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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 79 109
Rank change year-on-year +36 +30 -70
Permanent jobs citing Java 226 99 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.20% 2.82% 1.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.80% 15.35% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 159 72 74
10th Percentile £32,850 £28,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,231 £47,934
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,934 £81,250
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 1,202 645 1,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.04% 18.38% 25.58%
Number of salaries quoted 832 527 1,076
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,400 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,625 £66,250
90th Percentile £88,148 £84,250 £76,875
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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +18 189 £75,000 +4.18% 21
South Yorkshire -20 29 £49,130 +58.48% 3
North Yorkshire +6 1 £41,500 -40.71%
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 3 (1.33%) JBoss
2 2 (0.88%) Apache
2 2 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.88%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (56.19%) AWS
2 75 (33.19%) Serverless
3 68 (30.09%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (28.76%) Amazon S3
5 63 (27.88%) Amazon ECS
6 62 (27.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (24.78%) AWS Step Functions
8 33 (14.60%) Apigee
9 32 (14.16%) Amazon ECR
9 32 (14.16%) Azure
10 24 (10.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (10.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 22 (9.73%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (7.96%) GitHub
14 11 (4.87%) Datadog
14 11 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (4.42%) GCP
16 9 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (3.98%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (3.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (24.78%) DynamoDB
2 29 (12.83%) NoSQL
3 23 (10.18%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (7.52%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.42%) MySQL
5 10 (4.42%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (3.98%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.98%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.10%) Power BI
7 7 (3.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.88%) Tableau
9 1 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (22.57%) Jenkins
2 38 (16.81%) GitLab
3 28 (12.39%) Cypress.io
4 25 (11.06%) SonarQube
5 23 (10.18%) Git
5 23 (10.18%) Maven
6 6 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.77%) JIRA
7 4 (1.77%) Selenium
8 3 (1.33%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.44%) Gatling
9 1 (0.44%) JMeter
9 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (15.93%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.06%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.75%) Games
4 13 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (3.10%) Retail
6 6 (2.65%) Finance
7 4 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.33%) Back Office
9 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 135 (59.73%) Developer
2 94 (41.59%) Java Developer
3 53 (23.45%) Senior
4 43 (19.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (15.49%) Senior Developer
6 28 (12.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 28 (12.39%) Lead
7 27 (11.95%) AWS Developer
8 23 (10.18%) Senior Java Developer
9 22 (9.73%) Software Engineer
10 21 (9.29%) Java Engineer
11 17 (7.52%) Consultant
11 17 (7.52%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (5.75%) Java Consultant
12 13 (5.75%) Junior
12 13 (5.75%) Junior Consultant
12 13 (5.75%) Junior Java Consultant
12 13 (5.75%) Junior Technical Consultant
13 12 (5.31%) Angular Developer
13 12 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (31.86%) AngularJS
2 53 (23.45%) Spring Boot
3 40 (17.70%) Node.js
3 40 (17.70%) Spring
4 31 (13.72%) Gherkin
5 24 (10.62%) React
6 23 (10.18%) Jest
7 17 (7.52%) .NET
8 13 (5.75%) Android SDK
8 13 (5.75%) GraphQL
8 13 (5.75%) RESTful
9 7 (3.10%) Classic ASP
9 7 (3.10%) REST
10 5 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (2.21%) Flutter
10 5 (2.21%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.77%) JSON
12 3 (1.33%) CSS
12 3 (1.33%) Drools
12 3 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.19%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.75%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.75%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.75%) Social Media
3 9 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.98%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.10%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.65%) Legacy Code
6 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.88%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Blog
7 1 (0.44%) NHS
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.08%) Linux
2 13 (5.75%) Android
3 7 (3.10%) Unix
3 7 (3.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (38.05%) Agile
2 79 (34.96%) CI/CD
3 64 (28.32%) Full-Stack Development
4 60 (26.55%) DevOps
5 41 (18.14%) Software Engineering
6 37 (16.37%) Mentoring
7 30 (13.27%) Microservices
8 29 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (11.50%) Coaching
10 25 (11.06%) Test Automation
11 24 (10.62%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (10.18%) AI
13 22 (9.73%) SDLC
14 20 (8.85%) Design Patterns
15 19 (8.41%) ITIL
15 19 (8.41%) Secure Coding
16 18 (7.96%) DevSecOps
16 18 (7.96%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 16 (7.08%) Clean Code
17 16 (7.08%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.43%) SQL
2 53 (23.45%) TypeScript
3 41 (18.14%) Kotlin
4 39 (17.26%) Python
5 35 (15.49%) Groovy
6 28 (12.39%) JavaScript
7 27 (11.95%) Bash
8 26 (11.50%) C#
9 7 (3.10%) Scala
10 5 (2.21%) C++
10 5 (2.21%) Go
10 5 (2.21%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.88%) C
12 1 (0.44%) Perl
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 22 (9.73%) AWS Certification
2 18 (7.96%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 17 (7.52%) ITIL Certification
4 13 (5.75%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.54%) Degree
6 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.77%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.31%) QA
2 8 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.21%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (21.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (9.73%) HP Fortify
2 16 (7.08%) Terraform
3 7 (3.10%) Argo
4 6 (2.65%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.21%) Ansible
6 3 (1.33%) Packer
7 2 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.21%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.21%) IBM
2 3 (1.33%) Oracle
3 2 (0.88%) Google
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft