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 20 August 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 149 189
Rank change year-on-year +41 +40 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 90 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.22% 0.40% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 0.47% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 61 9 1
10th Percentile £65,000 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £28,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -9.09% +3.13%

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 6,953 2,987 5,020
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.23% 85.88% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 4,873 1,658 3,182
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,300 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +42 90 £75,000 - 4
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 August 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 90 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (78.89%) AWS
3 58 (64.44%) AngularJS
4 53 (58.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 52 (57.78%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (57.78%) Serverless
6 50 (55.56%) Amazon S3
7 49 (54.44%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (47.78%) CI/CD
8 43 (47.78%) DevOps
9 42 (46.67%) AWS Step Functions
9 42 (46.67%) DynamoDB
10 39 (43.33%) Docker
11 37 (41.11%) Spring Boot
12 36 (40.00%) TypeScript
13 35 (38.89%) Jenkins
14 31 (34.44%) Kotlin
14 31 (34.44%) SQL
15 30 (33.33%) Node.js
16 29 (32.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (31.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 27 (30.00%) Spring
19 26 (28.89%) Agile
19 26 (28.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 25 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
21 23 (25.56%) GitHub
22 22 (24.44%) NoSQL
23 21 (23.33%) Groovy
24 20 (22.22%) DevSecOps
25 19 (21.11%) Git

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 1 (1.11%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 71 (78.89%) AWS
2 53 (58.89%) AWS CloudFormation
3 52 (57.78%) AWS Lambda
3 52 (57.78%) Serverless
4 50 (55.56%) Amazon S3
5 49 (54.44%) Amazon ECS
6 42 (46.67%) AWS Step Functions
7 28 (31.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 26 (28.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (25.56%) GitHub
10 17 (18.89%) Datadog
10 17 (18.89%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (17.78%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (14.44%) Amazon ECR
12 13 (14.44%) Apigee
13 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (2.22%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (46.67%) DynamoDB
2 25 (27.78%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (24.44%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 35 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 19 (21.11%) Git
3 16 (17.78%) GitLab
4 15 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 14 (15.56%) Cypress.io
5 14 (15.56%) Maven
6 3 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.22%) JIRA
8 1 (1.11%) Selenium
General
1 18 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.78%) Finance
3 3 (3.33%) Banking
4 2 (2.22%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (64.44%) AngularJS
2 37 (41.11%) Spring Boot
3 30 (33.33%) Node.js
4 27 (30.00%) Spring
5 18 (20.00%) Gherkin
6 14 (15.56%) Jest
7 9 (10.00%) React
8 5 (5.56%) REST
8 5 (5.56%) Terraform
9 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.33%) RESTful
11 2 (2.22%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (2.22%) JMS
11 2 (2.22%) JPA
11 2 (2.22%) JSON
11 2 (2.22%) Web Services
11 2 (2.22%) YAML
12 1 (1.11%) Spring MVC
12 1 (1.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (47.78%) CI/CD
1 43 (47.78%) DevOps
2 29 (32.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 26 (28.89%) Agile
4 20 (22.22%) DevSecOps
5 18 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (17.78%) Secrets Management
7 14 (15.56%) Principle of Least Privilege
7 14 (15.56%) RBAC
7 14 (15.56%) Workflow
7 14 (15.56%) Workflow Management
8 13 (14.44%) SDLC
9 12 (13.33%) ITIL
9 12 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 11 (12.22%) Microservices
10 11 (12.22%) Secure Coding
11 9 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 7 (7.78%) Containerisation
13 5 (5.56%) Prototyping
14 3 (3.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 90 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 31 (34.44%) Kotlin
3 31 (34.44%) SQL
4 21 (23.33%) Groovy
5 14 (15.56%) Bash
6 8 (8.89%) Python
7 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (14.44%) AWS Certification
2 11 (12.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 11 (12.22%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 39 (43.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (14.44%) HP Fortify
2 4 (4.44%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.22%) Kibana
3 2 (2.22%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.44%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.44%) IBM
2 2 (2.22%) Oracle