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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 44 89
Rank change year-on-year +19 +45 -59
Permanent jobs citing Java 193 78 63
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.32% 5.39% 2.06%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.05% 20.53% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 125 56 49
10th Percentile £47,389 £47,231 £34,400
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% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,484 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £121,914 £82,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year +3.57% +14.29% -5.77%

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 688 380 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.98% 26.26% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 502 316 697
10th Percentile £38,500 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,572 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +20.00% -9.16%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,125 £69,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,842 £83,485
Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +21 178 £75,000 +7.14% 12
Halifax -5 3 £65,000 -22.23% 1
Bradford -8 3 £65,000 - 3
Ossett - 2 - -
Bingley +3 1 - -
Batley +2 1 - -
Elland 0 1 - -
Dewsbury -2 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - - 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 3 (1.55%) Apache
1 3 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.55%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.55%) JBoss
2 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 123 (63.73%) AWS
2 85 (44.04%) Serverless
3 76 (39.38%) AWS Lambda
4 75 (38.86%) Amazon S3
5 73 (37.82%) Amazon ECS
6 70 (36.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 65 (33.68%) AWS Step Functions
8 37 (19.17%) Amazon ECR
8 37 (19.17%) Apigee
9 28 (14.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 28 (14.51%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (13.99%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 22 (11.40%) GitHub
12 21 (10.88%) Azure
13 12 (6.22%) Datadog
13 12 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 8 (4.15%) GCP
15 7 (3.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (33.68%) DynamoDB
2 28 (14.51%) NoSQL
3 27 (13.99%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (4.15%) BigQuery
5 8 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.15%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.15%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.63%) Power BI
7 5 (2.59%) MySQL
8 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.55%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.55%) Tableau
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 60 (31.09%) Jenkins
2 39 (20.21%) GitLab
3 33 (17.10%) Cypress.io
4 30 (15.54%) SonarQube
5 28 (14.51%) Maven
6 27 (13.99%) Git
7 6 (3.11%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.07%) Selenium
9 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.55%) JIRA
10 1 (0.52%) Gatling
10 1 (0.52%) JMeter
10 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 34 (17.62%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.70%) Games
4 11 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.59%) Retail
6 4 (2.07%) Finance
6 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 141 (73.06%) Developer
2 103 (53.37%) Java Developer
3 46 (23.83%) Senior
4 41 (21.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (18.65%) Senior Developer
6 31 (16.06%) AWS Developer
7 27 (13.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 27 (13.99%) Senior Java Developer
8 25 (12.95%) Lead
9 14 (7.25%) Java Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Angular Developer
11 11 (5.70%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (4.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
14 8 (4.15%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.63%) Android Developer
15 7 (3.63%) Applications Developer
15 7 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (3.63%) Software Engineer
16 6 (3.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (41.97%) AngularJS
2 57 (29.53%) Spring Boot
3 39 (20.21%) Spring
4 38 (19.69%) Node.js
5 36 (18.65%) Gherkin
6 28 (14.51%) Jest
7 23 (11.92%) React
8 14 (7.25%) .NET
9 11 (5.70%) Android SDK
9 11 (5.70%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.15%) RESTful
11 7 (3.63%) REST
12 6 (3.11%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.59%) Flutter
13 5 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (2.07%) Classic ASP
15 3 (1.55%) Drools
15 3 (1.55%) JSON
15 3 (1.55%) Web Services
15 3 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.70%) Mobile App
1 11 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
1 11 (5.70%) Social Media
2 9 (4.66%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.63%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.55%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.70%) Android
2 8 (4.15%) Linux
3 3 (1.55%) Unix
3 3 (1.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.38%) Agile
1 76 (39.38%) CI/CD
2 60 (31.09%) DevOps
3 59 (30.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (13.99%) SDLC
5 24 (12.44%) Mentoring
5 24 (12.44%) Secure Coding
5 24 (12.44%) Software Engineering
6 23 (11.92%) Continuous Integration
6 23 (11.92%) ITIL
6 23 (11.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 22 (11.40%) DevSecOps
7 22 (11.40%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (10.88%) AI
9 20 (10.36%) Microservices
10 19 (9.84%) Clean Code
11 16 (8.29%) Design Patterns
12 15 (7.77%) Secrets Management
13 14 (7.25%) Coaching
13 14 (7.25%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.57%) TypeScript
2 52 (26.94%) SQL
3 43 (22.28%) Kotlin
4 40 (20.73%) Groovy
5 37 (19.17%) Python
6 30 (15.54%) Bash
7 23 (11.92%) C#
7 23 (11.92%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.59%) Go
8 5 (2.59%) Scala
9 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) C++
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 29 (15.03%) AWS Certification
2 22 (11.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (11.40%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (8.81%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.74%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.63%) Degree
6 5 (2.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.07%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.07%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.70%) QA
2 8 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 58 (30.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (13.99%) HP Fortify
2 11 (5.70%) Terraform
3 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.59%) Ansible
5 3 (1.55%) Argo
5 3 (1.55%) Packer
6 2 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.59%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.59%) IBM
2 3 (1.55%) Google
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.04%) Oracle