Java Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Yorkshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 140 187
Rank change year-on-year +19 +47 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 84 16 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.11% 0.48% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.18% 0.57% 0.042%
Number of salaries quoted 55 7 1
10th Percentile £65,000 - -
25th Percentile - £28,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £40,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -52.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £76,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £84,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% -14.20% +5.63%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 7,092 2,827 4,717
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 85.46% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,029 1,605 2,672
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,775
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,865 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Yorkshire

Java Developer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
West Yorkshire +32 84 £75,000 +15.38% 2
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 12 September 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 67 (79.76%) AWS
3 57 (67.86%) AngularJS
4 50 (59.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 49 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
5 49 (58.33%) Serverless
6 47 (55.95%) Amazon S3
7 46 (54.76%) Amazon ECS
8 41 (48.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 41 (48.81%) CI/CD
8 41 (48.81%) DevOps
9 39 (46.43%) DynamoDB
10 38 (45.24%) Docker
11 37 (44.05%) Spring Boot
12 34 (40.48%) TypeScript
13 32 (38.10%) Jenkins
14 30 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 30 (35.71%) SQL
15 29 (34.52%) Spring
16 28 (33.33%) Node.js
17 27 (32.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 27 (32.14%) Kotlin
18 25 (29.76%) Agile
19 24 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 24 (28.57%) GitHub
20 23 (27.38%) Amazon Athena
21 20 (23.81%) DevSecOps
21 20 (23.81%) Git
21 20 (23.81%) NoSQL
22 19 (22.62%) Datadog

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 67 (79.76%) AWS
2 50 (59.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 49 (58.33%) AWS Lambda
3 49 (58.33%) Serverless
4 47 (55.95%) Amazon S3
5 46 (54.76%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (48.81%) AWS Step Functions
7 27 (32.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 24 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (28.57%) GitHub
9 19 (22.62%) Datadog
9 19 (22.62%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (13.10%) Amazon ECR
11 11 (13.10%) Apigee
12 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (2.38%) Azure
15 1 (1.19%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (46.43%) DynamoDB
2 23 (27.38%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (23.81%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 32 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 20 (23.81%) Git
3 14 (16.67%) GitLab
4 13 (15.48%) SonarQube
5 12 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 12 (14.29%) Maven
6 2 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 18 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.90%) Finance
3 4 (4.76%) Banking
4 2 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (67.86%) AngularJS
2 37 (44.05%) Spring Boot
3 29 (34.52%) Spring
4 28 (33.33%) Node.js
5 16 (19.05%) Gherkin
6 12 (14.29%) Jest
7 7 (8.33%) React
8 5 (5.95%) REST
9 4 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.76%) Terraform
10 3 (3.57%) RESTful
11 2 (2.38%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (2.38%) JMS
11 2 (2.38%) JPA
11 2 (2.38%) JSON
11 2 (2.38%) Web Services
11 2 (2.38%) YAML
12 1 (1.19%) Hibernate
12 1 (1.19%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.81%) CI/CD
1 41 (48.81%) DevOps
2 30 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 25 (29.76%) Agile
4 20 (23.81%) DevSecOps
5 17 (20.24%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (20.24%) Secrets Management
6 15 (17.86%) Principle of Least Privilege
6 15 (17.86%) RBAC
6 15 (17.86%) Workflow
6 15 (17.86%) Workflow Management
7 13 (15.48%) SDLC
8 12 (14.29%) Microservices
9 11 (13.10%) ITIL
9 11 (13.10%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 10 (11.90%) Secure Coding
11 9 (10.71%) Clean Code
12 6 (7.14%) Containerisation
13 5 (5.95%) Prototyping
14 4 (4.76%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 84 (100.00%) Java
2 34 (40.48%) TypeScript
3 30 (35.71%) SQL
4 27 (32.14%) Kotlin
5 19 (22.62%) Groovy
6 12 (14.29%) Bash
7 8 (9.52%) Python
8 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.10%) AWS Certification
2 10 (11.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 10 (11.90%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 38 (45.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.76%) Ansible
2 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.38%) Kibana
3 2 (2.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.76%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.76%) IBM
2 2 (2.38%) Oracle