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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 65 21
Rank change year-on-year +27 -44 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 44 71 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 5.68% 3.15% 10.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.02% 10.76% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 33 49 154
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,400 £39,125
25th Percentile £47,231 £46,250 £46,388
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 £78,688
90th Percentile £89,645 £83,538 £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 293 660 1,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 37.86% 29.32% 45.39%
Number of salaries quoted 240 514 849
10th Percentile £28,738 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,239 £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 5 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 (22.73%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 19 (43.18%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) GCP
3 8 (18.18%) Azure
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Apigee
5 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (4.55%) IaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) MySQL
2 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
3 4 (9.09%) Redis
4 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.27%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) JIRA
3 9 (20.45%) Git
4 6 (13.64%) Cucumber
4 6 (13.64%) GitLab
5 4 (9.09%) Maven
6 3 (6.82%) JUnit
6 3 (6.82%) Selenium
6 3 (6.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (4.55%) Gradle
7 2 (4.55%) Mocha
7 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.27%) Eclipse
8 1 (2.27%) Spinnaker
8 1 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 23 (52.27%) Finance
2 19 (43.18%) Banking
3 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Senior
2 12 (27.27%) Developer
3 9 (20.45%) Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Lead
4 7 (15.91%) Quality Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Graduate
5 6 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Operations Manager
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.27%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 11 (25.00%) Spring
3 10 (22.73%) REST
4 9 (20.45%) React
5 8 (18.18%) Node.js
6 7 (15.91%) Kafka
6 7 (15.91%) RESTful
7 4 (9.09%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.82%) .NET
8 3 (6.82%) CSS
8 3 (6.82%) GraphQL
9 2 (4.55%) Express.js
9 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
9 2 (4.55%) Flask
9 2 (4.55%) Flutter
9 2 (4.55%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.55%) HTML
9 2 (4.55%) HTML5
9 2 (4.55%) Jest
9 2 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.36%) Hackathon
2 5 (11.36%) Learning Management System
2 5 (11.36%) Mobile App
3 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.27%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (2.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (72.73%) Agile
2 22 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 20 (45.45%) DevOps
4 18 (40.91%) Microservices
5 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
6 15 (34.09%) Mentoring
7 13 (29.55%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (29.55%) Test Automation
8 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (22.73%) BDD
9 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
10 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (18.18%) Coaching
11 8 (18.18%) Scrum
11 8 (18.18%) TDD
12 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (15.91%) Defect Management
12 7 (15.91%) OO
13 6 (13.64%) API Development
13 6 (13.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) JavaScript
2 19 (43.18%) Python
3 14 (31.82%) TypeScript
4 11 (25.00%) C#
5 9 (20.45%) SQL
6 8 (18.18%) Kotlin
7 6 (13.64%) Go
8 3 (6.82%) Bash
8 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.27%) C++
9 1 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Master's Degree
2 5 (11.36%) PhD
3 3 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Basel III
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
2 1 (2.27%) IFRS
2 1 (2.27%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Kubernetes
2 11 (25.00%) Terraform
3 3 (6.82%) Ansible
4 2 (4.55%) Grafana
4 2 (4.55%) Istio
4 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Google
2 5 (11.36%) IBM
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle