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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 106 48
Rank change year-on-year +29 -58 -31
Permanent jobs citing Java 94 78 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.86% 1.58% 5.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.58% 6.61% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 55 43 151
10th Percentile £25,000 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -8.19% +18.82%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £79,375
90th Percentile £81,650 £82,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%

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 567 1,180 1,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.23% 23.95% 36.89%
Number of salaries quoted 448 742 1,138
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,075 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,113 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.69%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +42 69 £67,500 +12.50% 62
South Yorkshire -1 10 £25,000 -51.45% 11
East Yorkshire - 6 - -
North Yorkshire -6 2 £72,500 - 6
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.06%) Apache
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (37.23%) AWS
2 21 (22.34%) Azure
3 7 (7.45%) Amazon ECS
4 6 (6.38%) GCP
5 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.32%) Power Automate
5 5 (5.32%) Serverless
6 3 (3.19%) GitHub
6 3 (3.19%) SaaS
7 2 (2.13%) Apigee
7 2 (2.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.13%) IaaS
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.06%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.06%) dbt
8 1 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.06%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.57%) DNS
1 9 (9.57%) VPN
2 2 (2.13%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.96%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.38%) MySQL
4 2 (2.13%) Big Data
4 2 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.13%) Endeca
4 2 (2.13%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.06%) Power BI
5 1 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.77%) GitLab
3 6 (6.38%) Git
4 5 (5.32%) Selenium
5 4 (4.26%) JIRA
6 3 (3.19%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.19%) JUnit
6 3 (3.19%) Postman
6 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.13%) Maven
7 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.06%) Appium
8 1 (1.06%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.06%) JMeter
8 1 (1.06%) Mockito
8 1 (1.06%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (26.60%) Finance
2 23 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.51%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Marketing
7 3 (3.19%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.19%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.13%) Law
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 2 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (41.49%) Developer
2 23 (24.47%) Senior
3 20 (21.28%) Software Developer
4 16 (17.02%) Java Developer
4 16 (17.02%) Lead
5 12 (12.77%) Lead Developer
6 11 (11.70%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.45%) Lead Software Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Architect
9 6 (6.38%) Graduate
9 6 (6.38%) Graduate Developer
9 6 (6.38%) IT Graduate
9 6 (6.38%) Junior
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.38%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Applications Support
10 5 (5.32%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) .NET
2 17 (18.09%) CSS
3 13 (13.83%) HTML
4 10 (10.64%) RESTful
5 9 (9.57%) React
6 8 (8.51%) Node.js
6 8 (8.51%) Spring
6 8 (8.51%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.45%) Flutter
7 7 (7.45%) jQuery
8 6 (6.38%) ASP.NET
9 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (5.32%) SOAP
10 4 (4.26%) LDAP
11 3 (3.19%) Kafka
11 3 (3.19%) Micronaut
12 2 (2.13%) J2EE
12 2 (2.13%) OSGi
12 2 (2.13%) Spring Cloud
12 2 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.57%) Cyberattack
2 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.38%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.06%) Robotics
5 1 (1.06%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Linux
2 10 (10.64%) Android
3 2 (2.13%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.04%) Agile
2 30 (31.91%) DevOps
3 26 (27.66%) CI/CD
4 25 (26.60%) Computer Science
5 23 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (22.34%) Mentoring
7 19 (20.21%) OO
8 17 (18.09%) OOP
9 15 (15.96%) Software Engineering
10 13 (13.83%) Microservices
11 12 (12.77%) SDLC
12 11 (11.70%) Clean Code
12 11 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (11.70%) Test Automation
13 10 (10.64%) Design Patterns
13 10 (10.64%) Line Management
13 10 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
14 9 (9.57%) Android Development
14 9 (9.57%) TDD
14 9 (9.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 51 (54.26%) Python
2 40 (42.55%) SQL
3 39 (41.49%) JavaScript
4 35 (37.23%) C#
5 23 (24.47%) C++
5 23 (24.47%) TypeScript
6 20 (21.28%) PHP
7 19 (20.21%) Go
8 14 (14.89%) C
9 9 (9.57%) Bash
9 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
10 8 (8.51%) Dart
10 8 (8.51%) Kotlin
10 8 (8.51%) MATLAB
10 8 (8.51%) R
10 8 (8.51%) Ruby
10 8 (8.51%) Rust
11 6 (6.38%) Perl
11 6 (6.38%) Scala
12 3 (3.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 25 (26.60%) Degree
2 21 (22.34%) Security Cleared
3 19 (20.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (12.77%) SC Cleared
5 10 (10.64%) AWS Certification
6 9 (9.57%) DV Cleared
7 6 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (6.38%) HND
7 6 (6.38%) Master's Degree
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
8 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
2 3 (3.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (20.21%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 14 (14.89%) Ansible
3 2 (2.13%) Istio
3 2 (2.13%) Kibana
3 2 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (6.38%) Siemens
2 6 (6.38%) Toshiba
3 4 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (2.13%) Adobe
4 2 (2.13%) CyberSource
4 2 (2.13%) New Relic
4 2 (2.13%) Oracle