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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 45 42
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 141 61 131
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.65% 4.78% 5.18%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.14% 14.15% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 92 40 91
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,823 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +19.99% -1.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £97,528 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £146,300 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -

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 501 431 836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.62% 33.75% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 374 277 688
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,103 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £84,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,130 £55,000 £51,498
% change year-on-year -5.22% +6.80% -9.65%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +27 133 £75,000 +15.38% 29
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Bradford -18 2 £65,000 -
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 10 (7.09%) OpenStack
2 6 (4.26%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.84%) Apache
3 4 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.42%) JBoss
4 2 (1.42%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 110 (78.01%) AWS
2 74 (52.48%) Serverless
3 50 (35.46%) Amazon ECS
4 44 (31.21%) Amazon S3
5 39 (27.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 38 (26.95%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (26.95%) Azure
7 37 (26.24%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (19.15%) Amazon ECR
8 27 (19.15%) Apigee
9 19 (13.48%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (7.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (7.80%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (7.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 10 (7.09%) GitHub
12 8 (5.67%) SaaS
13 5 (3.55%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.55%) GCP
13 5 (3.55%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.71%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (26.95%) DynamoDB
2 17 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (11.35%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.09%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (6.38%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.84%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.42%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.42%) Big Data
8 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.42%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.42%) MySQL
8 2 (1.42%) Power BI
8 2 (1.42%) Tableau
9 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 47 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 31 (21.99%) GitLab
3 27 (19.15%) Cypress.io
3 27 (19.15%) Maven
3 27 (19.15%) SonarQube
4 20 (14.18%) Git
5 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.71%) JUnit
5 1 (0.71%) Mockito
5 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 42 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.35%) Finance
3 13 (9.22%) Retail
4 12 (8.51%) Financial Institution
5 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.67%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.55%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 65 (46.10%) Developer
2 53 (37.59%) Java Developer
3 28 (19.86%) Architect
4 23 (16.31%) Lead
5 22 (15.60%) Senior
6 21 (14.89%) Software Engineer
7 14 (9.93%) Applications Architect
8 12 (8.51%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (7.80%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.80%) Software Architect
10 10 (7.09%) AWS Developer
10 10 (7.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (7.09%) Software Developer
11 9 (6.38%) Technical Leader
12 8 (5.67%) Graduate
12 8 (5.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (5.67%) Lead Developer
12 8 (5.67%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.67%) Logistics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 41 (29.08%) AngularJS
3 33 (23.40%) Spring
4 27 (19.15%) Gherkin
4 27 (19.15%) Jest
5 23 (16.31%) Node.js
6 18 (12.77%) .NET
7 13 (9.22%) React
8 12 (8.51%) Micronaut
8 12 (8.51%) REST
9 11 (7.80%) Kafka
9 11 (7.80%) Web Services
10 10 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.96%) Mustache
11 7 (4.96%) RESTful
12 6 (4.26%) CSS
12 6 (4.26%) HTML
13 5 (3.55%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Graph
14 4 (2.84%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.73%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (9.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.67%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.67%) Driving Licence
4 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.42%) DataPower
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.71%) Social Media
6 1 (0.71%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.71%) Android
2 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (46.10%) CI/CD
1 65 (46.10%) DevOps
2 50 (35.46%) Agile
3 44 (31.21%) Microservices
4 36 (25.53%) Computer Science
4 36 (25.53%) Mentoring
5 31 (21.99%) Software Engineering
6 28 (19.86%) SDLC
7 27 (19.15%) Migration
7 27 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (18.44%) Architectural Patterns
8 26 (18.44%) Enterprise Architecture
9 24 (17.02%) Application Security
9 24 (17.02%) Data Modelling
9 24 (17.02%) EAI
9 24 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (17.02%) TOGAF
10 20 (14.18%) Secure Coding
11 16 (11.35%) Clean Code
11 16 (11.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 63 (44.68%) TypeScript
2 55 (39.01%) Python
3 52 (36.88%) JavaScript
4 43 (30.50%) C#
5 39 (27.66%) SQL
6 30 (21.28%) Bash
7 26 (18.44%) Groovy
8 14 (9.93%) Kotlin
9 8 (5.67%) C
9 8 (5.67%) C++
9 8 (5.67%) PL/SQL
10 5 (3.55%) PHP
11 4 (2.84%) Go
11 4 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.84%) Scala
12 2 (1.42%) R
13 1 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (32.62%) AWS Certification
2 36 (25.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 36 (25.53%) Degree
3 26 (18.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (17.02%) Azure Certification
4 24 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (17.02%) TOGAF Certification
5 13 (9.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (9.22%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (4.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.84%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.38%) QA
2 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.42%) GDPR
2 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (41.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (19.15%) HP Fortify
2 24 (17.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.96%) Ansible
4 5 (3.55%) Terraform
5 1 (0.71%) Grafana
5 1 (0.71%) Kibana
5 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.84%) Google
3 3 (2.13%) Pega
3 3 (2.13%) WSO2
4 1 (0.71%) Adobe
4 1 (0.71%) New Relic