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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 39 87
Rank change year-on-year +14 +48 -54
Permanent jobs citing Java 199 78 65
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.56% 5.71% 2.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.72% 21.37% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 125 56 48
10th Percentile £44,215 £47,231 £34,100
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,113 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,996 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +19.99% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £121,914 £80,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% +16.67% -7.69%

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 693 365 877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.37% 26.70% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 502 304 717
10th Percentile £36,750 £29,750 £32,300
25th Percentile £46,446 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,834 £77,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £59,900 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.18% +19.80% -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 17 June 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 June 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 +20 185 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Bradford -11 3 £65,000 - 7
Halifax -5 2 £65,000 -24.52% 6
Ossett - 2 - -
Bingley +3 1 - -
Batley +1 1 - -
Elland 0 1 - -
Dewsbury -2 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - - 5
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 3 (1.51%) Apache
1 3 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.51%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.51%) JBoss
2 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 125 (62.81%) AWS
2 89 (44.72%) Serverless
3 79 (39.70%) Amazon S3
3 79 (39.70%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (38.69%) Amazon ECS
5 73 (36.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 68 (34.17%) AWS Step Functions
7 39 (19.60%) Amazon ECR
7 39 (19.60%) Apigee
8 30 (15.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (14.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 28 (14.07%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (12.06%) GitHub
12 21 (10.55%) Azure
13 13 (6.53%) Datadog
13 13 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
14 7 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (3.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.53%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (34.67%) DynamoDB
2 31 (15.58%) NoSQL
3 29 (14.57%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (3.52%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.52%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.52%) Power BI
7 4 (2.01%) MySQL
7 4 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.51%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (1.51%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.51%) Tableau
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 63 (31.66%) Jenkins
2 41 (20.60%) GitLab
3 35 (17.59%) Cypress.io
4 32 (16.08%) SonarQube
5 30 (15.08%) Git
5 30 (15.08%) Maven
6 6 (3.02%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.01%) Selenium
8 3 (1.51%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.51%) JIRA
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) JMeter
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (18.09%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.03%) Games
3 12 (6.03%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (3.02%) Retail
6 4 (2.01%) Finance
6 4 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 150 (75.38%) Developer
2 110 (55.28%) Java Developer
3 49 (24.62%) Senior
4 39 (19.60%) Full-Stack Developer
4 39 (19.60%) Senior Developer
5 33 (16.58%) AWS Developer
6 29 (14.57%) Senior Java Developer
7 28 (14.07%) Lead
8 25 (12.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 12 (6.03%) Lead Developer
9 12 (6.03%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.53%) Angular Developer
10 11 (5.53%) Java Engineer
11 9 (4.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (3.52%) Android Developer
12 7 (3.52%) Applications Developer
12 7 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 6 (3.02%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
13 6 (3.02%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.02%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (42.21%) AngularJS
2 60 (30.15%) Spring Boot
3 41 (20.60%) Spring
4 40 (20.10%) Node.js
5 37 (18.59%) Gherkin
6 30 (15.08%) Jest
7 25 (12.56%) React
8 15 (7.54%) .NET
9 12 (6.03%) GraphQL
10 11 (5.53%) Android SDK
11 8 (4.02%) REST
11 8 (4.02%) RESTful
12 7 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (3.02%) Flutter
13 6 (3.02%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (2.01%) Classic ASP
14 4 (2.01%) Web Services
15 3 (1.51%) Drools
15 3 (1.51%) XML
15 3 (1.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.53%) Mobile App
1 11 (5.53%) Self-Motivation
1 11 (5.53%) Social Media
2 8 (4.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.52%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.51%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.53%) Android
2 7 (3.52%) Linux
3 3 (1.51%) Unix
3 3 (1.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (41.21%) CI/CD
2 79 (39.70%) Agile
3 65 (32.66%) DevOps
4 57 (28.64%) Full-Stack Development
5 28 (14.07%) SDLC
6 25 (12.56%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (12.06%) DevSecOps
7 24 (12.06%) Mentoring
7 24 (12.06%) Secure Coding
8 23 (11.56%) AI
8 23 (11.56%) ITIL
8 23 (11.56%) Microservices
8 23 (11.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 22 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
9 22 (11.06%) Software Engineering
10 19 (9.55%) Clean Code
11 16 (8.04%) Design Patterns
11 16 (8.04%) Secrets Management
11 16 (8.04%) Test Automation
12 14 (7.04%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.66%) TypeScript
2 54 (27.14%) SQL
3 45 (22.61%) Kotlin
4 41 (20.60%) Groovy
5 40 (20.10%) Python
6 31 (15.58%) Bash
7 27 (13.57%) C#
8 26 (13.07%) JavaScript
9 6 (3.02%) Go
10 5 (2.51%) Scala
11 2 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 32 (16.08%) AWS Certification
2 22 (11.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (11.06%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (8.54%) Security Cleared
4 14 (7.04%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.52%) Degree
6 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.01%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.03%) QA
2 7 (3.52%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.51%) Accessibility
System Software
1 64 (32.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (14.57%) HP Fortify
2 11 (5.53%) Terraform
3 7 (3.52%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.51%) Ansible
5 3 (1.51%) Argo
5 3 (1.51%) Packer
6 2 (1.01%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.51%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.51%) IBM
2 4 (2.01%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.51%) Google
4 2 (1.01%) Oracle