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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 43 83
Rank change year-on-year +17 +40 -52
Permanent jobs citing Java 168 72 45
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.03% 4.82% 1.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.05% 20.45% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 125 46 35
10th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,625 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +10.42% -8.19%

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 645 352 634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.46% 23.58% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 466 282 452
10th Percentile £38,500 £35,175 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% +12.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £84,717
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +7 157 £76,750 +9.64% 34
Halifax -3 6 £65,000 -22.23% 1
Bradford -7 5 £65,000 -
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 1 (0.60%) Apache
1 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.60%) JBoss
1 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 110 (65.48%) AWS
2 69 (41.07%) Serverless
3 62 (36.90%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (33.93%) Amazon S3
5 55 (32.74%) Amazon ECS
6 53 (31.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (29.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 25 (14.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (13.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 22 (13.10%) Amazon ECR
9 22 (13.10%) Apigee
9 22 (13.10%) GitHub
10 18 (10.71%) Azure
11 17 (10.12%) Datadog
11 17 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (8.93%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (5.36%) GCP
14 8 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 7 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) 5G
1 2 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 21 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (11.90%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.95%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.98%) Power BI
8 3 (1.79%) MySQL
8 3 (1.79%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (23.21%) Jenkins
2 24 (14.29%) Git
2 24 (14.29%) GitLab
3 18 (10.71%) Cypress.io
4 15 (8.93%) SonarQube
5 13 (7.74%) Maven
6 4 (2.38%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.79%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.79%) JIRA
8 2 (1.19%) Selenium
9 1 (0.60%) Gatling
9 1 (0.60%) JMeter
9 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 34 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.93%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.95%) Finance
5 7 (4.17%) Retail
6 5 (2.98%) Banking
7 4 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.19%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (61.31%) Developer
2 81 (48.21%) Java Developer
3 51 (30.36%) Senior
4 41 (24.40%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (20.24%) Senior Developer
6 29 (17.26%) AWS Developer
7 26 (15.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 25 (14.88%) Java Engineer
8 25 (14.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (12.50%) Lead
10 16 (9.52%) Angular Developer
11 15 (8.93%) Software Engineer
12 12 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (5.95%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (4.76%) Lead Developer
14 8 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
15 7 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
15 7 (4.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (39.88%) AngularJS
2 49 (29.17%) Spring Boot
3 48 (28.57%) Spring
4 34 (20.24%) Node.js
5 21 (12.50%) Gherkin
6 17 (10.12%) React
7 13 (7.74%) Jest
8 10 (5.95%) Terraform
9 8 (4.76%) .NET
9 8 (4.76%) REST
10 7 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (4.17%) RESTful
11 5 (2.98%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (1.79%) Classic ASP
12 3 (1.79%) JSON
12 3 (1.79%) PySpark
12 3 (1.79%) Redux
12 3 (1.79%) YAML
13 2 (1.19%) Jakarta EE
13 2 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.19%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.60%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.74%) Linux
2 3 (1.79%) Unix
2 3 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (36.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (32.14%) Agile
2 54 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 46 (27.38%) DevOps
4 32 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 25 (14.88%) Mentoring
6 22 (13.10%) Microservices
7 19 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (10.71%) DevSecOps
9 16 (9.52%) Secrets Management
10 15 (8.93%) SDLC
11 14 (8.33%) Coaching
12 13 (7.74%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 13 (7.74%) RBAC
12 13 (7.74%) Test Automation
12 13 (7.74%) Workflow
12 13 (7.74%) Workflow Management
13 11 (6.55%) Clean Code
13 11 (6.55%) ETL
13 11 (6.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 54 (32.14%) SQL
2 47 (27.98%) TypeScript
3 31 (18.45%) Python
4 27 (16.07%) Kotlin
5 25 (14.88%) Groovy
6 19 (11.31%) Bash
7 13 (7.74%) C#
7 13 (7.74%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.76%) Scala
9 7 (4.17%) C++
10 5 (2.98%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.79%) C
12 2 (1.19%) Go
13 1 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 10 (5.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 10 (5.95%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.36%) Degree
5 4 (2.38%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.19%) PhD
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.95%) QA
2 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (25.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (7.14%) HP Fortify
2 6 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.98%) Ansible
4 3 (1.79%) Argo
4 3 (1.79%) Packer
5 2 (1.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.98%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.98%) IBM
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle
3 1 (0.60%) Google