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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 46 92
Rank change year-on-year +22 +46 -61
Permanent jobs citing Java 190 72 48
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.93% 4.68% 1.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.26% 18.80% 6.78%
Number of salaries quoted 128 54 42
10th Percentile £45,502 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £63,633 £60,625 £46,563
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 £82,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,225 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,250 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.04% +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 697 383 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.08% 24.90% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 504 320 574
10th Percentile £36,825 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,322 £45,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.74% -8.26%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +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 30 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 30 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 +13 171 £75,000 +11.11% 23
Halifax -1 5 £65,000 -22.23%
Bradford -11 5 £65,000 - 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Batley +4 1 - -
Bingley +3 1 - -
Dewsbury 0 1 - -
Elland 0 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - - 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 (1.58%) JBoss
2 2 (1.05%) Apache
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 114 (60.00%) AWS
2 73 (38.42%) Serverless
3 66 (34.74%) AWS Lambda
4 64 (33.68%) Amazon S3
5 62 (32.63%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (31.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (28.95%) AWS Step Functions
8 31 (16.32%) Amazon ECR
8 31 (16.32%) Apigee
9 24 (12.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (12.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 21 (11.05%) Amazon SQS
11 21 (11.05%) Azure
12 18 (9.47%) GitHub
13 11 (5.79%) Datadog
13 11 (5.79%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (5.26%) GCP
15 9 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (4.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (3.16%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (28.95%) DynamoDB
2 24 (12.63%) NoSQL
3 23 (12.11%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (4.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (4.74%) BigQuery
4 9 (4.74%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.68%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.16%) Power BI
8 5 (2.63%) MySQL
9 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.05%) Tableau
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 50 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 33 (17.37%) GitLab
3 27 (14.21%) Cypress.io
4 24 (12.63%) SonarQube
5 22 (11.58%) Git
5 22 (11.58%) Maven
6 6 (3.16%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.11%) Selenium
8 3 (1.58%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.58%) JIRA
9 1 (0.53%) Gatling
9 1 (0.53%) JMeter
9 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (18.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (7.37%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.79%) Games
4 11 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.21%) Retail
6 4 (2.11%) Finance
6 4 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.58%) Back Office
7 3 (1.58%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (68.42%) Developer
2 93 (48.95%) Java Developer
3 43 (22.63%) Senior
4 42 (22.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (17.37%) Senior Developer
6 27 (14.21%) AWS Developer
6 27 (14.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 26 (13.68%) Lead
8 23 (12.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 18 (9.47%) Java Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Angular Developer
10 12 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (6.32%) Software Engineer
11 10 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 10 (5.26%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.68%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Java Server Engineer
13 7 (3.68%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (37.37%) AngularJS
2 52 (27.37%) Spring Boot
3 40 (21.05%) Spring
4 34 (17.89%) Node.js
5 30 (15.79%) Gherkin
6 22 (11.58%) Jest
6 22 (11.58%) React
7 12 (6.32%) .NET
8 11 (5.79%) Android SDK
8 11 (5.79%) GraphQL
9 9 (4.74%) RESTful
10 6 (3.16%) REST
11 5 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.63%) Flutter
11 5 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.11%) Classic ASP
13 3 (1.58%) Drools
13 3 (1.58%) JSON
13 3 (1.58%) XML
13 3 (1.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.32%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.79%) Mobile App
2 11 (5.79%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (5.79%) Social Media
3 9 (4.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.68%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.58%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.58%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.84%) Linux
2 11 (5.79%) Android
3 3 (1.58%) Unix
3 3 (1.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.84%) Agile
2 67 (35.26%) CI/CD
3 62 (32.63%) Full-Stack Development
4 51 (26.84%) DevOps
5 30 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 24 (12.63%) Mentoring
7 22 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (10.53%) AI
8 20 (10.53%) SDLC
9 19 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (10.00%) Microservices
10 18 (9.47%) DevSecOps
10 18 (9.47%) Secure Coding
11 17 (8.95%) ITIL
11 17 (8.95%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 16 (8.42%) Design Patterns
13 15 (7.89%) Test Automation
14 14 (7.37%) Coaching
14 14 (7.37%) Secrets Management
14 14 (7.37%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (27.37%) SQL
2 51 (26.84%) TypeScript
3 40 (21.05%) Kotlin
4 36 (18.95%) Python
5 34 (17.89%) Groovy
6 26 (13.68%) Bash
7 19 (10.00%) C#
8 18 (9.47%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.68%) Scala
10 5 (2.63%) Go
10 5 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.11%) C++
12 3 (1.58%) C
13 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (11.05%) AWS Certification
2 17 (8.95%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 16 (8.42%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (6.32%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.21%) Degree
6 4 (2.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.79%) QA
2 8 (4.21%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (25.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (11.05%) HP Fortify
2 12 (6.32%) Terraform
3 6 (3.16%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.63%) Ansible
5 3 (1.58%) Argo
5 3 (1.58%) Packer
6 2 (1.05%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.63%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.63%) IBM
2 2 (1.05%) Google
2 2 (1.05%) Oracle