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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 132 202
Rank change year-on-year +17 +70 +67
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 87 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.48% 0.34% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 0.36% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 45 6 12
10th Percentile £59,750 - £28,125
25th Percentile £70,000 £28,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £44,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.54% -19.09% +0.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £61,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £64,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.69% -7.81% -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 5,489 2,211 5,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 94.25% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3,505 1,279 4,204
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,742
Median % change year-on-year - +2.58% -11.19%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.45%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +26 87 £75,000 -9.09% 6
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 April 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 87 (100.00%) Java
2 69 (79.31%) AWS
3 61 (70.11%) Serverless
4 59 (67.82%) Amazon ECS
5 58 (66.67%) Amazon S3
6 56 (64.37%) CI/CD
7 55 (63.22%) Docker
8 54 (62.07%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (60.92%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (60.92%) DevOps
10 51 (58.62%) Jenkins
11 50 (57.47%) AngularJS
11 50 (57.47%) DynamoDB
12 46 (52.87%) Spring Boot
13 45 (51.72%) AWS Step Functions
14 42 (48.28%) Agile
15 41 (47.13%) TypeScript
16 31 (35.63%) Node.js
17 30 (34.48%) GitLab
17 30 (34.48%) Groovy
17 30 (34.48%) SonarQube
18 28 (32.18%) Amazon ECR
18 28 (32.18%) Apigee
18 28 (32.18%) Bash
18 28 (32.18%) Cypress.io
18 28 (32.18%) Gherkin
18 28 (32.18%) HP Fortify
18 28 (32.18%) Jest
18 28 (32.18%) Maven
18 28 (32.18%) SDLC

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 7 (8.05%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.30%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 69 (79.31%) AWS
2 61 (70.11%) Serverless
3 59 (67.82%) Amazon ECS
4 58 (66.67%) Amazon S3
5 54 (62.07%) AWS Lambda
6 53 (60.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (51.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (32.18%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (32.18%) Apigee
9 27 (31.03%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (25.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (25.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 17 (19.54%) GitHub
12 11 (12.64%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (9.20%) Datadog
13 8 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.45%) Azure
15 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (57.47%) DynamoDB
2 22 (25.29%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (22.99%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.20%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (58.62%) Jenkins
2 30 (34.48%) GitLab
2 30 (34.48%) SonarQube
3 28 (32.18%) Cypress.io
3 28 (32.18%) Maven
4 24 (27.59%) Git
5 4 (4.60%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.30%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.30%) JIRA
6 2 (2.30%) Selenium
7 1 (1.15%) JUnit
General
1 13 (14.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (57.47%) AngularJS
2 46 (52.87%) Spring Boot
3 31 (35.63%) Node.js
4 28 (32.18%) Gherkin
4 28 (32.18%) Jest
5 20 (22.99%) Spring
6 12 (13.79%) React
7 11 (12.64%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (12.64%) REST
8 8 (9.20%) Web Services
9 7 (8.05%) Kafka
9 7 (8.05%) Mustache
10 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.45%) JSON
11 3 (3.45%) XML
12 2 (2.30%) Drools
12 2 (2.30%) Java EE
12 2 (2.30%) JPA
12 2 (2.30%) RESTful
12 2 (2.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (64.37%) CI/CD
2 53 (60.92%) DevOps
3 42 (48.28%) Agile
4 28 (32.18%) SDLC
5 22 (25.29%) ITIL
5 22 (25.29%) Secure Coding
5 22 (25.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 19 (21.84%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (19.54%) DevSecOps
8 16 (18.39%) Clean Code
8 16 (18.39%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (14.94%) Prototyping
10 12 (13.79%) Microservices
11 10 (11.49%) Secrets Management
12 9 (10.34%) Scrum
12 9 (10.34%) TDD
13 8 (9.20%) Principle of Least Privilege
13 8 (9.20%) RBAC
13 8 (9.20%) Workflow
13 8 (9.20%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (47.13%) TypeScript
3 30 (34.48%) Groovy
4 28 (32.18%) Bash
5 26 (29.89%) Kotlin
6 25 (28.74%) SQL
7 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
8 7 (8.05%) Python
9 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (31.03%) AWS Certification
2 22 (25.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (25.29%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (12.64%) Security Cleared
4 10 (11.49%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.15%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) QA
System Software
1 55 (63.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (32.18%) HP Fortify
2 12 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.90%) Terraform
4 5 (5.75%) Ansible
5 2 (2.30%) Kibana
5 2 (2.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.60%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.60%) IBM
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle