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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 143 174
Rank change year-on-year +22 +31 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 52 2 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.37% 0.076% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 0.079% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 20 0 17
10th Percentile £39,250 - £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 - £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 - £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 - £78,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 3,515 2,540 4,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 95.99% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,132 1,122 3,494
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,330 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +18 52 £72,500 - 9
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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 52 (100.00%) Java
2 47 (90.38%) AWS
3 38 (73.08%) CI/CD
4 37 (71.15%) DevOps
5 36 (69.23%) Docker
6 34 (65.38%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (65.38%) Serverless
7 30 (57.69%) Amazon S3
7 30 (57.69%) Jenkins
8 28 (53.85%) Spring Boot
9 27 (51.92%) AngularJS
10 26 (50.00%) Agile
11 24 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (46.15%) AWS Step Functions
11 24 (46.15%) DynamoDB
12 22 (42.31%) SDLC
13 20 (38.46%) Git
14 19 (36.54%) Node.js
14 19 (36.54%) TypeScript
15 18 (34.62%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (30.77%) Secure Coding
17 15 (28.85%) Amazon ECR
17 15 (28.85%) Apigee
17 15 (28.85%) Bash
17 15 (28.85%) Cypress.io
17 15 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
17 15 (28.85%) Gherkin
17 15 (28.85%) GitLab
17 15 (28.85%) Groovy

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 (19.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (90.38%) AWS
2 34 (65.38%) Amazon ECS
2 34 (65.38%) Serverless
3 30 (57.69%) Amazon S3
4 24 (46.15%) AWS CloudFormation
4 24 (46.15%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (46.15%) AWS Step Functions
5 18 (34.62%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (28.85%) Amazon ECR
6 15 (28.85%) Apigee
7 10 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (17.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (17.31%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 9 (17.31%) GitHub
9 6 (11.54%) SaaS
10 5 (9.62%) Azure
11 4 (7.69%) Datadog
11 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) DynamoDB
2 10 (19.23%) NoSQL
2 10 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (17.31%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 30 (57.69%) Jenkins
2 20 (38.46%) Git
3 15 (28.85%) Cypress.io
3 15 (28.85%) GitLab
3 15 (28.85%) Maven
3 15 (28.85%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.92%) JUnit
4 1 (1.92%) Mockito
General
1 7 (13.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Finance
2 6 (11.54%) Financial Institution
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (53.85%) Spring Boot
2 27 (51.92%) AngularJS
3 19 (36.54%) Node.js
4 15 (28.85%) Gherkin
4 15 (28.85%) Jest
4 15 (28.85%) Spring
5 11 (21.15%) React
6 10 (19.23%) Elastic Stack
6 10 (19.23%) REST
7 9 (17.31%) Web Services
8 8 (15.38%) Kafka
9 7 (13.46%) Mustache
10 6 (11.54%) Micronaut
11 4 (7.69%) Flutter
12 3 (5.77%) Apache Camel
13 2 (3.85%) Grails
13 2 (3.85%) Hibernate
14 1 (1.92%) ActiveMQ
14 1 (1.92%) JAX-RS
14 1 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (73.08%) CI/CD
2 37 (71.15%) DevOps
3 26 (50.00%) Agile
4 22 (42.31%) SDLC
5 16 (30.77%) Secure Coding
6 15 (28.85%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (26.92%) Clean Code
8 12 (23.08%) ITIL
8 12 (23.08%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 11 (21.15%) Microservices
9 11 (21.15%) TDD
10 10 (19.23%) Scrum
11 9 (17.31%) DevSecOps
12 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (15.38%) Prototyping
13 7 (13.46%) Workflow
14 6 (11.54%) Front End Development
14 6 (11.54%) Logistics
14 6 (11.54%) OO
14 6 (11.54%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) Java
2 19 (36.54%) TypeScript
3 15 (28.85%) Bash
3 15 (28.85%) Groovy
4 13 (25.00%) Kotlin
5 12 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 11 (21.15%) SQL
7 4 (7.69%) Go
7 4 (7.69%) Scala
8 2 (3.85%) Python
8 2 (3.85%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) AWS Certification
2 12 (23.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.77%) Degree
4 3 (5.77%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Certified Developer
System Software
1 36 (69.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (28.85%) HP Fortify
2 12 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Ansible
4 3 (5.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.77%) Pega
1 3 (5.77%) WSO2