Java Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Yorkshire is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 - 153
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 29 0 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.83% - 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% - 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 16
10th Percentile £33,250 - £53,750
25th Percentile £48,438 - £57,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £83,438
90th Percentile £72,000 - £86,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,104 3,406 2,742
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.99% 96.41% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,790 1,447 2,143
10th Percentile £26,725 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,063 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 - 29 £57,500 - 13
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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 29 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (82.76%) AWS
3 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
3 17 (58.62%) DevOps
4 16 (55.17%) Agile
4 16 (55.17%) Spring Boot
5 14 (48.28%) Docker
6 13 (44.83%) Spring
7 12 (41.38%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
7 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
7 12 (41.38%) Serverless
8 11 (37.93%) SDLC
8 11 (37.93%) TDD
9 10 (34.48%) Git
9 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
9 10 (34.48%) Microservices
10 9 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (31.03%) React
11 8 (27.59%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (27.59%) Amazon S3
11 8 (27.59%) Clean Code
11 8 (27.59%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (27.59%) Node.js
11 8 (27.59%) OpenStack
11 8 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (27.59%) REST
11 8 (27.59%) Scrum
12 7 (24.14%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (24.14%) AngularJS

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 8 (27.59%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 24 (82.76%) AWS
2 12 (41.38%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (41.38%) Serverless
3 8 (27.59%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (27.59%) Amazon S3
4 7 (24.14%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (20.69%) SaaS
6 5 (17.24%) Azure
7 4 (13.79%) Amazon ECR
7 4 (13.79%) Apigee
7 4 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (13.79%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (24.14%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.79%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) Jenkins
2 10 (34.48%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
3 4 (13.79%) GitLab
3 4 (13.79%) Maven
3 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) JUnit
4 1 (3.45%) Mockito
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Financial Institution
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Social Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (55.17%) Spring Boot
2 13 (44.83%) Spring
3 9 (31.03%) React
4 8 (27.59%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (27.59%) Node.js
4 8 (27.59%) REST
5 7 (24.14%) AngularJS
5 7 (24.14%) Web Services
6 6 (20.69%) Kafka
6 6 (20.69%) Micronaut
7 5 (17.24%) Mustache
8 4 (13.79%) Flutter
8 4 (13.79%) Gherkin
8 4 (13.79%) Jest
9 3 (10.34%) Apache Camel
10 2 (6.90%) Grails
10 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
11 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
11 1 (3.45%) JSON
11 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
1 17 (58.62%) DevOps
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) SDLC
3 11 (37.93%) TDD
4 10 (34.48%) Microservices
5 9 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 8 (27.59%) Clean Code
6 8 (27.59%) Scrum
7 7 (24.14%) Secure Coding
8 6 (20.69%) Fintech
8 6 (20.69%) Front End Development
8 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (20.69%) Logistics
8 6 (20.69%) OO
8 6 (20.69%) OOP
8 6 (20.69%) Test Strategy
9 5 (17.24%) BDD
9 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
10 4 (13.79%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (41.38%) JavaScript
3 7 (24.14%) Kotlin
4 6 (20.69%) Scala
4 6 (20.69%) TypeScript
5 4 (13.79%) Bash
5 4 (13.79%) Go
5 4 (13.79%) Groovy
5 4 (13.79%) Python
6 2 (6.90%) C#
6 2 (6.90%) R
6 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Ansible
2 4 (13.79%) HP Fortify
3 3 (10.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Pega
1 3 (10.34%) WSO2