Java Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Yorkshire is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 143 181
Rank change year-on-year +26 +38 +56
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 54 2 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.34% 0.080% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 0.084% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23 0 15
10th Percentile £42,250 - £33,750
25th Percentile £56,250 - £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.36%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £61,750
90th Percentile £84,250 - £75,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -5.88%

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 3,729 2,370 4,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 95.33% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,301 1,079 3,478
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,969 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.72% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,330 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +22 54 £72,500 - 19
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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 54 (100.00%) Java
2 49 (90.74%) AWS
3 41 (75.93%) CI/CD
4 40 (74.07%) DevOps
4 40 (74.07%) Docker
5 38 (70.37%) Amazon ECS
5 38 (70.37%) Serverless
6 34 (62.96%) Amazon S3
6 34 (62.96%) Jenkins
7 32 (59.26%) Spring Boot
8 31 (57.41%) AngularJS
9 29 (53.70%) Agile
10 28 (51.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 28 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (51.85%) AWS Step Functions
10 28 (51.85%) DynamoDB
11 22 (40.74%) TypeScript
12 21 (38.89%) Node.js
12 21 (38.89%) SDLC
13 20 (37.04%) Git
14 19 (35.19%) Amazon SQS
15 18 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
15 18 (33.33%) Apigee
15 18 (33.33%) Bash
15 18 (33.33%) Cypress.io
15 18 (33.33%) Gherkin
15 18 (33.33%) GitLab
15 18 (33.33%) Groovy
15 18 (33.33%) HP Fortify
15 18 (33.33%) Jest

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (18.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.85%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 49 (90.74%) AWS
2 38 (70.37%) Amazon ECS
2 38 (70.37%) Serverless
3 34 (62.96%) Amazon S3
4 28 (51.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (51.85%) AWS Step Functions
5 19 (35.19%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
6 18 (33.33%) Apigee
7 10 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (18.52%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 10 (18.52%) GitHub
8 6 (11.11%) SaaS
9 5 (9.26%) Azure
10 4 (7.41%) Datadog
10 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (51.85%) DynamoDB
2 11 (20.37%) NoSQL
3 10 (18.52%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (62.96%) Jenkins
2 20 (37.04%) Git
3 18 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 18 (33.33%) GitLab
3 18 (33.33%) Maven
3 18 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.85%) JUnit
4 1 (1.85%) Mockito
4 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 6 (11.11%) Finance
1 6 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (59.26%) Spring Boot
2 31 (57.41%) AngularJS
3 21 (38.89%) Node.js
4 18 (33.33%) Gherkin
4 18 (33.33%) Jest
5 16 (29.63%) Spring
6 10 (18.52%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (18.52%) REST
7 9 (16.67%) React
7 9 (16.67%) Web Services
8 8 (14.81%) Kafka
9 7 (12.96%) Mustache
10 6 (11.11%) Micronaut
11 3 (5.56%) Apache Camel
12 2 (3.70%) Flutter
12 2 (3.70%) Grails
12 2 (3.70%) Hibernate
12 2 (3.70%) XML
13 1 (1.85%) Drools
13 1 (1.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (75.93%) CI/CD
2 40 (74.07%) DevOps
3 29 (53.70%) Agile
4 21 (38.89%) SDLC
5 15 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 15 (27.78%) Secure Coding
6 14 (25.93%) Clean Code
7 13 (24.07%) ITIL
7 13 (24.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 11 (20.37%) Microservices
8 11 (20.37%) TDD
9 10 (18.52%) DevSecOps
9 10 (18.52%) Scrum
10 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (14.81%) Prototyping
11 7 (12.96%) Workflow
12 6 (11.11%) BDD
12 6 (11.11%) Logistics
12 6 (11.11%) OO
12 6 (11.11%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (40.74%) TypeScript
3 18 (33.33%) Bash
3 18 (33.33%) Groovy
4 13 (24.07%) JavaScript
4 13 (24.07%) Kotlin
5 12 (22.22%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) Go
6 2 (3.70%) Python
6 2 (3.70%) R
6 2 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (31.48%) AWS Certification
2 13 (24.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Certified Developer
3 4 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 40 (74.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (33.33%) HP Fortify
2 12 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.41%) Ansible
3 4 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.56%) Pega
1 3 (5.56%) WSO2