Java Jobs in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 61 34
Rank change year-on-year +37 -27 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 1,040 645 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.93% 3.32% 7.48%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.46% 12.00% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 253 430 554
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £51,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,037 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £91,934 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £112,500 £85,250 £88,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

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 3,108 5,375 5,387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.69% 27.65% 36.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 4,242 3,398
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,625 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -0.68% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the North of England.

Salary trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +26 886 £67,500 +8.00% 425
Yorkshire +40 110 £70,000 +14.29% 215
North East +42 44 £43,750 -33.17% 72
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (7.12%) Confluence
2 10 (0.96%) Apache
3 7 (0.67%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.29%) GemFire
4 3 (0.29%) SAS
5 2 (0.19%) CMS
5 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.19%) WordPress
6 1 (0.096%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.096%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.096%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.096%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 440 (42.31%) AWS
2 387 (37.21%) Azure
3 283 (27.21%) GCP
4 20 (1.92%) Serverless
5 18 (1.73%) GitHub
6 17 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
8 10 (0.96%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (0.67%) SaaS
10 5 (0.48%) Apigee
10 5 (0.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (0.48%) Power Platform
11 4 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (0.38%) Amazon S3
11 4 (0.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (0.38%) Pulumi
12 3 (0.29%) Amazon EMR
12 3 (0.29%) IaaS
12 3 (0.29%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 391 (37.60%) DNS
2 390 (37.50%) VPN
3 5 (0.48%) HTTP
3 5 (0.48%) SAN
4 4 (0.38%) Broadband
5 3 (0.29%) PuTTY
5 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.19%) FCoE
6 2 (0.19%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.19%) Firewall
6 2 (0.19%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.19%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.19%) LAN
6 2 (0.19%) Multicast
6 2 (0.19%) NAS
6 2 (0.19%) WAN
7 1 (0.096%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (14.13%) SQL Server
2 63 (6.06%) NoSQL
3 42 (4.04%) MongoDB
4 39 (3.75%) MySQL
5 33 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 20 (1.92%) Big Data
8 16 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 12 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.96%) Cloud Spanner
12 7 (0.67%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.67%) Redis
13 6 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.58%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.48%) KDB
14 5 (0.48%) Tableau
15 4 (0.38%) Apache Hive
15 4 (0.38%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.38%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 158 (15.19%) JIRA
2 144 (13.85%) GitLab
3 130 (12.50%) Selenium
4 128 (12.31%) SonarQube
5 127 (12.21%) Cucumber
6 120 (11.54%) Maven
6 120 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 116 (11.15%) Bitbucket
8 39 (3.75%) Git
9 32 (3.08%) Jenkins
10 14 (1.35%) JUnit
11 7 (0.67%) Postman
12 6 (0.58%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.48%) JMeter
14 4 (0.38%) Appium
14 4 (0.38%) Eclipse RCP
14 4 (0.38%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.38%) Jaeger
14 4 (0.38%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.38%) TeamCity
General
1 679 (65.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 638 (61.35%) Finance
3 419 (40.29%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (17.12%) Banking
5 97 (9.33%) Social Skills
6 76 (7.31%) Retail
7 72 (6.92%) Corporate Banking
7 72 (6.92%) Investment Banking
8 11 (1.06%) Games
9 9 (0.87%) Law
9 9 (0.87%) Marketing
10 8 (0.77%) Public Sector
11 6 (0.58%) Cantonese Language
11 6 (0.58%) Electronics
12 5 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (0.48%) Online Betting
13 4 (0.38%) Advertising
13 4 (0.38%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.38%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 474 (45.58%) Developer
2 395 (37.98%) Software Developer
3 392 (37.69%) Software Engineer
4 274 (26.35%) Senior
5 220 (21.15%) Senior Software Engineer
6 82 (7.88%) Lead
7 46 (4.42%) Java Developer
8 41 (3.94%) Java Engineer
9 28 (2.69%) Senior Developer
10 23 (2.21%) Architect
11 22 (2.12%) Java Software Engineer
12 21 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (1.92%) Senior Java Developer
14 17 (1.63%) Lead Software Engineer
15 16 (1.54%) Graduate
16 15 (1.44%) Lead Systems Engineer
16 15 (1.44%) Systems Engineer
17 14 (1.35%) Graduate Developer
18 13 (1.25%) Data Engineer
18 13 (1.25%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 211 (20.29%) Node.js
2 205 (19.71%) .NET
3 184 (17.69%) Spring
4 181 (17.40%) Spring Boot
5 172 (16.54%) React
6 154 (14.81%) Kafka
7 148 (14.23%) CSS
8 147 (14.13%) HTML
9 116 (11.15%) RESTful
10 115 (11.06%) Redux
11 114 (10.96%) JPA
12 89 (8.56%) REST
13 76 (7.31%) Jest
14 75 (7.21%) HTML5
15 73 (7.02%) CSS3
16 72 (6.92%) Sass
17 51 (4.90%) Hibernate
18 28 (2.69%) AngularJS
19 17 (1.63%) jQuery
20 14 (1.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 561 (53.94%) Cyberattack
2 172 (16.54%) Linux Command Line
2 172 (16.54%) Self-Motivation
3 140 (13.46%) Product Ownership
4 117 (11.25%) Enterprise Software
5 33 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.92%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.25%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.15%) Private Cloud
11 9 (0.87%) e-Learning
12 8 (0.77%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.77%) Wiki
13 7 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.48%) AI Agents
14 5 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.48%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 594 (57.12%) Linux
2 396 (38.08%) Android
3 17 (1.63%) Unix
4 10 (0.96%) Windows
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.19%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 854 (82.12%) Agile
2 462 (44.42%) Software Engineering
3 432 (41.54%) OO
4 422 (40.58%) OOP
5 408 (39.23%) Microservices
6 403 (38.75%) Line Management
7 400 (38.46%) Mathematics
8 398 (38.27%) Design Patterns
9 392 (37.69%) Android Development
10 326 (31.35%) Mentoring
11 282 (27.12%) User Experience
12 243 (23.37%) DevOps
13 223 (21.44%) CI/CD
14 203 (19.52%) Machine Learning
15 199 (19.13%) Scrum
16 189 (18.17%) Containerisation
17 188 (18.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 187 (17.98%) Test Automation
19 183 (17.60%) Data Engineering
20 173 (16.63%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 691 (66.44%) Python
2 598 (57.50%) C++
3 582 (55.96%) Go
4 392 (37.69%) JavaScript
5 209 (20.10%) SQL
6 197 (18.94%) Rust
7 148 (14.23%) TypeScript
8 76 (7.31%) C#
9 31 (2.98%) PHP
10 29 (2.79%) C
11 17 (1.63%) R
12 14 (1.35%) Ruby
13 13 (1.25%) Bash
13 13 (1.25%) Dart
13 13 (1.25%) MATLAB
14 12 (1.15%) PowerShell
15 9 (0.87%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.38%) Ada
16 4 (0.38%) Scala
17 3 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 581 (55.87%) Security Cleared
2 565 (54.33%) DV Cleared
3 194 (18.65%) AWS Certification
4 183 (17.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 172 (16.54%) AWS Certified Developer
6 87 (8.37%) Degree
7 49 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.44%) HND
9 14 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.25%) SC Cleared
11 5 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.38%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.096%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (13.08%) QA
2 79 (7.60%) Accessibility
3 14 (1.35%) GDPR
4 10 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 10 (0.96%) NIST
5 4 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.096%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.096%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 596 (57.31%) Docker
2 15 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.29%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.29%) HDFS
4 3 (0.29%) vSphere
5 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) KVM
5 2 (0.19%) NFS
5 2 (0.19%) Squid
5 2 (0.19%) SRDF
5 2 (0.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 404 (38.85%) Ansible
2 223 (21.44%) Kubernetes
3 47 (4.52%) Terraform
4 8 (0.77%) Grafana
5 6 (0.58%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.48%) Argo
6 5 (0.48%) Istio
6 5 (0.48%) Kibana
7 4 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.38%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.29%) Control-M
8 3 (0.29%) logstash
8 3 (0.29%) Oozie
9 2 (0.19%) Puppet
9 2 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.096%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 120 (11.54%) Solace
2 45 (4.33%) Google
3 24 (2.31%) Microsoft
4 16 (1.54%) Oracle
5 12 (1.15%) Bloomberg
6 8 (0.77%) TIBCO
7 7 (0.67%) IBM
8 5 (0.48%) SAP
8 5 (0.48%) VMware
9 4 (0.38%) AppDynamics
9 4 (0.38%) Informatica
9 4 (0.38%) Splunk
10 3 (0.29%) Adobe
10 3 (0.29%) Atlassian
10 3 (0.29%) Databricks
10 3 (0.29%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.29%) Moogsoft
11 2 (0.19%) Cisco
11 2 (0.19%) EMC
11 2 (0.19%) NetApp