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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +22 +13 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 162 68 110
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.56% 6.02% 4.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.32% 16.92% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 97 55 78
10th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £45,875
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +10.36% +4.37%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,856 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £126,791 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +6.24%

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 572 402 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.15% 35.61% 29.78%
Number of salaries quoted 415 319 667
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £83,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 18 March 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 18 March 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 +21 150 £75,000 +27.66% 40
Ossett - 2 - -
Bradford - 2 £65,000 -
Halifax +2 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 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 10 (6.17%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.47%) Apache
2 4 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.47%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.47%) JBoss
3 2 (1.23%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 106 (65.43%) AWS
2 81 (50.00%) Serverless
3 59 (36.42%) Amazon ECS
4 56 (34.57%) Amazon S3
5 50 (30.86%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (29.01%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (29.01%) AWS Step Functions
7 34 (20.99%) Amazon ECR
7 34 (20.99%) Apigee
8 33 (20.37%) Azure
9 23 (14.20%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (9.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (8.02%) GitHub
13 11 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.09%) Datadog
14 5 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.09%) SaaS
15 4 (2.47%) dbt
16 3 (1.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (30.86%) DynamoDB
2 19 (11.73%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.88%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (9.26%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (6.17%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.23%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.23%) MySQL
7 2 (1.23%) Power BI
7 2 (1.23%) Tableau
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.62%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (32.72%) Jenkins
2 35 (21.60%) GitLab
3 34 (20.99%) Cypress.io
4 33 (20.37%) Maven
4 33 (20.37%) SonarQube
5 21 (12.96%) Git
6 4 (2.47%) Selenium
7 3 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.62%) Gatling
8 1 (0.62%) JMeter
8 1 (0.62%) JUnit
8 1 (0.62%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.26%) Games
3 14 (8.64%) Retail
4 12 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.41%) Finance
5 11 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.94%) Financial Institution
6 8 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.62%) Back Office
8 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (55.56%) Developer
2 67 (41.36%) Java Developer
3 27 (16.67%) Lead
3 27 (16.67%) Senior
4 23 (14.20%) Architect
5 20 (12.35%) Software Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) AWS Developer
6 15 (9.26%) Senior Developer
7 12 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (7.41%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (6.79%) Applications Architect
8 11 (6.79%) Software Developer
8 11 (6.79%) Technical Leader
9 10 (6.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (6.17%) Software Architect
10 8 (4.94%) Graduate
10 8 (4.94%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Logistics Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (33.95%) Spring Boot
2 51 (31.48%) AngularJS
3 35 (21.60%) Spring
4 33 (20.37%) Gherkin
4 33 (20.37%) Jest
5 30 (18.52%) Node.js
6 17 (10.49%) .NET
7 16 (9.88%) React
8 12 (7.41%) GraphQL
8 12 (7.41%) REST
9 11 (6.79%) Android SDK
9 11 (6.79%) Web Services
10 10 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.94%) Kafka
11 8 (4.94%) Micronaut
12 7 (4.32%) Mustache
12 7 (4.32%) RESTful
13 5 (3.09%) Flutter
13 5 (3.09%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (12.96%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.79%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.79%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.79%) Social Media
4 8 (4.94%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.94%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.23%) DataPower
8 1 (0.62%) IoT
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.79%) Android
2 8 (4.94%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 73 (45.06%) Agile
3 66 (40.74%) DevOps
4 39 (24.07%) Microservices
5 34 (20.99%) Computer Science
6 33 (20.37%) Mentoring
7 31 (19.14%) Software Engineering
8 27 (16.67%) SDLC
9 26 (16.05%) AI
9 26 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (14.81%) Secure Coding
10 24 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (14.20%) Architectural Patterns
11 23 (14.20%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.58%) Migration
13 21 (12.96%) Application Security
13 21 (12.96%) Data Modelling
13 21 (12.96%) EAI
13 21 (12.96%) Enterprise Architecture
13 21 (12.96%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 64 (39.51%) TypeScript
2 46 (28.40%) JavaScript
2 46 (28.40%) Python
3 38 (23.46%) C#
3 38 (23.46%) SQL
4 33 (20.37%) Bash
5 32 (19.75%) Groovy
6 31 (19.14%) Kotlin
7 8 (4.94%) C
7 8 (4.94%) C++
7 8 (4.94%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.09%) Go
9 2 (1.23%) R
9 2 (1.23%) Scala
10 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (28.40%) AWS Certification
2 32 (19.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (19.75%) Degree
3 23 (14.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 21 (12.96%) Azure Certification
4 21 (12.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (12.96%) TOGAF Certification
5 17 (10.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 17 (10.49%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (4.94%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (3.09%) Security Cleared
8 4 (2.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.17%) QA
2 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.23%) GDPR
2 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 64 (39.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (20.37%) HP Fortify
2 18 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.32%) Terraform
4 4 (2.47%) Ansible
5 1 (0.62%) Grafana
5 1 (0.62%) Kibana
5 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.85%) Pega
2 3 (1.85%) WSO2
3 2 (1.23%) Google
4 1 (0.62%) Adobe
4 1 (0.62%) New Relic