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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 18 72
Rank change year-on-year -27 +54 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 692 975 413
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 3.04% 10.21% 2.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.18% 36.90% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 500 190 224
10th Percentile £42,400 £26,200 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,031 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,037 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +7.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £82,500
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 3,608 2,642 3,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 15.84% 27.67% 25.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,751 1,378 2,833
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £34,800
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 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -35 312 £70,000 - 75
Yorkshire +28 205 £75,000 +15.38% 33
North East +9 175 £55,000 +22.22% 38
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 13 (1.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 13 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.30%) Apache
3 8 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.01%) Confluence
4 7 (1.01%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
6 3 (0.43%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.29%) CICS
7 2 (0.29%) JBoss
7 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) IIS
8 1 (0.14%) PegaRULES
8 1 (0.14%) WildFly
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (0.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 271 (39.16%) AWS
2 111 (16.04%) Azure
3 108 (15.61%) Serverless
4 83 (11.99%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (10.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 72 (10.40%) Amazon S3
7 67 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
8 53 (7.66%) AWS Step Functions
9 47 (6.79%) GitHub
10 40 (5.78%) GCP
11 33 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
12 30 (4.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (4.05%) Amazon ECR
14 27 (3.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 25 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.61%) SaaS
16 24 (3.47%) Apigee
17 20 (2.89%) Amazon SQS
18 18 (2.60%) Datadog
19 15 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.87%) Broadband
2 3 (0.43%) HTTP
2 3 (0.43%) RIP
3 2 (0.29%) 5G
3 2 (0.29%) AMQP
3 2 (0.29%) MQTT
4 1 (0.14%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (8.96%) DynamoDB
2 46 (6.65%) NoSQL
3 35 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (4.19%) Amazon Athena
5 26 (3.76%) MongoDB
6 25 (3.61%) Relational Database
7 18 (2.60%) MySQL
8 13 (1.88%) SQL Server
9 10 (1.45%) Flink
9 10 (1.45%) Power BI
10 9 (1.30%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.72%) Big Data
13 5 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.58%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 75 (10.84%) Git
2 69 (9.97%) Jenkins
3 62 (8.96%) GitLab
4 31 (4.48%) Maven
5 29 (4.19%) Cypress.io
6 22 (3.18%) JIRA
7 21 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 19 (2.75%) JUnit
9 12 (1.73%) Spock
10 11 (1.59%) Claude Code
10 11 (1.59%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.45%) Selenium
12 8 (1.16%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.16%) Storybook
13 7 (1.01%) IntelliJ
13 7 (1.01%) Postman
14 6 (0.87%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.87%) Eclipse
14 6 (0.87%) REST Assured
15 5 (0.72%) fastlane
General
1 93 (13.44%) Finance
1 93 (13.44%) Public Sector
2 82 (11.85%) Social Skills
3 39 (5.64%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (2.31%) Banking
6 12 (1.73%) Retail
7 10 (1.45%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.45%) Marketing
7 10 (1.45%) Publishing
8 9 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.01%) Games
9 7 (1.01%) Legal
9 7 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 5 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.72%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.58%) Advertising
11 4 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 303 (43.79%) Developer
2 223 (32.23%) Java Developer
3 206 (29.77%) Senior
4 119 (17.20%) Java Engineer
5 116 (16.76%) Software Engineer
6 98 (14.16%) Lead
7 96 (13.87%) Senior Developer
8 71 (10.26%) Senior Java Developer
9 68 (9.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 58 (8.38%) Full-Stack Developer
11 48 (6.94%) Senior Java Engineer
12 43 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
13 41 (5.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 40 (5.78%) DevOps Engineer
15 35 (5.06%) Java Software Engineer
16 34 (4.91%) Software Developer
17 30 (4.34%) AWS Developer
18 27 (3.90%) Lead Software Engineer
19 26 (3.76%) Lead Java Engineer
20 23 (3.32%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (23.84%) Spring
2 142 (20.52%) Spring Boot
3 137 (19.80%) AngularJS
4 92 (13.29%) Node.js
5 83 (11.99%) Terraform
6 66 (9.54%) React
7 54 (7.80%) .NET
8 42 (6.07%) REST
9 36 (5.20%) RESTful
10 30 (4.34%) Kafka
11 27 (3.90%) CSS
12 26 (3.76%) Vue
13 25 (3.61%) HTML
14 24 (3.47%) Gherkin
15 18 (2.60%) Jest
16 15 (2.17%) GraphQL
17 12 (1.73%) PySpark
18 11 (1.59%) Android SDK
19 10 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
19 10 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 46 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
2 30 (4.34%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.46%) Mobile App
4 13 (1.88%) Product Ownership
5 12 (1.73%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (1.73%) Private Cloud
6 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.87%) Algorithms
8 6 (0.87%) Blog
8 6 (0.87%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.87%) Hedge funds
8 6 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (0.87%) Social Media
8 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
9 5 (0.72%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.58%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (4.77%) Linux
2 18 (2.60%) Windows
3 15 (2.17%) Android
4 13 (1.88%) Unix
5 4 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.43%) VMS
7 2 (0.29%) CentOS
7 2 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (34.25%) Agile
2 226 (32.66%) CI/CD
3 187 (27.02%) Software Engineering
4 181 (26.16%) Full-Stack Development
5 171 (24.71%) DevOps
6 146 (21.10%) Microservices
7 136 (19.65%) Test Automation
8 126 (18.21%) Mentoring
9 95 (13.73%) TDD
10 80 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
11 79 (11.42%) Scrum
12 78 (11.27%) AI
13 77 (11.13%) Coaching
14 71 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 66 (9.54%) Containerisation
16 62 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
17 54 (7.80%) Design Patterns
18 52 (7.51%) Continuous Integration
19 51 (7.37%) SDLC
20 48 (6.94%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 176 (25.43%) Python
2 141 (20.38%) SQL
3 126 (18.21%) JavaScript
4 97 (14.02%) TypeScript
5 70 (10.12%) C#
6 50 (7.23%) Kotlin
7 34 (4.91%) C++
7 34 (4.91%) Groovy
8 30 (4.34%) Bash
9 21 (3.03%) Scala
10 13 (1.88%) Go
11 11 (1.59%) C
11 11 (1.59%) PHP
12 8 (1.16%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.58%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.58%) Ruby
14 2 (0.29%) Perl
14 2 (0.29%) Swift
15 1 (0.14%) Apex Code
15 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.07%) Degree
4 36 (5.20%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 12 (1.73%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.58%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.58%) MBA
12 2 (0.29%) PhD
13 1 (0.14%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.77%) Accessibility
2 29 (4.19%) QA
3 23 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 16 (2.31%) WCAG
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 14443
5 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 7816
6 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (17.92%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) vSphere
3 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 37 (5.35%) Ansible
3 14 (2.02%) HP Fortify
4 13 (1.88%) Argo
5 5 (0.72%) Grafana
6 3 (0.43%) Control-M
6 3 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.43%) Packer
6 3 (0.43%) Puppet
7 2 (0.29%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (3.32%) Adobe
2 20 (2.89%) Splunk
3 17 (2.46%) AppDynamics
3 17 (2.46%) Microsoft
4 11 (1.59%) Google
4 11 (1.59%) Oracle
5 8 (1.16%) Dynatrace
5 8 (1.16%) IBM
6 5 (0.72%) Pega
7 4 (0.58%) NEC
7 4 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.58%) VMware
8 3 (0.43%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.43%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.43%) Talend
9 2 (0.29%) Apple
9 2 (0.29%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.29%) WSO2
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco