Java Developer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Developer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Yorkshire is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 145 187
Rank change year-on-year +27 +42 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 73 17 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.95% 0.51% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.59% 0.044%
Number of salaries quoted 48 8 1
10th Percentile £65,000 £28,500 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £31,500 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £46,250 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.57% -45.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,250 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £74,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -5.41% -12.94% +6.25%

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 7,133 2,888 4,544
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 86.21% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 5,102 1,552 2,400
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,855
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.22% - -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +23 73 £77,500 +31.91% 6
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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 73 (100.00%) Java
2 59 (80.82%) AWS
3 50 (68.49%) AngularJS
4 41 (56.16%) AWS CloudFormation
4 41 (56.16%) Serverless
5 40 (54.79%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (53.42%) Amazon S3
7 38 (52.05%) Amazon ECS
8 35 (47.95%) CI/CD
9 34 (46.58%) AWS Step Functions
9 34 (46.58%) DevOps
10 33 (45.21%) Spring Boot
11 32 (43.84%) Docker
12 30 (41.10%) DynamoDB
13 29 (39.73%) Spring
14 28 (38.36%) Full-Stack Development
14 28 (38.36%) Jenkins
15 26 (35.62%) TypeScript
16 25 (34.25%) SQL
17 24 (32.88%) Node.js
18 22 (30.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 22 (30.14%) Kotlin
19 21 (28.77%) Agile
19 21 (28.77%) GitHub
20 19 (26.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 19 (26.03%) Git
21 18 (24.66%) Amazon Athena
22 17 (23.29%) Datadog
22 17 (23.29%) DevSecOps
22 17 (23.29%) GitHub Actions

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 (1.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 59 (80.82%) AWS
2 41 (56.16%) AWS CloudFormation
2 41 (56.16%) Serverless
3 40 (54.79%) AWS Lambda
4 39 (53.42%) Amazon S3
5 38 (52.05%) Amazon ECS
6 34 (46.58%) AWS Step Functions
7 22 (30.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 21 (28.77%) GitHub
9 19 (26.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (23.29%) Datadog
10 17 (23.29%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (17.81%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (9.59%) Amazon ECR
12 7 (9.59%) Apigee
13 5 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (2.74%) Azure
16 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (41.10%) DynamoDB
2 18 (24.66%) Amazon Athena
3 17 (23.29%) NoSQL
4 7 (9.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (38.36%) Jenkins
2 19 (26.03%) Git
3 10 (13.70%) GitLab
4 9 (12.33%) SonarQube
5 8 (10.96%) Cypress.io
5 8 (10.96%) Maven
6 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.74%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.74%) JIRA
General
1 16 (21.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Finance
3 4 (5.48%) Banking
4 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (68.49%) AngularJS
2 33 (45.21%) Spring Boot
3 29 (39.73%) Spring
4 24 (32.88%) Node.js
5 12 (16.44%) Gherkin
6 8 (10.96%) Jest
6 8 (10.96%) React
7 6 (8.22%) REST
8 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.48%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (5.48%) Terraform
10 3 (4.11%) RESTful
10 3 (4.11%) Web Services
11 2 (2.74%) Jakarta EE
11 2 (2.74%) JMS
11 2 (2.74%) JPA
11 2 (2.74%) JSON
11 2 (2.74%) YAML
12 1 (1.37%) Kafka
12 1 (1.37%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.85%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.95%) CI/CD
2 34 (46.58%) DevOps
3 28 (38.36%) Full-Stack Development
4 21 (28.77%) Agile
5 17 (23.29%) DevSecOps
6 15 (20.55%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (20.55%) Secrets Management
7 13 (17.81%) Microservices
7 13 (17.81%) Principle of Least Privilege
7 13 (17.81%) RBAC
7 13 (17.81%) Workflow
7 13 (17.81%) Workflow Management
8 10 (13.70%) SDLC
9 7 (9.59%) ITIL
9 7 (9.59%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 6 (8.22%) Clean Code
10 6 (8.22%) Secure Coding
11 5 (6.85%) Containerisation
12 4 (5.48%) Decision-Making
12 4 (5.48%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 73 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (35.62%) TypeScript
3 25 (34.25%) SQL
4 22 (30.14%) Kotlin
5 15 (20.55%) Groovy
6 8 (10.96%) Bash
7 7 (9.59%) Python
8 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (9.59%) AWS Certification
1 7 (9.59%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 6 (8.22%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) QA
System Software
1 32 (43.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) HP Fortify
2 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.48%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) Kibana
4 2 (2.74%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (5.48%) AppDynamics
1 4 (5.48%) IBM
2 2 (2.74%) Oracle