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 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 158 189
Rank change year-on-year +54 +31 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 94 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.29% 0.31% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.36% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 62 9 1
10th Percentile £56,000 - -
25th Percentile £70,000 £28,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £90,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -9.09% +3.13%

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 6,902 3,038 5,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 86.04% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 4,832 1,654 3,235
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,999
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +56 94 £75,000 - 5
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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 94 (100.00%) Java
2 72 (76.60%) AWS
3 59 (62.77%) AngularJS
4 54 (57.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 53 (56.38%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (56.38%) Serverless
6 51 (54.26%) Amazon S3
7 50 (53.19%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (46.81%) DevOps
9 43 (45.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (45.74%) CI/CD
9 43 (45.74%) DynamoDB
10 40 (42.55%) Docker
11 38 (40.43%) Jenkins
11 38 (40.43%) Spring Boot
12 37 (39.36%) TypeScript
13 30 (31.91%) Kotlin
14 29 (30.85%) Agile
14 29 (30.85%) Full-Stack Development
14 29 (30.85%) Node.js
14 29 (30.85%) SQL
15 26 (27.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 25 (26.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 25 (26.60%) Spring
17 24 (25.53%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (25.53%) Groovy
18 21 (22.34%) Gherkin
18 21 (22.34%) GitHub
18 21 (22.34%) NoSQL
19 19 (20.21%) DevSecOps

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 (2.13%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 72 (76.60%) AWS
2 54 (57.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 53 (56.38%) AWS Lambda
3 53 (56.38%) Serverless
4 51 (54.26%) Amazon S3
5 50 (53.19%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (45.74%) AWS Step Functions
7 26 (27.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 25 (26.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (22.34%) GitHub
10 18 (19.15%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (17.02%) Amazon ECR
11 16 (17.02%) Apigee
12 15 (15.96%) Datadog
12 15 (15.96%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (2.13%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (45.74%) DynamoDB
2 24 (25.53%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (22.34%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 38 (40.43%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.21%) GitLab
3 18 (19.15%) Git
3 18 (19.15%) SonarQube
4 17 (18.09%) Cypress.io
4 17 (18.09%) Maven
5 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.13%) JIRA
6 2 (2.13%) Selenium
General
1 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.38%) Finance
3 2 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.13%) Banking
3 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (62.77%) AngularJS
2 38 (40.43%) Spring Boot
3 29 (30.85%) Node.js
4 25 (26.60%) Spring
5 21 (22.34%) Gherkin
6 17 (18.09%) Jest
7 9 (9.57%) React
8 5 (5.32%) REST
9 4 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.19%) RESTful
11 2 (2.13%) Drools
11 2 (2.13%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (2.13%) JMS
11 2 (2.13%) JPA
11 2 (2.13%) JSON
11 2 (2.13%) Web Services
11 2 (2.13%) XML
11 2 (2.13%) YAML
12 1 (1.06%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) DevOps
2 43 (45.74%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.85%) Agile
3 29 (30.85%) Full-Stack Development
4 19 (20.21%) DevSecOps
5 17 (18.09%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (15.96%) SDLC
6 15 (15.96%) Secrets Management
7 14 (14.89%) ITIL
7 14 (14.89%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 13 (13.83%) Principle of Least Privilege
8 13 (13.83%) RBAC
8 13 (13.83%) Secure Coding
8 13 (13.83%) Workflow
8 13 (13.83%) Workflow Management
9 11 (11.70%) Clean Code
9 11 (11.70%) Microservices
10 7 (7.45%) Containerisation
11 6 (6.38%) Prototyping
12 4 (4.26%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 94 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (39.36%) TypeScript
3 30 (31.91%) Kotlin
4 29 (30.85%) SQL
5 24 (25.53%) Groovy
6 17 (18.09%) Bash
7 8 (8.51%) Python
8 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (17.02%) AWS Certification
2 13 (13.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 13 (13.83%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) QA
System Software
1 40 (42.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (17.02%) HP Fortify
2 6 (6.38%) Terraform
3 4 (4.26%) Ansible
3 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.13%) Kibana
4 2 (2.13%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.26%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.26%) IBM
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle