Java Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Yorkshire is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 March 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 131 190
Rank change year-on-year +20 +59 +66
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 78 6 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.58% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 38 4 14
10th Percentile £50,875 £37,200 £31,875
25th Percentile £68,125 £50,250 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +18.94% +5.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,625 £61,000
90th Percentile £82,375 £86,250 £64,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - -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 4,578 2,080 5,106
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.67% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,937 1,205 4,066
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,600 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £32,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +28 78 £72,500 -12.12% 13
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 March 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 78 (100.00%) Java
2 65 (83.33%) AWS
3 57 (73.08%) Amazon ECS
3 57 (73.08%) Serverless
4 55 (70.51%) Docker
5 53 (67.95%) Amazon S3
5 53 (67.95%) CI/CD
5 53 (67.95%) DevOps
6 47 (60.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 47 (60.26%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (60.26%) DynamoDB
7 46 (58.97%) AngularJS
7 46 (58.97%) Jenkins
8 44 (56.41%) Spring Boot
9 43 (55.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 40 (51.28%) Agile
11 38 (48.72%) TypeScript
12 32 (41.03%) Node.js
13 27 (34.62%) Amazon ECR
13 27 (34.62%) Apigee
13 27 (34.62%) Bash
13 27 (34.62%) Cypress.io
13 27 (34.62%) Gherkin
13 27 (34.62%) GitLab
13 27 (34.62%) Groovy
13 27 (34.62%) HP Fortify
13 27 (34.62%) Jest
13 27 (34.62%) Maven
13 27 (34.62%) SDLC
13 27 (34.62%) SonarQube

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 10 (12.82%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 65 (83.33%) AWS
2 57 (73.08%) Amazon ECS
2 57 (73.08%) Serverless
3 53 (67.95%) Amazon S3
4 47 (60.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 47 (60.26%) AWS Lambda
5 43 (55.13%) AWS Step Functions
6 27 (34.62%) Amazon ECR
6 27 (34.62%) Apigee
7 26 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
8 20 (25.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (25.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 16 (20.51%) GitHub
10 10 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (8.97%) Datadog
11 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (6.41%) Azure
13 2 (2.56%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (60.26%) DynamoDB
2 20 (25.64%) Amazon Athena
3 19 (24.36%) NoSQL
4 10 (12.82%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (11.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (58.97%) Jenkins
2 27 (34.62%) Cypress.io
2 27 (34.62%) GitLab
2 27 (34.62%) Maven
2 27 (34.62%) SonarQube
3 23 (29.49%) Git
4 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.56%) Selenium
5 1 (1.28%) JUnit
General
1 10 (12.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.56%) Finance
4 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (58.97%) AngularJS
2 44 (56.41%) Spring Boot
3 32 (41.03%) Node.js
4 27 (34.62%) Gherkin
4 27 (34.62%) Jest
5 19 (24.36%) Spring
6 10 (12.82%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (12.82%) REST
7 9 (11.54%) React
7 9 (11.54%) Web Services
8 7 (8.97%) Kafka
8 7 (8.97%) Mustache
9 3 (3.85%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.85%) XML
10 2 (2.56%) Drools
10 2 (2.56%) Grails
10 2 (2.56%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.56%) Micronaut
11 1 (1.28%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (67.95%) CI/CD
1 53 (67.95%) DevOps
2 40 (51.28%) Agile
3 27 (34.62%) SDLC
4 21 (26.92%) ITIL
4 21 (26.92%) Secure Coding
4 21 (26.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 18 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (20.51%) DevSecOps
7 15 (19.23%) Clean Code
8 13 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (15.38%) Prototyping
10 11 (14.10%) Microservices
11 10 (12.82%) Scrum
11 10 (12.82%) TDD
11 10 (12.82%) Workflow
12 7 (8.97%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 7 (8.97%) RBAC
12 7 (8.97%) Secrets Management
12 7 (8.97%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (48.72%) TypeScript
3 27 (34.62%) Bash
3 27 (34.62%) Groovy
4 24 (30.77%) Kotlin
5 22 (28.21%) SQL
6 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.85%) Python
8 2 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 21 (26.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 21 (26.92%) ITIL Certification
3 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (6.41%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.56%) Degree
System Software
1 55 (70.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (34.62%) HP Fortify
2 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.41%) Terraform
4 4 (5.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (3.85%) Pega
1 3 (3.85%) WSO2