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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 74 33
Rank change year-on-year +43 -41 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 94 43 153
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 5.87% 2.36% 7.59%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.76% 8.11% 19.17%
Number of salaries quoted 72 27 114
10th Percentile £32,050 £42,270 £48,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £54,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £69,474
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -6.44% +15.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £83,450
90th Percentile £81,125 £90,011 £88,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £55,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.84% +8.92%

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 432 530 798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 26.98% 29.04% 39.58%
Number of salaries quoted 345 327 637
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,450 £38,591
25th Percentile £41,163 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,991 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £85,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 85 £75,000 +29.39% 18
Elland - 5 £42,000 -
Bradford -11 2 £65,000 -
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 5 (5.32%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.19%) Apache
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.19%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.13%) JBoss
3 2 (2.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 72 (76.60%) AWS
2 34 (36.17%) Azure
3 29 (30.85%) Serverless
4 17 (18.09%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (8.51%) Amazon S3
6 8 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (8.51%) SaaS
7 7 (7.45%) Amazon ECR
7 7 (7.45%) Apigee
7 7 (7.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
8 5 (5.32%) Power Automate
9 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (4.26%) GCP
10 3 (3.19%) dbt
11 2 (2.13%) IaaS
12 1 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (1.06%) GitHub
12 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.83%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.64%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.51%) DynamoDB
4 7 (7.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.19%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.13%) Big Data
6 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.06%) Power BI
7 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 16 (17.02%) GitLab
3 8 (8.51%) Cypress.io
4 7 (7.45%) Maven
4 7 (7.45%) SonarQube
5 5 (5.32%) Git
6 2 (2.13%) Selenium
7 1 (1.06%) Appium
7 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.06%) Mockito
7 1 (1.06%) Postman
7 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.96%) Finance
3 11 (11.70%) Financial Institution
3 11 (11.70%) Retail
4 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.45%) Manufacturing
5 7 (7.45%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) Games
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
9 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (32.98%) Developer
2 22 (23.40%) Java Developer
3 21 (22.34%) Lead
4 20 (21.28%) Architect
5 19 (20.21%) Senior
6 17 (18.09%) Software Engineer
7 12 (12.77%) Lead Developer
7 12 (12.77%) Software Developer
8 10 (10.64%) Applications Architect
9 8 (8.51%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.51%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (7.45%) Graduate
10 7 (7.45%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) Logistics Engineer
10 7 (7.45%) Software Architect
10 7 (7.45%) Software Engineering Graduate
11 6 (6.38%) Lead Software Developer
11 6 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (5.32%) Applications Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.34%) Spring
1 21 (22.34%) Spring Boot
2 12 (12.77%) .NET
2 12 (12.77%) Node.js
3 11 (11.70%) Micronaut
4 10 (10.64%) AngularJS
5 8 (8.51%) React
6 7 (7.45%) Gherkin
6 7 (7.45%) Jest
7 5 (5.32%) CSS
7 5 (5.32%) Flutter
7 5 (5.32%) HTML
7 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (5.32%) REST
7 5 (5.32%) RESTful
7 5 (5.32%) Web Services
8 4 (4.26%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.26%) SOAP
9 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.19%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.09%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (7.45%) Driving Licence
2 7 (7.45%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.13%) DataPower
5 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Linux
2 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.43%) DevOps
2 34 (36.17%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.11%) Mentoring
4 27 (28.72%) Computer Science
4 27 (28.72%) Microservices
5 23 (24.47%) Agile
6 22 (23.40%) Software Engineering
7 18 (19.15%) Architectural Patterns
7 18 (19.15%) Enterprise Architecture
7 18 (19.15%) Migration
7 18 (19.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (17.02%) Application Security
8 16 (17.02%) Data Modelling
8 16 (17.02%) EAI
8 16 (17.02%) TOGAF
9 15 (15.96%) Clean Code
10 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (14.89%) Logistics
11 12 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 43 (45.74%) Python
2 41 (43.62%) JavaScript
3 35 (37.23%) TypeScript
4 30 (31.91%) C#
4 30 (31.91%) SQL
5 15 (15.96%) Bash
6 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.51%) Kotlin
8 7 (7.45%) C
8 7 (7.45%) C++
8 7 (7.45%) PL/SQL
8 7 (7.45%) Scala
9 6 (6.38%) Groovy
10 5 (5.32%) Go
10 5 (5.32%) PHP
11 2 (2.13%) R
12 1 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) Computer Science Degree
1 27 (28.72%) Degree
2 26 (27.66%) AWS Certification
3 19 (20.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 16 (17.02%) Azure Certification
4 16 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (17.02%) TOGAF Certification
5 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
5 10 (10.64%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) GDPR
2 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (23.40%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.51%) Ansible
3 7 (7.45%) HP Fortify
4 5 (5.32%) Terraform
5 2 (2.13%) Kibana
6 1 (1.06%) Grafana
6 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.19%) Google
2 3 (3.19%) Pega
2 3 (3.19%) WSO2
3 2 (2.13%) New Relic