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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 52 43
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 404 299 702
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.72% 4.62% 4.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.49% 15.90% 15.10%
Number of salaries quoted 281 221 508
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £38,413
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £49,621
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £91,455
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -9.38%

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 2,310 1,881 4,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.54% 29.05% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,723 1,466 3,968
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,935 £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 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,125 £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 24 March 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 24 March 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 +9 191 £70,000 - 57
North West -19 175 £70,000 +7.69% 92
North East -18 38 £52,315 -8.22% 32
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 (2.97%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 8 (1.98%) Apache
4 6 (1.49%) JBoss
5 4 (0.99%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.74%) Confluence
7 2 (0.50%) CICS
7 2 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.25%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 212 (52.48%) AWS
2 108 (26.73%) Serverless
3 92 (22.77%) Azure
4 70 (17.33%) Amazon ECS
5 63 (15.59%) Amazon S3
5 63 (15.59%) AWS CloudFormation
5 63 (15.59%) AWS Lambda
6 49 (12.13%) AWS Step Functions
7 38 (9.41%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (9.16%) Apigee
9 28 (6.93%) GCP
10 25 (6.19%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (4.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 17 (4.21%) GitHub
13 17 (4.21%) SaaS
14 11 (2.72%) dbt
15 9 (2.23%) OpenShift
16 8 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.22%) Broadband
2 4 (0.99%) AMQP
3 3 (0.74%) HTTP
4 2 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.25%) SAN
5 1 (0.25%) SSH
5 1 (0.25%) TCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (14.36%) DynamoDB
2 44 (10.89%) NoSQL
3 36 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (6.19%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (4.21%) MongoDB
6 16 (3.96%) MySQL
7 10 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.98%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.73%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.49%) Big Data
11 5 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
12 4 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.99%) GIS
12 4 (0.99%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.99%) Power BI
12 4 (0.99%) QGIS
12 4 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (18.07%) Jenkins
2 47 (11.63%) GitLab
3 43 (10.64%) Git
4 39 (9.65%) Cypress.io
5 37 (9.16%) SonarQube
6 35 (8.66%) Maven
7 15 (3.71%) JIRA
8 9 (2.23%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.98%) Selenium
10 7 (1.73%) Claude Code
11 6 (1.49%) JUnit
11 6 (1.49%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.24%) JMeter
12 5 (1.24%) Postman
13 4 (0.99%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.99%) IntelliJ
14 3 (0.74%) Eclipse
15 2 (0.50%) Gatling
15 2 (0.50%) Locust
15 2 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 61 (15.10%) Social Skills
2 48 (11.88%) Finance
3 37 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 24 (5.94%) Games
5 18 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (3.71%) Retail
8 8 (1.98%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.73%) Banking
10 6 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.24%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.74%) Advertising
12 3 (0.74%) Marketing
13 2 (0.50%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Back Office
14 1 (0.25%) Electronics
14 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (43.07%) Developer
2 133 (32.92%) Java Developer
3 102 (25.25%) Software Engineer
4 78 (19.31%) Senior
5 64 (15.84%) Lead
6 51 (12.62%) Java Engineer
7 36 (8.91%) Senior Developer
8 34 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
9 31 (7.67%) Java Software Engineer
10 29 (7.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 29 (7.18%) Senior Java Developer
10 29 (7.18%) Software Developer
11 26 (6.44%) Architect
12 24 (5.94%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (4.46%) Applications Developer
13 18 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.21%) Junior
15 16 (3.96%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.96%) Senior Java Engineer
16 15 (3.71%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (25.99%) Spring Boot
2 88 (21.78%) Spring
3 82 (20.30%) AngularJS
4 64 (15.84%) Node.js
5 44 (10.89%) React
6 40 (9.90%) .NET
7 37 (9.16%) Gherkin
8 35 (8.66%) Jest
9 34 (8.42%) REST
9 34 (8.42%) RESTful
10 19 (4.70%) Kafka
11 15 (3.71%) Web Services
12 14 (3.47%) CSS
12 14 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (3.47%) GraphQL
13 13 (3.22%) Android SDK
13 13 (3.22%) Hibernate
14 11 (2.72%) HTML
15 7 (1.73%) SOAP
15 7 (1.73%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (5.20%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.22%) Social Media
5 11 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.73%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.24%) Legacy Code
8 4 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.99%) IoT
8 4 (0.99%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.74%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.74%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.74%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (5.45%) Linux
2 14 (3.47%) Android
3 4 (0.99%) CentOS
3 4 (0.99%) Debian
3 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.99%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.74%) Unix
4 3 (0.74%) Windows
5 1 (0.25%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (45.79%) Agile
2 155 (38.37%) CI/CD
3 137 (33.91%) Software Engineering
4 115 (28.47%) DevOps
5 96 (23.76%) Microservices
6 80 (19.80%) Mentoring
7 75 (18.56%) Full-Stack Development
8 60 (14.85%) TDD
9 59 (14.60%) Scrum
10 56 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (13.37%) Test Automation
12 51 (12.62%) AI
13 48 (11.88%) SDLC
14 40 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
15 39 (9.65%) BDD
15 39 (9.65%) Computer Science
16 38 (9.41%) Containerisation
17 37 (9.16%) Clean Code
18 36 (8.91%) Coaching
19 35 (8.66%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 105 (25.99%) Python
2 102 (25.25%) JavaScript
3 91 (22.52%) SQL
4 87 (21.53%) TypeScript
5 48 (11.88%) C#
6 45 (11.14%) Kotlin
7 35 (8.66%) Bash
7 35 (8.66%) Groovy
8 13 (3.22%) Go
9 12 (2.97%) C
9 12 (2.97%) PL/SQL
10 11 (2.72%) C++
11 7 (1.73%) Scala
12 4 (0.99%) PHP
12 4 (0.99%) Ruby
13 3 (0.74%) R
14 2 (0.50%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.25%) ABAP
15 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (11.39%) AWS Certification
2 41 (10.15%) Degree
3 35 (8.66%) Security Cleared
4 34 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (5.94%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (4.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 19 (4.70%) Azure Certification
7 19 (4.70%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (4.70%) TOGAF Certification
8 13 (3.22%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
10 7 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.25%) MBA
11 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.46%) QA
2 13 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.99%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.50%) GDPR
5 2 (0.50%) WCAG
6 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 97 (24.01%) Docker
2 2 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.25%) Squid
3 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (14.11%) Kubernetes
2 35 (8.66%) HP Fortify
3 34 (8.42%) Terraform
4 18 (4.46%) Ansible
5 6 (1.49%) Grafana
6 4 (0.99%) Puppet
7 3 (0.74%) Rancher
8 2 (0.50%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.50%) Packer
8 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.25%) Control-M
9 1 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.25%) Kibana
9 1 (0.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (6.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.48%) Google
3 8 (1.98%) Oracle
3 8 (1.98%) Pega
4 5 (1.24%) WSO2
5 4 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 4 (0.99%) Red Hat
5 4 (0.99%) SaltStack
6 2 (0.50%) Cognos
6 2 (0.50%) IBM
6 2 (0.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.50%) SAP
6 2 (0.50%) VMware
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe
7 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.25%) Databricks
7 1 (0.25%) New Relic
7 1 (0.25%) Veracode