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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 60 37
Rank change year-on-year +35 -23 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 131 42 133
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 7.14% 2.93% 6.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.60% 10.12% 17.18%
Number of salaries quoted 87 27 97
10th Percentile £32,300 £42,270 £47,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.88% +15.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,278 £90,774
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +8.33%

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 458 415 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 24.95% 28.98% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 337 254 632
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -5.22% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,375 £86,125
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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 13 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 13 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 +37 122 £75,000 +25.00% 27
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Bradford -18 2 £65,000 - 4
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 (7.63%) OpenStack
2 6 (4.58%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.05%) Apache
3 4 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.53%) JBoss
4 2 (1.53%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 102 (77.86%) AWS
2 62 (47.33%) Serverless
3 41 (31.30%) Amazon ECS
4 37 (28.24%) Azure
5 32 (24.43%) Amazon S3
6 29 (22.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (19.85%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (19.08%) AWS Step Functions
9 20 (15.27%) Amazon ECR
9 20 (15.27%) Apigee
10 13 (9.92%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (6.11%) SaaS
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (4.58%) GitHub
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (3.82%) Entra ID
14 5 (3.82%) GCP
14 5 (3.82%) Power Automate
15 4 (3.05%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (19.85%) DynamoDB
2 15 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (8.40%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.87%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.53%) Big Data
7 2 (1.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.53%) Power BI
7 2 (1.53%) Tableau
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (31.30%) Jenkins
2 27 (20.61%) GitLab
3 21 (16.03%) Cypress.io
4 20 (15.27%) Maven
4 20 (15.27%) SonarQube
5 17 (12.98%) Git
6 2 (1.53%) Selenium
7 1 (0.76%) Appium
7 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.76%) JUnit
7 1 (0.76%) Mockito
7 1 (0.76%) Postman
7 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.21%) Finance
3 13 (9.92%) Retail
4 12 (9.16%) Financial Institution
5 11 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.11%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.05%) Games
9 2 (1.53%) Law
9 2 (1.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 53 (40.46%) Developer
2 45 (34.35%) Java Developer
3 28 (21.37%) Architect
4 26 (19.85%) Senior
5 25 (19.08%) Lead
6 20 (15.27%) Software Engineer
7 14 (10.69%) Applications Architect
8 13 (9.92%) Senior Developer
9 12 (9.16%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (8.40%) Software Architect
11 10 (7.63%) Lead Developer
12 9 (6.87%) Software Developer
13 8 (6.11%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (6.11%) Graduate
13 8 (6.11%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 8 (6.11%) Lead Java Developer
13 8 (6.11%) Linux Engineer
13 8 (6.11%) Logistics Engineer
13 8 (6.11%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (6.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (32.06%) Spring Boot
2 35 (26.72%) Spring
3 29 (22.14%) AngularJS
4 20 (15.27%) Gherkin
4 20 (15.27%) Jest
5 18 (13.74%) Node.js
6 16 (12.21%) React
7 14 (10.69%) .NET
8 12 (9.16%) Micronaut
8 12 (9.16%) REST
9 11 (8.40%) Kafka
9 11 (8.40%) Web Services
10 10 (7.63%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (5.34%) Mustache
12 6 (4.58%) CSS
12 6 (4.58%) HTML
13 5 (3.82%) Flutter
13 5 (3.82%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Graph
13 5 (3.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.08%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (12.21%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.11%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.53%) DataPower
6 1 (0.76%) IoT
6 1 (0.76%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.63%) Linux
2 2 (1.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.04%) DevOps
2 57 (43.51%) CI/CD
3 44 (33.59%) Agile
3 44 (33.59%) Microservices
4 36 (27.48%) Computer Science
5 35 (26.72%) Mentoring
6 27 (20.61%) Migration
6 27 (20.61%) Software Engineering
6 27 (20.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 26 (19.85%) Architectural Patterns
7 26 (19.85%) Enterprise Architecture
8 25 (19.08%) SDLC
9 24 (18.32%) Application Security
9 24 (18.32%) Data Modelling
9 24 (18.32%) EAI
9 24 (18.32%) TOGAF
10 20 (15.27%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (12.21%) Scrum
11 16 (12.21%) Secure Coding
12 15 (11.45%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 59 (45.04%) TypeScript
2 56 (42.75%) Python
3 53 (40.46%) JavaScript
4 41 (31.30%) C#
5 34 (25.95%) SQL
6 26 (19.85%) Bash
7 19 (14.50%) Groovy
8 12 (9.16%) Kotlin
9 8 (6.11%) C
9 8 (6.11%) C++
9 8 (6.11%) PL/SQL
9 8 (6.11%) Scala
10 7 (5.34%) PowerShell
11 5 (3.82%) Go
11 5 (3.82%) PHP
12 2 (1.53%) R
13 1 (0.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (32.06%) AWS Certification
2 36 (27.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 36 (27.48%) Degree
3 27 (20.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (18.32%) Azure Certification
4 24 (18.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (18.32%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (5.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.34%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (3.82%) AWS Certified Developer
6 5 (3.82%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) QA
2 2 (1.53%) GDPR
2 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (36.64%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 20 (15.27%) HP Fortify
3 9 (6.87%) Ansible
4 5 (3.82%) Terraform
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) Kibana
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (22.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.05%) Google
3 3 (2.29%) Pega
3 3 (2.29%) WSO2
4 1 (0.76%) Adobe
4 1 (0.76%) New Relic