Java Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Java
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 23 28
Rank change year-on-year -73 +5 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 19 14 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 1.36% 4.49% 5.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.27% 35.00% 18.01%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 22
10th Percentile - £46,250 £46,750
25th Percentile - £50,000 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -10.20% +11.36%
75th Percentile £79,688 £60,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +5.57%

All Programming Languages
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 205 40 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 14.72% 12.82% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 41 20 85
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,107 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,625 £46,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £66,125 £80,000
90th Percentile - £83,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +0.81% -4.62%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Java job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Java
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 9 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Northern Ireland

Java
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
County Antrim -44 19 £60,000 +9.09% 81
Java
UK

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) dbt
3 3 (15.79%) PaaS
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) ATM
1 1 (5.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 3 (15.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Law
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 11 (57.89%) Java Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Test Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Lead Software Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) Spring
2 8 (42.11%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.26%) Dropwizard
4 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Microservices
2 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 4 (21.05%) BDD
4 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.26%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.26%) Clean Code
5 1 (5.26%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.26%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Design Thinking
5 1 (5.26%) GitOps
5 1 (5.26%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (5.26%) Product Backlog
5 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
5 1 (5.26%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (5.26%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (5.26%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) Scala
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 8583
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Workday
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft