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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 43 88
Rank change year-on-year +18 +45 -54
Permanent jobs citing Java 179 68 42
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.36% 4.44% 1.71%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.00% 18.13% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 120 48 39
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,188 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -10.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +15.38% +6.12% -6.27%

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 663 375 665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.16% 24.46% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 469 307 517
10th Percentile £38,300 £32,000 £34,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £69,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -4.55%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 +12 160 £75,000 +11.11% 24
Halifax +1 5 £65,000 -22.23% 1
Bradford -6 5 £65,000 - 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Batley +3 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 1 (0.56%) Apache
1 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.56%) JBoss
1 1 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 111 (62.01%) AWS
2 69 (38.55%) Serverless
3 62 (34.64%) AWS Lambda
4 60 (33.52%) Amazon S3
5 58 (32.40%) Amazon ECS
6 56 (31.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 53 (29.61%) AWS Step Functions
8 26 (14.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 24 (13.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (13.41%) Amazon ECR
9 24 (13.41%) Apigee
10 23 (12.85%) GitHub
11 18 (10.06%) Azure
12 17 (9.50%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (9.50%) Datadog
12 17 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (5.03%) GCP
14 8 (4.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 5 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.59%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (28.49%) DynamoDB
2 24 (13.41%) NoSQL
3 23 (12.85%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (5.59%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.47%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.79%) Power BI
8 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.68%) MySQL
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (23.46%) Jenkins
2 26 (14.53%) GitLab
3 25 (13.97%) Git
4 20 (11.17%) Cypress.io
5 17 (9.50%) SonarQube
6 15 (8.38%) Maven
7 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.68%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.68%) JIRA
9 2 (1.12%) Selenium
10 1 (0.56%) Gatling
10 1 (0.56%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 35 (19.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.70%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.59%) Games
4 10 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.47%) Retail
6 7 (3.91%) Finance
7 4 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Back Office
8 3 (1.68%) Banking
8 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 118 (65.92%) Developer
2 87 (48.60%) Java Developer
3 48 (26.82%) Senior
4 41 (22.91%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (19.55%) Senior Developer
6 29 (16.20%) AWS Developer
7 26 (14.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 25 (13.97%) Lead
8 25 (13.97%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (10.61%) Java Engineer
10 16 (8.94%) Angular Developer
11 12 (6.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (6.15%) Software Engineer
13 10 (5.59%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.47%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (4.47%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.91%) Applications Developer
15 7 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (3.91%) Java Server Engineer
15 7 (3.91%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (39.11%) AngularJS
2 50 (27.93%) Spring Boot
3 46 (25.70%) Spring
4 37 (20.67%) Node.js
5 23 (12.85%) Gherkin
6 19 (10.61%) React
7 15 (8.38%) Jest
8 10 (5.59%) Android SDK
8 10 (5.59%) GraphQL
8 10 (5.59%) Terraform
9 7 (3.91%) .NET
9 7 (3.91%) REST
9 7 (3.91%) RESTful
10 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.23%) Classic ASP
12 4 (2.23%) Flutter
13 3 (1.68%) JSON
13 3 (1.68%) Redux
13 3 (1.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.26%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.59%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.59%) Social Media
3 8 (4.47%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.79%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.68%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.68%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.26%) Linux
2 10 (5.59%) Android
3 3 (1.68%) Unix
3 3 (1.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.87%) CI/CD
2 63 (35.20%) Agile
3 60 (33.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 49 (27.37%) DevOps
5 25 (13.97%) Software Engineering
6 22 (12.29%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (11.73%) Mentoring
8 20 (11.17%) DevSecOps
8 20 (11.17%) Microservices
8 20 (11.17%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (9.50%) SDLC
9 17 (9.50%) Secrets Management
10 14 (7.82%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 14 (7.82%) RBAC
10 14 (7.82%) Secure Coding
10 14 (7.82%) Workflow
10 14 (7.82%) Workflow Management
11 13 (7.26%) Design Patterns
11 13 (7.26%) ITIL
11 13 (7.26%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.73%) SQL
2 51 (28.49%) TypeScript
3 40 (22.35%) Kotlin
4 30 (16.76%) Python
5 27 (15.08%) Groovy
6 19 (10.61%) Bash
7 13 (7.26%) C#
8 11 (6.15%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.47%) Scala
10 5 (2.79%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.23%) C++
11 4 (2.23%) Go
12 3 (1.68%) C
13 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (9.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.82%) AWS Certification
3 12 (6.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 12 (6.70%) ITIL Certification
3 12 (6.70%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.91%) Degree
5 4 (2.23%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (25.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.82%) HP Fortify
2 6 (3.35%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.79%) Ansible
4 3 (1.68%) Argo
4 3 (1.68%) Packer
5 2 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.79%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.79%) IBM
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle
3 1 (0.56%) Google