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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 80 105
Rank change year-on-year +36 +25 -63
Permanent jobs citing Java 224 95 97
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.22% 2.74% 1.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.78% 15.13% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 158 67 81
10th Percentile £32,650 £28,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £53,125 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,672 £81,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 1,193 628 1,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.13% 18.13% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 829 510 1,170
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,518 £85,000 £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 21 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 21 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 +23 187 £75,000 +4.18% 19
South Yorkshire -19 30 £37,065 +19.56% 8
North Yorkshire +5 1 £41,500 -40.71%
East Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
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 (1.34%) JBoss
2 2 (0.89%) Apache
2 2 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (55.80%) AWS
2 74 (33.04%) Serverless
3 67 (29.91%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (29.02%) Amazon S3
5 63 (28.13%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (27.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 33 (14.73%) Apigee
9 32 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
10 31 (13.84%) Azure
11 24 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (10.27%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 22 (9.82%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (8.04%) GitHub
15 11 (4.91%) Datadog
15 11 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (4.02%) GCP
17 8 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.80%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 29 (12.95%) NoSQL
3 23 (10.27%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (7.59%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.46%) MySQL
5 10 (4.46%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.57%) BigQuery
6 8 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.13%) Power BI
7 7 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.89%) Tableau
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (22.77%) Jenkins
2 38 (16.96%) GitLab
3 28 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 25 (11.16%) SonarQube
5 23 (10.27%) Git
5 23 (10.27%) Maven
6 6 (2.68%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.79%) JIRA
7 4 (1.79%) Selenium
8 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.45%) Gatling
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 34 (15.18%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.80%) Games
4 13 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.68%) Retail
6 5 (2.23%) Finance
7 4 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 135 (60.27%) Developer
2 94 (41.96%) Java Developer
3 51 (22.77%) Senior
4 42 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
5 35 (15.63%) Senior Developer
6 28 (12.50%) Lead
7 27 (12.05%) AWS Developer
7 27 (12.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 23 (10.27%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (9.38%) Java Engineer
10 20 (8.93%) Software Engineer
11 18 (8.04%) Consultant
11 18 (8.04%) Technical Consultant
12 14 (6.25%) Java Consultant
12 14 (6.25%) Junior
12 14 (6.25%) Junior Consultant
12 14 (6.25%) Junior Java Consultant
12 14 (6.25%) Junior Technical Consultant
13 12 (5.36%) Angular Developer
13 12 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (32.14%) AngularJS
2 53 (23.66%) Spring Boot
3 40 (17.86%) Node.js
3 40 (17.86%) Spring
4 31 (13.84%) Gherkin
5 23 (10.27%) Jest
5 23 (10.27%) React
6 16 (7.14%) .NET
7 13 (5.80%) Android SDK
7 13 (5.80%) GraphQL
7 13 (5.80%) RESTful
8 7 (3.13%) Classic ASP
8 7 (3.13%) REST
9 5 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.23%) Flutter
9 5 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (1.79%) JSON
11 3 (1.34%) Drools
11 3 (1.34%) XML
11 3 (1.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.80%) Cloud Native
1 13 (5.80%) Mobile App
1 13 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
1 13 (5.80%) Social Media
2 9 (4.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.68%) Legacy Code
5 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.45%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.70%) Linux
2 13 (5.80%) Android
3 7 (3.13%) Unix
3 7 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (37.95%) Agile
2 77 (34.38%) CI/CD
3 63 (28.13%) Full-Stack Development
4 58 (25.89%) DevOps
5 38 (16.96%) Software Engineering
6 36 (16.07%) Mentoring
7 29 (12.95%) Microservices
8 28 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (11.16%) Coaching
10 24 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (10.71%) Test Automation
11 22 (9.82%) AI
11 22 (9.82%) SDLC
12 19 (8.48%) Design Patterns
12 19 (8.48%) ITIL
12 19 (8.48%) Secure Coding
13 18 (8.04%) DevSecOps
13 18 (8.04%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 16 (7.14%) Clean Code
14 16 (7.14%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 60 (26.79%) SQL
2 53 (23.66%) TypeScript
3 41 (18.30%) Kotlin
4 37 (16.52%) Python
5 35 (15.63%) Groovy
6 28 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 27 (12.05%) Bash
8 25 (11.16%) C#
9 6 (2.68%) Scala
10 5 (2.23%) Go
11 4 (1.79%) C++
11 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) Perl
12 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (9.82%) AWS Certification
2 17 (7.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 17 (7.59%) ITIL Certification
2 17 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 12 (5.36%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.13%) Degree
5 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.36%) QA
2 8 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (9.82%) HP Fortify
2 15 (6.70%) Terraform
3 7 (3.13%) Argo
4 6 (2.68%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.23%) Ansible
6 3 (1.34%) Packer
7 2 (0.89%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.23%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.23%) IBM
2 3 (1.34%) Oracle
3 2 (0.89%) Google
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft