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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 32 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +29 -29
Permanent jobs citing Java 177 73 102
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.67% 6.62% 3.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.87% 18.72% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 102 59 72
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,125
25th Percentile £55,313 £47,365 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +10.76% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,856 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £107,282 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +6.24%

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 613 390 814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.11% 35.39% 29.38%
Number of salaries quoted 438 322 678
10th Percentile £31,775 £28,913 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 1 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 1 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 +20 165 £75,000 +11.11% 37
Ossett - 2 - -
Bradford - 2 £65,000 - 3
Halifax +2 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - - 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 10 (5.65%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.82%) JBoss
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 117 (66.10%) AWS
2 95 (53.67%) Serverless
3 74 (41.81%) Amazon ECS
4 72 (40.68%) Amazon S3
5 68 (38.42%) AWS Lambda
6 59 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (32.20%) AWS Step Functions
8 41 (23.16%) Amazon ECR
8 41 (23.16%) Apigee
9 30 (16.95%) Azure
10 27 (15.25%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (12.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (11.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 16 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (9.04%) GitHub
14 7 (3.95%) Datadog
14 7 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.26%) SaaS
16 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
16 3 (1.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.21%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (35.59%) DynamoDB
2 22 (12.43%) NoSQL
3 21 (11.86%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.34%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.13%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.13%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.13%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.13%) MySQL
7 2 (1.13%) Power BI
7 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.13%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 64 (36.16%) Jenkins
2 43 (24.29%) GitLab
3 42 (23.73%) SonarQube
4 40 (22.60%) Cypress.io
5 39 (22.03%) Maven
6 28 (15.82%) Git
7 7 (3.95%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.82%) Selenium
9 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.69%) JIRA
10 1 (0.56%) Gatling
10 1 (0.56%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) JUnit
10 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.47%) Games
3 14 (7.91%) Retail
4 13 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.65%) Finance
7 9 (5.08%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.95%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.39%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.13%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 109 (61.58%) Developer
2 84 (47.46%) Java Developer
3 31 (17.51%) Senior
4 29 (16.38%) Lead
5 21 (11.86%) Senior Developer
6 19 (10.73%) Architect
6 19 (10.73%) Software Engineer
7 17 (9.60%) AWS Developer
8 16 (9.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 16 (9.04%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (7.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 13 (7.34%) Technical Leader
10 12 (6.78%) Software Developer
11 9 (5.08%) Applications Architect
12 8 (4.52%) Software Architect
13 7 (3.95%) Graduate
13 7 (3.95%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 7 (3.95%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.95%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (3.95%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (36.16%) Spring Boot
2 63 (35.59%) AngularJS
3 39 (22.03%) Gherkin
3 39 (22.03%) Jest
4 38 (21.47%) Spring
5 36 (20.34%) Node.js
6 19 (10.73%) React
7 17 (9.60%) REST
8 16 (9.04%) .NET
9 15 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (7.34%) Web Services
11 12 (6.78%) GraphQL
12 11 (6.21%) Android SDK
13 8 (4.52%) Kafka
13 8 (4.52%) RESTful
14 7 (3.95%) Mustache
15 6 (3.39%) Flutter
15 6 (3.39%) Micronaut
15 6 (3.39%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (3.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Distributed Systems
2 17 (9.60%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (6.21%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.21%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.21%) Social Media
4 8 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.95%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.13%) DataPower
7 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.13%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.21%) Android
2 10 (5.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (50.28%) CI/CD
2 85 (48.02%) Agile
3 75 (42.37%) DevOps
4 40 (22.60%) Microservices
5 32 (18.08%) SDLC
6 31 (17.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (16.95%) Mentoring
8 29 (16.38%) Computer Science
8 29 (16.38%) Software Engineering
9 28 (15.82%) Secure Coding
10 27 (15.25%) AI
11 25 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (12.43%) ITIL
12 22 (12.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 21 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 20 (11.30%) Architectural Patterns
14 20 (11.30%) Clean Code
15 18 (10.17%) Migration
15 18 (10.17%) Scrum
16 17 (9.60%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 71 (40.11%) TypeScript
2 45 (25.42%) JavaScript
2 45 (25.42%) Python
3 44 (24.86%) SQL
4 41 (23.16%) Groovy
5 38 (21.47%) Bash
5 38 (21.47%) Kotlin
6 34 (19.21%) C#
7 9 (5.08%) PL/SQL
8 7 (3.95%) C
8 7 (3.95%) C++
9 6 (3.39%) Go
10 2 (1.13%) R
10 2 (1.13%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (27.12%) AWS Certification
2 26 (14.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 26 (14.69%) Degree
3 22 (12.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (12.43%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (11.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.60%) Azure Certification
5 17 (9.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (9.60%) TOGAF Certification
6 14 (7.91%) Security Cleared
7 12 (6.78%) SC Cleared
8 9 (5.08%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.34%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (41.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (22.03%) HP Fortify
2 21 (11.86%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.34%) Terraform
4 9 (5.08%) Ansible
5 3 (1.69%) Packer
6 2 (1.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.56%) Grafana
7 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.82%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.82%) IBM
3 3 (1.69%) Pega
3 3 (1.69%) WSO2
4 2 (1.13%) Google
4 2 (1.13%) Oracle
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe