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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 33 64
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -31
Permanent jobs citing Java 178 76 97
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.04% 6.68% 3.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.08% 19.10% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 104 61 66
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £36,875
25th Percentile £62,883 £49,118 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +9.97% +4.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - +6.93% +7.00%

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 634 398 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.52% 35.00% 29.25%
Number of salaries quoted 450 334 698
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -7.49%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,960 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £93,778 £82,548
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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +15 166 £75,000 +11.11% 21
Ossett - 2 - -
Bradford - 2 £65,000 - 3
Halifax +1 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 1 - -
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - - 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 7 (3.93%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.81%) JBoss
3 3 (1.69%) Apache
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 115 (64.61%) AWS
2 95 (53.37%) Serverless
3 75 (42.13%) Amazon S3
4 74 (41.57%) Amazon ECS
5 71 (39.89%) AWS Lambda
6 62 (34.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 60 (33.71%) AWS Step Functions
8 44 (24.72%) Amazon ECR
8 44 (24.72%) Apigee
9 27 (15.17%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (15.17%) Azure
10 22 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (11.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 16 (8.99%) GitHub
13 13 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (3.93%) Datadog
14 7 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (1.69%) dbt
15 3 (1.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (37.08%) DynamoDB
2 22 (12.36%) NoSQL
3 21 (11.80%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.62%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.69%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.12%) MySQL
7 2 (1.12%) Power BI
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.12%) Tableau
8 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 64 (35.96%) Jenkins
2 44 (24.72%) GitLab
3 42 (23.60%) SonarQube
4 40 (22.47%) Cypress.io
5 39 (21.91%) Maven
6 24 (13.48%) Git
7 7 (3.93%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.81%) Selenium
9 3 (1.69%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.69%) JIRA
10 1 (0.56%) Gatling
10 1 (0.56%) JMeter
10 1 (0.56%) JUnit
10 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.74%) Games
3 12 (6.74%) Retail
4 11 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.93%) Manufacturing
5 7 (3.93%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (3.93%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.25%) Finance
6 4 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.12%) Back Office
8 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 113 (63.48%) Developer
2 83 (46.63%) Java Developer
3 37 (20.79%) Senior
4 29 (16.29%) Lead
5 27 (15.17%) Senior Developer
6 19 (10.67%) Architect
6 19 (10.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 19 (10.67%) Senior Java Developer
7 18 (10.11%) AWS Developer
8 16 (8.99%) Software Engineer
9 13 (7.30%) Technical Leader
10 12 (6.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (6.18%) Software Developer
12 9 (5.06%) Applications Architect
12 9 (5.06%) Lead Developer
13 8 (4.49%) Software Architect
14 7 (3.93%) Graduate
14 7 (3.93%) Graduate Software Engineer
14 7 (3.93%) Linux Engineer
14 7 (3.93%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (37.08%) AngularJS
1 66 (37.08%) Spring Boot
2 42 (23.60%) Spring
3 39 (21.91%) Gherkin
3 39 (21.91%) Jest
4 34 (19.10%) Node.js
5 21 (11.80%) React
6 16 (8.99%) .NET
7 14 (7.87%) REST
8 12 (6.74%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (6.74%) GraphQL
9 11 (6.18%) Android SDK
10 10 (5.62%) Web Services
11 8 (4.49%) Kafka
12 7 (3.93%) Mustache
13 6 (3.37%) Flutter
13 6 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (3.37%) RESTful
13 6 (3.37%) XML
14 5 (2.81%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.55%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (8.99%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.18%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.18%) Social Media
4 8 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.93%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.93%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.12%) DataPower
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Android
1 11 (6.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.56%) Unix
2 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (47.19%) CI/CD
2 82 (46.07%) Agile
3 70 (39.33%) DevOps
4 38 (21.35%) Microservices
5 33 (18.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 32 (17.98%) SDLC
7 29 (16.29%) Mentoring
8 28 (15.73%) Computer Science
8 28 (15.73%) Secure Coding
9 26 (14.61%) AI
10 25 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.04%) Software Engineering
11 22 (12.36%) ITIL
11 22 (12.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 21 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 20 (11.24%) Architectural Patterns
14 19 (10.67%) Clean Code
14 19 (10.67%) Migration
15 17 (9.55%) Enterprise Architecture
15 17 (9.55%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 73 (41.01%) TypeScript
2 45 (25.28%) Python
3 44 (24.72%) SQL
4 41 (23.03%) Groovy
4 41 (23.03%) JavaScript
5 38 (21.35%) Bash
6 37 (20.79%) Kotlin
7 34 (19.10%) C#
8 9 (5.06%) PL/SQL
9 7 (3.93%) C
9 7 (3.93%) C++
10 6 (3.37%) Go
11 1 (0.56%) Perl
11 1 (0.56%) R
11 1 (0.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (26.97%) AWS Certification
2 25 (14.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 25 (14.04%) Degree
3 22 (12.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (12.36%) ITIL Certification
4 20 (11.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 17 (9.55%) Azure Certification
5 17 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (9.55%) TOGAF Certification
6 14 (7.87%) Security Cleared
7 12 (6.74%) SC Cleared
8 9 (5.06%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.74%) QA
2 3 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (39.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (21.91%) HP Fortify
2 17 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.18%) Terraform
4 6 (3.37%) Ansible
5 3 (1.69%) Packer
6 2 (1.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.56%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Grafana
7 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.81%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.81%) IBM
3 2 (1.12%) Google
3 2 (1.12%) Oracle
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe