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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 92 43
Rank change year-on-year +27 -49 -25
Permanent jobs citing Java 111 80 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.05% 1.90% 5.91%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.45% 8.11% 15.40%
Number of salaries quoted 79 33 142
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,361 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £52,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -8.19% +8.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,671
90th Percentile £79,000 £82,500 £88,625
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 636 987 1,240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.50% 23.49% 38.39%
Number of salaries quoted 503 496 986
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,875 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,500 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £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 14 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 14 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 +37 89 £67,500 +12.50% 35
South Yorkshire -4 14 £25,000 -51.22% 8
East Yorkshire - 6 - -
North Yorkshire -15 1 £72,500 - 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 5 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.90%) CMS
3 1 (0.90%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.90%) IIS
3 1 (0.90%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 67 (60.36%) AWS
2 39 (35.14%) Azure
3 19 (17.12%) Serverless
4 10 (9.01%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (9.01%) SaaS
5 5 (4.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (4.50%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.50%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.60%) GCP
7 3 (2.70%) dbt
8 2 (1.80%) IaaS
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.90%) GitHub
9 1 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) AMQP
2 1 (0.90%) DNS
2 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.71%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.21%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.41%) MySQL
6 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.80%) Big Data
8 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.90%) Power BI
9 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.11%) GitLab
3 4 (3.60%) Git
4 2 (1.80%) Postman
4 2 (1.80%) Selenium
5 1 (0.90%) Appium
5 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.90%) Mockito
5 1 (0.90%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.90%) SoapUI
General
1 40 (36.04%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.62%) Finance
3 11 (9.91%) Financial Institution
4 8 (7.21%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Retail
5 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.70%) Games
7 3 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.80%) Law
8 2 (1.80%) Legal
9 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (33.33%) Developer
2 25 (22.52%) Senior
3 21 (18.92%) Java Developer
4 17 (15.32%) Lead
5 16 (14.41%) Software Engineer
6 15 (13.51%) Architect
7 13 (11.71%) Software Developer
8 12 (10.81%) Lead Developer
9 10 (9.01%) Graduate
10 9 (8.11%) Applications Architect
11 8 (7.21%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (7.21%) Java Engineer
12 7 (6.31%) Junior
12 7 (6.31%) Lead Software Developer
12 7 (6.31%) Senior Developer
12 7 (6.31%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (5.41%) Graduate Developer
13 6 (5.41%) IT Graduate
13 6 (5.41%) Senior Automation Engineer
13 6 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.32%) CSS
2 16 (14.41%) .NET
2 16 (14.41%) Node.js
2 16 (14.41%) Spring
3 13 (11.71%) HTML
3 13 (11.71%) Spring Boot
4 11 (9.91%) Micronaut
5 8 (7.21%) React
6 7 (6.31%) RESTful
7 6 (5.41%) ASP.NET
7 6 (5.41%) jQuery
8 5 (4.50%) Flutter
8 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (3.60%) REST
10 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.70%) Apache Camel
10 3 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.70%) Kafka
10 3 (2.70%) SOAP
10 3 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.61%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.90%) IoT
5 1 (0.90%) Robotics
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.81%) Linux
2 3 (2.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.84%) Computer Science
2 35 (31.53%) DevOps
3 34 (30.63%) Mentoring
4 33 (29.73%) CI/CD
5 24 (21.62%) Software Engineering
6 23 (20.72%) Agile
6 23 (20.72%) Microservices
6 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (14.41%) Clean Code
7 16 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (13.51%) Architectural Patterns
8 15 (13.51%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (13.51%) Migration
9 14 (12.61%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (12.61%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (11.71%) Application Security
10 13 (11.71%) EAI
10 13 (11.71%) OO
10 13 (11.71%) OOP
10 13 (11.71%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 53 (47.75%) Python
2 48 (43.24%) JavaScript
3 44 (39.64%) SQL
4 41 (36.94%) C#
5 34 (30.63%) TypeScript
6 20 (18.02%) PHP
7 18 (16.22%) C
7 18 (16.22%) C++
8 10 (9.01%) Ruby
9 9 (8.11%) Bash
9 9 (8.11%) Kotlin
9 9 (8.11%) PowerShell
9 9 (8.11%) R
10 8 (7.21%) Dart
10 8 (7.21%) MATLAB
10 8 (7.21%) Rust
10 8 (7.21%) Scala
11 6 (5.41%) Go
11 6 (5.41%) Perl
12 4 (3.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (38.74%) Degree
2 35 (31.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (18.02%) AWS Certification
4 16 (14.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (11.71%) Azure Certification
5 13 (11.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (11.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (10.81%) SC Cleared
6 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
7 6 (5.41%) HND
7 6 (5.41%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.90%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) GDPR
2 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (12.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.80%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (19.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.21%) Ansible
3 5 (4.50%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) Kibana
5 1 (0.90%) Grafana
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.41%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (5.41%) Siemens
2 6 (5.41%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.70%) Google
3 3 (2.70%) Pega
3 3 (2.70%) WSO2
4 2 (1.80%) New Relic