Java Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Yorkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 37 0 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.09% - 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.19% - 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 17 0 16
10th Percentile £37,000 - £53,750
25th Percentile £51,250 - £57,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £83,438
90th Percentile £85,000 - £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 3,103 3,242 2,782
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 96.32% 96.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,867 1,332 2,193
10th Percentile £27,125 £29,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,050 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.97% -1.85%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 24 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 24 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 - 37 £65,000 - 12
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 37 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (81.08%) AWS
3 22 (59.46%) DevOps
4 21 (56.76%) CI/CD
5 19 (51.35%) Docker
5 19 (51.35%) Spring Boot
6 18 (48.65%) Agile
7 17 (45.95%) Amazon ECS
7 17 (45.95%) Serverless
8 16 (43.24%) Jenkins
9 14 (37.84%) Spring
10 13 (35.14%) Amazon S3
11 12 (32.43%) AngularJS
11 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (32.43%) Git
11 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
11 12 (32.43%) SDLC
12 11 (29.73%) TDD
13 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
13 10 (27.03%) Microservices
13 10 (27.03%) Node.js
13 10 (27.03%) TypeScript
14 9 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (24.32%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (24.32%) DynamoDB
14 9 (24.32%) Kotlin
14 9 (24.32%) React
15 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS

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 (21.62%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (81.08%) AWS
2 17 (45.95%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (45.95%) Serverless
3 13 (35.14%) Amazon S3
4 9 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
4 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (24.32%) AWS Step Functions
5 8 (21.62%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (18.92%) Amazon ECR
6 7 (18.92%) Apigee
7 6 (16.22%) SaaS
8 5 (13.51%) Azure
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (5.41%) GitHub
10 1 (2.70%) Datadog
10 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) DynamoDB
2 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (18.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (43.24%) Jenkins
2 12 (32.43%) Git
3 7 (18.92%) Cypress.io
3 7 (18.92%) GitLab
3 7 (18.92%) Maven
3 7 (18.92%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.70%) JUnit
4 1 (2.70%) Mockito
General
1 7 (18.92%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Financial Institution
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) Spring Boot
2 14 (37.84%) Spring
3 12 (32.43%) AngularJS
4 10 (27.03%) Node.js
5 9 (24.32%) React
6 8 (21.62%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (21.62%) REST
7 7 (18.92%) Gherkin
7 7 (18.92%) Jest
7 7 (18.92%) Web Services
8 6 (16.22%) Kafka
8 6 (16.22%) Micronaut
9 5 (13.51%) Mustache
10 4 (10.81%) Flutter
11 3 (8.11%) Apache Camel
12 2 (5.41%) Grails
12 2 (5.41%) Hibernate
13 1 (2.70%) ActiveMQ
13 1 (2.70%) JSON
13 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) DevOps
2 21 (56.76%) CI/CD
3 18 (48.65%) Agile
4 12 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (32.43%) SDLC
5 11 (29.73%) TDD
6 10 (27.03%) Microservices
7 8 (21.62%) Clean Code
7 8 (21.62%) Scrum
7 8 (21.62%) Secure Coding
8 6 (16.22%) Fintech
8 6 (16.22%) Front End Development
8 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (16.22%) Logistics
8 6 (16.22%) OO
8 6 (16.22%) OOP
8 6 (16.22%) Test Strategy
9 5 (13.51%) BDD
9 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
10 4 (10.81%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.03%) TypeScript
4 9 (24.32%) Kotlin
5 7 (18.92%) Bash
5 7 (18.92%) Groovy
6 6 (16.22%) Scala
7 4 (10.81%) Go
7 4 (10.81%) Python
7 4 (10.81%) SQL
8 2 (5.41%) C#
8 2 (5.41%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) AWS Certification
2 4 (10.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (10.81%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Developer
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.92%) HP Fortify
3 4 (10.81%) Ansible
4 3 (8.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.11%) Pega
1 3 (8.11%) WSO2