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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 39 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 +55 -59
Permanent jobs citing Java 196 77 64
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.48% 5.76% 2.10%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.49% 21.15% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 125 55 48
10th Percentile £44,215 £47,231 £34,100
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,475 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +20.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £73,318
90th Percentile £95,000 £126,791 £84,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -7.69%

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 688 364 848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.22% 27.23% 27.78%
Number of salaries quoted 496 302 703
10th Percentile £36,750 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £78,896 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £84,471
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.07%

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 June 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 June 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 +21 183 £75,000 +7.14% 21
Bradford -9 3 £65,000 - 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Bingley +3 1 - -
Batley +1 1 - -
Elland 0 1 - -
Dewsbury -2 1 - -
Halifax -4 1 - - 2
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 (1.53%) Apache
1 3 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.53%) JBoss
2 2 (1.02%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 122 (62.24%) AWS
2 87 (44.39%) Serverless
3 75 (38.27%) Amazon S3
3 75 (38.27%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (37.76%) Amazon ECS
5 70 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 65 (33.16%) AWS Step Functions
7 38 (19.39%) Amazon ECR
7 38 (19.39%) Apigee
8 28 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (13.27%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (11.73%) Azure
10 23 (11.73%) GitHub
11 13 (6.63%) Datadog
11 13 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.57%) GCP
12 7 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (34.18%) DynamoDB
2 30 (15.31%) NoSQL
3 28 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.08%) 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 60 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 40 (20.41%) GitLab
3 34 (17.35%) Cypress.io
4 31 (15.82%) SonarQube
5 29 (14.80%) Git
5 29 (14.80%) Maven
6 6 (3.06%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.04%) Selenium
8 3 (1.53%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.53%) JIRA
9 1 (0.51%) Gatling
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (18.88%) 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 6 (3.06%) Retail
6 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Back Office
7 3 (1.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 146 (74.49%) Developer
2 106 (54.08%) Java Developer
3 49 (25.00%) Senior
4 39 (19.90%) Senior Developer
5 36 (18.37%) Full-Stack Developer
6 30 (15.31%) AWS Developer
7 29 (14.80%) Lead
7 29 (14.80%) Senior Java Developer
8 22 (11.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Lead Developer
9 12 (6.12%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.10%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Angular Developer
13 7 (3.57%) Android Developer
13 7 (3.57%) Applications Developer
13 7 (3.57%) Technical Leader
14 6 (3.06%) Architect
14 6 (3.06%) DevOps Engineer
14 6 (3.06%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (40.82%) AngularJS
2 57 (29.08%) Spring Boot
3 39 (19.90%) Node.js
3 39 (19.90%) Spring
4 35 (17.86%) Gherkin
5 29 (14.80%) Jest
6 24 (12.24%) React
7 15 (7.65%) .NET
8 12 (6.12%) GraphQL
9 11 (5.61%) Android SDK
10 8 (4.08%) REST
11 7 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.57%) RESTful
12 6 (3.06%) Flutter
12 6 (3.06%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (2.04%) Classic ASP
13 4 (2.04%) Web Services
14 3 (1.53%) Drools
14 3 (1.53%) XML
14 3 (1.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.61%) Mobile App
1 11 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
1 11 (5.61%) Social Media
2 8 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.53%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.61%) Android
2 6 (3.06%) Linux
3 3 (1.53%) Unix
3 3 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.31%) CI/CD
2 77 (39.29%) Agile
3 62 (31.63%) DevOps
4 53 (27.04%) Full-Stack Development
5 27 (13.78%) SDLC
6 26 (13.27%) Mentoring
7 25 (12.76%) Continuous Integration
8 24 (12.24%) Microservices
9 23 (11.73%) AI
9 23 (11.73%) DevSecOps
9 23 (11.73%) Secure Coding
10 22 (11.22%) ITIL
10 22 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (11.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 20 (10.20%) Software Engineering
12 18 (9.18%) Clean Code
13 16 (8.16%) Design Patterns
13 16 (8.16%) Secrets Management
13 16 (8.16%) Test Automation
14 14 (7.14%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 66 (33.67%) TypeScript
2 52 (26.53%) SQL
3 44 (22.45%) Kotlin
4 41 (20.92%) Python
5 39 (19.90%) Groovy
6 29 (14.80%) Bash
6 29 (14.80%) C#
7 28 (14.29%) JavaScript
8 6 (3.06%) Go
9 5 (2.55%) Scala
10 2 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.51%) C++
11 1 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (16.84%) AWS Certification
2 21 (10.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 21 (10.71%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (7.65%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.63%) SC Cleared
5 11 (5.61%) Degree
6 9 (4.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.06%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.06%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (2.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.61%) QA
2 7 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 62 (31.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (14.29%) HP Fortify
2 11 (5.61%) Terraform
3 7 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.55%) Ansible
5 3 (1.53%) Argo
5 3 (1.53%) Packer
6 2 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (3.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.55%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.55%) IBM
3 3 (1.53%) Google
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle