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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 33 71
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 -38
Permanent jobs citing Java 187 78 87
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.85% 6.74% 3.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.16% 20.10% 10.55%
Number of salaries quoted 109 61 64
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £35,300
25th Percentile £63,633 £49,118 £45,938
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 £70,000 £70,996 £65,465
% change year-on-year -1.40% +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 664 388 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 20.79% 33.54% 28.98%
Number of salaries quoted 462 328 697
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,600 £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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +17 175 £75,000 +11.11% 19
Ossett - 2 - -
Bradford - 2 £65,000 - 2
Halifax 0 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 1 - -
Pontefract - 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 (3.74%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.67%) JBoss
3 2 (1.07%) Apache
3 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.07%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 119 (63.64%) AWS
2 96 (51.34%) Serverless
3 79 (42.25%) Amazon S3
4 78 (41.71%) Amazon ECS
5 75 (40.11%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (34.22%) AWS Step Functions
8 47 (25.13%) Amazon ECR
8 47 (25.13%) Apigee
9 28 (14.97%) Amazon SQS
10 26 (13.90%) Azure
11 23 (12.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 17 (9.09%) GitHub
14 13 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.28%) Datadog
15 8 (4.28%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.14%) GCP
17 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
17 3 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (37.43%) DynamoDB
2 23 (12.30%) NoSQL
3 22 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.35%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.67%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.60%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.07%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.07%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.07%) MySQL
8 2 (1.07%) Power BI
8 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.07%) Tableau
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 67 (35.83%) Jenkins
2 48 (25.67%) GitLab
3 43 (22.99%) SonarQube
4 42 (22.46%) Cypress.io
5 40 (21.39%) Maven
6 25 (13.37%) Git
7 7 (3.74%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.67%) Selenium
9 3 (1.60%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.60%) JIRA
10 1 (0.53%) Gatling
10 1 (0.53%) JMeter
10 1 (0.53%) JUnit
10 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 39 (20.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.42%) Games
4 11 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (5.88%) Retail
5 9 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.21%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.21%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (2.14%) Finance
7 4 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.07%) Back Office
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 125 (66.84%) Developer
2 91 (48.66%) Java Developer
3 42 (22.46%) Senior
4 32 (17.11%) Lead
5 31 (16.58%) Senior Developer
6 27 (14.44%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (11.76%) AWS Developer
7 22 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 17 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 16 (8.56%) Architect
10 14 (7.49%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.95%) Technical Leader
12 11 (5.88%) Lead Developer
12 11 (5.88%) Software Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Android Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Applications Architect
13 7 (3.74%) Software Architect
14 6 (3.21%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) Logistics Engineer
14 6 (3.21%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.50%) AngularJS
2 70 (37.43%) Spring Boot
3 47 (25.13%) Spring
4 41 (21.93%) Gherkin
5 40 (21.39%) Jest
6 36 (19.25%) Node.js
7 23 (12.30%) React
8 15 (8.02%) .NET
9 14 (7.49%) REST
10 12 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (6.42%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.88%) Android SDK
12 10 (5.35%) Web Services
13 8 (4.28%) Kafka
14 7 (3.74%) Mustache
15 6 (3.21%) Flutter
15 6 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (3.21%) RESTful
15 6 (3.21%) XML
16 5 (2.67%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (7.49%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 11 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.88%) Social Media
4 8 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.74%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.21%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.07%) DataPower
8 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.07%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.42%) Linux
2 11 (5.88%) Android
3 3 (1.60%) Unix
3 3 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 85 (45.45%) Agile
3 74 (39.57%) DevOps
4 41 (21.93%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (19.79%) Microservices
6 33 (17.65%) SDLC
7 29 (15.51%) Mentoring
7 29 (15.51%) Secure Coding
8 26 (13.90%) AI
9 24 (12.83%) Computer Science
9 24 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (12.83%) Software Engineering
10 23 (12.30%) ITIL
10 23 (12.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 20 (10.70%) Clean Code
12 19 (10.16%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (9.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (9.09%) DevSecOps
15 16 (8.56%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 74 (39.57%) TypeScript
2 45 (24.06%) Python
3 44 (23.53%) SQL
4 43 (22.99%) Groovy
5 39 (20.86%) Bash
6 38 (20.32%) Kotlin
7 37 (19.79%) JavaScript
8 31 (16.58%) C#
9 8 (4.28%) PL/SQL
10 6 (3.21%) C
10 6 (3.21%) C++
10 6 (3.21%) Go
11 2 (1.07%) Scala
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
12 1 (0.53%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (24.60%) AWS Certification
2 23 (12.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (12.30%) ITIL Certification
3 21 (11.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (11.23%) Degree
4 17 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (7.49%) Azure Certification
5 14 (7.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (7.49%) Security Cleared
5 14 (7.49%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (6.42%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.81%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.42%) QA
2 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (39.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (21.39%) HP Fortify
2 17 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.42%) Terraform
4 6 (3.21%) Ansible
5 3 (1.60%) Argo
5 3 (1.60%) Packer
6 2 (1.07%) Kibana
7 1 (0.53%) Grafana
7 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (7.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.67%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.67%) IBM
3 2 (1.07%) Google
3 2 (1.07%) Oracle
4 1 (0.53%) Adobe