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 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 153 64 124
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.34% 5.64% 4.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.87% 15.76% 14.94%
Number of salaries quoted 96 50 85
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,875 £42,736
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,904 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +10.76% +6.24%
75th Percentile £75,625 £93,778 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £146,300 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +8.11%

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 549 406 830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 22.76% 35.77% 30.67%
Number of salaries quoted 401 308 682
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,600 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +1.38% -5.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,894 £83,630
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% +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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +21 146 £75,000 +13.21% 36
Bradford -22 2 £65,000 - 4
Pontefract - 1 - -
Ossett - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Batley - 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 10 (6.54%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.61%) Apache
2 4 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.61%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.61%) JBoss
3 2 (1.31%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 106 (69.28%) AWS
2 79 (51.63%) Serverless
3 57 (37.25%) Amazon ECS
4 54 (35.29%) Amazon S3
5 48 (31.37%) AWS Lambda
6 46 (30.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (29.41%) AWS Step Functions
8 33 (21.57%) Azure
9 32 (20.92%) Amazon ECR
9 32 (20.92%) Apigee
10 22 (14.38%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (10.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (9.80%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (8.50%) GitHub
14 11 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (3.92%) SaaS
16 5 (3.27%) Datadog
16 5 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (2.61%) dbt
18 3 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (31.37%) DynamoDB
2 19 (12.42%) NoSQL
3 17 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (9.80%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.61%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.31%) MySQL
7 2 (1.31%) Power BI
7 2 (1.31%) Tableau
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 33 (21.57%) GitLab
3 32 (20.92%) Cypress.io
3 32 (20.92%) Maven
3 32 (20.92%) SonarQube
4 21 (13.73%) Git
5 3 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.96%) Selenium
6 1 (0.65%) JUnit
General
1 43 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.15%) Finance
2 14 (9.15%) Retail
3 11 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.54%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.88%) Games
6 8 (5.23%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.92%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.65%) Back Office
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 85 (55.56%) Developer
2 67 (43.79%) Java Developer
3 26 (16.99%) Lead
4 25 (16.34%) Senior
5 23 (15.03%) Architect
6 21 (13.73%) Software Engineer
7 15 (9.80%) AWS Developer
8 14 (9.15%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.84%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (7.19%) Applications Architect
10 11 (7.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 11 (7.19%) Software Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (6.54%) Software Architect
11 10 (6.54%) Technical Leader
12 8 (5.23%) Graduate
12 8 (5.23%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Logistics Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (35.29%) Spring Boot
2 49 (32.03%) AngularJS
3 35 (22.88%) Spring
4 32 (20.92%) Gherkin
4 32 (20.92%) Jest
5 30 (19.61%) Node.js
6 16 (10.46%) .NET
7 15 (9.80%) React
8 12 (7.84%) REST
9 11 (7.19%) Web Services
10 10 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (6.54%) Micronaut
11 8 (5.23%) Kafka
12 7 (4.58%) Mustache
12 7 (4.58%) RESTful
13 6 (3.92%) GraphQL
14 5 (3.27%) Android SDK
14 5 (3.27%) Hibernate
14 5 (3.27%) XML
15 4 (2.61%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.73%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (9.15%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.23%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.23%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.27%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.27%) Social Media
6 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.31%) DataPower
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.65%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Linux
2 5 (3.27%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.41%) CI/CD
2 67 (43.79%) DevOps
3 64 (41.83%) Agile
4 39 (25.49%) Microservices
5 34 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 32 (20.92%) Mentoring
6 32 (20.92%) Software Engineering
7 25 (16.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 25 (16.34%) SDLC
8 24 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (15.03%) Architectural Patterns
10 22 (14.38%) Migration
10 22 (14.38%) Secure Coding
11 21 (13.73%) Application Security
11 21 (13.73%) Data Modelling
11 21 (13.73%) EAI
11 21 (13.73%) Enterprise Architecture
11 21 (13.73%) TOGAF
12 20 (13.07%) AI
13 17 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 63 (41.18%) TypeScript
2 46 (30.07%) JavaScript
3 45 (29.41%) Python
4 38 (24.84%) SQL
5 37 (24.18%) C#
6 32 (20.92%) Bash
7 31 (20.26%) Groovy
8 25 (16.34%) Kotlin
9 8 (5.23%) C
9 8 (5.23%) C++
9 8 (5.23%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.61%) Go
11 2 (1.31%) R
11 2 (1.31%) Scala
12 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.65%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 45 (29.41%) AWS Certification
2 32 (20.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (20.92%) Degree
3 23 (15.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 21 (13.73%) Azure Certification
4 21 (13.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 21 (13.73%) TOGAF Certification
5 16 (10.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 16 (10.46%) ITIL Certification
6 8 (5.23%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.61%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) QA
2 2 (1.31%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.31%) GDPR
2 2 (1.31%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 64 (41.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.65%) Squid
Systems Management
1 32 (20.92%) HP Fortify
2 19 (12.42%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.58%) Terraform
4 4 (2.61%) Ansible
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Kibana
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.96%) Pega
2 3 (1.96%) WSO2
3 2 (1.31%) Google
4 1 (0.65%) Adobe
4 1 (0.65%) New Relic