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 7 August 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 158 194
Rank change year-on-year +57 +36 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 94 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.29% 0.31% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 0.36% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 62 9 1
10th Percentile £56,000 - -
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% +23.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £90,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -9.09% -

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 6,860 3,043 4,895
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 85.91% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,805 1,647 3,276
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,375
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 7 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 7 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 +53 94 £75,000 - 2
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 94 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (76.60%) AWS
3 60 (63.83%) AngularJS
4 55 (58.51%) AWS CloudFormation
5 54 (57.45%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (57.45%) Serverless
6 52 (55.32%) Amazon S3
7 51 (54.26%) Amazon ECS
8 45 (47.87%) DevOps
9 44 (46.81%) AWS Step Functions
9 44 (46.81%) CI/CD
9 44 (46.81%) DynamoDB
10 41 (43.62%) Docker
10 41 (43.62%) Jenkins
11 39 (41.49%) Spring Boot
12 37 (39.36%) TypeScript
13 30 (31.91%) Agile
14 29 (30.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (30.85%) Kotlin
15 28 (29.79%) Node.js
15 28 (29.79%) SQL
16 26 (27.66%) Groovy
17 25 (26.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (26.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 24 (25.53%) Amazon Athena
18 24 (25.53%) Spring
19 23 (24.47%) Gherkin
20 21 (22.34%) GitLab
20 21 (22.34%) NoSQL
21 20 (21.28%) GitHub

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 2 (2.13%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 72 (76.60%) AWS
2 55 (58.51%) AWS CloudFormation
3 54 (57.45%) AWS Lambda
3 54 (57.45%) Serverless
4 52 (55.32%) Amazon S3
5 51 (54.26%) Amazon ECS
6 44 (46.81%) AWS Step Functions
7 25 (26.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (26.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 20 (21.28%) GitHub
9 19 (20.21%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (19.15%) Amazon ECR
10 18 (19.15%) Apigee
11 13 (13.83%) Datadog
11 13 (13.83%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
14 2 (2.13%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (46.81%) DynamoDB
2 24 (25.53%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (22.34%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 41 (43.62%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.34%) GitLab
3 20 (21.28%) SonarQube
4 19 (20.21%) Cypress.io
4 19 (20.21%) Maven
5 17 (18.09%) Git
6 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.13%) JIRA
7 2 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 18 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.32%) Finance
3 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.06%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (63.83%) AngularJS
2 39 (41.49%) Spring Boot
3 28 (29.79%) Node.js
4 24 (25.53%) Spring
5 23 (24.47%) Gherkin
6 19 (20.21%) Jest
7 9 (9.57%) React
8 5 (5.32%) REST
9 4 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.19%) RESTful
11 2 (2.13%) Drools
11 2 (2.13%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (2.13%) JMS
11 2 (2.13%) JPA
11 2 (2.13%) JSON
11 2 (2.13%) Web Services
11 2 (2.13%) XML
11 2 (2.13%) YAML
12 1 (1.06%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (47.87%) DevOps
2 44 (46.81%) CI/CD
3 30 (31.91%) Agile
4 29 (30.85%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (20.21%) DevSecOps
6 16 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (17.02%) SDLC
7 15 (15.96%) ITIL
7 15 (15.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 14 (14.89%) Secrets Management
8 14 (14.89%) Secure Coding
9 12 (12.77%) Principle of Least Privilege
9 12 (12.77%) RBAC
9 12 (12.77%) Workflow
9 12 (12.77%) Workflow Management
10 11 (11.70%) Clean Code
11 10 (10.64%) Microservices
12 8 (8.51%) Containerisation
13 6 (6.38%) Prototyping
14 4 (4.26%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (39.36%) TypeScript
3 29 (30.85%) Kotlin
4 28 (29.79%) SQL
5 26 (27.66%) Groovy
6 19 (20.21%) Bash
7 8 (8.51%) Python
8 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.15%) AWS Certification
2 14 (14.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 14 (14.89%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) QA
System Software
1 41 (43.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.15%) HP Fortify
2 6 (6.38%) Terraform
3 4 (4.26%) Ansible
3 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.13%) Kibana
4 2 (2.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.26%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.26%) IBM
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle