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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 55 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 -15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Java 385 302 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.69% 4.36% 4.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.16% 14.83% 15.11%
Number of salaries quoted 267 212 513
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,231 £49,236
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +2.36% +1.60%
75th Percentile £78,270 £93,778 £77,715
90th Percentile £85,000 £112,500 £91,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%

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 2,244 2,037 4,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.69% 29.42% 30.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,698 1,466 3,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,600 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,886 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £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 15 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 15 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 +11 189 £70,000 +1.82% 53
North West -14 168 £70,000 +7.69% 83
North East -15 28 £52,500 -7.89% 30
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 (3.12%) OpenStack
2 11 (2.86%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.34%) Apache
4 6 (1.56%) JBoss
5 4 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.78%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.52%) CICS
7 2 (0.52%) Mule
7 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.26%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.26%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Oracle SCM
1 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 213 (55.32%) AWS
2 103 (26.75%) Serverless
3 95 (24.68%) Azure
4 66 (17.14%) Amazon ECS
5 59 (15.32%) Amazon S3
5 59 (15.32%) AWS Lambda
6 58 (15.06%) AWS CloudFormation
7 47 (12.21%) AWS Step Functions
8 36 (9.35%) Amazon ECR
9 35 (9.09%) Apigee
10 33 (8.57%) GCP
11 24 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (5.97%) Amazon SQS
13 20 (5.19%) SaaS
14 19 (4.94%) GitHub
15 17 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (4.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (3.12%) dbt
17 9 (2.34%) OpenShift
18 8 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.38%) Broadband
2 4 (1.04%) AMQP
3 3 (0.78%) HTTP
3 3 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.52%) SAN
5 1 (0.26%) DNS
5 1 (0.26%) SSH
5 1 (0.26%) TCAP
5 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.03%) DynamoDB
2 41 (10.65%) NoSQL
3 37 (9.61%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (6.49%) Relational Database
5 17 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 16 (4.16%) MySQL
7 15 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (2.08%) SQL Server
10 7 (1.82%) Hadoop
11 6 (1.56%) Big Data
12 5 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.04%) Cloudera CDH
13 4 (1.04%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.04%) Neo4j
13 4 (1.04%) Power BI
13 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (18.70%) Jenkins
2 45 (11.69%) GitLab
3 42 (10.91%) Git
4 39 (10.13%) Cypress.io
5 36 (9.35%) SonarQube
6 33 (8.57%) Maven
7 11 (2.86%) JIRA
8 8 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 8 (2.08%) Selenium
9 6 (1.56%) Claude Code
9 6 (1.56%) JUnit
10 5 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.04%) IntelliJ
11 4 (1.04%) JMeter
11 4 (1.04%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.78%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.78%) Postman
13 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.52%) Vagrant
General
1 65 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 50 (12.99%) Finance
3 32 (8.31%) Public Sector
4 24 (6.23%) Games
5 18 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (4.16%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.16%) Retail
7 9 (2.34%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 9 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.08%) Banking
9 5 (1.30%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.52%) Advertising
11 2 (0.52%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.26%) Back Office
12 1 (0.26%) Electronics
12 1 (0.26%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 165 (42.86%) Developer
2 124 (32.21%) Java Developer
3 92 (23.90%) Software Engineer
4 75 (19.48%) Senior
5 57 (14.81%) Lead
6 47 (12.21%) Java Engineer
7 33 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
8 32 (8.31%) Senior Developer
9 30 (7.79%) Java Software Engineer
10 26 (6.75%) Architect
10 26 (6.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 26 (6.75%) Software Developer
11 25 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 20 (5.19%) Lead Software Engineer
13 18 (4.68%) Applications Developer
13 18 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
14 17 (4.42%) Junior
15 16 (4.16%) AWS Developer
15 16 (4.16%) Senior Java Engineer
16 15 (3.90%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (26.75%) Spring Boot
2 87 (22.60%) Spring
3 80 (20.78%) AngularJS
4 60 (15.58%) Node.js
5 44 (11.43%) React
6 36 (9.35%) .NET
7 35 (9.09%) Gherkin
7 35 (9.09%) Jest
7 35 (9.09%) RESTful
8 33 (8.57%) REST
9 22 (5.71%) Kafka
10 15 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (3.90%) Web Services
11 14 (3.64%) GraphQL
11 14 (3.64%) Hibernate
12 13 (3.38%) Android SDK
13 11 (2.86%) CSS
14 10 (2.60%) HTML
15 9 (2.34%) Micronaut
16 8 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.49%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (5.45%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (3.38%) Social Media
5 12 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.08%) Driving Licence
7 5 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.30%) IoT
7 5 (1.30%) Legacy Code
8 3 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.78%) Management Information System
8 3 (0.78%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.78%) Sports Betting
9 2 (0.52%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.52%) DataPower
9 2 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.52%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.23%) Linux
2 15 (3.90%) Android
3 5 (1.30%) Windows
4 4 (1.04%) CentOS
4 4 (1.04%) Debian
4 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.04%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.78%) Unix
6 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.26%) SUSE
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (44.68%) Agile
2 152 (39.48%) CI/CD
3 132 (34.29%) Software Engineering
4 115 (29.87%) DevOps
5 98 (25.45%) Microservices
6 78 (20.26%) Mentoring
7 71 (18.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 60 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
8 60 (15.58%) TDD
9 52 (13.51%) Scrum
10 50 (12.99%) AI
10 50 (12.99%) Test Automation
11 46 (11.95%) SDLC
12 43 (11.17%) Computer Science
13 42 (10.91%) Containerisation
14 40 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 37 (9.61%) BDD
16 35 (9.09%) Clean Code
16 35 (9.09%) Open Source
17 33 (8.57%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 102 (26.49%) Python
2 95 (24.68%) JavaScript
3 85 (22.08%) SQL
3 85 (22.08%) TypeScript
4 50 (12.99%) C#
5 44 (11.43%) Kotlin
6 33 (8.57%) Bash
6 33 (8.57%) Groovy
7 13 (3.38%) C
7 13 (3.38%) PL/SQL
8 12 (3.12%) Go
9 10 (2.60%) C++
10 7 (1.82%) Scala
11 4 (1.04%) Ruby
12 3 (0.78%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.78%) R
13 2 (0.52%) PHP
14 1 (0.26%) ABAP
14 1 (0.26%) Delphi
14 1 (0.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (11.95%) AWS Certification
2 45 (11.69%) Degree
3 37 (9.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.53%) Security Cleared
5 23 (5.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 21 (5.45%) Azure Certification
6 21 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (5.45%) TOGAF Certification
7 18 (4.68%) SC Cleared
8 17 (4.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 17 (4.42%) ITIL Certification
9 13 (3.38%) DV Cleared
10 8 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.26%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.26%) MBA
12 1 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.94%) QA
2 7 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.04%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) GDPR
5 2 (0.52%) WCAG
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 98 (25.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.52%) vSphere
3 1 (0.26%) Squid
3 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (15.32%) Kubernetes
2 33 (8.57%) HP Fortify
3 31 (8.05%) Terraform
4 19 (4.94%) Ansible
5 7 (1.82%) Grafana
6 4 (1.04%) Puppet
7 3 (0.78%) Rancher
8 2 (0.52%) AWS Copilot
8 2 (0.52%) Control-M
8 2 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.52%) Packer
8 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.26%) Kibana
9 1 (0.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (6.75%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.38%) Google
3 10 (2.60%) Oracle
4 8 (2.08%) Pega
5 5 (1.30%) Atlassian
5 5 (1.30%) WSO2
6 4 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.04%) SaltStack
7 3 (0.78%) VMware
8 2 (0.52%) Cognos
8 2 (0.52%) IBM
8 2 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.52%) SAP
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe
9 1 (0.26%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.26%) Databricks
9 1 (0.26%) New Relic
9 1 (0.26%) Veracode