Java Jobs in Leeds

Java
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 67 20
Rank change year-on-year +31 -47 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 45 70 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 5.83% 3.08% 10.31%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.25% 10.48% 22.70%
Number of salaries quoted 33 48 155
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,850 £39,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £45,938 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £79,250
90th Percentile £89,645 £84,034 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £72,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.77% +4.00% +13.64%

All Programming Languages
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 295 668 1,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 38.21% 29.41% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 240 517 848
10th Percentile £28,738 £32,500 £37,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -13.79% +5.45%
75th Percentile £77,125 £69,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £51,528 £57,500
% change year-on-year +11.59% -10.39% +4.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Leeds

Java
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Leeds.

Salary trend for Java in Leeds

Java
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Leeds

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 10 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (44.44%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) GCP
3 8 (17.78%) Azure
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (6.67%) SaaS
5 3 (6.67%) Serverless
6 2 (4.44%) Apigee
6 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (4.44%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) MySQL
2 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.89%) Redis
4 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.22%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Jenkins
2 11 (24.44%) JIRA
3 10 (22.22%) Git
4 7 (15.56%) Cucumber
4 7 (15.56%) GitLab
5 4 (8.89%) Maven
6 3 (6.67%) JUnit
6 3 (6.67%) Selenium
6 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.44%) Gradle
7 2 (4.44%) Mocha
8 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.22%) Eclipse
8 1 (2.22%) Spinnaker
8 1 (2.22%) TestNG
General
1 23 (51.11%) Finance
2 19 (42.22%) Banking
3 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Legal
5 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
6 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (28.89%) Senior
2 12 (26.67%) Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Lead
4 7 (15.56%) Quality Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Graduate
5 6 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) CloudOps Manager
8 1 (2.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 11 (24.44%) REST
2 11 (24.44%) Spring
3 9 (20.00%) React
4 8 (17.78%) Node.js
5 7 (15.56%) Kafka
5 7 (15.56%) RESTful
6 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.67%) .NET
7 3 (6.67%) CSS
7 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
7 3 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.44%) Express.js
8 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
8 2 (4.44%) Flask
8 2 (4.44%) Flutter
8 2 (4.44%) Hibernate
8 2 (4.44%) HTML
8 2 (4.44%) HTML5
8 2 (4.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (11.11%) Hackathon
2 5 (11.11%) Learning Management System
2 5 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.22%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
3 1 (2.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) Agile
2 22 (48.89%) Software Engineering
3 21 (46.67%) DevOps
4 19 (42.22%) Microservices
5 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 15 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 14 (31.11%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (31.11%) Test Automation
8 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (22.22%) BDD
9 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (17.78%) Coaching
10 8 (17.78%) Scrum
10 8 (17.78%) TDD
11 7 (15.56%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (15.56%) Defect Management
11 7 (15.56%) OO
12 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 20 (44.44%) Python
3 14 (31.11%) TypeScript
4 11 (24.44%) C#
5 9 (20.00%) SQL
6 8 (17.78%) Kotlin
7 6 (13.33%) Go
8 3 (6.67%) Bash
8 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.22%) C++
9 1 (2.22%) Groovy
9 1 (2.22%) Perl
9 1 (2.22%) PHP
9 1 (2.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 5 (11.11%) PhD
3 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Basel III
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) IFRS
3 1 (2.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 12 (26.67%) Terraform
3 4 (8.89%) Ansible
4 2 (4.44%) Grafana
4 2 (4.44%) Istio
4 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Google
2 6 (13.33%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle