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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 19 66
Rank change year-on-year -23 +47 -26
Permanent jobs citing Java 769 945 366
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.20% 9.84% 2.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.91% 37.97% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 558 162 162
10th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £94,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 3,510 2,489 3,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 14.61% 25.92% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 1,224 2,012
10th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £79,563
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -33 397 £73,750 +5.36% 252
North East +23 189 £55,000 +7.32% 82
Yorkshire +18 183 £73,750 +13.46% 97
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 15 (1.95%) Apache Spark
2 13 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 11 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.30%) Apache
5 9 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.91%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.78%) SharePoint Server
8 5 (0.65%) Confluence
9 4 (0.52%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.39%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) IIS
11 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 276 (35.89%) AWS
2 105 (13.65%) Azure
3 101 (13.13%) Serverless
4 79 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
5 68 (8.84%) Amazon S3
6 60 (7.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 58 (7.54%) Amazon ECS
8 49 (6.37%) GitHub
9 47 (6.11%) AWS Step Functions
10 37 (4.81%) GCP
11 31 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 26 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (3.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 21 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.73%) Amazon ECR
16 20 (2.60%) Datadog
17 19 (2.47%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (2.08%) Apigee
18 16 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) RIP
2 3 (0.39%) AMQP
3 2 (0.26%) 5G
3 2 (0.26%) HTTP
3 2 (0.26%) MQTT
3 2 (0.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.13%) DNS
4 1 (0.13%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.63%) DynamoDB
2 40 (5.20%) NoSQL
3 35 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 34 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.21%) MySQL
8 12 (1.56%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.17%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.17%) Power BI
10 9 (1.17%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.04%) Flink
12 7 (0.91%) Big Data
12 7 (0.91%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.65%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (8.45%) Git
2 60 (7.80%) GitLab
3 50 (6.50%) Jenkins
4 26 (3.38%) Maven
5 25 (3.25%) JUnit
6 22 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 14 (1.82%) SonarQube
8 13 (1.69%) Spock
9 9 (1.17%) JIRA
10 8 (1.04%) Bitbucket
10 8 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.04%) Storybook
11 7 (0.91%) Selenium
12 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.65%) Android Studio
13 5 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.65%) Crashlytics
13 5 (0.65%) fastlane
13 5 (0.65%) Gradle
13 5 (0.65%) Mockito
General
1 98 (12.74%) Public Sector
2 90 (11.70%) Social Skills
3 89 (11.57%) Finance
4 40 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (2.86%) Banking
5 22 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (2.86%) Publishing
6 11 (1.43%) Retail
7 10 (1.30%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.30%) Marketing
8 7 (0.91%) Investment Banking
8 7 (0.91%) Legal
8 7 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.65%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.65%) iGaming
10 5 (0.65%) Law
10 5 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 277 (36.02%) Developer
2 234 (30.43%) Senior
3 192 (24.97%) Java Engineer
4 190 (24.71%) Java Developer
5 145 (18.86%) Software Engineer
6 116 (15.08%) Lead
7 92 (11.96%) Senior Developer
8 91 (11.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 77 (10.01%) Senior Java Engineer
10 65 (8.45%) Java Software Engineer
11 59 (7.67%) Senior Java Developer
12 57 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
13 41 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
14 39 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
14 39 (5.07%) Technical Leader
15 35 (4.55%) Software Developer
16 34 (4.42%) Senior Java Software Engineer
17 33 (4.29%) Technical Engineer
18 30 (3.90%) AWS Developer
19 27 (3.51%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (23.28%) Spring
2 146 (18.99%) Spring Boot
3 115 (14.95%) AngularJS
4 80 (10.40%) Terraform
5 77 (10.01%) Node.js
6 71 (9.23%) React
7 50 (6.50%) Kafka
8 45 (5.85%) .NET
9 37 (4.81%) REST
10 26 (3.38%) RESTful
11 23 (2.99%) PySpark
12 22 (2.86%) Vue
13 20 (2.60%) Gherkin
14 18 (2.34%) CSS
14 18 (2.34%) HTML
15 13 (1.69%) Jest
16 11 (1.43%) OpenAPI
17 10 (1.30%) Hibernate
18 9 (1.17%) GraphQL
18 9 (1.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.98%) Cloud Native
2 41 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
3 13 (1.69%) Private Cloud
4 12 (1.56%) Media Streaming
4 12 (1.56%) Podcast
5 11 (1.43%) Marketing Technology
6 10 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.17%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.04%) Blog
8 8 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (0.65%) Data Structures
10 5 (0.65%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.52%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.52%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.52%) Java Card
11 4 (0.52%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.55%) Linux
2 20 (2.60%) Windows
3 15 (1.95%) Unix
4 11 (1.43%) Android
5 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.52%) VMS
7 3 (0.39%) CentOS
7 3 (0.39%) Debian
7 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (30.82%) Agile
2 235 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 230 (29.91%) Software Engineering
4 218 (28.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 178 (23.15%) DevOps
6 154 (20.03%) Microservices
7 144 (18.73%) Mentoring
8 125 (16.25%) Test Automation
9 94 (12.22%) TDD
10 91 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (11.44%) Containerisation
12 87 (11.31%) AI
13 82 (10.66%) Coaching
14 77 (10.01%) Scrum
15 73 (9.49%) Problem-Solving
16 65 (8.45%) Infrastructure as Code
17 59 (7.67%) Continuous Integration
18 54 (7.02%) Event-Driven
19 48 (6.24%) SDLC
20 47 (6.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 178 (23.15%) Python
2 134 (17.43%) SQL
3 114 (14.82%) JavaScript
4 110 (14.30%) TypeScript
5 72 (9.36%) C#
6 42 (5.46%) C++
6 42 (5.46%) Kotlin
7 26 (3.38%) Bash
7 26 (3.38%) Groovy
7 26 (3.38%) Scala
8 18 (2.34%) Go
9 11 (1.43%) C
10 10 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.17%) PHP
12 6 (0.78%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.52%) Ruby
13 4 (0.52%) Rust
14 2 (0.26%) Swift
15 1 (0.13%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 117 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 66 (8.58%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.72%) DV Cleared
4 40 (5.20%) Degree
5 16 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.52%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.52%) MBA
11 2 (0.26%) PhD
12 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.42%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.64%) QA
4 16 (2.08%) WCAG
5 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 135 (17.56%) Docker
2 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
2 3 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 102 (13.26%) Kubernetes
2 37 (4.81%) Ansible
3 15 (1.95%) Argo
4 8 (1.04%) HP Fortify
5 6 (0.78%) Puppet
6 4 (0.52%) Grafana
6 4 (0.52%) Packer
6 4 (0.52%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.39%) Control-M
7 3 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.13%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (2.99%) Adobe
2 21 (2.73%) Splunk
3 14 (1.82%) Oracle
4 13 (1.69%) AppDynamics
4 13 (1.69%) Google
4 13 (1.69%) Microsoft
5 8 (1.04%) Dynatrace
6 6 (0.78%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.78%) VMware
7 4 (0.52%) NEC
7 4 (0.52%) Salesforce
8 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.39%) IBM
8 3 (0.39%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.39%) SaltStack
8 3 (0.39%) Talend
9 2 (0.26%) Apple
9 2 (0.26%) Databricks
9 2 (0.26%) New Relic
10 1 (0.13%) TIBCO