Java Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Yorkshire is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 139 186
Rank change year-on-year +17 +47 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 77 17 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.00% 0.51% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.59% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 50 8 1
10th Percentile £65,000 £28,500 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £31,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £46,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.57% -45.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,250 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% +6.25%

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 7,129 2,893 4,575
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 86.00% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,104 1,574 2,437
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 77 £77,500 +31.91% 6
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 77 (100.00%) Java
2 61 (79.22%) AWS
3 52 (67.53%) AngularJS
4 43 (55.84%) AWS CloudFormation
4 43 (55.84%) Serverless
5 42 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (53.25%) Amazon S3
7 40 (51.95%) Amazon ECS
8 37 (48.05%) CI/CD
9 36 (46.75%) AWS Step Functions
9 36 (46.75%) DevOps
10 34 (44.16%) Docker
10 34 (44.16%) Spring Boot
11 32 (41.56%) DynamoDB
12 29 (37.66%) Full-Stack Development
12 29 (37.66%) Jenkins
12 29 (37.66%) Spring
13 28 (36.36%) TypeScript
14 26 (33.77%) SQL
15 25 (32.47%) Node.js
16 23 (29.87%) Agile
16 23 (29.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 23 (29.87%) Kotlin
17 22 (28.57%) GitHub
18 20 (25.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 20 (25.97%) Git
19 19 (24.68%) Amazon Athena
20 18 (23.38%) Datadog
20 18 (23.38%) DevSecOps
20 18 (23.38%) GitHub Actions

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 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 61 (79.22%) AWS
2 43 (55.84%) AWS CloudFormation
2 43 (55.84%) Serverless
3 42 (54.55%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (53.25%) Amazon S3
5 40 (51.95%) Amazon ECS
6 36 (46.75%) AWS Step Functions
7 23 (29.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 22 (28.57%) GitHub
9 20 (25.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (23.38%) Datadog
10 18 (23.38%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (16.88%) Amazon SQS
12 8 (10.39%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (10.39%) Apigee
13 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (2.60%) Azure
16 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (41.56%) DynamoDB
2 19 (24.68%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (23.38%) NoSQL
4 7 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (37.66%) Jenkins
2 20 (25.97%) Git
3 11 (14.29%) GitLab
4 10 (12.99%) SonarQube
5 9 (11.69%) Cypress.io
5 9 (11.69%) Maven
6 2 (2.60%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.60%) JIRA
General
1 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Finance
3 4 (5.19%) Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (67.53%) AngularJS
2 34 (44.16%) Spring Boot
3 29 (37.66%) Spring
4 25 (32.47%) Node.js
5 13 (16.88%) Gherkin
6 9 (11.69%) Jest
7 8 (10.39%) React
8 6 (7.79%) REST
9 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (5.19%) Terraform
11 3 (3.90%) RESTful
11 3 (3.90%) Web Services
12 2 (2.60%) Jakarta EE
12 2 (2.60%) JMS
12 2 (2.60%) JPA
12 2 (2.60%) JSON
12 2 (2.60%) YAML
13 1 (1.30%) Hibernate
13 1 (1.30%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (48.05%) CI/CD
2 36 (46.75%) DevOps
3 29 (37.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (29.87%) Agile
5 18 (23.38%) DevSecOps
6 16 (20.78%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (20.78%) Secrets Management
7 14 (18.18%) Principle of Least Privilege
7 14 (18.18%) RBAC
7 14 (18.18%) Workflow
7 14 (18.18%) Workflow Management
8 13 (16.88%) Microservices
9 11 (14.29%) SDLC
10 8 (10.39%) ITIL
10 8 (10.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 7 (9.09%) Clean Code
11 7 (9.09%) Secure Coding
12 5 (6.49%) Containerisation
13 4 (5.19%) Decision-Making
13 4 (5.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 77 (100.00%) Java
2 28 (36.36%) TypeScript
3 26 (33.77%) SQL
4 23 (29.87%) Kotlin
5 16 (20.78%) Groovy
6 9 (11.69%) Bash
7 8 (10.39%) Python
8 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) AWS Certification
2 7 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 7 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) QA
System Software
1 34 (44.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) HP Fortify
2 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.19%) Ansible
4 2 (2.60%) Kibana
4 2 (2.60%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (5.19%) AppDynamics
1 4 (5.19%) IBM
2 2 (2.60%) Oracle