Java Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Java
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 33 52
Rank change year-on-year -23 +19 -35
Permanent jobs citing Java 24 28 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.11% 6.41% 3.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.57% 17.61% 12.59%
Number of salaries quoted 18 23 32
10th Percentile £27,675 £25,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £32,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £56,500 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -13.39% +4.37%
75th Percentile £68,848 £72,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,500 -
North East median annual salary £52,500 £57,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.89% -12.31% +4.00%

All Programming Languages
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 227 159 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 19.93% 36.38% 25.28%
Number of salaries quoted 184 120 268
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £35,875
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,905 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -0.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,569 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,700 £85,000 £82,500
North East median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Java job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Java
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Tyne and Wear

Java
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -19 24 £52,130 -7.73% 31
Java
North East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Gatling
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 5 (20.83%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Java Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Java Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Lead
6 3 (12.50%) Senior
7 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) .NET Team Leader
8 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Junior
8 1 (4.17%) Python Team Leader
8 1 (4.17%) Software Engineering Team Leader
8 1 (4.17%) Software Team Leader
8 1 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
1 3 (12.50%) RESTful
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
1 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
2 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.33%) Playwright
2 2 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Node.js
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.17%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Software Engineering
2 8 (33.33%) Microservices
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
5 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) BDD
6 3 (12.50%) Coaching
6 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.33%) Design Patterns
7 2 (8.33%) Event-Driven
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.33%) Operational Stability
7 2 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
1 2 (8.33%) vSphere
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Control-M
2 2 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (8.33%) Grafana
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Google