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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 19 59
Rank change year-on-year -23 +40 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 662 1,014 609
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.18% 10.76% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.13% 37.39% 11.99%
Number of salaries quoted 479 234 402
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,125 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +5.06% -1.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £114,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.45% +3.33% -6.25%

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 3,461 2,712 5,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.61% 28.77% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,618 1,451 4,036
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,750 £68,113
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -36 297 £70,000 - 89
Yorkshire +26 226 £72,500 +3.57% 42
North East +2 139 £53,750 +19.44% 25
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 (1.66%) Apache
2 9 (1.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 8 (1.21%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.21%) Confluence
4 7 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.76%) JBoss
6 5 (0.76%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
8 2 (0.30%) CICS
8 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 272 (41.09%) AWS
2 116 (17.52%) Serverless
3 111 (16.77%) Azure
4 86 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
5 83 (12.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 81 (12.24%) Amazon S3
7 78 (11.78%) Amazon ECS
8 60 (9.06%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (6.50%) GitHub
10 39 (5.89%) Amazon ECR
11 35 (5.29%) Apigee
11 35 (5.29%) GCP
12 33 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (4.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (4.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 27 (4.08%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (3.32%) SaaS
16 20 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
17 14 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
17 14 (2.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.96%) Broadband
2 3 (0.45%) AMQP
3 2 (0.30%) MQTT
3 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.73%) DynamoDB
2 57 (8.61%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
4 36 (5.44%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.53%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (3.78%) MySQL
7 21 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.96%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.66%) Power BI
10 8 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.21%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.76%) Big Data
13 5 (0.76%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 79 (11.93%) Jenkins
2 66 (9.97%) GitLab
3 58 (8.76%) Git
4 36 (5.44%) Cypress.io
5 35 (5.29%) Maven
6 32 (4.83%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.63%) JIRA
8 13 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.81%) Claude Code
10 10 (1.51%) JUnit
10 10 (1.51%) Selenium
11 9 (1.36%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.21%) Spock
13 7 (1.06%) Postman
14 6 (0.91%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.91%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.76%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.76%) Gradle
15 5 (0.76%) IntelliJ
General
1 84 (12.69%) Public Sector
2 79 (11.93%) Finance
3 63 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 34 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.42%) Banking
7 13 (1.96%) Games
8 9 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.21%) Marketing
10 7 (1.06%) Retail
11 5 (0.76%) Advertising
11 5 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.60%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.60%) Publishing
13 3 (0.45%) Back Office
13 3 (0.45%) Legal
14 2 (0.30%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 314 (47.43%) Developer
2 245 (37.01%) Java Developer
3 172 (25.98%) Senior
4 116 (17.52%) Software Engineer
5 111 (16.77%) Java Engineer
6 98 (14.80%) Lead
7 85 (12.84%) Senior Developer
8 72 (10.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (9.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 57 (8.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 47 (7.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 47 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
12 39 (5.89%) Software Developer
13 37 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (4.83%) Senior Java Engineer
16 31 (4.68%) AWS Developer
17 30 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
18 28 (4.23%) Junior
18 28 (4.23%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (22.96%) Spring
2 147 (22.21%) Spring Boot
3 138 (20.85%) AngularJS
4 89 (13.44%) Node.js
5 69 (10.42%) React
6 49 (7.40%) .NET
7 43 (6.50%) RESTful
8 37 (5.59%) REST
9 34 (5.14%) Gherkin
10 27 (4.08%) Vue
11 25 (3.78%) Jest
12 22 (3.32%) Kafka
13 21 (3.17%) CSS
14 18 (2.72%) Android SDK
14 18 (2.72%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.72%) HTML
15 10 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (1.36%) Hibernate
16 9 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
17 7 (1.06%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
2 33 (4.98%) Cloud Native
3 23 (3.47%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.96%) Social Media
7 11 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.21%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.91%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.76%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.76%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.76%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.76%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.98%) Linux
2 19 (2.87%) Android
3 16 (2.42%) Windows
4 15 (2.27%) Unix
5 3 (0.45%) CentOS
5 3 (0.45%) Debian
5 3 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (37.31%) Agile
2 212 (32.02%) CI/CD
3 178 (26.89%) Software Engineering
4 170 (25.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 160 (24.17%) DevOps
6 140 (21.15%) Microservices
7 135 (20.39%) Test Automation
8 123 (18.58%) Mentoring
9 100 (15.11%) TDD
10 78 (11.78%) Coaching
11 77 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
11 77 (11.63%) Scrum
12 72 (10.88%) AI
13 61 (9.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 55 (8.31%) Containerisation
15 52 (7.85%) Continuous Integration
16 51 (7.70%) Clean Code
17 50 (7.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 48 (7.25%) Design Patterns
18 48 (7.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 154 (23.26%) Python
2 140 (21.15%) SQL
3 120 (18.13%) JavaScript
4 88 (13.29%) TypeScript
5 58 (8.76%) C#
6 56 (8.46%) Kotlin
7 43 (6.50%) Groovy
8 36 (5.44%) Bash
9 22 (3.32%) C++
10 17 (2.57%) Go
11 16 (2.42%) Scala
12 7 (1.06%) C
13 6 (0.91%) PHP
13 6 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.15%) Perl
15 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 60 (9.06%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.83%) Degree
4 29 (4.38%) AWS Certification
4 29 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 19 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.93%) Accessibility
1 26 (3.93%) QA
2 15 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.51%) WCAG
4 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 14443
4 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 7816
5 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 119 (17.98%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) vSphere
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 77 (11.63%) Terraform
2 65 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 30 (4.53%) Ansible
4 24 (3.63%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.96%) Argo
6 5 (0.76%) Grafana
6 5 (0.76%) Packer
7 3 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.45%) Puppet
8 2 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Rancher
Vendors
1 16 (2.42%) Splunk
2 15 (2.27%) Adobe
2 15 (2.27%) Microsoft
3 13 (1.96%) AppDynamics
3 13 (1.96%) Google
4 9 (1.36%) Oracle
5 8 (1.21%) Dynatrace
6 7 (1.06%) IBM
7 5 (0.76%) Pega
8 4 (0.60%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.60%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.60%) VMware
9 3 (0.45%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.30%) Cognos
10 2 (0.30%) WSO2
11 1 (0.15%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.15%) Talend
11 1 (0.15%) Veracode