Java Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Java
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 32 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 +39 -36
Permanent jobs citing Java 189 77 83
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.82% 6.57% 2.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.72% 19.79% 10.25%
Number of salaries quoted 110 61 63
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £35,200
25th Percentile £64,063 £49,118 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £82,548
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £70,996 £65,465
% change year-on-year +2.12% +8.45% +4.74%

All Programming Languages
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 658 389 810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 20.25% 33.19% 28.89%
Number of salaries quoted 457 330 692
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +11.59% -10.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £69,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,900 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Java job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Java
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in West Yorkshire

Java
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Leeds +21 176 £75,000 +11.11% 33
Bradford - 3 £65,000 - 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Halifax -1 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - - 1
Pontefract - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 1 - -
Java
Yorkshire

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (3.70%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.65%) JBoss
3 2 (1.06%) Apache
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.06%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 118 (62.43%) AWS
2 96 (50.79%) Serverless
3 79 (41.80%) Amazon ECS
3 79 (41.80%) Amazon S3
4 75 (39.68%) AWS Lambda
5 69 (36.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 65 (34.39%) AWS Step Functions
7 47 (24.87%) Amazon ECR
7 47 (24.87%) Apigee
8 28 (14.81%) Amazon SQS
9 25 (13.23%) Azure
10 23 (12.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (12.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 18 (9.52%) GitHub
12 12 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (4.76%) Datadog
13 9 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.59%) Azure AKS
14 3 (1.59%) Azure Service Bus
14 3 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (37.04%) DynamoDB
2 24 (12.70%) NoSQL
3 23 (12.17%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.82%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.59%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.59%) Power BI
7 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.06%) MySQL
8 2 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 69 (36.51%) Jenkins
2 48 (25.40%) GitLab
3 43 (22.75%) SonarQube
4 42 (22.22%) Cypress.io
5 40 (21.16%) Maven
6 27 (14.29%) Git
7 7 (3.70%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.65%) Selenium
9 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.59%) JIRA
10 1 (0.53%) Gatling
10 1 (0.53%) JMeter
10 1 (0.53%) JUnit
10 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (21.16%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.35%) Games
4 11 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (5.82%) Retail
5 9 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.59%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Finance
8 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.53%) Marketing
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (69.31%) Developer
2 95 (50.26%) Java Developer
3 43 (22.75%) Senior
4 34 (17.99%) Senior Developer
5 33 (17.46%) Lead
6 29 (15.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 24 (12.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 23 (12.17%) AWS Developer
9 18 (9.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 16 (8.47%) Architect
11 13 (6.88%) Technical Leader
12 12 (6.35%) Lead Developer
13 11 (5.82%) Software Developer
14 10 (5.29%) Software Engineer
15 7 (3.70%) Android Developer
15 7 (3.70%) Applications Architect
15 7 (3.70%) Applications Developer
15 7 (3.70%) Software Architect
16 6 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
16 6 (3.17%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (39.68%) AngularJS
2 69 (36.51%) Spring Boot
3 47 (24.87%) Spring
4 41 (21.69%) Gherkin
5 40 (21.16%) Jest
6 37 (19.58%) Node.js
7 24 (12.70%) React
8 16 (8.47%) .NET
9 14 (7.41%) REST
10 12 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (6.35%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.82%) Android SDK
12 10 (5.29%) Web Services
13 8 (4.23%) Kafka
14 7 (3.70%) Mustache
15 6 (3.17%) Flutter
15 6 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (3.17%) RESTful
15 6 (3.17%) XML
16 5 (2.65%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.82%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.82%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.82%) Social Media
4 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.65%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.59%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.06%) DataPower
8 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.82%) Android
1 11 (5.82%) Linux
2 3 (1.59%) Unix
2 3 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (46.03%) CI/CD
2 85 (44.97%) Agile
3 71 (37.57%) DevOps
4 43 (22.75%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (19.58%) Microservices
6 33 (17.46%) SDLC
7 29 (15.34%) Secure Coding
8 28 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 26 (13.76%) AI
10 25 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (12.17%) Computer Science
11 23 (12.17%) ITIL
11 23 (12.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 20 (10.58%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (10.58%) Software Engineering
13 19 (10.05%) Clean Code
14 18 (9.52%) DevSecOps
14 18 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (8.99%) Architectural Patterns
16 16 (8.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 76 (40.21%) TypeScript
2 46 (24.34%) Python
2 46 (24.34%) SQL
3 43 (22.75%) Groovy
4 39 (20.63%) Bash
4 39 (20.63%) Kotlin
5 38 (20.11%) JavaScript
6 33 (17.46%) C#
7 7 (3.70%) PL/SQL
8 6 (3.17%) Go
9 5 (2.65%) C
9 5 (2.65%) C++
10 2 (1.06%) Scala
11 1 (0.53%) Perl
11 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (24.34%) AWS Certification
2 23 (12.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (12.17%) ITIL Certification
3 21 (11.11%) Degree
4 20 (10.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (8.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (7.41%) Security Cleared
6 14 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
7 12 (6.35%) SC Cleared
8 9 (4.76%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.35%) QA
2 3 (1.59%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (38.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (21.16%) HP Fortify
2 14 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 11 (5.82%) Terraform
4 6 (3.17%) Ansible
5 3 (1.59%) Argo
5 3 (1.59%) Packer
6 2 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.65%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.65%) IBM
3 2 (1.06%) Google
3 2 (1.06%) Oracle
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe