Java Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Java
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 25 40
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 1 3 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 0.26% 2.88% 1.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.44% 6.67% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £63,750 - £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £31,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.11%
75th Percentile £71,250 - £39,125
90th Percentile - - £51,050
Staffordshire median annual salary £67,500 £53,688 £53,750
% change year-on-year +25.73% -0.12% +6.44%

All Programming Languages
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 41 45 98
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 10.57% 43.27% 27.92%
Number of salaries quoted 12 37 85
10th Percentile £37,000 - £31,250
25th Percentile £38,313 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -30.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £62,813 £50,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,375 £61,250 £62,500
Staffordshire median annual salary £54,344 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +8.69% +5.26% +5.56%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

Java job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Java
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing Java

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript