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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 50 84
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 -43
Permanent jobs citing Java 221 104 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.69% 4.39% 2.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.00% 16.30% 9.02%
Number of salaries quoted 140 74 107
10th Percentile £24,000 £32,500 £35,600
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,996 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +8.45% +4.74%
75th Percentile £76,250 £90,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £84,529
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% +6.55% -9.38%

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 1,163 638 1,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.44% 26.92% 28.40%
Number of salaries quoted 733 520 1,355
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,838 £31,800
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +10 185 £75,000 +4.17% 27
South Yorkshire -23 30 £24,000 -31.43% 7
North Yorkshire -7 1 £41,500 -32.24%
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 7 (3.17%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.26%) JBoss
3 2 (0.90%) Apache
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.90%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.90%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (57.92%) AWS
2 96 (43.44%) Serverless
3 79 (35.75%) Amazon S3
4 78 (35.29%) Amazon ECS
5 75 (33.94%) AWS Lambda
6 66 (29.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (28.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 48 (21.72%) Apigee
9 47 (21.27%) Amazon ECR
10 34 (15.38%) Azure
11 28 (12.67%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (10.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (9.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 17 (7.69%) GitHub
15 13 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (3.62%) Datadog
16 8 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (3.17%) Azure AKS
17 7 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (3.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (31.67%) DynamoDB
2 26 (11.76%) NoSQL
3 22 (9.95%) Amazon Athena
4 21 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.43%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.26%) MySQL
7 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.36%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.36%) Power BI
9 2 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.90%) Tableau
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (30.32%) Jenkins
2 52 (23.53%) GitLab
3 43 (19.46%) SonarQube
4 42 (19.00%) Cypress.io
5 40 (18.10%) Maven
6 25 (11.31%) Git
7 7 (3.17%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.26%) Selenium
9 4 (1.81%) JIRA
10 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Gatling
11 1 (0.45%) JMeter
11 1 (0.45%) JUnit
11 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (18.10%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.24%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.33%) Games
5 13 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.98%) Retail
7 6 (2.71%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.26%) Finance
9 2 (0.90%) Back Office
9 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 131 (59.28%) Developer
2 91 (41.18%) Java Developer
3 50 (22.62%) Senior
4 34 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 32 (14.48%) Lead
6 28 (12.67%) Full-Stack Developer
7 22 (9.95%) AWS Developer
7 22 (9.95%) Senior Java Developer
8 19 (8.60%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 16 (7.24%) Architect
11 15 (6.79%) Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Java Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Junior
11 15 (6.79%) Junior Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Junior Java Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Junior Technical Consultant
11 15 (6.79%) Technical Consultant
12 13 (5.88%) Technical Leader
13 12 (5.43%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (32.58%) AngularJS
2 70 (31.67%) Spring Boot
3 49 (22.17%) Spring
4 43 (19.46%) Node.js
5 41 (18.55%) Gherkin
6 40 (18.10%) Jest
7 24 (10.86%) React
8 18 (8.14%) .NET
9 15 (6.79%) REST
10 14 (6.33%) GraphQL
11 13 (5.88%) Android SDK
12 12 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (4.52%) Web Services
14 9 (4.07%) RESTful
15 8 (3.62%) Kafka
16 7 (3.17%) Mustache
17 6 (2.71%) Flutter
17 6 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (2.71%) XML
18 5 (2.26%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.24%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.79%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.88%) Mobile App
3 13 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (5.88%) Social Media
4 10 (4.52%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.62%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.71%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.26%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.90%) DataPower
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.45%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.24%) Linux
2 13 (5.88%) Android
3 7 (3.17%) Unix
3 7 (3.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (43.89%) CI/CD
2 96 (43.44%) Agile
3 79 (35.75%) DevOps
4 45 (20.36%) Microservices
5 44 (19.91%) Full-Stack Development
6 40 (18.10%) Mentoring
7 34 (15.38%) SDLC
8 31 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (14.03%) Software Engineering
9 29 (13.12%) AI
9 29 (13.12%) Secure Coding
10 25 (11.31%) Computer Science
11 24 (10.86%) ITIL
11 24 (10.86%) Test Automation
12 23 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (10.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 21 (9.50%) Scrum
14 20 (9.05%) Clean Code
15 18 (8.14%) Design Patterns
15 18 (8.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 75 (33.94%) TypeScript
2 52 (23.53%) SQL
3 46 (20.81%) Python
4 43 (19.46%) Groovy
5 42 (19.00%) JavaScript
6 40 (18.10%) Kotlin
7 39 (17.65%) Bash
8 35 (15.84%) C#
9 9 (4.07%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.17%) C++
11 6 (2.71%) C
11 6 (2.71%) Go
12 2 (0.90%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) PHP
13 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (20.81%) AWS Certification
2 23 (10.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (10.41%) Degree
2 23 (10.41%) ITIL Certification
3 22 (9.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (6.33%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (6.33%) Security Cleared
5 14 (6.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (5.43%) SC Cleared
7 9 (4.07%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) GDPR
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 72 (32.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (18.10%) HP Fortify
2 16 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 16 (7.24%) Terraform
3 7 (3.17%) Argo
4 6 (2.71%) Ansible
5 3 (1.36%) Packer
6 2 (0.90%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) Grafana
7 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (6.79%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.26%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.26%) IBM
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle
4 2 (0.90%) Google
5 1 (0.45%) Adobe