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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 19 65
Rank change year-on-year -27 +46 -21
Permanent jobs citing Java 712 961 407
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.04% 10.24% 2.86%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.88% 38.00% 10.90%
Number of salaries quoted 516 171 188
10th Percentile £40,375 £28,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £110,000 £85,750
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 3,582 2,529 3,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.29% 26.94% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 1,264 2,365
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% -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 12 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 12 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 -36 335 £70,000 - 147
Yorkshire +19 197 £75,000 +13.21% 64
North East +13 180 £55,000 +15.79% 42
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 (2.11%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.40%) Apache
4 9 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.98%) Confluence
5 7 (0.98%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.14%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.14%) IIS
9 1 (0.14%) JBoss
9 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.42%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 280 (39.33%) AWS
2 117 (16.43%) Serverless
3 105 (14.75%) Azure
4 94 (13.20%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (10.81%) Amazon S3
6 75 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 67 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
8 55 (7.72%) AWS Step Functions
9 47 (6.60%) GitHub
10 38 (5.34%) GCP
11 30 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (3.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 27 (3.79%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (3.79%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (3.23%) Apigee
16 22 (3.09%) SaaS
17 20 (2.81%) Datadog
18 19 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) RIP
2 3 (0.42%) AMQP
2 3 (0.42%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) 5G
3 2 (0.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (8.71%) DynamoDB
2 45 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 33 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
5 28 (3.93%) MongoDB
6 21 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.39%) MySQL
8 12 (1.69%) Spark SQL
9 11 (1.54%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (1.40%) Flink
11 9 (1.26%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.26%) Power BI
12 8 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.98%) Big Data
14 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.84%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.70%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 72 (10.11%) Git
2 62 (8.71%) GitLab
3 61 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 32 (4.49%) Maven
5 27 (3.79%) Cypress.io
6 20 (2.81%) JIRA
6 20 (2.81%) JUnit
6 20 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.83%) Spock
8 12 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.26%) Selenium
10 8 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.12%) Claude Code
10 8 (1.12%) Storybook
11 7 (0.98%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.84%) Postman
13 5 (0.70%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.70%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.70%) fastlane
13 5 (0.70%) Gradle
General
1 96 (13.48%) Public Sector
2 91 (12.78%) Finance
3 86 (12.08%) Social Skills
4 45 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (2.67%) Banking
6 16 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.11%) Publishing
8 11 (1.54%) Marketing
8 11 (1.54%) Retail
9 10 (1.40%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.40%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.98%) Legal
10 7 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.84%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.56%) Law
13 4 (0.56%) Local Government
14 3 (0.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 289 (40.59%) Developer
2 213 (29.92%) Senior
3 209 (29.35%) Java Developer
4 144 (20.22%) Java Engineer
5 119 (16.71%) Software Engineer
6 99 (13.90%) Lead
7 96 (13.48%) Senior Developer
8 77 (10.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 69 (9.69%) Senior Java Developer
10 59 (8.29%) Senior Java Engineer
11 52 (7.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 44 (6.18%) Senior Software Engineer
13 39 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
13 39 (5.48%) Java Software Engineer
14 37 (5.20%) Software Developer
15 35 (4.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 31 (4.35%) AWS Developer
17 28 (3.93%) Data Engineer
18 26 (3.65%) Senior Java Software Engineer
19 24 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (24.44%) Spring
2 148 (20.79%) Spring Boot
3 134 (18.82%) AngularJS
4 85 (11.94%) Node.js
5 84 (11.80%) Terraform
6 69 (9.69%) React
7 53 (7.44%) .NET
8 43 (6.04%) REST
9 37 (5.20%) Kafka
10 31 (4.35%) RESTful
11 24 (3.37%) Vue
12 23 (3.23%) Gherkin
12 23 (3.23%) PySpark
13 22 (3.09%) CSS
14 20 (2.81%) HTML
15 17 (2.39%) Jest
16 13 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
17 11 (1.54%) OpenAPI
18 10 (1.40%) Hibernate
19 9 (1.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
2 38 (5.34%) Cloud Native
3 13 (1.83%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
5 11 (1.54%) Mobile App
5 11 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (0.98%) Blog
8 7 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.84%) Data Structures
9 6 (0.84%) Hedge funds
9 6 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.70%) Media Streaming
10 5 (0.70%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.70%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.92%) Linux
2 18 (2.53%) Windows
3 14 (1.97%) Unix
4 10 (1.40%) Android
5 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.56%) VMS
7 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 3 (0.42%) Debian
7 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (33.71%) Agile
2 227 (31.88%) CI/CD
3 195 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
4 193 (27.11%) Software Engineering
5 173 (24.30%) DevOps
6 148 (20.79%) Microservices
7 140 (19.66%) Mentoring
8 134 (18.82%) Test Automation
9 91 (12.78%) TDD
10 81 (11.38%) Coaching
10 81 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 78 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (10.67%) Scrum
13 74 (10.39%) AI
14 71 (9.97%) Containerisation
15 66 (9.27%) Infrastructure as Code
16 54 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
17 49 (6.88%) SDLC
18 47 (6.60%) Clean Code
19 46 (6.46%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 174 (24.44%) Python
2 143 (20.08%) SQL
3 124 (17.42%) JavaScript
4 103 (14.47%) TypeScript
5 74 (10.39%) C#
6 44 (6.18%) Kotlin
7 42 (5.90%) C++
8 34 (4.78%) Groovy
9 29 (4.07%) Bash
10 23 (3.23%) Scala
11 12 (1.69%) Go
12 11 (1.54%) C
12 11 (1.54%) PHP
13 6 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.56%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.56%) Ruby
15 2 (0.28%) Perl
15 2 (0.28%) Swift
16 1 (0.14%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 75 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.62%) Degree
4 38 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 11 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.56%) MBA
12 2 (0.28%) PhD
13 1 (0.14%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.92%) Accessibility
2 33 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 29 (4.07%) QA
4 16 (2.25%) WCAG
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (17.98%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) vSphere
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (11.10%) Kubernetes
2 37 (5.20%) Ansible
3 13 (1.83%) Argo
3 13 (1.83%) HP Fortify
4 5 (0.70%) Grafana
4 5 (0.70%) Packer
5 4 (0.56%) Puppet
6 3 (0.42%) Control-M
6 3 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.28%) Kibana
7 2 (0.28%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (3.37%) Adobe
2 21 (2.95%) Splunk
3 18 (2.53%) AppDynamics
4 16 (2.25%) Microsoft
5 11 (1.54%) Google
6 10 (1.40%) Oracle
7 8 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.98%) IBM
9 4 (0.56%) NEC
9 4 (0.56%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.56%) VMware
10 3 (0.42%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.42%) SaltStack
10 3 (0.42%) Talend
11 2 (0.28%) Apple
11 2 (0.28%) Databricks
11 2 (0.28%) New Relic
12 1 (0.14%) YouTube