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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 58 103
Rank change year-on-year +15 +45 -58
Permanent jobs citing Java 236 100 131
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.57% 3.78% 2.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.55% 17.01% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 157 65 102
10th Percentile £24,000 £32,500 £35,100
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +10.76% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,548
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 1,207 588 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.27% 22.25% 27.80%
Number of salaries quoted 797 464 1,385
10th Percentile £32,300 £28,613 £31,531
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +17 195 £75,000 +3.81% 29
South Yorkshire -14 34 £24,000 -31.43% 9
North Yorkshire -7 1 £41,500 -40.71% 1
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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 5 (2.12%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.27%) Apache
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.27%) JBoss
3 2 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 134 (56.78%) AWS
2 92 (38.98%) Serverless
3 81 (34.32%) Amazon ECS
3 81 (34.32%) Amazon S3
4 79 (33.47%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (31.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (29.24%) AWS Step Functions
7 45 (19.07%) Apigee
8 44 (18.64%) Amazon ECR
9 37 (15.68%) Azure
10 29 (12.29%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (11.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (11.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 22 (9.32%) GitHub
13 12 (5.08%) Datadog
13 12 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
15 9 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.39%) GCP
16 8 (3.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (30.51%) DynamoDB
2 35 (14.83%) NoSQL
3 27 (11.44%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.78%) MongoDB
6 13 (5.51%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.81%) MySQL
8 8 (3.39%) Power BI
9 7 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.97%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.27%) Tableau
11 2 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (28.81%) Jenkins
2 50 (21.19%) GitLab
3 40 (16.95%) Cypress.io
4 37 (15.68%) SonarQube
5 35 (14.83%) Maven
6 32 (13.56%) Git
7 6 (2.54%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.69%) JIRA
8 4 (1.69%) Selenium
9 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.42%) Gatling
10 1 (0.42%) JMeter
10 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (16.95%) Social Skills
2 23 (9.75%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.93%) Games
5 13 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.97%) Retail
7 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.27%) Back Office
9 2 (0.85%) Finance
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 149 (63.14%) Developer
2 104 (44.07%) Java Developer
3 58 (24.58%) Senior
4 41 (17.37%) Senior Developer
5 37 (15.68%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (14.83%) Lead
7 30 (12.71%) AWS Developer
8 28 (11.86%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (9.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 18 (7.63%) Consultant
10 18 (7.63%) Java Consultant
10 18 (7.63%) Junior
10 18 (7.63%) Junior Consultant
10 18 (7.63%) Junior Java Consultant
10 18 (7.63%) Junior Technical Consultant
10 18 (7.63%) Technical Consultant
11 17 (7.20%) Software Engineer
12 12 (5.08%) Lead Developer
12 12 (5.08%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.24%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (34.32%) AngularJS
2 66 (27.97%) Spring Boot
3 48 (20.34%) Node.js
4 44 (18.64%) Spring
5 40 (16.95%) Gherkin
6 35 (14.83%) Jest
7 26 (11.02%) React
8 19 (8.05%) .NET
9 14 (5.93%) GraphQL
10 13 (5.51%) Android SDK
11 12 (5.08%) REST
11 12 (5.08%) RESTful
12 10 (4.24%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (2.97%) Classic ASP
13 7 (2.97%) Web Services
14 6 (2.54%) Flutter
14 6 (2.54%) Kafka
14 6 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.12%) JSON
15 5 (2.12%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.51%) Mobile App
1 13 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
1 13 (5.51%) Social Media
2 12 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.81%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.54%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.51%) Android
2 11 (4.66%) Linux
3 7 (2.97%) Unix
3 7 (2.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (42.37%) Agile
2 97 (41.10%) CI/CD
3 75 (31.78%) DevOps
4 51 (21.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 41 (17.37%) Mentoring
5 41 (17.37%) Microservices
6 33 (13.98%) Software Engineering
7 32 (13.56%) SDLC
8 31 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (12.29%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (11.44%) Secure Coding
11 26 (11.02%) AI
11 26 (11.02%) Test Automation
12 25 (10.59%) ITIL
13 24 (10.17%) Coaching
13 24 (10.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 22 (9.32%) DevSecOps
15 20 (8.47%) Clean Code
16 19 (8.05%) Design Patterns
17 17 (7.20%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 75 (31.78%) TypeScript
2 63 (26.69%) SQL
3 46 (19.49%) Python
4 45 (19.07%) Kotlin
5 44 (18.64%) Groovy
6 43 (18.22%) JavaScript
7 37 (15.68%) C#
8 35 (14.83%) Bash
9 6 (2.54%) Go
10 5 (2.12%) Scala
11 4 (1.69%) C++
11 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.42%) C
12 1 (0.42%) Perl
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (16.10%) AWS Certification
2 23 (9.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (9.75%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (6.36%) Degree
3 15 (6.36%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (2.54%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.93%) QA
2 7 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 71 (30.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (14.41%) HP Fortify
2 15 (6.36%) Terraform
3 11 (4.66%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.97%) Argo
5 6 (2.54%) Ansible
6 3 (1.27%) Packer
7 2 (0.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.12%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.12%) IBM
3 3 (1.27%) Google
3 3 (1.27%) Oracle