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 19 August 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 153 183
Rank change year-on-year +52 +30 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 92 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.25% 0.40% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.47% 0.040%
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% +21.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £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% +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 6,962 3,006 5,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 85.96% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,883 1,658 3,188
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,675
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £64,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,300 £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 19 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 19 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 +40 92 £75,000 - 4
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 92 (100.00%) Java
2 71 (77.17%) AWS
3 57 (61.96%) AngularJS
4 52 (56.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 51 (55.43%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (55.43%) Serverless
6 49 (53.26%) Amazon S3
7 48 (52.17%) Amazon ECS
8 43 (46.74%) DevOps
9 42 (45.65%) CI/CD
10 41 (44.57%) AWS Step Functions
10 41 (44.57%) DynamoDB
11 38 (41.30%) Docker
12 37 (40.22%) Spring Boot
13 36 (39.13%) Jenkins
14 35 (38.04%) TypeScript
15 29 (31.52%) Full-Stack Development
15 29 (31.52%) Kotlin
15 29 (31.52%) SQL
16 28 (30.43%) Node.js
17 27 (29.35%) Agile
18 26 (28.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 26 (28.26%) Spring
19 25 (27.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 24 (26.09%) Amazon Athena
21 22 (23.91%) Groovy
22 21 (22.83%) GitHub
22 21 (22.83%) NoSQL
23 19 (20.65%) DevSecOps
23 19 (20.65%) 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 1 (1.09%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 71 (77.17%) AWS
2 52 (56.52%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (55.43%) AWS Lambda
3 51 (55.43%) Serverless
4 49 (53.26%) Amazon S3
5 48 (52.17%) Amazon ECS
6 41 (44.57%) AWS Step Functions
7 26 (28.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 25 (27.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (22.83%) GitHub
10 17 (18.48%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (16.30%) Datadog
11 15 (16.30%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (15.22%) Amazon ECR
12 14 (15.22%) Apigee
13 4 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (2.17%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (44.57%) DynamoDB
2 24 (26.09%) Amazon Athena
3 21 (22.83%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 36 (39.13%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.57%) Git
3 17 (18.48%) GitLab
4 16 (17.39%) SonarQube
5 15 (16.30%) Cypress.io
5 15 (16.30%) Maven
6 3 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.17%) JIRA
8 1 (1.09%) Selenium
General
1 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.52%) Finance
3 2 (2.17%) Banking
3 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (61.96%) AngularJS
2 37 (40.22%) Spring Boot
3 28 (30.43%) Node.js
4 26 (28.26%) Spring
5 19 (20.65%) Gherkin
6 15 (16.30%) Jest
7 9 (9.78%) React
8 5 (5.43%) REST
9 4 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.26%) RESTful
11 2 (2.17%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (2.17%) JMS
11 2 (2.17%) JPA
11 2 (2.17%) JSON
11 2 (2.17%) Web Services
11 2 (2.17%) YAML
12 1 (1.09%) Hibernate
12 1 (1.09%) Spring MVC
12 1 (1.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.74%) DevOps
2 42 (45.65%) CI/CD
3 29 (31.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 27 (29.35%) Agile
5 19 (20.65%) DevSecOps
6 17 (18.48%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (16.30%) Secrets Management
8 14 (15.22%) SDLC
9 13 (14.13%) ITIL
9 13 (14.13%) Principle of Least Privilege
9 13 (14.13%) RBAC
9 13 (14.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 13 (14.13%) Workflow
9 13 (14.13%) Workflow Management
10 12 (13.04%) Secure Coding
11 11 (11.96%) Clean Code
11 11 (11.96%) Microservices
12 7 (7.61%) Containerisation
13 6 (6.52%) Prototyping
14 4 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (38.04%) TypeScript
3 29 (31.52%) Kotlin
3 29 (31.52%) SQL
4 22 (23.91%) Groovy
5 15 (16.30%) Bash
6 8 (8.70%) Python
7 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) AWS Certification
2 12 (13.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.04%) ITIL Certification
3 10 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) QA
System Software
1 38 (41.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (15.22%) HP Fortify
2 5 (5.43%) Terraform
3 4 (4.35%) Ansible
3 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.17%) Kibana
4 2 (2.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (4.35%) AppDynamics
1 4 (4.35%) IBM
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle