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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 66 110
Rank change year-on-year +22 +44 -64
Permanent jobs citing Java 230 105 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.36% 3.26% 1.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.26% 16.85% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 160 73 90
10th Percentile £24,000 £28,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £47,231 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +14.29% -5.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,751 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 1,194 623 1,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.45% 19.32% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 821 501 1,376
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £76,250
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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +15 190 £75,000 +4.17% 27
South Yorkshire -19 33 £24,000 -20.00% 13
North Yorkshire +3 1 £41,500 -40.71% 2
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 3 (1.30%) Apache
1 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (1.30%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.30%) JBoss
2 2 (0.87%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 131 (56.96%) AWS
2 81 (35.22%) Serverless
3 74 (32.17%) AWS Lambda
4 73 (31.74%) Amazon S3
5 71 (30.87%) Amazon ECS
6 68 (29.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 63 (27.39%) AWS Step Functions
8 38 (16.52%) Apigee
9 37 (16.09%) Amazon ECR
10 31 (13.48%) Azure
11 28 (12.17%) Amazon SQS
12 26 (11.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (10.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 20 (8.70%) GitHub
15 11 (4.78%) Datadog
15 11 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (3.91%) GCP
17 8 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (3.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (27.39%) DynamoDB
2 31 (13.48%) NoSQL
3 25 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (7.83%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (7.39%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.78%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.35%) MySQL
8 8 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (3.48%) BigQuery
8 8 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.48%) Power BI
9 7 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (3.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.30%) Tableau
11 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 59 (25.65%) Jenkins
2 43 (18.70%) GitLab
3 33 (14.35%) Cypress.io
4 30 (13.04%) SonarQube
5 28 (12.17%) Maven
6 26 (11.30%) Git
7 6 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.74%) JIRA
8 4 (1.74%) Selenium
9 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.43%) Gatling
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
General
1 32 (13.91%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.43%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.65%) Games
4 13 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.17%) Finance
5 5 (2.17%) Retail
6 4 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 144 (62.61%) Developer
2 101 (43.91%) Java Developer
3 55 (23.91%) Senior
4 42 (18.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 38 (16.52%) Senior Developer
6 30 (13.04%) AWS Developer
7 27 (11.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 27 (11.74%) Lead
8 26 (11.30%) Senior Java Developer
9 20 (8.70%) Consultant
9 20 (8.70%) Technical Consultant
10 17 (7.39%) Java Consultant
10 17 (7.39%) Java Engineer
10 17 (7.39%) Junior
10 17 (7.39%) Junior Consultant
10 17 (7.39%) Junior Java Consultant
10 17 (7.39%) Junior Technical Consultant
10 17 (7.39%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.22%) Angular Developer
11 12 (5.22%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (34.35%) AngularJS
2 58 (25.22%) Spring Boot
3 43 (18.70%) Node.js
4 40 (17.39%) Spring
5 36 (15.65%) Gherkin
6 28 (12.17%) Jest
7 24 (10.43%) React
8 18 (7.83%) .NET
9 13 (5.65%) Android SDK
9 13 (5.65%) GraphQL
9 13 (5.65%) RESTful
10 8 (3.48%) REST
11 7 (3.04%) Classic ASP
12 6 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.17%) Flutter
13 5 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
14 4 (1.74%) JSON
15 3 (1.30%) Drools
15 3 (1.30%) Web Services
15 3 (1.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.65%) Mobile App
1 13 (5.65%) Self-Motivation
1 13 (5.65%) Social Media
2 12 (5.22%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.61%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.65%) Android
1 13 (5.65%) Linux
2 7 (3.04%) Unix
2 7 (3.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (39.57%) Agile
2 85 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 65 (28.26%) DevOps
4 61 (26.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 37 (16.09%) Software Engineering
6 35 (15.22%) Mentoring
7 29 (12.61%) Microservices
7 29 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (12.17%) SDLC
9 26 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
10 25 (10.87%) Coaching
11 24 (10.43%) AI
11 24 (10.43%) ITIL
11 24 (10.43%) Secure Coding
11 24 (10.43%) Test Automation
12 23 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 20 (8.70%) Clean Code
13 20 (8.70%) DevSecOps
14 19 (8.26%) Design Patterns
15 16 (6.96%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 61 (26.52%) SQL
2 58 (25.22%) TypeScript
3 43 (18.70%) Kotlin
4 40 (17.39%) Groovy
5 38 (16.52%) Python
6 31 (13.48%) Bash
6 31 (13.48%) JavaScript
7 27 (11.74%) C#
8 5 (2.17%) Go
8 5 (2.17%) Scala
9 3 (1.30%) C++
9 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.43%) Perl
10 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (11.74%) AWS Certification
2 22 (9.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (9.57%) ITIL Certification
3 17 (7.39%) Security Cleared
4 12 (5.22%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.61%) Degree
6 4 (1.74%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.74%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.22%) QA
2 8 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 57 (24.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (11.74%) HP Fortify
2 15 (6.52%) Terraform
3 7 (3.04%) Argo
3 7 (3.04%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.17%) Ansible
5 3 (1.30%) Packer
6 2 (0.87%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.17%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.17%) IBM
2 3 (1.30%) Google
2 3 (1.30%) Oracle
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft