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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 46 88
Rank change year-on-year +18 +42 -56
Permanent jobs citing Java 168 68 43
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.00% 4.37% 1.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 26.25% 19.65% 6.95%
Number of salaries quoted 124 43 32
10th Percentile £47,752 £40,000 £38,125
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,875 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £80,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -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 640 346 619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.22% 22.25% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 457 281 412
10th Percentile £39,000 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,250 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 26 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 26 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 +11 157 £75,000 +7.14% 65
Halifax - 6 £65,000 - 2
Bradford -2 5 £65,000 - 5
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%) OpenStack
1 1 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 106 (63.10%) AWS
2 64 (38.10%) Serverless
3 56 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (30.95%) Amazon S3
5 50 (29.76%) Amazon ECS
6 48 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (27.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (13.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (13.10%) GitHub
10 20 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (11.31%) Azure
12 18 (10.71%) Amazon ECR
12 18 (10.71%) Apigee
12 18 (10.71%) Datadog
12 18 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (7.74%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (5.95%) GCP
15 8 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 7 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.19%) 5G
1 2 (1.19%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 20 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 19 (11.31%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (6.55%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.57%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.98%) Power BI
9 3 (1.79%) MySQL
9 3 (1.79%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 26 (15.48%) Git
3 20 (11.90%) GitLab
4 14 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 12 (7.14%) SonarQube
6 10 (5.95%) Maven
7 3 (1.79%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.79%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.79%) JIRA
General
1 35 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 12 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.95%) Finance
5 8 (4.76%) Banking
6 7 (4.17%) Retail
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 98 (58.33%) Developer
2 77 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 52 (30.95%) Senior
4 40 (23.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (19.64%) Java Engineer
6 31 (18.45%) AWS Developer
6 31 (18.45%) Senior Developer
7 26 (15.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 23 (13.69%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (11.31%) Lead
9 19 (11.31%) Software Engineer
10 15 (8.93%) Angular Developer
11 13 (7.74%) Senior Java Engineer
12 12 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (5.95%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (5.36%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 8 (4.76%) Lead Developer
16 7 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
16 7 (4.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 48 (28.57%) Spring
3 46 (27.38%) Spring Boot
4 33 (19.64%) Node.js
5 18 (10.71%) Gherkin
5 18 (10.71%) React
6 10 (5.95%) Jest
6 10 (5.95%) REST
6 10 (5.95%) Terraform
7 7 (4.17%) .NET
7 7 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (4.17%) RESTful
8 6 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.79%) Classic ASP
9 3 (1.79%) JSON
9 3 (1.79%) Kafka
9 3 (1.79%) PySpark
9 3 (1.79%) Redux
9 3 (1.79%) Web Services
9 3 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.12%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.79%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.19%) Legacy Code
5 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
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 64 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
2 54 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 51 (30.36%) Agile
4 45 (26.79%) DevOps
5 38 (22.62%) Software Engineering
6 24 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 24 (14.29%) Microservices
7 20 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (10.71%) DevSecOps
9 17 (10.12%) Secrets Management
10 14 (8.33%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 14 (8.33%) RBAC
10 14 (8.33%) Workflow
10 14 (8.33%) Workflow Management
11 13 (7.74%) SDLC
12 12 (7.14%) Coaching
12 12 (7.14%) Test Automation
13 11 (6.55%) Data Engineering
13 11 (6.55%) ETL
14 10 (5.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (30.95%) SQL
2 43 (25.60%) TypeScript
3 32 (19.05%) Python
4 25 (14.88%) Kotlin
5 22 (13.10%) Groovy
6 16 (9.52%) Bash
7 13 (7.74%) C#
8 12 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.76%) Scala
10 7 (4.17%) C++
11 5 (2.98%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.79%) C
13 2 (1.19%) Go
14 1 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.36%) AWS Certification
2 9 (5.36%) Degree
3 8 (4.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 8 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.38%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.19%) PhD
7 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.95%) Data Quality
1 10 (5.95%) QA
2 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (5.36%) HP Fortify
2 8 (4.76%) 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