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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 68 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 -30 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 281 313 550
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.54% 3.45% 5.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.44% 12.31% 17.31%
Number of salaries quoted 186 150 406
10th Percentile £31,625 £40,045 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,253 £84,528
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%

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 1,820 2,543 3,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.45% 28.04% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,382 2,645
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,025 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 19 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 19 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 +20 150 £72,500 +26.38% 102
North West -14 120 £70,000 +16.67% 100
North East -27 13 £65,000 +4.00% 41
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 (4.27%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.91%) OpenStack
3 8 (2.85%) Apache
4 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.07%) Camunda
4 3 (1.07%) Mule
5 2 (0.71%) CMS
5 2 (0.71%) JBoss
5 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 172 (61.21%) AWS
2 77 (27.40%) Azure
3 74 (26.33%) Serverless
4 45 (16.01%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (13.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 34 (12.10%) Amazon S3
7 33 (11.74%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (9.96%) GCP
9 25 (8.90%) AWS Step Functions
10 22 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (7.12%) Amazon ECR
11 20 (7.12%) Apigee
12 17 (6.05%) SaaS
13 13 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.27%) OpenShift
15 11 (3.91%) GitHub
16 9 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 6 (2.14%) dbt
17 6 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
18 5 (1.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.14%) AMQP
2 4 (1.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.71%) SAN
3 2 (0.71%) SSH
4 1 (0.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.36%) TCAP
4 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.68%) DynamoDB
2 25 (8.90%) NoSQL
2 25 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.76%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.27%) MongoDB
5 11 (3.91%) MySQL
6 9 (3.20%) Hadoop
6 9 (3.20%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.85%) Big Data
8 7 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.78%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.07%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 58 (20.64%) Jenkins
2 43 (15.30%) GitLab
3 33 (11.74%) Git
4 29 (10.32%) SonarQube
5 23 (8.19%) Cypress.io
6 22 (7.83%) Maven
7 9 (3.20%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.49%) JIRA
8 7 (2.49%) JUnit
9 6 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.78%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.42%) Selenium
12 3 (1.07%) Artifactory
12 3 (1.07%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.71%) JMeter
13 2 (0.71%) Locust
13 2 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.71%) Oracle Forms
14 1 (0.36%) CA Release Automation
14 1 (0.36%) Postman
General
1 81 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.93%) Finance
3 18 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.69%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.34%) Retail
6 12 (4.27%) Financial Institution
7 11 (3.91%) Games
8 10 (3.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (3.20%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.78%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.78%) Banking
10 5 (1.78%) Marketing
11 4 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Billing
13 2 (0.71%) Law
14 1 (0.36%) Electronics
14 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 101 (35.94%) Developer
2 70 (24.91%) Java Developer
3 58 (20.64%) Senior
3 58 (20.64%) Software Engineer
4 45 (16.01%) Lead
5 31 (11.03%) Architect
6 25 (8.90%) Java Engineer
7 23 (8.19%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.76%) Senior Java Developer
9 17 (6.05%) Software Developer
10 16 (5.69%) Full-Stack Developer
11 14 (4.98%) Applications Architect
12 13 (4.63%) Lead Developer
13 12 (4.27%) Graduate
13 12 (4.27%) Junior
13 12 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (4.27%) Senior Java Engineer
13 12 (4.27%) Senior Software Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (3.91%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (27.76%) Spring Boot
2 76 (27.05%) Spring
3 53 (18.86%) AngularJS
4 40 (14.23%) React
5 37 (13.17%) Node.js
6 36 (12.81%) REST
7 29 (10.32%) .NET
8 25 (8.90%) Kafka
8 25 (8.90%) RESTful
9 24 (8.54%) CSS
10 22 (7.83%) Gherkin
10 22 (7.83%) Jest
11 16 (5.69%) Web Services
12 15 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (4.98%) HTML
14 12 (4.27%) Hibernate
14 12 (4.27%) Micronaut
15 8 (2.85%) gRPC
16 7 (2.49%) Mustache
17 6 (2.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (9.61%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (7.12%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.85%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.78%) IoT
8 4 (1.42%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.07%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.07%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.71%) AI Agents
10 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.71%) DataPower
10 2 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.71%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.36%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.36%) Life Science
11 1 (0.36%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.03%) Linux
2 8 (2.85%) Windows
3 4 (1.42%) CentOS
3 4 (1.42%) Debian
3 4 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.42%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.71%) Android
5 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.36%) SUSE
5 1 (0.36%) Unix
5 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (38.79%) Agile
2 107 (38.08%) CI/CD
3 98 (34.88%) DevOps
4 87 (30.96%) Software Engineering
5 81 (28.83%) Microservices
6 62 (22.06%) Mentoring
7 55 (19.57%) Computer Science
8 53 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (16.01%) Full-Stack Development
10 42 (14.95%) SDLC
11 40 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (13.88%) TDD
13 36 (12.81%) Containerisation
14 34 (12.10%) Scrum
15 31 (11.03%) Data Modelling
16 30 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
17 29 (10.32%) Migration
17 29 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 28 (9.96%) Architectural Patterns
19 27 (9.61%) AI
Programming Languages
1 97 (34.52%) Python
2 82 (29.18%) JavaScript
3 77 (27.40%) TypeScript
4 67 (23.84%) SQL
5 56 (19.93%) C#
6 27 (9.61%) Bash
7 20 (7.12%) Groovy
7 20 (7.12%) Kotlin
8 18 (6.41%) C
9 14 (4.98%) Go
10 13 (4.63%) C++
10 13 (4.63%) Scala
11 11 (3.91%) PHP
12 10 (3.56%) PL/SQL
13 9 (3.20%) PowerShell
14 6 (2.14%) Perl
15 4 (1.42%) Ruby
16 3 (1.07%) R
16 3 (1.07%) Rust
17 1 (0.36%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 58 (20.64%) Degree
2 46 (16.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (14.95%) AWS Certification
4 27 (9.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (8.54%) Azure Certification
5 24 (8.54%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (8.54%) Security Cleared
5 24 (8.54%) TOGAF Certification
6 18 (6.41%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (2.49%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.49%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.14%) HND
10 5 (1.78%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.71%) PhD
12 1 (0.36%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.36%) MBA
12 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.34%) QA
2 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.71%) GDPR
4 2 (0.71%) WCAG
5 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 75 (26.69%) Docker
2 2 (0.71%) vSphere
3 1 (0.36%) Squid
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (22.78%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.83%) Ansible
3 20 (7.12%) HP Fortify
3 20 (7.12%) Terraform
4 8 (2.85%) Grafana
5 4 (1.42%) Puppet
6 3 (1.07%) Rancher
7 2 (0.71%) Control-M
7 2 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.91%) Google
3 9 (3.20%) Oracle
4 6 (2.14%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.14%) Siemens
4 6 (2.14%) Toshiba
5 4 (1.42%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.42%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.42%) Pega
5 4 (1.42%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.42%) SaltStack
5 4 (1.42%) WSO2
6 2 (0.71%) Adobe
6 2 (0.71%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.71%) SAP
6 2 (0.71%) VMware
7 1 (0.36%) Databricks
7 1 (0.36%) IBM
7 1 (0.36%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.36%) New Relic