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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 51 42
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 424 303 707
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.76% 4.74% 4.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.44% 16.41% 14.97%
Number of salaries quoted 292 222 503
10th Percentile £35,250 £37,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,298 £49,236
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,788 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +1.56% +2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £91,797
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

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 2,431 1,846 4,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.80% 28.88% 30.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,775 1,478 4,022
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,436 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +13 202 £70,000 - 61
North West -22 179 £70,000 +4.42% 97
North East -10 43 £52,315 -8.22% 39
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 12 (2.83%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.89%) Apache
4 7 (1.65%) JBoss
5 4 (0.94%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.71%) Confluence
7 2 (0.47%) CICS
7 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.24%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 219 (51.65%) AWS
2 115 (27.12%) Serverless
3 87 (20.52%) Azure
4 79 (18.63%) Amazon ECS
5 72 (16.98%) Amazon S3
5 72 (16.98%) AWS Lambda
6 71 (16.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (13.44%) AWS Step Functions
8 43 (10.14%) Amazon ECR
9 42 (9.91%) Apigee
10 27 (6.37%) Amazon SQS
11 26 (6.13%) GCP
12 24 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (5.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 23 (5.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 19 (4.48%) GitHub
15 18 (4.25%) SaaS
16 12 (2.83%) dbt
17 10 (2.36%) Datadog
18 9 (2.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.07%) Broadband
2 4 (0.94%) AMQP
3 3 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.24%) SAN
5 1 (0.24%) SSH
5 1 (0.24%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (15.80%) DynamoDB
2 48 (11.32%) NoSQL
3 37 (8.73%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (6.13%) Relational Database
5 21 (4.95%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (4.01%) MongoDB
6 17 (4.01%) MySQL
7 9 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.42%) Big Data
11 5 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.94%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.94%) GIS
12 4 (0.94%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.94%) Power BI
12 4 (0.94%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 76 (17.92%) Jenkins
2 50 (11.79%) GitLab
3 46 (10.85%) Git
4 42 (9.91%) Cypress.io
5 41 (9.67%) SonarQube
6 39 (9.20%) Maven
7 16 (3.77%) JIRA
8 11 (2.59%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.12%) Selenium
10 7 (1.65%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.42%) JMeter
11 6 (1.42%) JUnit
11 6 (1.42%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.18%) Postman
13 4 (0.94%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.94%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.71%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.71%) Locust
15 2 (0.47%) Gatling
15 2 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 62 (14.62%) Social Skills
2 50 (11.79%) Finance
3 38 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.66%) Games
5 19 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.77%) Retail
7 8 (1.89%) Banking
7 8 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.18%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.94%) Advertising
11 3 (0.71%) Marketing
12 2 (0.47%) Back Office
12 2 (0.47%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.47%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.24%) Electronics
13 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (44.10%) Developer
2 144 (33.96%) Java Developer
3 107 (25.24%) Software Engineer
4 81 (19.10%) Senior
5 67 (15.80%) Lead
6 55 (12.97%) Java Engineer
7 40 (9.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 39 (9.20%) Senior Developer
9 34 (8.02%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 34 (8.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 30 (7.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 30 (7.08%) Software Developer
11 24 (5.66%) Architect
11 24 (5.66%) Lead Software Engineer
12 19 (4.48%) Junior
13 18 (4.25%) Applications Developer
13 18 (4.25%) AWS Developer
13 18 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
14 16 (3.77%) Senior Java Engineer
15 15 (3.54%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (26.89%) Spring Boot
2 94 (22.17%) AngularJS
3 93 (21.93%) Spring
4 68 (16.04%) Node.js
5 50 (11.79%) React
6 42 (9.91%) Gherkin
7 39 (9.20%) .NET
7 39 (9.20%) Jest
8 36 (8.49%) REST
9 33 (7.78%) RESTful
10 19 (4.48%) Kafka
11 15 (3.54%) CSS
11 15 (3.54%) Web Services
12 14 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (3.30%) GraphQL
13 13 (3.07%) Android SDK
14 12 (2.83%) Hibernate
14 12 (2.83%) HTML
15 9 (2.12%) Vue
16 8 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.66%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.42%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (4.95%) Mobile App
5 13 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.07%) Social Media
6 12 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.65%) Driving Licence
8 6 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.42%) Legacy Code
9 4 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.94%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.71%) IoT
10 3 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.71%) Sports Betting
11 2 (0.47%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.47%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.47%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.19%) Linux
2 14 (3.30%) Android
3 4 (0.94%) CentOS
3 4 (0.94%) Debian
3 4 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.71%) Unix
4 3 (0.71%) Windows
5 1 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (45.05%) Agile
2 160 (37.74%) CI/CD
3 142 (33.49%) Software Engineering
4 120 (28.30%) DevOps
5 95 (22.41%) Microservices
6 85 (20.05%) Full-Stack Development
7 81 (19.10%) Mentoring
8 60 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (14.15%) Scrum
8 60 (14.15%) TDD
9 57 (13.44%) Test Automation
10 53 (12.50%) AI
11 51 (12.03%) SDLC
12 42 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (9.67%) BDD
14 39 (9.20%) Clean Code
15 38 (8.96%) Computer Science
16 37 (8.73%) Coaching
16 37 (8.73%) Containerisation
17 34 (8.02%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 105 (24.76%) Python
2 104 (24.53%) JavaScript
3 96 (22.64%) SQL
4 92 (21.70%) TypeScript
5 50 (11.79%) Kotlin
6 46 (10.85%) C#
7 39 (9.20%) Groovy
8 38 (8.96%) Bash
9 14 (3.30%) Go
10 12 (2.83%) C
10 12 (2.83%) PL/SQL
11 11 (2.59%) C++
12 7 (1.65%) Scala
13 4 (0.94%) PHP
13 4 (0.94%) Ruby
14 3 (0.71%) R
15 1 (0.24%) ABAP
15 1 (0.24%) Delphi
15 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (11.32%) AWS Certification
2 41 (9.67%) Security Cleared
3 39 (9.20%) Degree
4 32 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (7.08%) SC Cleared
6 22 (5.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 22 (5.19%) ITIL Certification
7 20 (4.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (4.01%) Azure Certification
8 17 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (4.01%) TOGAF Certification
9 13 (3.07%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.12%) AWS Certified Developer
11 8 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.24%) MBA
12 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.48%) QA
2 14 (3.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.94%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.71%) WCAG
5 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.24%) GDPR
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 102 (24.06%) Docker
2 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (12.97%) Kubernetes
2 39 (9.20%) HP Fortify
3 36 (8.49%) Terraform
4 18 (4.25%) Ansible
5 7 (1.65%) Grafana
6 4 (0.94%) Puppet
7 3 (0.71%) Rancher
8 2 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.47%) Packer
8 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.24%) Control-M
9 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (5.42%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.36%) Google
3 8 (1.89%) Oracle
3 8 (1.89%) Pega
4 5 (1.18%) WSO2
5 4 (0.94%) Atlassian
5 4 (0.94%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.94%) SaltStack
6 2 (0.47%) Cognos
6 2 (0.47%) IBM
6 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.47%) SAP
6 2 (0.47%) VMware
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe
7 1 (0.24%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.24%) Databricks
7 1 (0.24%) Veracode