Java Job Trends in Leeds

Java
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 38 77
Rank change year-on-year +15 +39 -50
Permanent jobs citing Java 168 44 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 5.81% 4.61% 2.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 29.58% 15.17% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 115 37 37
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £43,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,650 £82,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +16.67% -8.19%

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 568 290 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 19.65% 30.37% 28.69%
Number of salaries quoted 417 246 426
10th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £34,375
25th Percentile £48,289 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £63,367 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +15.21% -9.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £54,250
% change year-on-year +8.33% +10.60% -6.47%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Java job vacancy trend in Leeds

Java
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Leeds over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Leeds

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.79%) JBoss
2 2 (1.19%) Apache
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 116 (69.05%) AWS
2 74 (44.05%) Serverless
3 67 (39.88%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (38.69%) Amazon S3
5 63 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (36.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 30 (17.86%) Amazon ECR
8 30 (17.86%) Apigee
9 25 (14.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (14.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 21 (12.50%) Azure
11 20 (11.90%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (11.90%) GitHub
12 13 (7.74%) Datadog
12 13 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.95%) GCP
14 9 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (33.33%) DynamoDB
2 25 (14.88%) NoSQL
3 24 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (5.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (5.36%) BigQuery
4 9 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.57%) Power BI
7 5 (2.98%) MySQL
8 4 (2.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.19%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.19%) Tableau
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 49 (29.17%) Jenkins
2 32 (19.05%) GitLab
3 26 (15.48%) Cypress.io
4 23 (13.69%) Git
4 23 (13.69%) SonarQube
5 21 (12.50%) Maven
6 6 (3.57%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.38%) Selenium
8 3 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.79%) JIRA
9 1 (0.60%) Gatling
9 1 (0.60%) JMeter
9 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (2.98%) Finance
4 5 (2.98%) Retail
5 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.60%) Banking
7 1 (0.60%) Games
7 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 117 (69.64%) Developer
2 94 (55.95%) Java Developer
3 41 (24.40%) Full-Stack Developer
4 40 (23.81%) Senior
5 31 (18.45%) Senior Developer
6 29 (17.26%) AWS Developer
7 26 (15.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 26 (15.48%) Lead
8 24 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (9.52%) Java Engineer
10 13 (7.74%) Angular Developer
11 12 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (5.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (5.95%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) Lead Developer
14 7 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (4.17%) Java Server Engineer
14 7 (4.17%) Server Engineer
14 7 (4.17%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (43.45%) AngularJS
2 52 (30.95%) Spring Boot
3 41 (24.40%) Spring
4 36 (21.43%) Node.js
5 29 (17.26%) Gherkin
6 21 (12.50%) Jest
6 21 (12.50%) React
7 9 (5.36%) RESTful
8 6 (3.57%) REST
9 5 (2.98%) .NET
9 5 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.38%) Flutter
11 3 (1.79%) Drools
11 3 (1.79%) JSON
11 3 (1.79%) Redux
11 3 (1.79%) XML
11 3 (1.79%) YAML
12 2 (1.19%) JPA
12 2 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.74%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.60%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.36%) Linux
2 3 (1.79%) Unix
2 3 (1.79%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.71%) Agile
2 59 (35.12%) Full-Stack Development
3 57 (33.93%) CI/CD
4 53 (31.55%) DevOps
5 25 (14.88%) Mentoring
6 23 (13.69%) Software Engineering
7 20 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (11.90%) Microservices
8 19 (11.31%) DevSecOps
8 19 (11.31%) SDLC
9 17 (10.12%) Secure Coding
10 16 (9.52%) ITIL
10 16 (9.52%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 15 (8.93%) Coaching
11 15 (8.93%) Secrets Management
12 14 (8.33%) Test Automation
13 13 (7.74%) Clean Code
14 12 (7.14%) RBAC
14 12 (7.14%) Workflow
14 12 (7.14%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (31.55%) TypeScript
2 50 (29.76%) SQL
3 33 (19.64%) Groovy
4 32 (19.05%) Kotlin
5 28 (16.67%) Python
6 21 (12.50%) Bash
7 11 (6.55%) C#
7 11 (6.55%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.17%) Scala
9 5 (2.98%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.38%) C++
10 4 (2.38%) Go
11 3 (1.79%) C
12 1 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (11.90%) AWS Certification
2 15 (8.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 15 (8.93%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (7.74%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.76%) Degree
6 4 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.38%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) QA
2 8 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (29.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (11.90%) HP Fortify
2 12 (7.14%) Terraform
3 6 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.98%) Ansible
5 3 (1.79%) Argo
5 3 (1.79%) Packer
6 2 (1.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.98%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.98%) IBM
2 2 (1.19%) Google
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle