Java Software Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java Software Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 174 192
Rank change year-on-year +16 +18 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 2 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.061% 0.12% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.13% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £67,625 - £41,250
25th Percentile £67,813 £58,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,465 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% +13.85% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,313 £71,991 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,875 - £72,000
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +31.43% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 2,816 4,670 3,606
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.54% 94.67% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 2,593 2,680
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,945 £38,000 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,300 £78,750 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Yorkshire

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Java Software Engineer
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 Software Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
North Yorkshire - 1 £72,500 - 1
West Yorkshire - 1 £70,000 -
Java Software Engineer
England

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Java Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
2 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) MACH
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Solr
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) MACH
1 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Fintech
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes