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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 69 35
Rank change year-on-year +40 -34 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 122 42 136
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.76% 2.77% 7.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.35% 9.68% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 83 27 99
10th Percentile £32,100 £42,270 £48,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £45,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -6.47% +15.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £90,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £71,250 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +29.55% -15.38% +8.33%

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 463 434 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 25.67% 28.65% 38.73%
Number of salaries quoted 343 270 612
10th Percentile £30,250 £34,975 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,806 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,375 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +35 113 £75,000 +29.39% 71
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Bradford -18 2 £65,000 - 47
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 9 (7.38%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.46%) Apache
3 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.64%) JBoss
4 2 (1.64%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 94 (77.05%) AWS
2 53 (43.44%) Serverless
3 36 (29.51%) Azure
4 34 (27.87%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (20.49%) Amazon S3
6 23 (18.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (16.39%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (15.57%) AWS Step Functions
9 17 (13.93%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (13.93%) Apigee
10 10 (8.20%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (7.38%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (6.56%) SaaS
13 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
13 5 (4.10%) Power Automate
14 4 (3.28%) GCP
15 3 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (2.46%) dbt
15 3 (2.46%) GitHub
16 2 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.39%) DynamoDB
2 16 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (8.20%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.46%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.64%) Big Data
6 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.82%) Power BI
7 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (28.69%) Jenkins
2 24 (19.67%) GitLab
3 18 (14.75%) Cypress.io
4 17 (13.93%) Maven
4 17 (13.93%) SonarQube
5 13 (10.66%) Git
6 2 (1.64%) Selenium
7 1 (0.82%) Appium
7 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.82%) JUnit
7 1 (0.82%) Mockito
7 1 (0.82%) Postman
7 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.11%) Finance
3 14 (11.48%) Retail
4 12 (9.84%) Financial Institution
5 10 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.56%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.28%) Games
9 2 (1.64%) Law
9 2 (1.64%) Legal
10 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (38.52%) Developer
2 39 (31.97%) Java Developer
3 27 (22.13%) Lead
4 26 (21.31%) Architect
5 23 (18.85%) Senior
6 20 (16.39%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) Applications Architect
8 12 (9.84%) Lead Developer
9 11 (9.02%) Senior Developer
10 10 (8.20%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (8.20%) Software Architect
11 9 (7.38%) Software Developer
12 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (6.56%) Graduate
12 8 (6.56%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (6.56%) Lead Java Developer
12 8 (6.56%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (6.56%) Software Engineering Graduate
12 8 (6.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (31.15%) Spring Boot
2 34 (27.87%) Spring
3 23 (18.85%) AngularJS
4 17 (13.93%) Gherkin
4 17 (13.93%) Jest
5 16 (13.11%) Node.js
6 15 (12.30%) React
7 12 (9.84%) .NET
7 12 (9.84%) Micronaut
8 11 (9.02%) REST
9 10 (8.20%) Kafka
9 10 (8.20%) Web Services
10 9 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (4.92%) CSS
11 6 (4.92%) HTML
11 6 (4.92%) Mustache
12 5 (4.10%) Flutter
12 5 (4.10%) Hibernate
12 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (4.10%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.85%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (12.30%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.56%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.74%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.64%) DataPower
6 1 (0.82%) IoT
6 1 (0.82%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.20%) Linux
2 2 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.44%) DevOps
2 50 (40.98%) CI/CD
3 42 (34.43%) Microservices
4 39 (31.97%) Agile
5 36 (29.51%) Mentoring
6 34 (27.87%) Computer Science
7 25 (20.49%) Migration
7 25 (20.49%) Software Engineering
7 25 (20.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 24 (19.67%) Architectural Patterns
8 24 (19.67%) Enterprise Architecture
9 22 (18.03%) Application Security
9 22 (18.03%) Data Modelling
9 22 (18.03%) EAI
9 22 (18.03%) TOGAF
10 21 (17.21%) SDLC
11 20 (16.39%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.30%) Logistics
12 15 (12.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 53 (43.44%) TypeScript
2 51 (41.80%) Python
3 50 (40.98%) JavaScript
4 37 (30.33%) C#
5 32 (26.23%) SQL
6 23 (18.85%) Bash
7 16 (13.11%) Groovy
8 10 (8.20%) Kotlin
9 8 (6.56%) C
9 8 (6.56%) C++
9 8 (6.56%) PL/SQL
9 8 (6.56%) Scala
10 7 (5.74%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.10%) Go
11 5 (4.10%) PHP
12 2 (1.64%) R
13 1 (0.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 37 (30.33%) AWS Certification
2 34 (27.87%) Computer Science Degree
2 34 (27.87%) Degree
3 25 (20.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 22 (18.03%) Azure Certification
4 22 (18.03%) Microsoft Certification
4 22 (18.03%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (4.92%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.92%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.02%) QA
2 2 (1.64%) GDPR
2 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (33.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.93%) HP Fortify
3 9 (7.38%) Ansible
4 5 (4.10%) Terraform
5 1 (0.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.82%) Kibana
5 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) Google
2 3 (2.46%) Pega
2 3 (2.46%) WSO2
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe
3 1 (0.82%) New Relic