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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 87 37
Rank change year-on-year +29 -50 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 122 83 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.54% 2.18% 6.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.78% 8.83% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 88 35 140
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,574 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.84% +8.92%
75th Percentile £76,563 £76,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £80,375 £82,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 686 940 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.91% 24.71% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 517 492 943
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 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
West Yorkshire +40 101 £70,000 +20.76% 45
South Yorkshire -9 13 £28,750 -42.50% 23
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 3
North Yorkshire -14 1 £72,500 +38.10% 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 6 (4.92%) OpenStack
2 5 (4.10%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.46%) Apache
3 3 (2.46%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.64%) JBoss
4 2 (1.64%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.82%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.82%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 83 (68.03%) AWS
2 42 (34.43%) Azure
3 36 (29.51%) Serverless
4 22 (18.03%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (10.66%) Amazon S3
5 13 (10.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (8.20%) SaaS
7 9 (7.38%) Amazon ECR
7 9 (7.38%) Apigee
7 9 (7.38%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.10%) Power Automate
10 4 (3.28%) GCP
11 3 (2.46%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.46%) dbt
12 2 (1.64%) IaaS
13 1 (0.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) AMQP
2 1 (0.82%) DNS
2 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (8.20%) DynamoDB
2 10 (8.20%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.74%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.92%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.92%) MySQL
4 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.46%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.64%) Big Data
6 2 (1.64%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.82%) Power BI
7 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (19.67%) Jenkins
2 17 (13.93%) GitLab
3 10 (8.20%) Cypress.io
4 9 (7.38%) Maven
4 9 (7.38%) SonarQube
5 8 (6.56%) Git
6 2 (1.64%) Selenium
7 1 (0.82%) Appium
7 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.82%) JUnit
7 1 (0.82%) Mockito
7 1 (0.82%) Postman
7 1 (0.82%) REST Assured
General
1 48 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.49%) Finance
3 13 (10.66%) Retail
4 12 (9.84%) Financial Institution
5 9 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.74%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.46%) Games
7 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Law
8 2 (1.64%) Legal
8 2 (1.64%) Marketing
9 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (32.79%) Developer
2 28 (22.95%) Senior
3 24 (19.67%) Java Developer
4 23 (18.85%) Lead
5 22 (18.03%) Architect
6 21 (17.21%) Software Engineer
7 13 (10.66%) Graduate
8 11 (9.02%) Applications Architect
8 11 (9.02%) Lead Developer
8 11 (9.02%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.56%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.56%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) Software Architect
10 7 (5.74%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Java Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Logistics Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Software Engineering Graduate
11 6 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (24.59%) Spring
2 27 (22.13%) Spring Boot
3 18 (14.75%) .NET
3 18 (14.75%) CSS
4 17 (13.93%) Node.js
5 13 (10.66%) AngularJS
6 12 (9.84%) Micronaut
6 12 (9.84%) React
7 9 (7.38%) Gherkin
7 9 (7.38%) Jest
7 9 (7.38%) REST
8 7 (5.74%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.74%) jQuery
8 7 (5.74%) Web Services
9 6 (4.92%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (4.92%) HTML
9 6 (4.92%) Kafka
9 6 (4.92%) RESTful
10 5 (4.10%) Flutter
10 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.57%) Enterprise Software
2 12 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.56%) Cloud Native
4 7 (5.74%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.74%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.64%) DataPower
7 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.82%) IoT
7 1 (0.82%) Robotics
7 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.30%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) Windows
3 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (37.70%) DevOps
2 44 (36.07%) CI/CD
3 42 (34.43%) Computer Science
4 39 (31.97%) Mentoring
5 35 (28.69%) Agile
6 33 (27.05%) Microservices
7 29 (23.77%) Software Engineering
8 27 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (17.21%) Migration
9 21 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 20 (16.39%) Architectural Patterns
10 20 (16.39%) Enterprise Architecture
11 18 (14.75%) Application Security
11 18 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (14.75%) Data Modelling
11 18 (14.75%) EAI
11 18 (14.75%) TOGAF
12 16 (13.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (13.11%) SDLC
13 15 (12.30%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 52 (42.62%) Python
2 47 (38.52%) JavaScript
3 41 (33.61%) TypeScript
4 40 (32.79%) SQL
5 38 (31.15%) C#
6 16 (13.11%) Bash
7 13 (10.66%) C
7 13 (10.66%) C++
8 11 (9.02%) PHP
9 9 (7.38%) Kotlin
10 8 (6.56%) Groovy
10 8 (6.56%) PowerShell
10 8 (6.56%) Scala
11 7 (5.74%) PL/SQL
12 6 (4.92%) Perl
13 5 (4.10%) Go
14 2 (1.64%) R
14 2 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 43 (35.25%) Degree
2 35 (28.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (23.77%) AWS Certification
4 21 (17.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (14.75%) Azure Certification
5 18 (14.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (14.75%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
6 8 (6.56%) Security Cleared
7 6 (4.92%) HND
7 6 (4.92%) Master's Degree
8 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.82%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.66%) QA
2 2 (1.64%) GDPR
2 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (22.95%) Docker
2 1 (0.82%) Squid
Systems Management
1 27 (22.13%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.38%) HP Fortify
3 8 (6.56%) Ansible
4 5 (4.10%) Terraform
5 1 (0.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.82%) Kibana
5 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.92%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (4.92%) Siemens
2 6 (4.92%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.46%) Google
3 3 (2.46%) Pega
3 3 (2.46%) WSO2
4 1 (0.82%) Adobe
4 1 (0.82%) New Relic