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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 55 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -23
Permanent jobs citing Java 170 99 179
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.27% 3.99% 3.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.73% 13.29% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 114 49 126
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £41,227
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £80,818
90th Percentile £85,000 £146,300 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -6.45%

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 820 745 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.61% 30.03% 31.77%
Number of salaries quoted 577 401 1,221
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £54,228 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +5.30% -10.43%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £96,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +23 141 £75,000 +4.18% 34
South Yorkshire -20 21 £25,000 -41.18% 9
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 2
North Yorkshire -8 2 £57,000 +8.57% 3
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 10 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.35%) Apache
3 4 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.18%) JBoss
4 2 (1.18%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.59%) CMS
5 1 (0.59%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.59%) IIS
5 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 117 (68.82%) AWS
2 74 (43.53%) Serverless
3 50 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
4 44 (25.88%) Amazon S3
5 43 (25.29%) Azure
6 39 (22.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (22.35%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (21.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 28 (16.47%) Apigee
10 27 (15.88%) Amazon ECR
11 19 (11.18%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (6.47%) Amazon EKS
13 10 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (5.88%) GitHub
13 10 (5.88%) SaaS
14 5 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 5 (2.94%) GCP
14 5 (2.94%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) Broadband
1 1 (0.59%) DNS
1 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (22.35%) DynamoDB
2 19 (11.18%) NoSQL
2 19 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (5.29%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.53%) MySQL
6 5 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.76%) Power BI
8 3 (1.76%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.18%) Big Data
9 2 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.18%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.18%) Tableau
10 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 47 (27.65%) Jenkins
2 31 (18.24%) GitLab
3 27 (15.88%) Cypress.io
3 27 (15.88%) Maven
3 27 (15.88%) SonarQube
4 20 (11.76%) Git
5 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.59%) JIRA
5 1 (0.59%) JUnit
5 1 (0.59%) Mockito
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
General
1 52 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.94%) Finance
3 14 (8.24%) Retail
4 12 (7.06%) Financial Institution
5 9 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.71%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.94%) Games
8 4 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (40.59%) Developer
2 53 (31.18%) Java Developer
3 28 (16.47%) Architect
3 28 (16.47%) Senior
4 27 (15.88%) Software Engineer
5 24 (14.12%) Lead
6 14 (8.24%) Applications Architect
6 14 (8.24%) Junior
7 12 (7.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (7.06%) Java Engineer
7 12 (7.06%) Senior Developer
8 11 (6.47%) Senior Java Developer
8 11 (6.47%) Software Architect
9 10 (5.88%) AWS Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (5.88%) Graduate
9 10 (5.88%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.29%) Consultant
10 9 (5.29%) Junior Technical Consultant
10 9 (5.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (28.24%) Spring Boot
2 41 (24.12%) AngularJS
3 37 (21.76%) Spring
4 27 (15.88%) Gherkin
4 27 (15.88%) Jest
4 27 (15.88%) Node.js
5 20 (11.76%) .NET
6 15 (8.82%) CSS
7 14 (8.24%) React
7 14 (8.24%) REST
8 12 (7.06%) Micronaut
9 11 (6.47%) Kafka
9 11 (6.47%) Web Services
10 10 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (5.88%) RESTful
11 7 (4.12%) Mustache
12 6 (3.53%) HTML
13 5 (2.94%) Hibernate
13 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Graph
14 4 (2.35%) Flutter
Miscellaneous
1 26 (15.29%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.47%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.71%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.18%) DataPower
7 1 (0.59%) IoT
7 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.59%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.59%) Social Media
7 1 (0.59%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (1.18%) Windows
3 1 (0.59%) Android
3 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (41.76%) CI/CD
2 70 (41.18%) DevOps
3 55 (32.35%) Agile
4 47 (27.65%) Microservices
5 45 (26.47%) Computer Science
6 43 (25.29%) Mentoring
7 40 (23.53%) Software Engineering
8 30 (17.65%) SDLC
9 28 (16.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (16.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (15.88%) Migration
11 26 (15.29%) Architectural Patterns
11 26 (15.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 26 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (14.71%) Data Modelling
13 24 (14.12%) Application Security
13 24 (14.12%) EAI
13 24 (14.12%) TOGAF
14 20 (11.76%) Secure Coding
15 17 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 65 (38.24%) TypeScript
2 61 (35.88%) Python
3 53 (31.18%) JavaScript
4 49 (28.82%) SQL
5 45 (26.47%) C#
6 30 (17.65%) Bash
7 26 (15.29%) Groovy
8 15 (8.82%) Kotlin
9 14 (8.24%) C
10 10 (5.88%) C++
11 9 (5.29%) PL/SQL
12 7 (4.12%) PHP
13 6 (3.53%) Perl
14 5 (2.94%) Scala
15 4 (2.35%) Go
15 4 (2.35%) PowerShell
16 2 (1.18%) R
16 2 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (27.06%) AWS Certification
1 46 (27.06%) Degree
2 38 (22.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (15.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (14.12%) Azure Certification
4 24 (14.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (14.12%) TOGAF Certification
5 13 (7.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.65%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (3.53%) AWS Certified Developer
6 6 (3.53%) HND
6 6 (3.53%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.35%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.76%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.59%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.18%) GDPR
2 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 58 (34.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (15.88%) HP Fortify
2 24 (14.12%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.12%) Ansible
4 5 (2.94%) Terraform
5 1 (0.59%) Grafana
5 1 (0.59%) Kibana
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.53%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (3.53%) Siemens
2 6 (3.53%) Toshiba
3 4 (2.35%) Google
4 3 (1.76%) Pega
4 3 (1.76%) WSO2
5 1 (0.59%) Adobe
5 1 (0.59%) New Relic
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle