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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 86 43
Rank change year-on-year +26 -43 -25
Permanent jobs citing Java 119 84 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.49% 2.07% 6.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.17% 8.56% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 89 36 137
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,706 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £80,250 £85,000 £88,000
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 655 981 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.19% 24.23% 38.01%
Number of salaries quoted 515 506 950
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,875 £35,900
25th Percentile £36,500 £42,500 £43,498
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +39 97 £68,750 +5.77% 16
South Yorkshire -9 14 £25,000 -48.72% 3
East Yorkshire - 6 - -
North Yorkshire -8 1 £72,500 +38.10%
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 (4.20%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.20%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.52%) Apache
2 3 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.68%) JBoss
3 2 (1.68%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.84%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.84%) CMS
4 1 (0.84%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.84%) IIS
4 1 (0.84%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 79 (66.39%) AWS
2 41 (34.45%) Azure
3 31 (26.05%) Serverless
4 19 (15.97%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (9.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (8.40%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.40%) SaaS
7 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
8 7 (5.88%) Apigee
8 7 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
9 6 (5.04%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.20%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.20%) Power Automate
11 4 (3.36%) GCP
12 3 (2.52%) dbt
13 2 (1.68%) Amazon SQS
13 2 (1.68%) IaaS
14 1 (0.84%) Adobe Analytics
14 1 (0.84%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) AMQP
2 1 (0.84%) DNS
2 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.84%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (9.24%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.72%) DynamoDB
4 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.04%) MySQL
6 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.68%) Big Data
8 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.84%) Power BI
9 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.61%) GitLab
3 8 (6.72%) Cypress.io
4 7 (5.88%) Git
4 7 (5.88%) Maven
4 7 (5.88%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.84%) Appium
6 1 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.84%) JUnit
6 1 (0.84%) Mockito
6 1 (0.84%) Postman
6 1 (0.84%) REST Assured
General
1 46 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.01%) Finance
3 13 (10.92%) Retail
4 12 (10.08%) Financial Institution
5 9 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 7 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.52%) Games
7 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.68%) Law
8 2 (1.68%) Legal
8 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (33.61%) Developer
2 28 (23.53%) Senior
3 23 (19.33%) Java Developer
4 22 (18.49%) Lead
5 21 (17.65%) Software Engineer
6 20 (16.81%) Architect
7 13 (10.92%) Graduate
8 12 (10.08%) Lead Developer
8 12 (10.08%) Software Developer
9 10 (8.40%) Applications Architect
10 8 (6.72%) Java Engineer
10 8 (6.72%) Senior Developer
10 8 (6.72%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Junior
11 7 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Logistics Engineer
11 7 (5.88%) Software Architect
11 7 (5.88%) Software Engineering Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.53%) Spring
2 24 (20.17%) Spring Boot
3 18 (15.13%) .NET
3 18 (15.13%) CSS
4 17 (14.29%) Node.js
5 12 (10.08%) Micronaut
6 11 (9.24%) AngularJS
6 11 (9.24%) React
7 8 (6.72%) REST
8 7 (5.88%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.88%) Gherkin
8 7 (5.88%) Jest
8 7 (5.88%) jQuery
9 6 (5.04%) HTML
9 6 (5.04%) RESTful
9 6 (5.04%) Web Services
10 5 (4.20%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.20%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.20%) Kafka
10 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.88%) Driving Licence
3 7 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.68%) DataPower
6 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.84%) IoT
6 1 (0.84%) Robotics
6 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.61%) Linux
2 3 (2.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.84%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.97%) DevOps
2 41 (34.45%) CI/CD
3 40 (33.61%) Computer Science
4 39 (32.77%) Mentoring
5 32 (26.89%) Agile
6 29 (24.37%) Microservices
6 29 (24.37%) Software Engineering
7 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.97%) Migration
8 19 (15.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 18 (15.13%) Architectural Patterns
9 18 (15.13%) Enterprise Architecture
10 17 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (13.45%) Application Security
11 16 (13.45%) Clean Code
11 16 (13.45%) Data Modelling
11 16 (13.45%) EAI
11 16 (13.45%) TOGAF
12 15 (12.61%) SDLC
12 15 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (42.02%) Python
2 45 (37.82%) JavaScript
3 41 (34.45%) SQL
4 37 (31.09%) TypeScript
5 36 (30.25%) C#
6 14 (11.76%) Bash
7 13 (10.92%) C
7 13 (10.92%) C++
8 11 (9.24%) PHP
9 9 (7.56%) Kotlin
10 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
10 8 (6.72%) Scala
11 7 (5.88%) PL/SQL
12 6 (5.04%) Groovy
12 6 (5.04%) Perl
13 5 (4.20%) Go
14 2 (1.68%) R
14 2 (1.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (34.45%) Degree
2 33 (27.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (21.85%) AWS Certification
4 19 (15.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 16 (13.45%) Azure Certification
5 16 (13.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (13.45%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (7.56%) SC Cleared
6 9 (7.56%) Security Cleared
7 6 (5.04%) HND
7 6 (5.04%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.52%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.84%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) QA
2 2 (1.68%) GDPR
2 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (21.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.84%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (21.85%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.72%) Ansible
3 7 (5.88%) HP Fortify
4 5 (4.20%) Terraform
5 1 (0.84%) Grafana
5 1 (0.84%) Kibana
5 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.04%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (5.04%) Siemens
2 6 (5.04%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.52%) Google
3 3 (2.52%) Pega
3 3 (2.52%) WSO2
4 1 (0.84%) Adobe
4 1 (0.84%) New Relic