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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 148 216
Rank change year-on-year +51 +68 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 108 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.62% 0.37% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 0.41% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 65 6 8
10th Percentile £65,000 - £26,250
25th Percentile £71,250 £28,500 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £44,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +68.54% -15.24% -16.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £86,500 £83,750 £68,950
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -3.03%

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 6,297 2,434 6,024
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 89.42% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4,312 1,285 4,656
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £38,772 £31,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £48,620
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +0.78% -7.39%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £79,125
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.32%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +57 108 £75,000 -9.09% 7
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 84 (77.78%) AWS
3 70 (64.81%) AngularJS
4 66 (61.11%) Serverless
5 65 (60.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 64 (59.26%) Amazon S3
6 64 (59.26%) AWS Lambda
7 63 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
8 57 (52.78%) CI/CD
8 57 (52.78%) DevOps
9 56 (51.85%) DynamoDB
10 55 (50.93%) Docker
11 54 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
12 53 (49.07%) Jenkins
13 47 (43.52%) Spring Boot
14 46 (42.59%) TypeScript
15 39 (36.11%) Agile
16 33 (30.56%) Groovy
16 33 (30.56%) Node.js
17 32 (29.63%) Kotlin
18 31 (28.70%) SQL
19 30 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
19 30 (27.78%) Gherkin
19 30 (27.78%) GitLab
20 29 (26.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 29 (26.85%) SonarQube
21 28 (25.93%) Amazon Athena
21 28 (25.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
21 28 (25.93%) Bash
21 28 (25.93%) Cypress.io

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 (1.85%) JBoss
1 2 (1.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 84 (77.78%) AWS
2 66 (61.11%) Serverless
3 65 (60.19%) AWS CloudFormation
4 64 (59.26%) Amazon S3
4 64 (59.26%) AWS Lambda
5 63 (58.33%) Amazon ECS
6 54 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 29 (26.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (25.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 27 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
9 27 (25.00%) Apigee
10 26 (24.07%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (21.30%) GitHub
12 13 (12.04%) Datadog
12 13 (12.04%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (1.85%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (51.85%) DynamoDB
2 28 (25.93%) Amazon Athena
3 25 (23.15%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 53 (49.07%) Jenkins
2 30 (27.78%) GitLab
3 29 (26.85%) SonarQube
4 28 (25.93%) Cypress.io
4 28 (25.93%) Maven
5 24 (22.22%) Git
6 4 (3.70%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.85%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.85%) JIRA
7 2 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 18 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (3.70%) Finance
3 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (64.81%) AngularJS
2 47 (43.52%) Spring Boot
3 33 (30.56%) Node.js
4 30 (27.78%) Gherkin
5 28 (25.93%) Jest
6 23 (21.30%) Spring
7 11 (10.19%) React
8 7 (6.48%) REST
9 6 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (3.70%) Web Services
11 3 (2.78%) RESTful
12 2 (1.85%) Drools
12 2 (1.85%) JMS
12 2 (1.85%) JPA
12 2 (1.85%) JSON
12 2 (1.85%) Kafka
12 2 (1.85%) Mustache
12 2 (1.85%) XML
12 2 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
3 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (52.78%) CI/CD
1 57 (52.78%) DevOps
2 39 (36.11%) Agile
3 30 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (23.15%) SDLC
5 23 (21.30%) DevSecOps
6 22 (20.37%) ITIL
6 22 (20.37%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 21 (19.44%) Continuous Integration
7 21 (19.44%) Secure Coding
8 17 (15.74%) Clean Code
9 15 (13.89%) Secrets Management
10 13 (12.04%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 13 (12.04%) RBAC
10 13 (12.04%) Workflow
10 13 (12.04%) Workflow Management
11 12 (11.11%) Prototyping
12 10 (9.26%) Microservices
13 7 (6.48%) Containerisation
14 4 (3.70%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 108 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (42.59%) TypeScript
3 33 (30.56%) Groovy
4 32 (29.63%) Kotlin
5 31 (28.70%) SQL
6 28 (25.93%) Bash
7 8 (7.41%) Python
8 4 (3.70%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (24.07%) AWS Certification
2 21 (19.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 21 (19.44%) ITIL Certification
3 13 (12.04%) Security Cleared
4 12 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.70%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 55 (50.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (25.00%) HP Fortify
2 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.56%) Terraform
3 4 (3.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.85%) Kibana
4 2 (1.85%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (3.70%) AppDynamics
1 4 (3.70%) IBM
2 2 (1.85%) Oracle