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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 56 35
Rank change year-on-year +30 -21 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 130 47 135
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.76% 3.27% 5.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.45% 11.16% 16.69%
Number of salaries quoted 84 29 95
10th Percentile £32,150 £43,010 £45,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.29% +8.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £91,161
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £62,369 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.24% +3.95% -

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 457 421 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.75% 29.30% 35.62%
Number of salaries quoted 332 258 661
10th Percentile £29,125 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,806 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -2.34% -2.06%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,971 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +34 121 £75,000 +13.21% 26
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Bradford -16 2 £65,000 - 6
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 (7.69%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.85%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (2.31%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.54%) JBoss
4 2 (1.54%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 105 (80.77%) AWS
2 67 (51.54%) Serverless
3 46 (35.38%) Amazon ECS
4 37 (28.46%) Amazon S3
5 35 (26.92%) Azure
6 34 (26.15%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (23.85%) AWS Lambda
8 30 (23.08%) AWS Step Functions
9 22 (16.92%) Amazon ECR
9 22 (16.92%) Apigee
10 15 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (8.46%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (6.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 8 (6.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 8 (6.15%) GitHub
13 8 (6.15%) SaaS
14 5 (3.85%) Entra ID
14 5 (3.85%) Power Automate
15 4 (3.08%) Datadog
15 4 (3.08%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.85%) DynamoDB
2 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.23%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.92%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.15%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.54%) Big Data
7 2 (1.54%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.77%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.77%) Power BI
8 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (33.08%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.31%) GitLab
3 22 (16.92%) Cypress.io
3 22 (16.92%) Maven
3 22 (16.92%) SonarQube
4 20 (15.38%) Git
5 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.77%) JUnit
5 1 (0.77%) Mockito
5 1 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 43 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.31%) Finance
3 13 (10.00%) Retail
4 12 (9.23%) Financial Institution
5 9 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.15%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.08%) Games
9 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 55 (42.31%) Developer
2 48 (36.92%) Java Developer
3 28 (21.54%) Architect
4 25 (19.23%) Lead
5 22 (16.92%) Senior
6 19 (14.62%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.77%) Applications Architect
8 12 (9.23%) Senior Developer
9 11 (8.46%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (8.46%) Software Architect
10 10 (7.69%) AWS Developer
10 10 (7.69%) Lead Developer
11 9 (6.92%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (6.15%) Graduate
12 8 (6.15%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Lead Java Developer
12 8 (6.15%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Logistics Engineer
12 8 (6.15%) Software Engineering Graduate
12 8 (6.15%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (30.77%) Spring Boot
2 34 (26.15%) AngularJS
3 31 (23.85%) Spring
4 22 (16.92%) Gherkin
4 22 (16.92%) Jest
5 21 (16.15%) Node.js
6 14 (10.77%) .NET
6 14 (10.77%) React
7 12 (9.23%) Micronaut
7 12 (9.23%) REST
8 11 (8.46%) Kafka
8 11 (8.46%) Web Services
9 10 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (5.38%) Mustache
11 6 (4.62%) CSS
11 6 (4.62%) HTML
12 5 (3.85%) Flutter
12 5 (3.85%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (3.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (10.77%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.15%) Driving Licence
4 6 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.54%) DataPower
6 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.77%) IoT
6 1 (0.77%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (46.92%) DevOps
2 59 (45.38%) CI/CD
3 42 (32.31%) Microservices
4 40 (30.77%) Agile
5 36 (27.69%) Computer Science
6 35 (26.92%) Mentoring
7 27 (20.77%) Migration
7 27 (20.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 26 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
8 26 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
8 26 (20.00%) SDLC
9 25 (19.23%) Software Engineering
10 24 (18.46%) Application Security
10 24 (18.46%) Data Modelling
10 24 (18.46%) EAI
10 24 (18.46%) TOGAF
11 21 (16.15%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (13.85%) Secure Coding
13 16 (12.31%) Scrum
14 15 (11.54%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 61 (46.92%) TypeScript
2 52 (40.00%) Python
3 48 (36.92%) JavaScript
4 38 (29.23%) C#
5 34 (26.15%) SQL
6 28 (21.54%) Bash
7 21 (16.15%) Groovy
8 13 (10.00%) Kotlin
9 8 (6.15%) C
9 8 (6.15%) C++
9 8 (6.15%) PL/SQL
10 7 (5.38%) PowerShell
11 6 (4.62%) Scala
12 5 (3.85%) Go
12 5 (3.85%) PHP
13 2 (1.54%) R
14 1 (0.77%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (33.85%) AWS Certification
2 36 (27.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 36 (27.69%) Degree
3 27 (20.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (18.46%) Azure Certification
4 24 (18.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (18.46%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (6.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 9 (6.92%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (3.08%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.31%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) QA
2 2 (1.54%) GDPR
2 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 51 (39.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.77%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (20.77%) Kubernetes
2 22 (16.92%) HP Fortify
3 9 (6.92%) Ansible
4 5 (3.85%) Terraform
5 1 (0.77%) Grafana
5 1 (0.77%) Kibana
5 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.31%) Google
2 3 (2.31%) Pega
2 3 (2.31%) WSO2
3 1 (0.77%) Adobe
3 1 (0.77%) New Relic