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 5 August 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 157 192
Rank change year-on-year +47 +35 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 93 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.29% 0.31% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.36% 0.041%
Number of salaries quoted 61 9 1
10th Percentile £55,000 - -
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% +23.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -9.09% -

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 6,818 3,050 4,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 85.92% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,759 1,649 3,302
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,950
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 5 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 5 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 +53 93 £75,000 - 5
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 93 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (76.34%) AWS
3 59 (63.44%) AngularJS
4 54 (58.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 53 (56.99%) AWS Lambda
5 53 (56.99%) Serverless
6 51 (54.84%) Amazon S3
7 50 (53.76%) Amazon ECS
8 44 (47.31%) DevOps
9 43 (46.24%) AWS Step Functions
9 43 (46.24%) CI/CD
9 43 (46.24%) DynamoDB
10 40 (43.01%) Docker
10 40 (43.01%) Jenkins
11 38 (40.86%) Spring Boot
12 37 (39.78%) TypeScript
13 30 (32.26%) Agile
14 29 (31.18%) Full-Stack Development
15 28 (30.11%) Kotlin
16 27 (29.03%) Node.js
16 27 (29.03%) SQL
17 26 (27.96%) Groovy
18 24 (25.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 24 (25.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
19 23 (24.73%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (24.73%) Gherkin
19 23 (24.73%) Spring
20 21 (22.58%) GitLab
21 20 (21.51%) NoSQL
21 20 (21.51%) SonarQube

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 (2.15%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 71 (76.34%) AWS
2 54 (58.06%) AWS CloudFormation
3 53 (56.99%) AWS Lambda
3 53 (56.99%) Serverless
4 51 (54.84%) Amazon S3
5 50 (53.76%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (46.24%) AWS Step Functions
7 24 (25.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (25.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 19 (20.43%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (20.43%) GitHub
9 18 (19.35%) Amazon ECR
9 18 (19.35%) Apigee
10 13 (13.98%) Datadog
10 13 (13.98%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (2.15%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (46.24%) DynamoDB
2 23 (24.73%) Amazon Athena
3 20 (21.51%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 40 (43.01%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.58%) GitLab
3 20 (21.51%) SonarQube
4 19 (20.43%) Cypress.io
4 19 (20.43%) Maven
5 17 (18.28%) Git
6 4 (4.30%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.15%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.15%) JIRA
7 2 (2.15%) Selenium
General
1 18 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.38%) Finance
3 2 (2.15%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.08%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (63.44%) AngularJS
2 38 (40.86%) Spring Boot
3 27 (29.03%) Node.js
4 23 (24.73%) Gherkin
4 23 (24.73%) Spring
5 19 (20.43%) Jest
6 9 (9.68%) React
7 5 (5.38%) REST
8 4 (4.30%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.23%) RESTful
10 2 (2.15%) Drools
10 2 (2.15%) Jakarta EE
10 2 (2.15%) JMS
10 2 (2.15%) JPA
10 2 (2.15%) JSON
10 2 (2.15%) Web Services
10 2 (2.15%) XML
10 2 (2.15%) YAML
11 1 (1.08%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.15%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (47.31%) DevOps
2 43 (46.24%) CI/CD
3 30 (32.26%) Agile
4 29 (31.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 18 (19.35%) DevSecOps
6 16 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (17.20%) SDLC
7 15 (16.13%) ITIL
7 15 (16.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 14 (15.05%) Secrets Management
8 14 (15.05%) Secure Coding
9 12 (12.90%) Principle of Least Privilege
9 12 (12.90%) RBAC
9 12 (12.90%) Workflow
9 12 (12.90%) Workflow Management
10 11 (11.83%) Clean Code
11 10 (10.75%) Microservices
12 7 (7.53%) Containerisation
13 6 (6.45%) Prototyping
14 4 (4.30%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 93 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (39.78%) TypeScript
3 28 (30.11%) Kotlin
4 27 (29.03%) SQL
5 26 (27.96%) Groovy
6 19 (20.43%) Bash
7 8 (8.60%) Python
8 2 (2.15%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (19.35%) AWS Certification
2 14 (15.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 14 (15.05%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (10.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 40 (43.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (19.35%) HP Fortify
2 6 (6.45%) Terraform
3 4 (4.30%) Ansible
3 4 (4.30%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.15%) Kibana
4 2 (2.15%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.30%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.30%) IBM
2 2 (2.15%) Oracle