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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 67
Rank change year-on-year -25 +48 -24
Permanent jobs citing Java 729 956 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.05% 10.18% 2.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.04% 38.04% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 526 165 183
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,063 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,700 £84,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.46%

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 3,638 2,513 3,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.20% 26.76% 26.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,780 1,257 2,295
10th Percentile £38,725 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -3.85%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -34 349 £70,000 - 257
Yorkshire +25 196 £75,000 +13.21% 99
North East +13 184 £55,000 +15.79% 64
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 15 (2.06%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.37%) Apache
4 9 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.96%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.82%) Confluence
6 6 (0.82%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.41%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.41%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 275 (37.72%) AWS
2 113 (15.50%) Serverless
3 103 (14.13%) Azure
4 93 (12.76%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (10.56%) Amazon S3
6 73 (10.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 68 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
8 54 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
9 49 (6.72%) GitHub
10 37 (5.08%) GCP
11 30 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (3.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 29 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (3.70%) Amazon ECR
14 23 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (3.02%) Apigee
16 21 (2.88%) Datadog
17 20 (2.74%) SaaS
18 19 (2.61%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) RIP
2 3 (0.41%) AMQP
2 3 (0.41%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) 5G
3 2 (0.27%) MQTT
3 2 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.37%) DynamoDB
2 42 (5.76%) NoSQL
3 34 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
4 31 (4.25%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.33%) MySQL
7 12 (1.65%) Spark SQL
8 10 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.23%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.23%) Flink
9 9 (1.23%) Power BI
9 9 (1.23%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.96%) Big Data
12 6 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.69%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (9.88%) Git
2 64 (8.78%) GitLab
3 61 (8.37%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.39%) Maven
5 27 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.02%) JUnit
7 21 (2.88%) SonarQube
8 17 (2.33%) JIRA
9 13 (1.78%) Spock
10 12 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.23%) Selenium
12 8 (1.10%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.10%) Storybook
13 7 (0.96%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.96%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.69%) Android Studio
14 5 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.69%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.69%) fastlane
14 5 (0.69%) Gradle
General
1 94 (12.89%) Public Sector
2 89 (12.21%) Social Skills
3 86 (11.80%) Finance
4 43 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (2.74%) Banking
6 19 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (2.33%) Publishing
8 11 (1.51%) Marketing
8 11 (1.51%) Retail
9 10 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.96%) Legal
10 7 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.69%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.55%) Law
13 4 (0.55%) Local Government
14 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 292 (40.05%) Developer
2 216 (29.63%) Senior
3 207 (28.40%) Java Developer
4 158 (21.67%) Java Engineer
5 120 (16.46%) Software Engineer
6 103 (14.13%) Lead
7 97 (13.31%) Senior Developer
8 83 (11.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 67 (9.19%) Senior Java Developer
10 63 (8.64%) Senior Java Engineer
11 49 (6.72%) Full-Stack Developer
12 46 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 45 (6.17%) Java Software Engineer
14 42 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
15 38 (5.21%) Software Developer
16 33 (4.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 31 (4.25%) AWS Developer
18 28 (3.84%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 27 (3.70%) Data Engineer
19 27 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (24.55%) Spring
2 149 (20.44%) Spring Boot
3 134 (18.38%) AngularJS
4 85 (11.66%) Terraform
5 84 (11.52%) Node.js
6 73 (10.01%) React
7 48 (6.58%) .NET
8 42 (5.76%) REST
9 41 (5.62%) Kafka
10 30 (4.12%) RESTful
11 24 (3.29%) Gherkin
11 24 (3.29%) Vue
12 22 (3.02%) PySpark
13 19 (2.61%) CSS
13 19 (2.61%) HTML
14 18 (2.47%) Jest
15 13 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
16 11 (1.51%) OpenAPI
17 10 (1.37%) Hibernate
18 9 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (5.35%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.78%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.65%) Marketing Technology
5 11 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
6 10 (1.37%) Mobile App
6 10 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.96%) Blog
8 7 (0.96%) Media Streaming
8 7 (0.96%) Podcast
9 6 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.69%) Algorithms
10 5 (0.69%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.69%) Hedge funds
10 5 (0.69%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.94%) Linux
2 18 (2.47%) Windows
3 15 (2.06%) Unix
4 10 (1.37%) Android
5 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.55%) VMS
7 3 (0.41%) CentOS
7 3 (0.41%) Debian
7 3 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (32.51%) Agile
2 232 (31.82%) CI/CD
3 205 (28.12%) Full-Stack Development
4 197 (27.02%) Software Engineering
5 179 (24.55%) DevOps
6 147 (20.16%) Microservices
7 138 (18.93%) Mentoring
8 128 (17.56%) Test Automation
9 89 (12.21%) TDD
10 82 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 79 (10.84%) Coaching
12 78 (10.70%) AI
12 78 (10.70%) Containerisation
13 76 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
14 74 (10.15%) Scrum
15 68 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (7.68%) Continuous Integration
17 49 (6.72%) Event-Driven
18 46 (6.31%) Design Patterns
18 46 (6.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 175 (24.01%) Python
2 136 (18.66%) SQL
3 120 (16.46%) JavaScript
4 107 (14.68%) TypeScript
5 74 (10.15%) C#
6 43 (5.90%) Kotlin
7 41 (5.62%) C++
8 34 (4.66%) Groovy
9 29 (3.98%) Bash
10 24 (3.29%) Scala
11 15 (2.06%) Go
12 11 (1.51%) C
13 9 (1.23%) PHP
14 6 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.55%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.55%) Ruby
16 2 (0.27%) Perl
16 2 (0.27%) Rust
16 2 (0.27%) Swift
17 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 126 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 76 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.90%) DV Cleared
4 36 (4.94%) Degree
5 19 (2.61%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 11 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.55%) MBA
11 2 (0.27%) PhD
12 1 (0.14%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.53%) Accessibility
2 32 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 30 (4.12%) QA
4 17 (2.33%) WCAG
5 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 136 (18.66%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) vSphere
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 41 (5.62%) Ansible
3 14 (1.92%) Argo
4 13 (1.78%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.69%) Grafana
5 5 (0.69%) Packer
6 4 (0.55%) Puppet
7 3 (0.41%) Control-M
7 3 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.27%) Kibana
8 2 (0.27%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.14%) logstash
9 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (3.29%) Adobe
2 21 (2.88%) Splunk
3 18 (2.47%) AppDynamics
4 13 (1.78%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.51%) Google
6 10 (1.37%) Oracle
7 8 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 8 (1.10%) IBM
8 5 (0.69%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.55%) NEC
9 4 (0.55%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.55%) VMware
10 3 (0.41%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.41%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.41%) Talend
11 2 (0.27%) Apple
11 2 (0.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.27%) New Relic
12 1 (0.14%) YouTube