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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 69 33
Rank change year-on-year -6 -36 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 266 310 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.52% 3.30% 6.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.11% 11.52% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 170 149 359
10th Percentile £32,000 £40,810 £41,227
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,607
90th Percentile £85,250 £94,022 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 1,760 2,691 2,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.67% 28.62% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,372 1,463 2,264
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,375 £85,000 £82,500
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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +32 145 £72,500 +31.82% 67
North West -15 108 £67,500 +12.50% 73
North East -30 15 £60,100 +0.17% 33
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 11 (4.14%) Apache Spark
1 11 (4.14%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.26%) Apache
3 4 (1.50%) Camunda
4 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.13%) Mule
5 2 (0.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.75%) JBoss
5 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.38%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.75%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 168 (63.16%) AWS
2 81 (30.45%) Azure
3 69 (25.94%) Serverless
4 41 (15.41%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 30 (11.28%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.28%) GCP
7 28 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (7.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 20 (7.52%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (6.77%) SaaS
11 17 (6.39%) Amazon ECR
11 17 (6.39%) Apigee
12 13 (4.89%) GitHub
13 10 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (3.76%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 7 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.26%) dbt
17 5 (1.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.88%) AMQP
2 4 (1.50%) HTTP
3 2 (0.75%) SAN
3 2 (0.75%) SSH
4 1 (0.38%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) TCAP
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.40%) DynamoDB
1 25 (9.40%) NoSQL
1 25 (9.40%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (6.77%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.51%) MySQL
4 11 (4.14%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.14%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.01%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.63%) Big Data
7 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.88%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.13%) Neo4j
11 2 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 56 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 40 (15.04%) GitLab
3 31 (11.65%) Git
4 27 (10.15%) SonarQube
5 21 (7.89%) Cypress.io
6 19 (7.14%) Maven
7 9 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.63%) JIRA
8 7 (2.63%) JUnit
8 7 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.88%) Selenium
10 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
10 3 (1.13%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.75%) JMeter
11 2 (0.75%) Locust
11 2 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.75%) Postman
12 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
General
1 81 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.92%) Finance
3 20 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.64%) Retail
6 12 (4.51%) Financial Institution
6 12 (4.51%) Games
7 9 (3.38%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.88%) Banking
8 5 (1.88%) Marketing
9 4 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Back Office
11 2 (0.75%) Billing
11 2 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Law
12 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (36.47%) Developer
2 63 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 58 (21.80%) Senior
4 55 (20.68%) Software Engineer
5 43 (16.17%) Lead
6 33 (12.41%) Architect
7 22 (8.27%) Senior Developer
8 18 (6.77%) Senior Java Developer
9 17 (6.39%) Software Developer
10 16 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (6.02%) Java Engineer
11 15 (5.64%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (5.26%) Applications Architect
12 14 (5.26%) Lead Developer
13 12 (4.51%) Graduate
14 11 (4.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (4.14%) Software Architect
15 10 (3.76%) Lead Java Developer
16 9 (3.38%) Junior
16 9 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (27.44%) Spring
1 73 (27.44%) Spring Boot
2 47 (17.67%) AngularJS
3 40 (15.04%) React
4 36 (13.53%) Node.js
5 33 (12.41%) REST
6 28 (10.53%) .NET
7 24 (9.02%) CSS
7 24 (9.02%) Kafka
7 24 (9.02%) RESTful
8 19 (7.14%) Gherkin
8 19 (7.14%) Jest
9 15 (5.64%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (5.64%) Web Services
10 14 (5.26%) HTML
11 12 (4.51%) Hibernate
11 12 (4.51%) Micronaut
12 7 (2.63%) gRPC
12 7 (2.63%) Mustache
12 7 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.90%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (10.15%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (8.27%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.01%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.88%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.50%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.50%) IoT
9 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.13%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.75%) DataPower
10 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.75%) NHS
10 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.90%) Linux
2 8 (3.01%) Windows
3 3 (1.13%) CentOS
3 3 (1.13%) Debian
3 3 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.13%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.75%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) SUSE
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (39.85%) CI/CD
2 102 (38.35%) Agile
3 98 (36.84%) DevOps
4 81 (30.45%) Microservices
4 81 (30.45%) Software Engineering
5 64 (24.06%) Mentoring
6 57 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 53 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (16.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (15.04%) SDLC
11 38 (14.29%) TDD
12 37 (13.91%) Containerisation
13 33 (12.41%) Scrum
14 30 (11.28%) Data Modelling
14 30 (11.28%) Test Automation
15 29 (10.90%) Enterprise Architecture
15 29 (10.90%) Migration
15 29 (10.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (10.53%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.47%) Python
2 83 (31.20%) JavaScript
3 74 (27.82%) TypeScript
4 65 (24.44%) SQL
5 62 (23.31%) C#
6 24 (9.02%) Bash
7 20 (7.52%) C
8 19 (7.14%) Kotlin
9 16 (6.02%) Groovy
10 14 (5.26%) C++
11 13 (4.89%) Scala
12 12 (4.51%) Go
13 11 (4.14%) PHP
14 10 (3.76%) PL/SQL
15 9 (3.38%) PowerShell
16 6 (2.26%) Perl
17 4 (1.50%) Ruby
18 3 (1.13%) R
18 3 (1.13%) Rust
19 1 (0.38%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 60 (22.56%) Degree
2 48 (18.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 42 (15.79%) AWS Certification
4 30 (11.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 27 (10.15%) Azure Certification
6 24 (9.02%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (9.02%) TOGAF Certification
7 20 (7.52%) Security Cleared
8 14 (5.26%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.26%) HND
11 5 (1.88%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.75%) PhD
14 1 (0.38%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.38%) MBA
14 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.77%) QA
2 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.88%) GDPR
4 3 (1.13%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.13%) NIST
4 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.75%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (27.82%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) vSphere
3 1 (0.38%) Squid
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 20 (7.52%) Ansible
3 18 (6.77%) Terraform
4 17 (6.39%) HP Fortify
5 8 (3.01%) Grafana
6 3 (1.13%) Puppet
7 2 (0.75%) Control-M
7 2 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.75%) Rancher
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.89%) Google
3 9 (3.38%) Oracle
4 6 (2.26%) Allen-Bradley
4 6 (2.26%) Siemens
4 6 (2.26%) Toshiba
5 4 (1.50%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.50%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.50%) Pega
5 4 (1.50%) WSO2
6 3 (1.13%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.13%) SaltStack
7 2 (0.75%) Adobe
7 2 (0.75%) SAP
7 2 (0.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.38%) IBM
8 1 (0.38%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.38%) New Relic
8 1 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.38%) Splunk