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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 85 32
Rank change year-on-year +42 -53 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 67 46 173
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.45% 2.03% 7.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.20% 7.24% 18.70%
Number of salaries quoted 41 35 121
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,227
25th Percentile £53,000 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £82,751 £82,500 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +8.33% -8.19% +17.22%

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 349 635 925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.17% 28.01% 39.68%
Number of salaries quoted 279 441 743
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,776
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £72,750 £70,000 £77,000
90th Percentile £82,950 £82,500 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +39 44 £70,000 +16.67% 42
Elland - 6 £42,000 -
Bradford -5 2 £65,000 - 3
Halifax +6 1 £83,577 +108.94%
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Brighouse - 1 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 - -
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Sowerby Bridge - 1 - -
Todmorden - 1 - -
Java
Yorkshire

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.48%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (52.24%) AWS
2 15 (22.39%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (8.96%) GCP
5 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.46%) Power Automate
5 5 (7.46%) Serverless
6 3 (4.48%) SaaS
7 2 (2.99%) Apigee
7 2 (2.99%) GitHub
7 2 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.99%) IaaS
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.49%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.49%) dbt
8 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) AMQP
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
1 2 (2.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.94%) MongoDB
2 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Big Data
3 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.99%) Endeca
3 2 (2.99%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) Power BI
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (22.39%) Jenkins
2 12 (17.91%) GitLab
3 5 (7.46%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) Selenium
4 3 (4.48%) JUnit
4 3 (4.48%) Postman
4 3 (4.48%) SonarQube
5 2 (2.99%) Maven
5 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.49%) Appium
6 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.49%) JIRA
6 1 (1.49%) JMeter
6 1 (1.49%) Mockito
6 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (16.42%) Finance
2 10 (14.93%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Banking
5 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.48%) Marketing
6 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.99%) Law
7 2 (2.99%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
8 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (35.82%) Developer
2 16 (23.88%) Senior
3 15 (22.39%) Lead
4 14 (20.90%) Java Developer
4 14 (20.90%) Software Developer
5 12 (17.91%) Lead Developer
6 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Lead Software Developer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Architect
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (7.46%) Applications Specialist
9 5 (7.46%) Applications Support
9 5 (7.46%) Applications Support Specialist
9 5 (7.46%) Lead Java Developer
9 5 (7.46%) Support Specialist
10 4 (5.97%) CloudOps Manager
10 4 (5.97%) Java Software Developer
10 4 (5.97%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) HTML
2 12 (17.91%) .NET
3 9 (13.43%) React
3 9 (13.43%) RESTful
4 8 (11.94%) Node.js
4 8 (11.94%) Spring
4 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.45%) Flutter
6 5 (7.46%) CSS
6 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (7.46%) SOAP
7 4 (5.97%) LDAP
7 4 (5.97%) Micronaut
8 3 (4.48%) Kafka
9 2 (2.99%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.99%) JSON
9 2 (2.99%) Spring Cloud
9 2 (2.99%) XML
10 1 (1.49%) jQuery
10 1 (1.49%) JSR 170
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Android
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
3 2 (2.99%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
2 24 (35.82%) DevOps
3 18 (26.87%) Mentoring
4 15 (22.39%) Agile
5 13 (19.40%) Computer Science
5 13 (19.40%) Microservices
5 13 (19.40%) Software Engineering
6 12 (17.91%) Clean Code
7 11 (16.42%) SDLC
8 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 9 (13.43%) TDD
9 9 (13.43%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (11.94%) Artificial Intelligence
10 8 (11.94%) Data Privacy
10 8 (11.94%) Machine Learning
10 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
10 8 (11.94%) Test Strategy
11 7 (10.45%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 38 (56.72%) JavaScript
2 37 (55.22%) Python
3 31 (46.27%) SQL
4 29 (43.28%) C#
5 22 (32.84%) TypeScript
6 14 (20.90%) PHP
7 12 (17.91%) Go
8 10 (14.93%) C++
9 9 (13.43%) Bash
9 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
10 8 (11.94%) C
10 8 (11.94%) Dart
10 8 (11.94%) Kotlin
10 8 (11.94%) MATLAB
10 8 (11.94%) R
10 8 (11.94%) Ruby
10 8 (11.94%) Rust
11 6 (8.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 13 (19.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (19.40%) Degree
3 12 (17.91%) SC Cleared
4 10 (14.93%) AWS Certification
5 6 (8.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (4.48%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
2 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.45%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Istio
3 2 (2.99%) Kibana
3 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Google
3 2 (2.99%) CyberSource
3 2 (2.99%) New Relic
3 2 (2.99%) Oracle
4 1 (1.49%) Adobe