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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 68 97
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 -51
Permanent jobs citing Java 182 98 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.38% 2.91% 1.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.09% 17.31% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 136 60 37
10th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £40,317
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,313 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £77,625 £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 1,006 566 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.14% 16.78% 23.37%
Number of salaries quoted 738 440 586
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,025 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £74,987 £71,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £77,500
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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +12 156 £75,000 +11.11% 75
South Yorkshire -20 22 £48,559 +94.24% 33
East Yorkshire -10 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 (1.10%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.55%) Apache
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.55%) IIS
2 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 109 (59.89%) AWS
2 61 (33.52%) Serverless
3 53 (29.12%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (25.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (25.27%) Amazon S3
6 45 (24.73%) Amazon ECS
7 44 (24.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (15.38%) Azure
9 22 (12.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 22 (12.09%) GitHub
10 19 (10.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (9.89%) Datadog
11 18 (9.89%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (8.79%) Amazon ECR
12 16 (8.79%) Apigee
13 13 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
14 11 (6.04%) GCP
15 9 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (4.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) 5G
1 2 (1.10%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) DNS
2 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 23 (12.64%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.89%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.40%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.40%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.30%) MySQL
8 5 (2.75%) Power BI
8 5 (2.75%) Spark SQL
9 2 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.55%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (14.84%) Jenkins
2 22 (12.09%) Git
3 20 (10.99%) GitLab
4 13 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 9 (4.95%) Maven
6 8 (4.40%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (18.13%) Social Skills
2 28 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.69%) Finance
4 13 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.49%) Banking
6 6 (3.30%) Retail
7 4 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.65%) Legal
8 3 (1.65%) Local Government
8 3 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.55%) Back Office
9 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (46.15%) Developer
2 65 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 55 (30.22%) Senior
4 38 (20.88%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (19.78%) Java Engineer
6 31 (17.03%) Software Engineer
7 30 (16.48%) AWS Developer
8 25 (13.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 24 (13.19%) Senior Developer
10 20 (10.99%) Lead
11 18 (9.89%) Senior Java Developer
12 15 (8.24%) Angular Developer
13 14 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
13 14 (7.69%) Senior Java Engineer
14 12 (6.59%) Consultant
14 12 (6.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 12 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
14 12 (6.59%) Technical Consultant
15 9 (4.95%) Data Engineer
16 8 (4.40%) Junior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (31.32%) AngularJS
2 43 (23.63%) Spring
3 40 (21.98%) Spring Boot
4 38 (20.88%) Node.js
5 18 (9.89%) React
6 17 (9.34%) Gherkin
7 12 (6.59%) .NET
7 12 (6.59%) Terraform
8 9 (4.95%) Jest
9 8 (4.40%) RESTful
10 5 (2.75%) PySpark
10 5 (2.75%) REST
11 3 (1.65%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.65%) CSS
11 3 (1.65%) Kafka
11 3 (1.65%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.65%) Redux
12 2 (1.10%) Classic ASP
12 2 (1.10%) Hibernate
12 2 (1.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 7 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.65%) Blog
5 3 (1.65%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.65%) NHS
6 2 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.10%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.55%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.55%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Linux
2 8 (4.40%) Windows
3 7 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 60 (32.97%) CI/CD
3 56 (30.77%) Agile
4 52 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 48 (26.37%) DevOps
6 38 (20.88%) Mentoring
7 30 (16.48%) Microservices
8 26 (14.29%) Coaching
9 24 (13.19%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (9.89%) DevSecOps
11 16 (8.79%) Test Automation
12 14 (7.69%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 14 (7.69%) RBAC
12 14 (7.69%) Secrets Management
12 14 (7.69%) TDD
12 14 (7.69%) Workflow
12 14 (7.69%) Workflow Management
13 13 (7.14%) Data Engineering
13 13 (7.14%) ETL
13 13 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 54 (29.67%) SQL
2 43 (23.63%) TypeScript
3 33 (18.13%) Python
4 25 (13.74%) Kotlin
5 18 (9.89%) C#
5 18 (9.89%) Groovy
5 18 (9.89%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.24%) Bash
7 10 (5.49%) C++
8 8 (4.40%) Scala
9 3 (1.65%) C
9 3 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.65%) Ruby
10 2 (1.10%) Go
11 1 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.49%) Degree
3 8 (4.40%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.20%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) PhD
8 1 (0.55%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.30%) QA
3 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (4.40%) HP Fortify
2 7 (3.85%) Argo
3 5 (2.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (1.10%) Google
2 1 (0.55%) SGI