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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 84 30
Rank change year-on-year +40 -54 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 86 32 170
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.04% 1.69% 8.05%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.98% 6.10% 19.95%
Number of salaries quoted 62 21 127
10th Percentile £40,000 - £47,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,107
90th Percentile £83,375 £82,500 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.19% +8.92%

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 410 525 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.05% 27.66% 40.36%
Number of salaries quoted 326 318 678
10th Percentile £34,375 £34,525 £38,591
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £86,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 6 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 6 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 +43 69 £70,000 +16.67% 48
Elland - 6 £42,000 -
Bradford -14 3 £65,000 - 18
Bingley - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Brighouse - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Dewsbury - 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 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.49%) Apache
2 3 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.49%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 61 (70.93%) AWS
2 30 (34.88%) Azure
3 17 (19.77%) Serverless
4 10 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (9.30%) SaaS
6 5 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.81%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.81%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.65%) GCP
8 3 (3.49%) dbt
9 2 (2.33%) IaaS
10 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.16%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.28%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (13.95%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.30%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.33%) Big Data
6 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.16%) Power BI
7 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (15.12%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.47%) GitLab
3 4 (4.65%) Git
4 2 (2.33%) Postman
4 2 (2.33%) Selenium
5 1 (1.16%) Appium
5 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.16%) Mockito
5 1 (1.16%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.16%) SoapUI
General
1 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.44%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Financial Institution
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.98%) Retail
6 3 (3.49%) Games
6 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.33%) Law
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (34.88%) Developer
2 21 (24.42%) Java Developer
3 18 (20.93%) Senior
4 16 (18.60%) Lead
5 13 (15.12%) Architect
5 13 (15.12%) Software Developer
5 13 (15.12%) Software Engineer
6 12 (13.95%) Lead Developer
7 8 (9.30%) Applications Architect
8 7 (8.14%) Lead Software Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Developer
8 7 (8.14%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Applications Specialist
10 5 (5.81%) Applications Support
10 5 (5.81%) Applications Support Specialist
10 5 (5.81%) Java Software Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Junior
10 5 (5.81%) Lead Java Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.12%) HTML
1 13 (15.12%) Node.js
1 13 (15.12%) Spring
1 13 (15.12%) Spring Boot
2 11 (12.79%) Micronaut
3 10 (11.63%) .NET
4 8 (9.30%) React
5 6 (6.98%) RESTful
6 5 (5.81%) CSS
6 5 (5.81%) Flutter
6 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.49%) Apache Camel
7 3 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.49%) Kafka
7 3 (3.49%) REST
7 3 (3.49%) SOAP
7 3 (3.49%) Web Services
8 2 (2.33%) LDAP
8 2 (2.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.95%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.49%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.16%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.05%) DevOps
2 28 (32.56%) CI/CD
3 27 (31.40%) Mentoring
4 26 (30.23%) Computer Science
5 21 (24.42%) Microservices
6 18 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 16 (18.60%) Agile
7 16 (18.60%) Clean Code
8 14 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (15.12%) Architectural Patterns
9 13 (15.12%) Enterprise Architecture
9 13 (15.12%) Migration
9 13 (15.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (15.12%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (13.95%) Fintech
11 11 (12.79%) Application Security
11 11 (12.79%) Data Modelling
11 11 (12.79%) EAI
11 11 (12.79%) SDLC
11 11 (12.79%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.33%) JavaScript
2 44 (51.16%) Python
3 34 (39.53%) SQL
4 33 (38.37%) C#
5 31 (36.05%) TypeScript
6 14 (16.28%) PHP
7 11 (12.79%) C
7 11 (12.79%) C++
8 9 (10.47%) Bash
8 9 (10.47%) PowerShell
8 9 (10.47%) R
8 9 (10.47%) Ruby
9 8 (9.30%) Dart
9 8 (9.30%) Kotlin
9 8 (9.30%) MATLAB
9 8 (9.30%) Rust
10 7 (8.14%) Scala
11 6 (6.98%) Go
12 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (30.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 26 (30.23%) Degree
2 18 (20.93%) AWS Certification
3 14 (16.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 12 (13.95%) SC Cleared
4 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
5 11 (12.79%) Azure Certification
5 11 (12.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (12.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.12%) QA
2 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (16.28%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (25.58%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.30%) Ansible
3 5 (5.81%) Terraform
4 2 (2.33%) Kibana
5 1 (1.16%) Grafana
5 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.49%) Google
2 3 (3.49%) Pega
2 3 (3.49%) WSO2
3 2 (2.33%) New Relic