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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 35 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 -28
Permanent jobs citing Java 167 73 101
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 6.49% 6.75% 3.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.83% 18.96% 12.48%
Number of salaries quoted 96 59 71
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £54,688 £47,365 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +9.97% +4.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,856 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £107,282 £91,934
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year - +6.93% +7.00%

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 600 385 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 23.32% 35.62% 29.28%
Number of salaries quoted 429 317 669
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,267 £82,548
Yorkshire median annual salary £54,250 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +5.00% -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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +16 156 £75,000 +11.11% 37
Ossett - 2 - -
Halifax +2 1 - -
Pontefract - 1 - -
Wakefield - 1 - - 1
Batley - 1 - -
Bingley - 1 - -
Bradford - 1 £65,000 - 3
Dewsbury - 1 - -
Elland - 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 10 (5.99%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.99%) JBoss
3 3 (1.80%) Apache
3 3 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.20%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 110 (65.87%) AWS
2 88 (52.69%) Serverless
3 69 (41.32%) Amazon ECS
4 66 (39.52%) Amazon S3
5 60 (35.93%) AWS Lambda
6 57 (34.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 55 (32.93%) AWS Step Functions
8 40 (23.95%) Amazon ECR
8 40 (23.95%) Apigee
9 29 (17.37%) Azure
10 27 (16.17%) Amazon SQS
11 20 (11.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (11.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 15 (8.98%) GitHub
14 11 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
15 6 (3.59%) Datadog
15 6 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (2.40%) SaaS
17 3 (1.80%) dbt
17 3 (1.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.59%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (35.93%) DynamoDB
2 21 (12.57%) NoSQL
3 19 (11.38%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (8.98%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.99%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.20%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.20%) MySQL
7 2 (1.20%) Power BI
7 2 (1.20%) Tableau
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (35.33%) Jenkins
2 40 (23.95%) Cypress.io
2 40 (23.95%) GitLab
3 39 (23.35%) Maven
3 39 (23.35%) SonarQube
4 22 (13.17%) Git
5 5 (2.99%) Selenium
6 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.60%) Gatling
7 1 (0.60%) JMeter
7 1 (0.60%) JUnit
7 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 15 (8.98%) Games
3 13 (7.78%) Retail
4 12 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (5.99%) Finance
7 7 (4.19%) Manufacturing
7 7 (4.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.60%) Back Office
9 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 100 (59.88%) Developer
2 77 (46.11%) Java Developer
3 28 (16.77%) Lead
3 28 (16.77%) Senior
4 20 (11.98%) Architect
5 19 (11.38%) Software Engineer
6 18 (10.78%) Senior Developer
7 16 (9.58%) AWS Developer
8 15 (8.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 15 (8.98%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (7.78%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 12 (7.19%) Software Developer
10 12 (7.19%) Technical Leader
11 9 (5.39%) Applications Architect
11 9 (5.39%) Software Architect
12 7 (4.19%) Graduate
12 7 (4.19%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Lead Developer
12 7 (4.19%) Logistics Engineer
12 7 (4.19%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (36.53%) Spring Boot
2 59 (35.33%) AngularJS
3 39 (23.35%) Gherkin
3 39 (23.35%) Jest
4 35 (20.96%) Spring
5 34 (20.36%) Node.js
6 16 (9.58%) React
7 15 (8.98%) .NET
8 12 (7.19%) GraphQL
8 12 (7.19%) REST
9 11 (6.59%) Android SDK
9 11 (6.59%) Web Services
10 10 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (4.79%) Kafka
12 7 (4.19%) Mustache
13 6 (3.59%) Micronaut
13 6 (3.59%) RESTful
13 6 (3.59%) XML
14 5 (2.99%) Flutter
14 5 (2.99%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.59%) Mobile App
3 11 (6.59%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (6.59%) Social Media
4 8 (4.79%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.19%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.19%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.20%) DataPower
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.59%) Android
2 7 (4.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (49.10%) CI/CD
2 79 (47.31%) Agile
3 69 (41.32%) DevOps
4 36 (21.56%) Microservices
5 32 (19.16%) SDLC
6 31 (18.56%) Mentoring
7 30 (17.96%) Computer Science
8 29 (17.37%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (17.37%) Software Engineering
9 28 (16.77%) Secure Coding
10 26 (15.57%) AI
11 23 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (13.17%) ITIL
12 22 (13.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 21 (12.57%) Architectural Patterns
13 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (11.38%) Migration
15 18 (10.78%) Data Modelling
15 18 (10.78%) EAI
15 18 (10.78%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 70 (41.92%) TypeScript
2 45 (26.95%) JavaScript
3 42 (25.15%) Python
4 39 (23.35%) SQL
5 38 (22.75%) Bash
5 38 (22.75%) Groovy
6 36 (21.56%) Kotlin
7 33 (19.76%) C#
8 7 (4.19%) C
8 7 (4.19%) C++
8 7 (4.19%) PL/SQL
9 5 (2.99%) Go
10 2 (1.20%) R
10 2 (1.20%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 49 (29.34%) AWS Certification
2 27 (16.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 27 (16.17%) Degree
3 22 (13.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 22 (13.17%) ITIL Certification
4 21 (12.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (10.78%) Azure Certification
5 18 (10.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (10.78%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (5.39%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (5.39%) Security Cleared
7 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.39%) QA
2 3 (1.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (41.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (23.35%) HP Fortify
2 16 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.79%) Terraform
4 4 (2.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (10.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.80%) Pega
2 3 (1.80%) WSO2
3 2 (1.20%) Google
4 1 (0.60%) Adobe