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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 57 37
Rank change year-on-year -12 -20 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 340 323 671
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.62% 4.20% 5.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.60% 14.30% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 235 183 502
10th Percentile £32,200 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,375 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +3.31% -3.20%
75th Percentile £76,875 £92,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -6.45%

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 2,048 2,259 4,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.78% 29.35% 32.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,567 1,319 3,542
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +13 180 £70,000 +3.70% 54
North West -22 142 £67,500 +3.85% 78
North East -37 18 £55,000 -3.51% 31
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 13 (3.82%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.24%) OpenStack
3 9 (2.65%) Apache
4 5 (1.47%) JBoss
5 4 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.88%) Mule
7 2 (0.59%) CMS
7 2 (0.59%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.29%) Confluence
8 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.29%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
8 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.29%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 207 (60.88%) AWS
2 95 (27.94%) Serverless
3 89 (26.18%) Azure
4 63 (18.53%) Amazon ECS
5 57 (16.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 54 (15.88%) Amazon S3
7 52 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (12.35%) AWS Step Functions
9 33 (9.71%) Amazon ECR
10 32 (9.41%) Apigee
11 31 (9.12%) GCP
12 23 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
13 21 (6.18%) Amazon SQS
14 17 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (5.00%) SaaS
15 15 (4.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 15 (4.41%) GitHub
16 11 (3.24%) OpenShift
17 9 (2.65%) dbt
18 7 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) AMQP
1 4 (1.18%) HTTP
2 3 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.59%) SAN
3 2 (0.59%) SSH
4 1 (0.29%) Broadband
4 1 (0.29%) DNS
4 1 (0.29%) TCAP
4 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.41%) DynamoDB
2 38 (11.18%) NoSQL
3 35 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (5.59%) Relational Database
5 18 (5.29%) MongoDB
6 13 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (3.82%) MySQL
7 10 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (2.65%) Hadoop
9 8 (2.35%) Big Data
10 6 (1.76%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.47%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.18%) Neo4j
13 3 (0.88%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 66 (19.41%) Jenkins
2 47 (13.82%) GitLab
3 37 (10.88%) SonarQube
4 35 (10.29%) Git
5 34 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 33 (9.71%) Maven
7 10 (2.94%) JIRA
8 7 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.06%) JUnit
9 6 (1.76%) Selenium
10 5 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.88%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.59%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.59%) JMeter
12 2 (0.59%) Locust
12 2 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.59%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.59%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 76 (22.35%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.12%) Finance
3 25 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 15 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.41%) Retail
5 12 (3.53%) Financial Institution
5 12 (3.53%) Games
6 10 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (2.65%) Banking
7 9 (2.65%) Manufacturing
8 6 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.47%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.47%) Marketing
10 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Billing
11 2 (0.59%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.29%) Advertising
12 1 (0.29%) Electronics
12 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 132 (38.82%) Developer
2 101 (29.71%) Java Developer
3 78 (22.94%) Software Engineer
4 57 (16.76%) Senior
5 46 (13.53%) Java Engineer
6 45 (13.24%) Lead
7 31 (9.12%) Architect
8 30 (8.82%) Java Software Engineer
9 25 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 23 (6.76%) Software Developer
11 21 (6.18%) Senior Developer
12 19 (5.59%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 19 (5.59%) Junior
13 17 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
14 15 (4.41%) AWS Developer
15 14 (4.12%) Applications Architect
15 14 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
16 13 (3.82%) Senior Java Engineer
17 12 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 11 (3.24%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (27.06%) Spring Boot
2 79 (23.24%) Spring
3 70 (20.59%) AngularJS
4 49 (14.41%) Node.js
5 40 (11.76%) React
6 33 (9.71%) Gherkin
6 33 (9.71%) Jest
6 33 (9.71%) RESTful
7 32 (9.41%) REST
8 30 (8.82%) .NET
9 25 (7.35%) Kafka
10 18 (5.29%) CSS
11 14 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (4.12%) Web Services
12 13 (3.82%) Hibernate
13 12 (3.53%) Micronaut
14 11 (3.24%) HTML
15 8 (2.35%) gRPC
15 8 (2.35%) XML
16 7 (2.06%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
2 28 (8.24%) Enterprise Software
3 25 (7.35%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.35%) Driving Licence
5 8 (2.35%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.76%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.47%) IoT
8 4 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.88%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.59%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.59%) DataPower
10 2 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.59%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.29%) Culture of Ownership
11 1 (0.29%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (9.41%) Linux
2 6 (1.76%) Windows
3 4 (1.18%) CentOS
3 4 (1.18%) Debian
3 4 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.18%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.88%) Android
4 3 (0.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.29%) SUSE
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (39.71%) Agile
2 129 (37.94%) CI/CD
3 118 (34.71%) Software Engineering
4 111 (32.65%) DevOps
5 94 (27.65%) Microservices
6 78 (22.94%) Mentoring
7 55 (16.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 54 (15.88%) TDD
9 53 (15.59%) Computer Science
10 52 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
11 50 (14.71%) SDLC
12 40 (11.76%) Scrum
12 40 (11.76%) Test Automation
13 38 (11.18%) Containerisation
14 36 (10.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 33 (9.71%) BDD
16 32 (9.41%) AI
16 32 (9.41%) Architectural Patterns
16 32 (9.41%) Data Modelling
16 32 (9.41%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 105 (30.88%) Python
2 89 (26.18%) JavaScript
3 86 (25.29%) TypeScript
4 79 (23.24%) SQL
5 52 (15.29%) C#
6 34 (10.00%) Bash
7 31 (9.12%) Groovy
8 30 (8.82%) Kotlin
9 19 (5.59%) C
10 14 (4.12%) Go
11 11 (3.24%) PL/SQL
12 9 (2.65%) C++
12 9 (2.65%) Scala
13 6 (1.76%) Perl
13 6 (1.76%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.47%) PHP
15 4 (1.18%) Ruby
16 3 (0.88%) R
16 3 (0.88%) Rust
17 1 (0.29%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 53 (15.59%) Degree
2 50 (14.71%) AWS Certification
3 42 (12.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (8.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (7.94%) Security Cleared
6 24 (7.06%) Azure Certification
6 24 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (7.06%) TOGAF Certification
7 17 (5.00%) SC Cleared
8 15 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 15 (4.41%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (3.53%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (2.06%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.76%) HND
13 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.59%) PhD
15 1 (0.29%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.29%) MBA
15 1 (0.29%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.29%) QA
2 5 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.59%) GDPR
4 2 (0.59%) WCAG
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 93 (27.35%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.59%) vSphere
3 1 (0.29%) Squid
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 61 (17.94%) Kubernetes
2 31 (9.12%) HP Fortify
3 26 (7.65%) Terraform
4 20 (5.88%) Ansible
5 7 (2.06%) Grafana
6 4 (1.18%) Puppet
7 3 (0.88%) Rancher
8 2 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.59%) Control-M
8 2 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.59%) Packer
8 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Kibana
9 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.12%) Google
3 10 (2.94%) Oracle
4 6 (1.76%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (1.76%) Siemens
4 6 (1.76%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.47%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.18%) Pega
6 4 (1.18%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.18%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.18%) WSO2
7 3 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 3 (0.88%) VMware
8 2 (0.59%) Adobe
8 2 (0.59%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.59%) SAP
9 1 (0.29%) Cognos
9 1 (0.29%) IBM
9 1 (0.29%) New Relic
9 1 (0.29%) Veracode