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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 19 61
Rank change year-on-year -25 +42 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 665 1,007 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.15% 10.66% 3.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.96% 37.35% 11.55%
Number of salaries quoted 484 228 332
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,900 £37,625
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 3,507 2,696 4,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.64% 28.54% 27.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,660 1,440 3,576
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% -
75th Percentile £75,250 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -36 300 £70,000 - 85
Yorkshire +32 225 £70,000 +3.70% 35
North East +2 140 £53,750 +13.16% 41
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 (1.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 9 (1.35%) Apache
3 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.05%) Confluence
4 6 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.75%) JBoss
5 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.60%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.30%) CICS
7 2 (0.30%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 267 (40.15%) AWS
2 111 (16.69%) Serverless
3 110 (16.54%) Azure
4 81 (12.18%) AWS Lambda
5 77 (11.58%) Amazon S3
5 77 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 74 (11.13%) Amazon ECS
7 56 (8.42%) AWS Step Functions
8 41 (6.17%) GitHub
9 37 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
10 34 (5.11%) GCP
11 33 (4.96%) Apigee
11 33 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (4.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (3.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 25 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (3.31%) SaaS
15 19 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (1.95%) Azure AKS
16 13 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.95%) Broadband
2 2 (0.30%) AMQP
2 2 (0.30%) MQTT
2 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.92%) DynamoDB
2 53 (7.97%) NoSQL
3 44 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
4 34 (5.11%) MongoDB
5 28 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
6 25 (3.76%) MySQL
7 22 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.95%) SQL Server
9 11 (1.65%) Power BI
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.20%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.60%) Big Data
13 4 (0.60%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (11.58%) Jenkins
2 63 (9.47%) GitLab
3 57 (8.57%) Git
4 36 (5.41%) Maven
5 34 (5.11%) Cypress.io
6 29 (4.36%) SonarQube
7 23 (3.46%) JIRA
8 13 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.80%) Claude Code
9 12 (1.80%) JUnit
10 10 (1.50%) Selenium
11 9 (1.35%) Spock
12 8 (1.20%) Bitbucket
13 7 (1.05%) Postman
13 7 (1.05%) Storybook
14 6 (0.90%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.90%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.75%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.75%) Gradle
General
1 85 (12.78%) Public Sector
2 78 (11.73%) Finance
3 69 (10.38%) Social Skills
4 35 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (2.41%) Banking
7 13 (1.95%) Games
8 9 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 9 (1.35%) Retail
9 8 (1.20%) Marketing
9 8 (1.20%) Publishing
10 5 (0.75%) Advertising
10 5 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.45%) Back Office
12 3 (0.45%) Legal
13 2 (0.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 313 (47.07%) Developer
2 237 (35.64%) Java Developer
3 178 (26.77%) Senior
4 117 (17.59%) Software Engineer
5 115 (17.29%) Java Engineer
6 98 (14.74%) Lead
7 88 (13.23%) Senior Developer
8 70 (10.53%) Senior Java Developer
9 64 (9.62%) Full-Stack Developer
10 60 (9.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 48 (7.22%) Java Software Engineer
12 47 (7.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 38 (5.71%) Software Developer
14 37 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (5.11%) Senior Java Engineer
16 30 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
17 28 (4.21%) AWS Developer
17 28 (4.21%) Junior
17 28 (4.21%) Lead Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (23.01%) Spring
2 145 (21.80%) Spring Boot
3 136 (20.45%) AngularJS
4 89 (13.38%) Node.js
5 66 (9.92%) React
6 52 (7.82%) .NET
7 41 (6.17%) RESTful
8 37 (5.56%) REST
9 32 (4.81%) Gherkin
10 27 (4.06%) Vue
11 24 (3.61%) CSS
12 23 (3.46%) HTML
12 23 (3.46%) Jest
13 22 (3.31%) Kafka
14 21 (3.16%) GraphQL
15 18 (2.71%) Android SDK
16 10 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
17 8 (1.20%) Hibernate
17 8 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
18 7 (1.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 35 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 32 (4.81%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.61%) Mobile App
4 15 (2.26%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.95%) Social Media
7 12 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
8 10 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
11 6 (0.90%) Legacy Code
11 6 (0.90%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.75%) Algorithms
12 5 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.75%) Hedge funds
12 5 (0.75%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.60%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.96%) Linux
2 20 (3.01%) Android
3 16 (2.41%) Windows
4 15 (2.26%) Unix
5 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.30%) CentOS
5 2 (0.30%) Debian
5 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (36.69%) Agile
2 211 (31.73%) CI/CD
3 180 (27.07%) Software Engineering
4 173 (26.02%) Full-Stack Development
5 158 (23.76%) DevOps
6 140 (21.05%) Microservices
7 139 (20.90%) Test Automation
8 128 (19.25%) Mentoring
9 103 (15.49%) TDD
10 79 (11.88%) AI
10 79 (11.88%) Coaching
10 79 (11.88%) Scrum
11 78 (11.73%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (7.97%) Containerisation
14 52 (7.82%) Clean Code
14 52 (7.82%) Design Patterns
14 52 (7.82%) SDLC
15 51 (7.67%) Continuous Integration
16 49 (7.37%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 156 (23.46%) Python
2 139 (20.90%) SQL
3 122 (18.35%) JavaScript
4 88 (13.23%) TypeScript
5 62 (9.32%) C#
6 55 (8.27%) Kotlin
7 40 (6.02%) Groovy
8 34 (5.11%) Bash
9 24 (3.61%) C++
10 18 (2.71%) Scala
11 16 (2.41%) Go
12 8 (1.20%) C
12 8 (1.20%) PHP
12 8 (1.20%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.45%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.15%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.15%) Perl
14 1 (0.15%) Swift
14 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 60 (9.02%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.26%) Degree
4 27 (4.06%) AWS Certification
4 27 (4.06%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 17 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
6 14 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.60%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.60%) MBA
11 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.36%) Accessibility
2 25 (3.76%) QA
3 15 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.95%) WCAG
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 115 (17.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (11.43%) Terraform
2 62 (9.32%) Kubernetes
3 29 (4.36%) Ansible
4 22 (3.31%) HP Fortify
5 13 (1.95%) Argo
6 5 (0.75%) Grafana
6 5 (0.75%) Packer
7 3 (0.45%) Control-M
7 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.30%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.30%) Kibana
8 2 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (2.86%) Adobe
2 17 (2.56%) Splunk
3 15 (2.26%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.11%) AppDynamics
5 13 (1.95%) Google
6 9 (1.35%) Oracle
7 8 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.05%) IBM
9 5 (0.75%) Pega
10 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.60%) VMware
11 3 (0.45%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.45%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.30%) Cognos
12 2 (0.30%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.30%) NEC
12 2 (0.30%) SaltStack
12 2 (0.30%) Talend
12 2 (0.30%) WSO2
13 1 (0.15%) Apple