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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 20 67
Rank change year-on-year -21 +47 -29
Permanent jobs citing Java 776 945 365
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.23% 9.93% 2.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.17% 38.29% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 557 163 160
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £87,553
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +3.23%

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 3,500 2,468 3,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.58% 25.92% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,702 1,205 1,959
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £79,680
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -30 408 £75,000 +7.14% 285
North East +18 190 £55,000 +7.32% 99
Yorkshire +20 178 £72,500 +7.41% 110
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 14 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.29%) WebLogic
5 9 (1.16%) Apache
5 9 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.77%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.64%) Confluence
8 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 274 (35.31%) AWS
2 104 (13.40%) Azure
3 98 (12.63%) Serverless
4 76 (9.79%) AWS Lambda
5 67 (8.63%) Amazon S3
6 59 (7.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
8 50 (6.44%) GitHub
9 45 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 36 (4.64%) GCP
11 32 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (3.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 24 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
15 21 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
16 20 (2.58%) Datadog
17 19 (2.45%) Amazon ECR
18 15 (1.93%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (1.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) RIP
2 2 (0.26%) 5G
2 2 (0.26%) AMQP
2 2 (0.26%) HTTP
2 2 (0.26%) MQTT
2 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.13%) DNS
3 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.31%) DynamoDB
2 39 (5.03%) NoSQL
3 33 (4.25%) MongoDB
4 31 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (2.58%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.19%) MySQL
8 12 (1.55%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.16%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.16%) Power BI
10 9 (1.16%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.03%) Flink
12 7 (0.90%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.77%) Big Data
13 6 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.64%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (8.51%) Git
2 58 (7.47%) GitLab
3 50 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 29 (3.74%) JUnit
5 26 (3.35%) Maven
6 22 (2.84%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.80%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.68%) Spock
9 9 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.16%) JIRA
10 8 (1.03%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.03%) Mockito
10 8 (1.03%) Storybook
11 7 (0.90%) Selenium
12 5 (0.64%) Android Studio
12 5 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.64%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.64%) Crashlytics
12 5 (0.64%) fastlane
12 5 (0.64%) Gradle
General
1 97 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 93 (11.98%) Finance
2 93 (11.98%) Social Skills
3 40 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.22%) Banking
5 24 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (2.84%) Publishing
7 12 (1.55%) Retail
8 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.29%) Marketing
9 7 (0.90%) Legal
9 7 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (0.77%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.77%) Law
11 5 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.64%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.64%) iGaming
11 5 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 272 (35.05%) Developer
2 233 (30.03%) Senior
3 194 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 188 (24.23%) Java Developer
5 150 (19.33%) Software Engineer
6 120 (15.46%) Lead
7 91 (11.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 88 (11.34%) Senior Developer
9 79 (10.18%) Senior Java Engineer
10 65 (8.38%) Java Software Engineer
11 59 (7.60%) Senior Software Engineer
12 57 (7.35%) Senior Java Developer
13 45 (5.80%) Technical Leader
14 38 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
15 37 (4.77%) Full-Stack Developer
16 35 (4.51%) Software Developer
17 34 (4.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
18 33 (4.25%) Technical Engineer
19 30 (3.87%) AWS Developer
20 27 (3.48%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (22.94%) Spring
2 146 (18.81%) Spring Boot
3 111 (14.30%) AngularJS
4 80 (10.31%) Terraform
5 73 (9.41%) Node.js
6 68 (8.76%) React
7 53 (6.83%) Kafka
8 45 (5.80%) .NET
9 38 (4.90%) REST
10 25 (3.22%) RESTful
11 23 (2.96%) PySpark
12 22 (2.84%) Vue
13 21 (2.71%) Gherkin
14 18 (2.32%) CSS
14 18 (2.32%) HTML
15 13 (1.68%) Jest
16 10 (1.29%) OpenAPI
16 10 (1.29%) XML
17 9 (1.16%) GraphQL
17 9 (1.16%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.31%) Cloud Native
2 42 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (1.68%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.55%) Media Streaming
4 12 (1.55%) Podcast
5 11 (1.42%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (1.29%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.16%) Blog
7 9 (1.16%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
11 5 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 5 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
11 5 (0.64%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.52%) Algorithms
12 4 (0.52%) Contactless
12 4 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.25%) Linux
2 18 (2.32%) Windows
3 12 (1.55%) Android
3 12 (1.55%) Unix
4 7 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.52%) VMS
6 2 (0.26%) CentOS
6 2 (0.26%) Debian
6 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (30.67%) Agile
1 238 (30.67%) CI/CD
2 236 (30.41%) Software Engineering
3 219 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
4 182 (23.45%) DevOps
5 154 (19.85%) Microservices
6 143 (18.43%) Mentoring
7 126 (16.24%) Test Automation
8 98 (12.63%) TDD
9 93 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (11.86%) AI
10 92 (11.86%) Containerisation
11 81 (10.44%) Coaching
12 77 (9.92%) Scrum
13 74 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
14 68 (8.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (7.22%) Continuous Integration
16 54 (6.96%) Event-Driven
17 50 (6.44%) SDLC
18 47 (6.06%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 183 (23.58%) Python
2 131 (16.88%) SQL
3 114 (14.69%) JavaScript
3 114 (14.69%) TypeScript
4 72 (9.28%) C#
5 46 (5.93%) Kotlin
6 42 (5.41%) C++
7 28 (3.61%) Bash
8 27 (3.48%) Scala
9 26 (3.35%) Groovy
10 22 (2.84%) Go
11 11 (1.42%) C
12 10 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.16%) PHP
14 7 (0.90%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.90%) Rust
15 4 (0.52%) Ruby
16 2 (0.26%) Swift
17 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
17 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 120 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 66 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 41 (5.28%) Degree
5 17 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.52%) MBA
12 2 (0.26%) PhD
13 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (4.51%) Accessibility
2 34 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 29 (3.74%) QA
4 16 (2.06%) WCAG
5 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 142 (18.30%) Docker
2 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.52%) VMware NSX
3 3 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 108 (13.92%) Kubernetes
2 39 (5.03%) Ansible
3 12 (1.55%) Argo
4 8 (1.03%) HP Fortify
5 6 (0.77%) Puppet
6 4 (0.52%) Grafana
6 4 (0.52%) Packer
6 4 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.52%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.39%) Control-M
7 3 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.13%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (2.96%) Adobe
2 21 (2.71%) Splunk
3 17 (2.19%) Oracle
4 15 (1.93%) Google
5 14 (1.80%) Microsoft
6 13 (1.68%) AppDynamics
7 8 (1.03%) Dynatrace
8 7 (0.90%) VMware
9 5 (0.64%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.52%) NEC
10 4 (0.52%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.39%) IBM
11 3 (0.39%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.39%) Talend
12 2 (0.26%) Apple
12 2 (0.26%) Databricks
12 2 (0.26%) New Relic
12 2 (0.26%) SaltStack
13 1 (0.13%) YouTube