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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 104 46
Rank change year-on-year +36 -58 -30
Permanent jobs citing Java 102 75 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.05% 1.71% 5.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.05% 7.38% 14.64%
Number of salaries quoted 63 34 150
10th Percentile £26,250 £39,533 £44,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,996 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.94% +13.35%
75th Percentile £76,875 £70,938 £77,715
90th Percentile £79,750 £82,500 £87,625
England median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +3.23% +6.90%

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 565 1,016 1,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.87% 23.11% 38.03%
Number of salaries quoted 438 533 1,051
10th Percentile £30,175 £34,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +0.02%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,750 £82,548
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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +41 78 £67,500 +12.50% 33
South Yorkshire -3 9 £25,000 -51.45% 6
East Yorkshire - 6 - -
North Yorkshire -16 2 £72,500 - 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 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.94%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.96%) Apache
3 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.98%) CMS
4 1 (0.98%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.98%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 53 (51.96%) AWS
2 32 (31.37%) Azure
3 13 (12.75%) Serverless
4 10 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (7.84%) SaaS
6 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (4.90%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.90%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.94%) GCP
8 2 (1.96%) dbt
8 2 (1.96%) IaaS
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.98%) GitHub
9 1 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.80%) DNS
1 10 (9.80%) VPN
2 2 (1.96%) AMQP
3 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.84%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.88%) MySQL
6 4 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.96%) Big Data
7 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.98%) Power BI
8 1 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.82%) GitLab
3 4 (3.92%) Git
4 2 (1.96%) Postman
4 2 (1.96%) Selenium
5 1 (0.98%) Appium
5 1 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.98%) Mockito
5 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.98%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.47%) Finance
3 16 (15.69%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.84%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.90%) Retail
8 3 (2.94%) Games
9 2 (1.96%) Law
9 2 (1.96%) Legal
10 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (44.12%) Developer
2 23 (22.55%) Senior
3 22 (21.57%) Software Developer
4 21 (20.59%) Java Developer
5 17 (16.67%) Lead
6 12 (11.76%) Lead Developer
7 10 (9.80%) Architect
7 10 (9.80%) Software Engineer
8 8 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (6.86%) Graduate
9 7 (6.86%) Lead Software Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.86%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (5.88%) Applications Architect
10 6 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
10 6 (5.88%) IT Graduate
10 6 (5.88%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.90%) Applications Support Specialist
11 5 (4.90%) Java Software Developer
11 5 (4.90%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.67%) CSS
2 16 (15.69%) .NET
3 13 (12.75%) HTML
4 12 (11.76%) Node.js
5 10 (9.80%) Spring
5 10 (9.80%) Spring Boot
6 8 (7.84%) Micronaut
6 8 (7.84%) React
7 7 (6.86%) RESTful
8 6 (5.88%) ASP.NET
8 6 (5.88%) Flutter
8 6 (5.88%) jQuery
9 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (3.92%) REST
11 3 (2.94%) AngularJS
11 3 (2.94%) Apache Camel
11 3 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.94%) Kafka
11 3 (2.94%) SOAP
11 3 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.82%) Cyberattack
1 9 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.98%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.98%) IoT
4 1 (0.98%) Robotics
4 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.65%) Linux
2 9 (8.82%) Android
3 3 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.98%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.98%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 30 (29.41%) Agile
3 29 (28.43%) CI/CD
4 28 (27.45%) DevOps
5 25 (24.51%) Mentoring
6 23 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.59%) OO
7 21 (20.59%) OOP
8 18 (17.65%) Microservices
9 15 (14.71%) Clean Code
9 15 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.76%) SDLC
10 12 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (9.80%) AI
12 10 (9.80%) Architectural Patterns
12 10 (9.80%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (9.80%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (54.90%) Python
2 43 (42.16%) JavaScript
3 40 (39.22%) SQL
4 37 (36.27%) C#
5 28 (27.45%) TypeScript
6 24 (23.53%) C++
7 20 (19.61%) PHP
8 16 (15.69%) Go
9 15 (14.71%) C
10 10 (9.80%) Ruby
11 9 (8.82%) Bash
11 9 (8.82%) Kotlin
11 9 (8.82%) PowerShell
11 9 (8.82%) R
12 8 (7.84%) Dart
12 8 (7.84%) MATLAB
12 8 (7.84%) Rust
12 8 (7.84%) Scala
13 6 (5.88%) Perl
14 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (33.33%) Degree
2 27 (26.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (20.59%) Security Cleared
4 15 (14.71%) AWS Certification
5 12 (11.76%) SC Cleared
6 11 (10.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (8.82%) DV Cleared
8 8 (7.84%) Azure Certification
8 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (7.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (5.88%) HND
9 6 (5.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.98%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
2 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (21.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 20 (19.61%) Kubernetes
2 17 (16.67%) Ansible
3 3 (2.94%) Terraform
4 2 (1.96%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.88%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (5.88%) Siemens
2 6 (5.88%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.94%) Google
3 3 (2.94%) Pega
3 3 (2.94%) WSO2
4 2 (1.96%) New Relic