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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 70 34
Rank change year-on-year +40 -36 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 97 43 153
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.04% 2.43% 7.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 22.61% 8.25% 19.17%
Number of salaries quoted 74 27 113
10th Percentile £32,150 £42,270 £48,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -6.47% +15.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,000 £90,011 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%

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 429 521 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.71% 29.49% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 340 321 636
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £41,141 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -7.97% +8.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,600 £85,000 £85,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +35 88 £75,000 +29.39% 16
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Bradford -14 2 £65,000 - 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 5 (5.15%) Apache Spark
1 5 (5.15%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.09%) Apache
2 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.06%) JBoss
3 2 (2.06%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 75 (77.32%) AWS
2 34 (35.05%) Azure
3 31 (31.96%) Serverless
4 19 (19.59%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (10.31%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.25%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (8.25%) SaaS
8 7 (7.22%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (7.22%) Apigee
8 7 (7.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (5.15%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.15%) Power Automate
11 4 (4.12%) GCP
12 3 (3.09%) dbt
13 2 (2.06%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (2.06%) IaaS
14 1 (1.03%) Adobe Analytics
14 1 (1.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.31%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.25%) DynamoDB
4 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.06%) Big Data
7 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.03%) Power BI
8 1 (1.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (21.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (15.46%) GitLab
3 8 (8.25%) Cypress.io
4 7 (7.22%) Git
4 7 (7.22%) Maven
4 7 (7.22%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.06%) Selenium
6 1 (1.03%) Appium
6 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.03%) JUnit
6 1 (1.03%) Mockito
6 1 (1.03%) Postman
6 1 (1.03%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Financial Institution
3 12 (12.37%) Retail
4 9 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.09%) Games
7 2 (2.06%) Law
7 2 (2.06%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (34.02%) Developer
2 23 (23.71%) Java Developer
3 21 (21.65%) Lead
3 21 (21.65%) Senior
4 20 (20.62%) Architect
5 19 (19.59%) Software Engineer
6 12 (12.37%) Lead Developer
6 12 (12.37%) Software Developer
7 10 (10.31%) Applications Architect
8 8 (8.25%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Graduate
9 7 (7.22%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Logistics Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Software Architect
9 7 (7.22%) Software Engineering Graduate
10 6 (6.19%) Lead Software Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (25.77%) Spring
2 24 (24.74%) Spring Boot
3 14 (14.43%) Node.js
4 12 (12.37%) .NET
4 12 (12.37%) Micronaut
5 11 (11.34%) AngularJS
5 11 (11.34%) React
6 7 (7.22%) Gherkin
6 7 (7.22%) Jest
6 7 (7.22%) REST
7 6 (6.19%) CSS
7 6 (6.19%) HTML
7 6 (6.19%) Web Services
8 5 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.15%) Flutter
8 5 (5.15%) Hibernate
8 5 (5.15%) Kafka
8 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Graph
8 5 (5.15%) RESTful
9 3 (3.09%) Apache Camel
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (9.28%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.22%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.19%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) DataPower
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.03%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.24%) DevOps
2 36 (37.11%) CI/CD
3 34 (35.05%) Mentoring
4 29 (29.90%) Microservices
5 27 (27.84%) Computer Science
6 25 (25.77%) Agile
7 24 (24.74%) Software Engineering
8 19 (19.59%) Migration
9 18 (18.56%) Architectural Patterns
9 18 (18.56%) Enterprise Architecture
9 18 (18.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (16.49%) Application Security
10 16 (16.49%) Clean Code
10 16 (16.49%) Data Modelling
10 16 (16.49%) EAI
10 16 (16.49%) TOGAF
11 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (14.43%) Logistics
11 14 (14.43%) SDLC
11 14 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (45.36%) JavaScript
2 43 (44.33%) Python
3 36 (37.11%) TypeScript
4 32 (32.99%) SQL
5 30 (30.93%) C#
6 14 (14.43%) Bash
7 8 (8.25%) Kotlin
7 8 (8.25%) PowerShell
8 7 (7.22%) C
8 7 (7.22%) C++
8 7 (7.22%) PL/SQL
8 7 (7.22%) Scala
9 6 (6.19%) Groovy
10 5 (5.15%) Go
10 5 (5.15%) PHP
11 2 (2.06%) R
12 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (27.84%) Computer Science Degree
1 27 (27.84%) Degree
2 26 (26.80%) AWS Certification
3 19 (19.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (16.49%) Azure Certification
4 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (16.49%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
5 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.37%) QA
2 2 (2.06%) GDPR
2 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (25.77%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (26.80%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.25%) Ansible
3 7 (7.22%) HP Fortify
4 5 (5.15%) Terraform
5 1 (1.03%) Grafana
5 1 (1.03%) Kibana
5 1 (1.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (21.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.09%) Google
2 3 (3.09%) Pega
2 3 (3.09%) WSO2
3 1 (1.03%) Adobe
3 1 (1.03%) New Relic