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 14 May 2026.

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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 132 210
Rank change year-on-year +26 +78 +47
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 99 8 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.59% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 55 6 11
10th Percentile £65,000 - £26,250
25th Percentile £70,625 £28,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £44,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +68.54% -19.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £61,000
90th Percentile £94,000 £83,750 £62,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -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 5,861 2,292 5,359
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.84% 93.32% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,830 1,261 4,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -9.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +47 99 £75,000 -9.09% 5
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 99 (100.00%) Java
2 77 (77.78%) AWS
3 64 (64.65%) Serverless
4 62 (62.63%) Amazon ECS
5 61 (61.62%) Amazon S3
6 59 (59.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (59.60%) CI/CD
7 58 (58.59%) AngularJS
7 58 (58.59%) Docker
8 57 (57.58%) AWS Lambda
9 56 (56.57%) DevOps
10 55 (55.56%) Jenkins
11 53 (53.54%) DynamoDB
12 50 (50.51%) Spring Boot
13 48 (48.48%) AWS Step Functions
14 45 (45.45%) Agile
15 44 (44.44%) TypeScript
16 33 (33.33%) Node.js
17 31 (31.31%) GitLab
17 31 (31.31%) Groovy
18 30 (30.30%) SonarQube
19 29 (29.29%) Bash
19 29 (29.29%) Cypress.io
19 29 (29.29%) Jest
19 29 (29.29%) Maven
19 29 (29.29%) SDLC
20 28 (28.28%) Amazon ECR
20 28 (28.28%) Apigee
20 28 (28.28%) AWS Certification
20 28 (28.28%) Gherkin

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 (7.07%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.02%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 77 (77.78%) AWS
2 64 (64.65%) Serverless
3 62 (62.63%) Amazon ECS
4 61 (61.62%) Amazon S3
5 59 (59.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 57 (57.58%) AWS Lambda
7 48 (48.48%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (28.28%) Amazon ECR
8 28 (28.28%) Apigee
9 27 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
10 24 (24.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (24.24%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 19 (19.19%) GitHub
12 11 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (10.10%) Datadog
13 10 (10.10%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (3.03%) Azure
15 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (53.54%) DynamoDB
2 24 (24.24%) Amazon Athena
3 22 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.08%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.07%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 55 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 31 (31.31%) GitLab
3 30 (30.30%) SonarQube
4 29 (29.29%) Cypress.io
4 29 (29.29%) Maven
5 26 (26.26%) Git
6 4 (4.04%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.02%) JIRA
7 2 (2.02%) Selenium
8 1 (1.01%) JUnit
General
1 14 (14.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (3.03%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.01%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (58.59%) AngularJS
2 50 (50.51%) Spring Boot
3 33 (33.33%) Node.js
4 29 (29.29%) Jest
5 28 (28.28%) Gherkin
6 24 (24.24%) Spring
7 12 (12.12%) React
8 11 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (11.11%) REST
9 8 (8.08%) Web Services
10 7 (7.07%) Kafka
10 7 (7.07%) Mustache
11 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (3.03%) JSON
12 3 (3.03%) XML
13 2 (2.02%) Drools
13 2 (2.02%) Java EE
13 2 (2.02%) JPA
13 2 (2.02%) RESTful
13 2 (2.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.02%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.60%) CI/CD
2 56 (56.57%) DevOps
3 45 (45.45%) Agile
4 29 (29.29%) SDLC
5 23 (23.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 23 (23.23%) ITIL
5 23 (23.23%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 22 (22.22%) Secure Coding
7 19 (19.19%) DevSecOps
8 18 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (17.17%) Clean Code
10 13 (13.13%) Prototyping
11 12 (12.12%) Microservices
11 12 (12.12%) Secrets Management
12 10 (10.10%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 10 (10.10%) RBAC
12 10 (10.10%) Workflow
12 10 (10.10%) Workflow Management
13 9 (9.09%) Scrum
13 9 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 99 (100.00%) Java
2 44 (44.44%) TypeScript
3 31 (31.31%) Groovy
4 29 (29.29%) Bash
5 28 (28.28%) Kotlin
6 27 (27.27%) SQL
7 10 (10.10%) JavaScript
8 9 (9.09%) Python
9 2 (2.02%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) AWS Certification
2 22 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
3 12 (12.12%) Security Cleared
4 11 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) QA
System Software
1 58 (58.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (28.28%) HP Fortify
2 12 (12.12%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.06%) Terraform
4 5 (5.05%) Ansible
5 2 (2.02%) Kibana
5 2 (2.02%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.04%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.04%) IBM
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle