Java Jobs in the North of England

Java
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 52 32
Rank change year-on-year +26 -20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 838 663 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.59% 3.83% 7.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.85% 13.21% 18.42%
Number of salaries quoted 328 468 641
10th Percentile £40,035 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,231 £48,750 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,836 £64,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% -0.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £82,751 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +10.34%

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 2,807 5,019 7,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 25.41% 28.99% 42.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,919 4,154 3,667
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £70,790
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the North of England.

Salary trend for Java in the North of England

Java
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

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 4 May 2025. 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 +25 688 £57,836 -7.46% 298
Yorkshire +38 112 £70,000 +6.93% 129
North East +33 38 £56,500 -13.39% 67
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 44 (5.25%) Confluence
2 12 (1.43%) Apache
3 6 (0.72%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.36%) GemFire
4 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.24%) CMS
5 2 (0.24%) nginx
5 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
5 2 (0.24%) WordPress
6 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.12%) IIS
6 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.12%) OpenEdge
6 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.12%) iTrent
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 178 (21.24%) AWS
2 150 (17.90%) Azure
3 119 (14.20%) GCP
4 14 (1.67%) Serverless
5 11 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
6 10 (1.19%) GitHub
7 9 (1.07%) SaaS
8 7 (0.84%) Amazon S3
8 7 (0.84%) Apigee
8 7 (0.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (0.60%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (0.36%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (0.36%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (0.36%) IaaS
11 3 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 391 (46.66%) DNS
2 390 (46.54%) VPN
3 4 (0.48%) HTTP
3 4 (0.48%) SAN
4 3 (0.36%) Firewall
4 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.24%) FCoE
5 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.24%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
5 2 (0.24%) LAN
5 2 (0.24%) Multicast
5 2 (0.24%) NAS
5 2 (0.24%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.24%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.12%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 39 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 30 (3.58%) MySQL
4 23 (2.74%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.91%) Big Data
7 14 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.19%) Cloud Spanner
10 9 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.84%) Redis
12 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.48%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.36%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
14 3 (0.36%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.24%) Endeca
Development Applications
1 84 (10.02%) JIRA
2 53 (6.32%) GitLab
3 50 (5.97%) Git
4 48 (5.73%) SonarQube
5 45 (5.37%) Bitbucket
6 42 (5.01%) Selenium
7 39 (4.65%) Maven
7 39 (4.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 38 (4.53%) Jenkins
9 35 (4.18%) Cucumber
10 18 (2.15%) JUnit
11 16 (1.91%) Rational DOORS
12 15 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.84%) Eclipse
13 7 (0.84%) JMeter
13 7 (0.84%) Postman
14 4 (0.48%) Eclipse RCP
14 4 (0.48%) Fiddler
14 4 (0.48%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 551 (65.75%) Finance
2 451 (53.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 419 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (13.84%) Banking
5 99 (11.81%) Social Skills
6 33 (3.94%) Aerospace
7 20 (2.39%) Retail
8 15 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
8 15 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 10 (1.19%) Law
10 7 (0.84%) Cantonese Language
10 7 (0.84%) Legal
10 7 (0.84%) Marketing
11 6 (0.72%) Advertising
11 6 (0.72%) Mandarin Language
12 5 (0.60%) Military
12 5 (0.60%) Online Betting
13 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.36%) Games
14 3 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 464 (55.37%) Developer
2 417 (49.76%) Software Developer
3 185 (22.08%) Software Engineer
4 125 (14.92%) Senior
5 108 (12.89%) Lead
6 87 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 27 (3.22%) Java Engineer
8 23 (2.74%) Java Developer
9 22 (2.63%) Lead Systems Engineer
9 22 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
10 19 (2.27%) Graduate
11 16 (1.91%) Lead Software Engineer
12 15 (1.79%) Architect
12 15 (1.79%) Java Software Engineer
12 15 (1.79%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
13 14 (1.67%) Senior Developer
14 13 (1.55%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.07%) Graduate Developer
15 9 (1.07%) Senior Java Developer
15 9 (1.07%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (10.62%) Spring
2 84 (10.02%) Spring Boot
3 74 (8.83%) React
4 70 (8.35%) Node.js
5 67 (8.00%) Kafka
6 60 (7.16%) .NET
7 56 (6.68%) CSS
8 48 (5.73%) RESTful
9 47 (5.61%) HTML
10 33 (3.94%) REST
11 29 (3.46%) JPA
12 28 (3.34%) Redux
13 24 (2.86%) AngularJS
14 22 (2.63%) Hibernate
15 17 (2.03%) HTML5
15 17 (2.03%) Jest
16 15 (1.79%) CSS3
16 15 (1.79%) Sass
17 14 (1.67%) XML
18 12 (1.43%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 419 (50.00%) Cyberattack
2 60 (7.16%) Management Information System
3 58 (6.92%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
5 31 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
6 30 (3.58%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 18 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.79%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.43%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 9 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.84%) Hackathon
14 7 (0.84%) Learning Management System
15 5 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 4 (0.48%) Derivative
16 4 (0.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 453 (54.06%) Linux
2 392 (46.78%) Android
3 13 (1.55%) Windows
4 12 (1.43%) Unix
5 3 (0.36%) Solaris
6 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 653 (77.92%) Agile
2 460 (54.89%) OO
3 447 (53.34%) OOP
4 415 (49.52%) Design Patterns
5 411 (49.05%) Line Management
6 401 (47.85%) Mathematics
7 390 (46.54%) Android Development
8 294 (35.08%) Software Engineering
9 179 (21.36%) Microservices
10 143 (17.06%) DevOps
11 130 (15.51%) CI/CD
12 123 (14.68%) Mentoring
13 107 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
14 100 (11.93%) Containerisation
15 99 (11.81%) Test Automation
16 94 (11.22%) SDLC
17 81 (9.67%) Continuous Improvement
18 68 (8.11%) Scrum
19 66 (7.88%) Full-Stack Development
20 64 (7.64%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 536 (63.96%) Python
2 444 (52.98%) C++
3 438 (52.27%) Go
4 153 (18.26%) JavaScript
5 118 (14.08%) SQL
6 112 (13.37%) C#
7 60 (7.16%) TypeScript
8 42 (5.01%) Rust
9 38 (4.53%) C
10 20 (2.39%) Ada
11 16 (1.91%) VB
12 14 (1.67%) PHP
13 13 (1.55%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.07%) PowerShell
14 9 (1.07%) Scala
15 4 (0.48%) Bash
15 4 (0.48%) R
16 3 (0.36%) Groovy
16 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 431 (51.43%) Security Cleared
2 421 (50.24%) DV Cleared
3 157 (18.74%) Degree
4 41 (4.89%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (3.58%) AWS Certified Developer
7 27 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.74%) HND
9 22 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.55%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.95%) PhD
12 7 (0.84%) SC Cleared
13 5 (0.60%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.24%) CISSP
15 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.24%) CSSLP
16 1 (0.12%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (4.89%) QA
2 22 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.84%) GDPR
4 5 (0.60%) NIST
5 4 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) Basel III
8 1 (0.12%) IEC 62304
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS
8 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.12%) SEPA
8 1 (0.12%) SLA
8 1 (0.12%) TARGET2
System Software
1 498 (59.43%) Docker
2 22 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.24%) KVM
5 2 (0.24%) NFS
5 2 (0.24%) SRDF
5 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.24%) Xen
6 1 (0.12%) Squid
6 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 401 (47.85%) Ansible
2 128 (15.27%) Kubernetes
3 44 (5.25%) Terraform
4 9 (1.07%) Grafana
5 7 (0.84%) Istio
6 3 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.36%) Kibana
6 3 (0.36%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.24%) Puppet
7 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Argo
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
8 1 (0.12%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 77 (9.19%) Oracle
2 43 (5.13%) Google
3 36 (4.30%) Microsoft
4 32 (3.82%) Solace
5 11 (1.31%) IBM
6 4 (0.48%) Atlassian
6 4 (0.48%) Bloomberg
6 4 (0.48%) Databricks
6 4 (0.48%) Red Hat
6 4 (0.48%) TIBCO
6 4 (0.48%) VMware
7 3 (0.36%) Adobe
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco
8 2 (0.24%) CyberSource
8 2 (0.24%) EMC
8 2 (0.24%) F5
8 2 (0.24%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.24%) Hitachi
8 2 (0.24%) NetApp
8 2 (0.24%) New Relic