MySQL
8 12 (2.03%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.53%) Power BI
10 7 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.02%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.85%) Big Data
13 4 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.68%) Flink
Development Applications
1 94 (15.93%) Jenkins
2 78 (13.22%) GitLab
3 61 (10.34%) Git
4 47 (7.97%) Cypress.io
4 47 (7.97%) Maven
4 47 (7.97%) SonarQube
5 21 (3.56%) JIRA
6 14 (2.37%) Claude Code
7 10 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 9 (1.53%) JUnit
9 8 (1.36%) Selenium
10 6 (1.02%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.85%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.68%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.68%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.68%) JMeter
12 4 (0.68%) Postman
12 4 (0.68%) Spock
13 3 (0.51%) fastlane
General
1 78 (13.22%) Public Sector
2 62 (10.51%) Finance
2 62 (10.51%) Social Skills
3 29 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (2.71%) Banking
6 14 (2.37%) Games
7 10 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.53%) Retail
9 7 (1.19%) Marketing
10 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.85%) Advertising
12 3 (0.51%) Back Office
12 3 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.51%) Legal
12 3 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.34%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 279 (47.29%) Developer
2 219 (37.12%) Java Developer
3 151 (25.59%) Senior
4 113 (19.15%) Software Engineer
5 102 (17.29%) Lead
6 91 (15.42%) Java Engineer
7 77 (13.05%) Senior Developer
8 63 (10.68%) Senior Java Developer
9 59 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 43 (7.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 41 (6.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 40 (6.78%) Java Software Engineer
13 34 (5.76%) Software Developer
14 32 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (5.08%) AWS Developer
15 30 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
16 28 (4.75%) Junior
17 27 (4.58%) Lead Java Engineer
17 27 (4.58%) Senior Java Engineer
18 21 (3.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (24.58%) Spring Boot
2 139 (23.56%) Spring
3 132 (22.37%) AngularJS
4 86 (14.58%) Node.js
5 66 (11.19%) React
6 52 (8.81%) .NET
7 46 (7.80%) REST
8 45 (7.63%) Gherkin
9 42 (7.12%) RESTful
10 41 (6.95%) Jest
11 25 (4.24%) Kafka
12 21 (3.56%) CSS
13 19 (3.22%) Vue
14 18 (3.05%) HTML
15 16 (2.71%) Android SDK
15 16 (2.71%) Elastic Stack
16 15 (2.54%) GraphQL
17 14 (2.37%) Web Services
18 10 (1.69%) JSON
19 9 (1.53%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (4.07%) Cloud Native
2 24 (4.07%) Mobile App
3 16 (2.71%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.20%) Social Media
6 9 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.19%) Legacy Code
7 7 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
9 5 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 5 (0.85%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.68%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.68%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.68%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (5.08%) Linux
2 17 (2.88%) Android
3 16 (2.71%) Windows
4 15 (2.54%) Unix
5 3 (0.51%) CentOS
5 3 (0.51%) Debian
5 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (42.20%) Agile
2 203 (34.41%) CI/CD
3 165 (27.97%) Software Engineering
4 157 (26.61%) DevOps
5 144 (24.41%) Full-Stack Development
6 136 (23.05%) Microservices
7 122 (20.68%) Mentoring
8 105 (17.80%) Test Automation
9 85 (14.41%) Scrum
10 80 (13.56%) TDD
11 74 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (11.53%) AI
13 62 (10.51%) Coaching
14 57 (9.66%) SDLC
15 52 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 51 (8.64%) Clean Code
17 45 (7.63%) Design Patterns
17 45 (7.63%) Secure Coding
18 42 (7.12%) Continuous Integration
19 41 (6.95%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 140 (23.73%) SQL
2 132 (22.37%) Python
3 123 (20.85%) JavaScript
4 105 (17.80%) TypeScript
5 62 (10.51%) C#
6 54 (9.15%) Kotlin
7 52 (8.81%) Groovy
8 43 (7.29%) Bash
9 22 (3.73%) C++
10 13 (2.20%) Go
11 9 (1.53%) C
12 8 (1.36%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.02%) Scala
14 3 (0.51%) PHP
15 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.17%) Perl
16 1 (0.17%) R
16 1 (0.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (10.51%) Security Cleared
2 51 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.29%) AWS Certification
4 35 (5.93%) Degree
5 23 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (3.90%) ITIL Certification
6 19 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (3.05%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.69%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
10 9 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.51%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.17%) MBA
12 1 (0.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.73%) QA
2 19 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.85%) WCAG
5 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 2 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 117 (19.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.34%) vSphere
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (10.00%) Terraform
2 54 (9.15%) Kubernetes
3 40 (6.78%) HP Fortify
4 19 (3.22%) Ansible
5 13 (2.20%) Argo
6 5 (0.85%) Packer
7 3 (0.51%) Grafana
7 3 (0.51%) Puppet
7 3 (0.51%) Rancher
8 2 (0.34%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.34%) Control-M
8 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 21 (3.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.03%) Google
3 9 (1.53%) AppDynamics
3 9 (1.53%) Oracle
4 8 (1.36%) Adobe
5 7 (1.19%) IBM
6 5 (0.85%) Pega
7 4 (0.68%) Splunk
8 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.51%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.51%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.51%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.51%) VMware
9 2 (0.34%) Cognos
9 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.34%) WSO2
10 1 (0.17%) Databricks
10 1 (0.17%) Veracode