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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 65 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 -29 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 286 319 634
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.46% 3.64% 5.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.60% 12.68% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 188 155 481
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,361 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,125 £48,866 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -1.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -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 1,833 2,515 3,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.77% 28.69% 33.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,414 1,355 3,259
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,925 £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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +17 154 £72,500 +9.43% 63
North West -8 120 £67,500 +8.00% 95
North East -37 12 £55,200 -8.00% 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 12 (4.20%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.85%) OpenStack
3 8 (2.80%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) JBoss
4 3 (1.05%) Mule
5 2 (0.70%) CMS
5 2 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 183 (63.99%) AWS
2 80 (27.97%) Azure
2 80 (27.97%) Serverless
3 51 (17.83%) Amazon ECS
4 45 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 41 (14.34%) Amazon S3
6 40 (13.99%) AWS Lambda
7 32 (11.19%) AWS Step Functions
8 29 (10.14%) GCP
9 24 (8.39%) Amazon ECR
9 24 (8.39%) Apigee
10 22 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (5.94%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (5.94%) SaaS
12 13 (4.55%) GitHub
13 12 (4.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.20%) OpenShift
14 8 (2.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (2.10%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.40%) AMQP
1 4 (1.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.70%) SAN
2 2 (0.70%) SSH
3 1 (0.35%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) TCAP
3 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (12.94%) DynamoDB
2 27 (9.44%) NoSQL
3 25 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (6.64%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.50%) MySQL
6 10 (3.50%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.15%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.80%) Big Data
8 8 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.75%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.40%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.40%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 58 (20.28%) Jenkins
2 43 (15.03%) GitLab
3 36 (12.59%) Git
4 30 (10.49%) SonarQube
5 27 (9.44%) Cypress.io
6 26 (9.09%) Maven
7 8 (2.80%) JIRA
8 7 (2.45%) JUnit
9 5 (1.75%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.75%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.40%) Selenium
11 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.70%) Claude Code
12 2 (0.70%) JMeter
12 2 (0.70%) Locust
12 2 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.70%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.35%) Postman
General
1 78 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.58%) Finance
3 15 (5.24%) Public Sector
3 15 (5.24%) Retail
4 14 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (4.20%) Financial Institution
6 11 (3.85%) Games
7 10 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.75%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.75%) Banking
9 5 (1.75%) Marketing
10 4 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Billing
12 1 (0.35%) Electronics
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Publishing
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (37.06%) Developer
2 80 (27.97%) Java Developer
3 57 (19.93%) Software Engineer
4 56 (19.58%) Senior
5 46 (16.08%) Lead
6 31 (10.84%) Architect
7 25 (8.74%) Java Engineer
8 23 (8.04%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.64%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (6.29%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.90%) Applications Architect
11 14 (4.90%) Junior
12 13 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 13 (4.55%) Lead Developer
12 13 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (4.20%) Graduate
13 12 (4.20%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (4.20%) Software Developer
14 11 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (3.85%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (27.62%) Spring Boot
2 73 (25.52%) Spring
3 60 (20.98%) AngularJS
4 41 (14.34%) Node.js
5 37 (12.94%) React
6 32 (11.19%) REST
7 29 (10.14%) .NET
8 26 (9.09%) Gherkin
8 26 (9.09%) Jest
8 26 (9.09%) Kafka
9 25 (8.74%) RESTful
10 23 (8.04%) CSS
11 15 (5.24%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (5.24%) Web Services
12 14 (4.90%) Hibernate
13 13 (4.55%) HTML
14 12 (4.20%) Micronaut
15 8 (2.80%) gRPC
16 7 (2.45%) Mustache
17 6 (2.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.44%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (5.94%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.80%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.10%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.75%) IoT
8 4 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.70%) DataPower
10 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.35%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.35%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.35%) Life Science
11 1 (0.35%) Market Risk
11 1 (0.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.19%) Linux
2 8 (2.80%) Windows
3 4 (1.40%) CentOS
3 4 (1.40%) Debian
3 4 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.40%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.70%) Android
5 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) SUSE
5 1 (0.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (39.86%) CI/CD
2 112 (39.16%) Agile
3 100 (34.97%) DevOps
4 87 (30.42%) Software Engineering
5 80 (27.97%) Microservices
6 62 (21.68%) Mentoring
7 55 (19.23%) Computer Science
8 50 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (16.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 46 (16.08%) SDLC
11 38 (13.29%) TDD
12 36 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 35 (12.24%) Containerisation
13 35 (12.24%) Scrum
14 31 (10.84%) Data Modelling
15 30 (10.49%) Infrastructure as Code
16 29 (10.14%) Migration
16 29 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 28 (9.79%) Architectural Patterns
17 28 (9.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (33.57%) Python
2 80 (27.97%) JavaScript
2 80 (27.97%) TypeScript
3 67 (23.43%) SQL
4 52 (18.18%) C#
5 30 (10.49%) Bash
6 24 (8.39%) Groovy
7 21 (7.34%) Kotlin
8 19 (6.64%) C
9 14 (4.90%) Go
10 13 (4.55%) C++
11 11 (3.85%) PHP
11 11 (3.85%) Scala
12 10 (3.50%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.80%) PowerShell
14 6 (2.10%) Perl
15 4 (1.40%) Ruby
16 3 (1.05%) R
16 3 (1.05%) Rust
17 1 (0.35%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 58 (20.28%) Degree
2 46 (16.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (15.73%) AWS Certification
4 27 (9.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 25 (8.74%) Security Cleared
6 24 (8.39%) Azure Certification
6 24 (8.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (8.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 16 (5.59%) SC Cleared
8 11 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (2.45%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.10%) HND
11 5 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.70%) PhD
13 1 (0.35%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.35%) MBA
13 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.59%) QA
2 5 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) GDPR
4 2 (0.70%) WCAG
5 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 81 (28.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.70%) vSphere
3 1 (0.35%) Squid
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (22.03%) Kubernetes
2 24 (8.39%) HP Fortify
3 22 (7.69%) Ansible
4 20 (6.99%) Terraform
5 8 (2.80%) Grafana
6 4 (1.40%) Puppet
7 3 (1.05%) Rancher
8 2 (0.70%) Control-M
8 2 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.85%) Google
3 9 (3.15%) Oracle
4 6 (2.10%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.10%) Siemens
4 6 (2.10%) Toshiba
5 5 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.40%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.40%) Pega
6 4 (1.40%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.40%) SaltStack
6 4 (1.40%) WSO2
7 3 (1.05%) VMware
8 2 (0.70%) Adobe
8 2 (0.70%) IBM
8 2 (0.70%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.70%) SAP
9 1 (0.35%) Cognos
9 1 (0.35%) Databricks
9 1 (0.35%) Veracode