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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 47 89
Rank change year-on-year +23 +42 -59
Permanent jobs citing Java 187 72 56
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.01% 4.71% 2.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.10% 18.85% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 124 52 47
10th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £33,800
25th Percentile £63,633 £62,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +19.99% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,563 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £141,048 £81,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% +3.85% -

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 690 382 759
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.48% 24.98% 28.16%
Number of salaries quoted 505 316 619
10th Percentile £38,600 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -8.10%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £81,250
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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +18 168 £75,000 +9.09% 16
Halifax -3 5 £65,000 -22.23% 1
Bradford -6 5 £65,000 - 4
Ossett - 2 - -
Batley +4 1 - -
Bingley +3 1 - -
Dewsbury 0 1 - -
Elland 0 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 - -
Wakefield - 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 3 (1.60%) JBoss
2 2 (1.07%) Apache
2 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 113 (60.43%) AWS
2 74 (39.57%) Serverless
3 67 (35.83%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (34.76%) Amazon S3
5 63 (33.69%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (32.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (29.95%) AWS Step Functions
8 32 (17.11%) Amazon ECR
8 32 (17.11%) Apigee
9 24 (12.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (12.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
12 19 (10.16%) Azure
13 18 (9.63%) GitHub
14 11 (5.88%) Datadog
14 11 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.28%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (4.28%) GCP
16 6 (3.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (29.95%) DynamoDB
2 24 (12.83%) NoSQL
3 23 (12.30%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (4.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (4.28%) BigQuery
4 8 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.28%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.21%) Power BI
7 5 (2.67%) MySQL
8 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.07%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.07%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.07%) Tableau
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 51 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 34 (18.18%) GitLab
3 28 (14.97%) Cypress.io
4 25 (13.37%) SonarQube
5 23 (12.30%) Maven
6 22 (11.76%) Git
7 6 (3.21%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.14%) 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%) REST Assured
General
1 33 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.95%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.88%) Games
4 11 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.21%) Retail
6 4 (2.14%) Finance
6 4 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.60%) Back Office
8 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (69.52%) Developer
2 94 (50.27%) Java Developer
3 41 (21.93%) Full-Stack Developer
3 41 (21.93%) Senior
4 32 (17.11%) Senior Developer
5 27 (14.44%) AWS Developer
5 27 (14.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 26 (13.90%) Lead
7 23 (12.30%) Senior Java Developer
8 18 (9.63%) Java Engineer
9 12 (6.42%) Angular Developer
9 12 (6.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (5.35%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.35%) Software Engineer
11 9 (4.81%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.28%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Android Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Applications Developer
13 7 (3.74%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.50%) AngularJS
2 52 (27.81%) Spring Boot
3 39 (20.86%) Spring
4 33 (17.65%) Node.js
5 31 (16.58%) Gherkin
6 23 (12.30%) Jest
7 22 (11.76%) React
8 12 (6.42%) .NET
9 11 (5.88%) Android SDK
9 11 (5.88%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.28%) RESTful
11 6 (3.21%) REST
12 5 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (2.67%) Flutter
12 5 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.14%) Classic ASP
14 3 (1.60%) Drools
14 3 (1.60%) JSON
14 3 (1.60%) Redux
14 3 (1.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.88%) Mobile App
1 11 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
1 11 (5.88%) Social Media
2 10 (5.35%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.81%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.60%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.88%) Android
1 11 (5.88%) Linux
2 3 (1.60%) Unix
2 3 (1.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (37.43%) Agile
2 66 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 61 (32.62%) Full-Stack Development
4 51 (27.27%) DevOps
5 26 (13.90%) Software Engineering
6 23 (12.30%) Mentoring
7 21 (11.23%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.23%) SDLC
8 19 (10.16%) AI
8 19 (10.16%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (10.16%) Secure Coding
9 18 (9.63%) DevSecOps
9 18 (9.63%) ITIL
9 18 (9.63%) Microservices
9 18 (9.63%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 16 (8.56%) Design Patterns
11 15 (8.02%) Clean Code
12 14 (7.49%) Coaching
12 14 (7.49%) Secrets Management
12 14 (7.49%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 51 (27.27%) TypeScript
2 49 (26.20%) SQL
3 39 (20.86%) Kotlin
4 35 (18.72%) Groovy
4 35 (18.72%) Python
5 27 (14.44%) Bash
6 19 (10.16%) C#
7 18 (9.63%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.21%) Scala
9 5 (2.67%) Go
10 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.07%) C++
12 1 (0.53%) C
12 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 17 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 17 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.21%) Degree
5 4 (2.14%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (2.14%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.88%) QA
2 8 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (25.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (11.76%) HP Fortify
2 11 (5.88%) Terraform
3 5 (2.67%) Ansible
3 5 (2.67%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.60%) Argo
4 3 (1.60%) Packer
5 2 (1.07%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.67%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.67%) IBM
2 2 (1.07%) Google
2 2 (1.07%) Oracle