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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 75 110
Rank change year-on-year +24 +35 -63
Permanent jobs citing Java 192 93 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.51% 2.76% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.29% 16.52% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 144 55 41
10th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £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 £85,000 £76,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 1,050 563 1,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.70% 16.74% 24.05%
Number of salaries quoted 765 450 669
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,119 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £89,259 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +18 168 £75,000 +11.11% 78
South Yorkshire -23 20 £41,994 +67.98% 32
East Yorkshire -13 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 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.52%) Apache
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) IIS
2 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 118 (61.46%) AWS
2 69 (35.94%) Serverless
3 61 (31.77%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (27.08%) Amazon S3
5 51 (26.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 50 (26.04%) Amazon ECS
7 46 (23.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (14.58%) Azure
9 23 (11.98%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 22 (11.46%) GitHub
11 20 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
12 18 (9.38%) Apigee
12 18 (9.38%) Datadog
12 18 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (6.77%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (5.73%) GCP
15 9 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) 5G
1 2 (1.04%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.88%) DynamoDB
2 22 (11.46%) NoSQL
3 19 (9.90%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 11 (5.73%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.17%) BigQuery
7 8 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.60%) MySQL
8 5 (2.60%) Power BI
8 5 (2.60%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (18.23%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.06%) Git
3 24 (12.50%) GitLab
4 14 (7.29%) Cypress.io
5 12 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 10 (5.21%) Maven
7 3 (1.56%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 36 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.10%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.77%) Finance
5 8 (4.17%) Banking
6 7 (3.65%) Retail
7 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.56%) Legal
8 3 (1.56%) Local Government
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 98 (51.04%) Developer
2 77 (40.10%) Java Developer
3 60 (31.25%) Senior
4 40 (20.83%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (17.19%) Java Engineer
6 31 (16.15%) AWS Developer
6 31 (16.15%) Senior Developer
7 26 (13.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 25 (13.02%) Software Engineer
9 23 (11.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 21 (10.94%) Lead
11 15 (7.81%) Angular Developer
12 13 (6.77%) Consultant
12 13 (6.77%) Senior Java Engineer
12 13 (6.77%) Technical Consultant
13 12 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (5.73%) Senior Software Engineer
15 10 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (5.21%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (4.69%) Junior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (32.81%) AngularJS
2 48 (25.00%) Spring
3 46 (23.96%) Spring Boot
4 39 (20.31%) Node.js
5 21 (10.94%) React
6 18 (9.38%) Gherkin
7 17 (8.85%) Terraform
8 13 (6.77%) .NET
9 10 (5.21%) Jest
9 10 (5.21%) REST
10 9 (4.69%) RESTful
11 7 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.60%) PySpark
14 4 (2.08%) JSON
15 3 (1.56%) .NET Core
15 3 (1.56%) Kafka
15 3 (1.56%) OpenAPI
15 3 (1.56%) Redux
15 3 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.85%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.56%) Blog
5 3 (1.56%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.56%) NHS
6 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.85%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Windows
3 7 (3.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (34.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 66 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 64 (33.33%) Agile
4 54 (28.13%) DevOps
5 46 (23.96%) Software Engineering
6 37 (19.27%) Mentoring
7 34 (17.71%) Microservices
8 25 (13.02%) Coaching
8 25 (13.02%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (9.38%) DevSecOps
9 18 (9.38%) Test Automation
10 17 (8.85%) Secrets Management
11 15 (7.81%) TDD
12 14 (7.29%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 14 (7.29%) RBAC
12 14 (7.29%) Workflow
12 14 (7.29%) Workflow Management
13 13 (6.77%) Data Engineering
13 13 (6.77%) SDLC
13 13 (6.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (29.69%) SQL
2 44 (22.92%) TypeScript
3 36 (18.75%) Python
4 25 (13.02%) Kotlin
5 22 (11.46%) Groovy
6 20 (10.42%) C#
7 19 (9.90%) JavaScript
8 16 (8.33%) Bash
9 10 (5.21%) C++
10 8 (4.17%) Scala
11 5 (2.60%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.56%) C
12 3 (1.56%) Ruby
13 2 (1.04%) Go
14 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.21%) Degree
2 10 (5.21%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.69%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 8 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.08%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) PhD
7 1 (0.52%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.21%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (22.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.69%) HP Fortify
1 9 (4.69%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.65%) Argo
3 5 (2.60%) Ansible
4 3 (1.56%) Packer
5 2 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.60%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.60%) IBM
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle
3 1 (0.52%) Google
3 1 (0.52%) SGI