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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 48 84
Rank change year-on-year +23 +36 -49
Permanent jobs citing Java 185 67 42
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.57% 4.28% 1.72%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.45% 17.68% 6.37%
Number of salaries quoted 122 46 39
10th Percentile £50,250 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,050 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.58% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.21% +1.92% -0.54%

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 674 379 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.64% 24.23% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 478 309 522
10th Percentile £36,600 £31,250 £34,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,750 £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 £78,438 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £84,717
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 14 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 14 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 +13 166 £75,000 +11.11% 33
Halifax +2 5 £65,000 -22.23%
Bradford -6 5 £65,000 - 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Batley +3 1 - -
Bingley +3 1 - -
Dewsbury +1 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 3 (1.62%) JBoss
2 1 (0.54%) Apache
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 114 (61.62%) AWS
2 73 (39.46%) Serverless
3 66 (35.68%) AWS Lambda
4 64 (34.59%) Amazon S3
5 62 (33.51%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (32.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (29.73%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (15.14%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (15.14%) Apigee
9 26 (14.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 25 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (11.35%) GitHub
12 19 (10.27%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (9.73%) Azure
14 15 (8.11%) Datadog
14 15 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (4.86%) GCP
16 8 (4.32%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (4.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 5 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.41%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (29.73%) DynamoDB
2 24 (12.97%) Amazon Athena
3 23 (12.43%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.32%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.24%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.70%) Power BI
8 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.62%) MySQL
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.54%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (24.86%) Jenkins
2 30 (16.22%) GitLab
3 24 (12.97%) Cypress.io
3 24 (12.97%) Git
4 21 (11.35%) SonarQube
5 19 (10.27%) Maven
6 6 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.16%) Selenium
8 3 (1.62%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.62%) JIRA
9 1 (0.54%) Gatling
9 1 (0.54%) JMeter
9 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 38 (20.54%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.41%) Games
4 10 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.32%) Retail
6 6 (3.24%) Finance
7 4 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.62%) Back Office
8 3 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.08%) Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (67.57%) Developer
2 93 (50.27%) Java Developer
3 46 (24.86%) Senior
4 41 (22.16%) Full-Stack Developer
5 34 (18.38%) Senior Developer
6 31 (16.76%) AWS Developer
7 26 (14.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 25 (13.51%) Lead
9 24 (12.97%) Senior Java Developer
10 18 (9.73%) Java Engineer
11 14 (7.57%) Angular Developer
12 12 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (5.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (5.41%) Software Engineer
14 8 (4.32%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (4.32%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.78%) Applications Developer
15 7 (3.78%) Cloud Engineer
15 7 (3.78%) Java Server Engineer
15 7 (3.78%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (38.92%) AngularJS
2 51 (27.57%) Spring Boot
3 43 (23.24%) Spring
4 37 (20.00%) Node.js
5 27 (14.59%) Gherkin
6 21 (11.35%) React
7 19 (10.27%) Jest
8 10 (5.41%) Android SDK
8 10 (5.41%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.32%) .NET
10 7 (3.78%) REST
10 7 (3.78%) RESTful
11 6 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (2.16%) Classic ASP
13 4 (2.16%) Flutter
14 3 (1.62%) Drools
14 3 (1.62%) JSON
14 3 (1.62%) XML
14 3 (1.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.41%) Social Media
3 8 (4.32%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.62%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.62%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.03%) Linux
2 10 (5.41%) Android
3 3 (1.62%) Unix
3 3 (1.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.68%) Agile
1 66 (35.68%) CI/CD
2 60 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 52 (28.11%) DevOps
4 26 (14.05%) Software Engineering
5 23 (12.43%) Mentoring
6 22 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (11.35%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (10.81%) Microservices
9 19 (10.27%) DevSecOps
9 19 (10.27%) SDLC
10 16 (8.65%) Secrets Management
10 16 (8.65%) Secure Coding
11 15 (8.11%) Design Patterns
11 15 (8.11%) ITIL
11 15 (8.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 14 (7.57%) AI
13 13 (7.03%) Software Architecture
13 13 (7.03%) Test Automation
13 13 (7.03%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (28.65%) SQL
1 53 (28.65%) TypeScript
2 42 (22.70%) Kotlin
3 31 (16.76%) Groovy
3 31 (16.76%) Python
4 23 (12.43%) Bash
5 14 (7.57%) C#
5 14 (7.57%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.32%) Scala
7 5 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.16%) C++
8 4 (2.16%) Go
9 3 (1.62%) C
10 1 (0.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (9.73%) AWS Certification
2 17 (9.19%) Security Cleared
3 14 (7.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 14 (7.57%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.32%) Degree
6 4 (2.16%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.95%) QA
2 7 (3.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (25.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.73%) HP Fortify
2 12 (6.49%) Terraform
3 6 (3.24%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.70%) Ansible
5 3 (1.62%) Argo
5 3 (1.62%) Packer
6 2 (1.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.70%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.70%) IBM
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle
3 1 (0.54%) Google