Java Job Trends in Yorkshire

Java
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 82 121
Rank change year-on-year +36 +39 -70
Permanent jobs citing Java 203 89 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.74% 2.59% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.96% 14.57% 6.05%
Number of salaries quoted 144 62 58
10th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £63,472 £45,558 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £81,125 £77,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,275 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

All Programming Languages
Yorkshire

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,130 611 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.25% 17.80% 23.50%
Number of salaries quoted 798 504 910
10th Percentile £33,250 £29,825 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,250 £67,959
90th Percentile £88,704 £82,125 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.11% -5.84%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Java job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Java
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Yorkshire

Java
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 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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 +18 175 £75,000 +11.11% 26
South Yorkshire -13 22 £42,565 +46.78% 7
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Java
England

Java
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 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) IIS
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 123 (60.59%) AWS
2 72 (35.47%) Serverless
3 65 (32.02%) AWS Lambda
4 60 (29.56%) Amazon S3
5 59 (29.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (26.11%) AWS Step Functions
8 29 (14.29%) Azure
9 26 (12.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (11.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (11.82%) Amazon ECR
10 24 (11.82%) Apigee
11 23 (11.33%) GitHub
12 17 (8.37%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (8.37%) Datadog
12 17 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (4.93%) GCP
14 9 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.96%) Broadband
2 1 (0.49%) DNS
2 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (25.12%) DynamoDB
2 27 (13.30%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.33%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (6.40%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.91%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.94%) BigQuery
6 8 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.96%) MySQL
7 6 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.46%) Power BI
9 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.99%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 30 (14.78%) GitLab
3 26 (12.81%) Git
4 20 (9.85%) Cypress.io
5 17 (8.37%) SonarQube
6 15 (7.39%) Maven
7 4 (1.97%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.48%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.48%) JIRA
9 2 (0.99%) Selenium
10 1 (0.49%) Gatling
10 1 (0.49%) JMeter
10 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (18.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.82%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.42%) Finance
5 8 (3.94%) Retail
6 6 (2.96%) Games
6 6 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.48%) Back Office
8 3 (1.48%) Banking
8 3 (1.48%) Legal
8 3 (1.48%) Local Government
8 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (57.64%) Developer
2 87 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 60 (29.56%) Senior
4 41 (20.20%) Full-Stack Developer
5 37 (18.23%) Senior Developer
6 29 (14.29%) AWS Developer
7 27 (13.30%) Lead
8 26 (12.81%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 25 (12.32%) Senior Java Developer
10 20 (9.85%) Software Engineer
11 19 (9.36%) Java Engineer
12 16 (7.88%) Angular Developer
13 13 (6.40%) Consultant
13 13 (6.40%) Technical Consultant
14 12 (5.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (4.93%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 9 (4.43%) Java Consultant
16 9 (4.43%) Junior Consultant
16 9 (4.43%) Junior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (34.48%) AngularJS
2 50 (24.63%) Spring Boot
3 46 (22.66%) Spring
4 43 (21.18%) Node.js
5 23 (11.33%) Gherkin
6 22 (10.84%) React
7 17 (8.37%) Terraform
8 15 (7.39%) Jest
9 13 (6.40%) .NET
10 10 (4.93%) RESTful
11 7 (3.45%) REST
12 6 (2.96%) Android SDK
12 6 (2.96%) Classic ASP
12 6 (2.96%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.96%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (1.97%) CSS
14 4 (1.97%) Flutter
14 4 (1.97%) JSON
15 3 (1.48%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.96%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.96%) Social Media
5 5 (2.46%) Legacy Code
5 5 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.48%) Blog
6 3 (1.48%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.48%) NHS
7 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.37%) Linux
2 8 (3.94%) Windows
3 7 (3.45%) Unix
4 6 (2.96%) Android
5 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (35.96%) Agile
2 72 (35.47%) CI/CD
3 61 (30.05%) Full-Stack Development
4 58 (28.57%) DevOps
5 36 (17.73%) Software Engineering
6 34 (16.75%) Mentoring
7 31 (15.27%) Microservices
8 27 (13.30%) Continuous Integration
9 23 (11.33%) Coaching
10 20 (9.85%) DevSecOps
10 20 (9.85%) Test Automation
11 19 (9.36%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (8.37%) SDLC
12 17 (8.37%) Secrets Management
13 14 (6.90%) ITIL
13 14 (6.90%) Principle of Least Privilege
13 14 (6.90%) RBAC
13 14 (6.90%) Secure Coding
13 14 (6.90%) Workflow
13 14 (6.90%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (30.54%) SQL
2 52 (25.62%) TypeScript
3 36 (17.73%) Kotlin
4 35 (17.24%) Python
5 27 (13.30%) Groovy
6 21 (10.34%) C#
7 19 (9.36%) Bash
7 19 (9.36%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.94%) Scala
9 6 (2.96%) C++
10 5 (2.46%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.97%) Go
12 3 (1.48%) C
12 3 (1.48%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.39%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.90%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (5.91%) ITIL Certification
5 9 (4.43%) Degree
6 4 (1.97%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) QA
2 7 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (23.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.90%) HP Fortify
2 7 (3.45%) Argo
2 7 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.46%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) Packer
5 2 (0.99%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.46%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.46%) IBM
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle
3 1 (0.49%) Google
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.49%) SGI