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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 67 34
Rank change year-on-year +26 -33 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 497 367 533
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 5.21% 2.96% 6.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 23.43% 11.04% 17.53%
Number of salaries quoted 180 154 385
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,875 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,625 £48,938 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,375 £86,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.72% +0.89%

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 2,121 3,323 3,041
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.25% 26.77% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,325 1,793 2,431
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 2025. 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 +31 362 £70,000 +14.29% 224
Yorkshire +24 105 £67,500 +12.50% 84
North East +2 32 £47,500 -31.14% 55
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 35 (7.04%) Confluence
2 9 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) Apache
4 4 (0.80%) Camunda
4 4 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.60%) Mule
5 3 (0.60%) SAS
6 2 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 359 (72.23%) AWS
2 291 (58.55%) Azure
3 186 (37.42%) GCP
4 33 (6.64%) Serverless
5 18 (3.62%) GitHub
5 18 (3.62%) SaaS
6 14 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (2.62%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (1.81%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.41%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.01%) dbt
12 5 (1.01%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.01%) PaaS
12 5 (1.01%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.80%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (0.60%) IaaS
15 2 (0.40%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) AMQP
1 3 (0.60%) PuTTY
1 3 (0.60%) SAN
2 2 (0.40%) HTTP
2 2 (0.40%) SSH
2 2 (0.40%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (20.72%) SQL Server
2 39 (7.85%) NoSQL
3 33 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (5.43%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.83%) MySQL
6 19 (3.82%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.01%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.61%) Big Data
10 7 (1.41%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.21%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.21%) Tableau
12 5 (1.01%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.01%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.80%) KDB
13 4 (0.80%) Power BI
14 3 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
14 3 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 111 (22.33%) GitLab
2 99 (19.92%) JIRA
3 96 (19.32%) SonarQube
4 94 (18.91%) Cucumber
4 94 (18.91%) Selenium
5 93 (18.71%) Bitbucket
6 92 (18.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 87 (17.51%) Maven
8 30 (6.04%) Jenkins
9 19 (3.82%) Git
10 5 (1.01%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.80%) JUnit
11 4 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.40%) Android Studio
13 2 (0.40%) Babel
13 2 (0.40%) Mockito
13 2 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 207 (41.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 162 (32.60%) Finance
3 89 (17.91%) Banking
4 78 (15.69%) Social Skills
5 66 (13.28%) Retail
6 57 (11.47%) Corporate Banking
6 57 (11.47%) Investment Banking
7 21 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.62%) Games
9 17 (3.42%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.41%) Electronics
13 5 (1.01%) Marketing
14 4 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.80%) Legal
14 4 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.60%) Telecoms
16 2 (0.40%) Back Office
16 2 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 264 (53.12%) Software Engineer
2 209 (42.05%) Senior
3 148 (29.78%) Senior Software Engineer
4 109 (21.93%) Developer
5 62 (12.47%) Java Developer
6 31 (6.24%) Lead
6 31 (6.24%) Senior Developer
7 29 (5.84%) Java Engineer
8 25 (5.03%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (4.43%) Architect
10 20 (4.02%) Software Developer
11 17 (3.42%) Java Software Engineer
12 16 (3.22%) Lead Developer
13 12 (2.41%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.41%) Graduate
14 11 (2.21%) AWS DevOps
14 11 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
15 10 (2.01%) AWS Architect
15 10 (2.01%) AWS Solution Architect
15 10 (2.01%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (30.38%) .NET
1 151 (30.38%) Spring
2 150 (30.18%) Spring Boot
3 147 (29.58%) Node.js
4 126 (25.35%) React
5 114 (22.94%) CSS
6 112 (22.54%) HTML
7 109 (21.93%) Kafka
8 92 (18.51%) RESTful
9 89 (17.91%) Redux
10 85 (17.10%) JPA
11 78 (15.69%) REST
12 61 (12.27%) Jest
13 60 (12.07%) CSS3
13 60 (12.07%) HTML5
14 58 (11.67%) Sass
15 38 (7.65%) Hibernate
16 21 (4.23%) AngularJS
17 11 (2.21%) ASP.NET
17 11 (2.21%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 122 (24.55%) Linux Command Line
1 122 (24.55%) Self-Motivation
2 121 (24.35%) Cyberattack
3 96 (19.32%) Product Ownership
4 95 (19.11%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (4.63%) Cloud Native
6 18 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.61%) AI Agents
9 8 (1.61%) e-Learning
10 6 (1.21%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.21%) Wiki
11 5 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.01%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (0.60%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.40%) Sports Betting
14 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 143 (28.77%) Linux
2 8 (1.61%) Windows
3 6 (1.21%) Android
4 4 (0.80%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) CentOS
5 1 (0.20%) Debian
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) SUSE
5 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (64.99%) Agile
2 299 (60.16%) Software Engineering
3 278 (55.94%) Microservices
4 232 (46.68%) Mentoring
5 211 (42.45%) User Experience
6 186 (37.42%) DevOps
7 172 (34.61%) CI/CD
8 142 (28.57%) Machine Learning
9 138 (27.77%) Scrum
10 136 (27.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 132 (26.56%) Data Engineering
12 131 (26.36%) Containerisation
13 126 (25.35%) Test Automation
14 122 (24.55%) Cloud Security
15 118 (23.74%) Full-Stack Development
16 117 (23.54%) SDLC
17 105 (21.13%) Front End Development
18 93 (18.71%) Performance Optimisation
19 75 (15.09%) Migration
19 75 (15.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 281 (56.54%) JavaScript
2 221 (44.47%) Python
3 180 (36.22%) SQL
4 150 (30.18%) C++
5 137 (27.57%) Rust
6 131 (26.36%) Go
7 127 (25.55%) TypeScript
8 73 (14.69%) C#
9 29 (5.84%) PHP
10 25 (5.03%) C
11 18 (3.62%) R
11 18 (3.62%) Ruby
12 16 (3.22%) Kotlin
13 13 (2.62%) Bash
13 13 (2.62%) Dart
13 13 (2.62%) MATLAB
14 12 (2.41%) PowerShell
15 10 (2.01%) Scala
16 6 (1.21%) Perl
17 5 (1.01%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 150 (30.18%) AWS Certification
2 145 (29.18%) Security Cleared
3 143 (28.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 127 (25.55%) DV Cleared
5 121 (24.35%) AWS Certified Developer
6 60 (12.07%) Degree
7 49 (9.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 22 (4.43%) Azure Certification
9 19 (3.82%) SC Cleared
10 10 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.21%) HND
11 6 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.20%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.20%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (21.73%) QA
2 63 (12.68%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.41%) GDPR
4 9 (1.81%) HIPAA
4 9 (1.81%) NIST
5 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.40%) WCAG
7 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 150 (30.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.60%) Apache Flume
2 3 (0.60%) HDFS
2 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.60%) vSphere
3 2 (0.40%) Squid
Systems Management
1 159 (31.99%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.83%) Terraform
3 15 (3.02%) Ansible
4 8 (1.61%) Grafana
5 5 (1.01%) Kibana
6 3 (0.60%) Control-M
6 3 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.60%) logstash
6 3 (0.60%) Oozie
7 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 88 (17.71%) Solace
2 24 (4.83%) Microsoft
3 20 (4.02%) Google
4 10 (2.01%) Oracle
5 8 (1.61%) Bloomberg
6 7 (1.41%) AppDynamics
6 7 (1.41%) SAP
7 6 (1.21%) Allen-Bradley
7 6 (1.21%) IBM
7 6 (1.21%) Siemens
7 6 (1.21%) Toshiba
8 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.80%) Moogsoft
8 4 (0.80%) Pega
8 4 (0.80%) Splunk
8 4 (0.80%) TIBCO
8 4 (0.80%) WSO2
9 3 (0.60%) Databricks
9 3 (0.60%) Informatica
9 3 (0.60%) MicroStrategy