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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 40 80
Rank change year-on-year +18 +40 -48
Permanent jobs citing Java 196 76 72
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.50% 5.55% 2.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.32% 20.71% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 120 54 56
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,231 £35,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,623 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% +20.42% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £131,668 £89,980
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% +10.76% -

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 692 367 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.42% 26.79% 28.33%
Number of salaries quoted 495 302 699
10th Percentile £36,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,361 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +16.50% -6.44%
75th Percentile £78,125 £78,438 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £84,964
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +20 183 £75,000 +7.14% 20
Bradford -12 3 £65,000 - 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Dewsbury +4 1 - -
Batley +4 1 - -
Bingley +3 1 - - 1
Elland +3 1 - -
Halifax -3 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 5 (2.55%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.53%) Apache
2 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.53%) JBoss
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 123 (62.76%) AWS
2 92 (46.94%) Serverless
3 81 (41.33%) Amazon ECS
3 81 (41.33%) Amazon S3
4 79 (40.31%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (37.76%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (35.20%) AWS Step Functions
7 44 (22.45%) Amazon ECR
7 44 (22.45%) Apigee
8 29 (14.80%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (13.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 27 (13.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 25 (12.76%) Azure
11 22 (11.22%) GitHub
12 12 (6.12%) Datadog
12 12 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (36.73%) DynamoDB
2 30 (15.31%) NoSQL
3 27 (13.78%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.57%) Power BI
7 4 (2.04%) MySQL
7 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.53%) Tableau
9 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 68 (34.69%) Jenkins
2 46 (23.47%) GitLab
3 40 (20.41%) Cypress.io
4 37 (18.88%) SonarQube
5 35 (17.86%) Maven
6 31 (15.82%) Git
7 6 (3.06%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.04%) Selenium
9 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.53%) JIRA
10 1 (0.51%) Gatling
10 1 (0.51%) JMeter
10 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 39 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.12%) Games
3 12 (6.12%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.57%) Retail
6 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Back Office
8 2 (1.02%) Finance
9 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 145 (73.98%) Developer
2 105 (53.57%) Java Developer
3 48 (24.49%) Senior
4 38 (19.39%) Senior Developer
5 36 (18.37%) Full-Stack Developer
6 33 (16.84%) Lead
7 30 (15.31%) AWS Developer
8 28 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (11.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (6.12%) Lead Developer
11 11 (5.61%) Software Developer
12 9 (4.59%) Technical Leader
13 8 (4.08%) Architect
13 8 (4.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (3.57%) Android Developer
14 7 (3.57%) Angular Developer
14 7 (3.57%) Applications Developer
14 7 (3.57%) Software Engineer
15 6 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
15 6 (3.06%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (41.84%) AngularJS
2 65 (33.16%) Spring Boot
3 43 (21.94%) Spring
4 41 (20.92%) Node.js
5 40 (20.41%) Gherkin
6 35 (17.86%) Jest
7 26 (13.27%) React
8 15 (7.65%) .NET
9 12 (6.12%) GraphQL
10 11 (5.61%) Android SDK
10 11 (5.61%) REST
11 10 (5.10%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.57%) RESTful
12 7 (3.57%) Web Services
13 6 (3.06%) Flutter
13 6 (3.06%) Kafka
13 6 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.55%) Mustache
15 4 (2.04%) JSON
15 4 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.61%) Mobile App
2 11 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (5.61%) Social Media
3 8 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.55%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.53%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.51%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.61%) Android
2 7 (3.57%) Linux
3 3 (1.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (43.88%) CI/CD
2 85 (43.37%) Agile
3 68 (34.69%) DevOps
4 50 (25.51%) Full-Stack Development
5 31 (15.82%) SDLC
6 30 (15.31%) Microservices
7 28 (14.29%) Mentoring
8 27 (13.78%) Secure Coding
9 24 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
9 24 (12.24%) ITIL
9 24 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (12.24%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 23 (11.73%) AI
11 22 (11.22%) DevSecOps
12 21 (10.71%) Software Engineering
13 19 (9.69%) Clean Code
14 16 (8.16%) Design Patterns
14 16 (8.16%) Test Automation
15 15 (7.65%) Secrets Management
16 14 (7.14%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 73 (37.24%) TypeScript
2 52 (26.53%) SQL
3 44 (22.45%) Groovy
3 44 (22.45%) Python
4 43 (21.94%) Kotlin
5 35 (17.86%) Bash
6 33 (16.84%) JavaScript
7 31 (15.82%) C#
8 6 (3.06%) Go
9 5 (2.55%) Scala
10 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.02%) C++
12 1 (0.51%) C
12 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (19.39%) AWS Certification
2 23 (11.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (11.73%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (7.65%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.14%) Degree
5 13 (6.63%) SC Cleared
6 11 (5.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.08%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (4.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (3.06%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (2.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.63%) QA
2 7 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 70 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (17.35%) HP Fortify
2 11 (5.61%) Terraform
3 10 (5.10%) Kubernetes
4 6 (3.06%) Ansible
5 3 (1.53%) Argo
5 3 (1.53%) Packer
6 2 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (4.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.55%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.55%) IBM
3 3 (1.53%) Google
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle