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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 42 94
Rank change year-on-year +17 +52 -60
Permanent jobs citing Java 182 66 41
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 4.46% 4.29% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.37% 17.79% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 122 46 38
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,050 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.58% -8.19%
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +2.36% -2.83%

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 665 371 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 16.28% 24.11% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 471 303 518
10th Percentile £38,500 £31,250 £34,525
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -5.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £83,239
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 20 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 20 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 +13 163 £75,000 +11.11% 33
Halifax +1 5 £65,000 -22.23% 1
Bradford -5 5 £65,000 - 1
Ossett - 2 - -
Batley +3 1 - -
Bingley +3 1 - -
Dewsbury 0 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 2 (1.10%) JBoss
2 1 (0.55%) Apache
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 113 (62.09%) AWS
2 72 (39.56%) Serverless
3 65 (35.71%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (34.62%) Amazon S3
5 61 (33.52%) Amazon ECS
6 59 (32.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (29.67%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (15.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (13.74%) Amazon ECR
10 25 (13.74%) Apigee
11 23 (12.64%) GitHub
12 18 (9.89%) Azure
13 17 (9.34%) Amazon SQS
13 17 (9.34%) Datadog
13 17 (9.34%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.95%) GCP
15 8 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (2.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (29.67%) DynamoDB
2 25 (13.74%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (13.19%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.49%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.40%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.75%) Power BI
8 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.65%) MySQL
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (23.63%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.84%) GitLab
3 25 (13.74%) Git
4 21 (11.54%) Cypress.io
5 18 (9.89%) SonarQube
6 16 (8.79%) Maven
7 5 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.65%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.65%) JIRA
8 3 (1.65%) Selenium
9 1 (0.55%) Gatling
9 1 (0.55%) JMeter
9 1 (0.55%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.59%) Public Sector
4 10 (5.49%) Games
4 10 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (4.40%) Retail
6 7 (3.85%) Finance
7 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Back Office
8 3 (1.65%) Banking
8 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (67.03%) Developer
2 90 (49.45%) Java Developer
3 47 (25.82%) Senior
4 41 (22.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (19.23%) Senior Developer
6 31 (17.03%) AWS Developer
7 26 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 25 (13.74%) Lead
8 25 (13.74%) Senior Java Developer
9 18 (9.89%) Java Engineer
10 15 (8.24%) Angular Developer
11 12 (6.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (5.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (5.49%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
13 8 (4.40%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.85%) Applications Developer
14 7 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (3.85%) Java Server Engineer
14 7 (3.85%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (39.01%) AngularJS
2 50 (27.47%) Spring Boot
3 45 (24.73%) Spring
4 38 (20.88%) Node.js
5 24 (13.19%) Gherkin
6 21 (11.54%) React
7 16 (8.79%) Jest
8 11 (6.04%) Terraform
9 10 (5.49%) Android SDK
9 10 (5.49%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.40%) .NET
11 7 (3.85%) REST
11 7 (3.85%) RESTful
12 6 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (2.20%) Classic ASP
14 4 (2.20%) Flutter
15 3 (1.65%) JSON
15 3 (1.65%) Redux
15 3 (1.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (5.49%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (5.49%) Social Media
3 8 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.65%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.65%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.14%) Linux
2 10 (5.49%) Android
3 3 (1.65%) Unix
3 3 (1.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (36.26%) CI/CD
2 63 (34.62%) Agile
3 60 (32.97%) Full-Stack Development
4 51 (28.02%) DevOps
5 25 (13.74%) Software Engineering
6 22 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
6 22 (12.09%) Mentoring
7 21 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (10.99%) DevSecOps
8 20 (10.99%) Microservices
9 17 (9.34%) SDLC
9 17 (9.34%) Secrets Management
10 14 (7.69%) AI
10 14 (7.69%) Design Patterns
10 14 (7.69%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 14 (7.69%) RBAC
10 14 (7.69%) Secure Coding
10 14 (7.69%) Workflow
10 14 (7.69%) Workflow Management
11 13 (7.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 55 (30.22%) SQL
2 52 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 43 (23.63%) Kotlin
4 31 (17.03%) Python
5 28 (15.38%) Groovy
6 20 (10.99%) Bash
7 14 (7.69%) C#
8 13 (7.14%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.40%) Scala
10 5 (2.75%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.20%) C++
11 4 (2.20%) Go
12 3 (1.65%) C
13 1 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (9.34%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.24%) AWS Certification
3 12 (6.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 12 (6.59%) ITIL Certification
3 12 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.85%) Degree
5 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.04%) QA
2 7 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.65%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (25.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.24%) HP Fortify
2 6 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.75%) Ansible
4 3 (1.65%) Argo
4 3 (1.65%) Packer
5 2 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.75%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.75%) IBM
2 2 (1.10%) Oracle
3 1 (0.55%) Google