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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 55 73
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 -33
Permanent jobs citing Java 206 97 165
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.08% 4.41% 3.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.86% 15.77% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 128 71 120
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +7.31% +6.62%
75th Percentile £78,125 £90,967 £78,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £84,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £76,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.32% +4.83% -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 1,037 615 1,555
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.54% 27.97% 28.97%
Number of salaries quoted 693 493 1,327
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,700 £31,579
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £78,750
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 2 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 2 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 +11 176 £75,000 +3.81% 42
South Yorkshire -23 24 £25,000 -28.57% 13
North Yorkshire -12 1 £41,500 -32.24% 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 10 (4.85%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.43%) JBoss
3 3 (1.46%) Apache
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.97%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 124 (60.19%) AWS
2 95 (46.12%) Serverless
3 74 (35.92%) Amazon ECS
4 72 (34.95%) Amazon S3
5 68 (33.01%) AWS Lambda
6 60 (29.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (27.67%) AWS Step Functions
8 42 (20.39%) Apigee
9 41 (19.90%) Amazon ECR
10 34 (16.50%) Azure
11 27 (13.11%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (10.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (10.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 16 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (7.77%) GitHub
15 7 (3.40%) Datadog
15 7 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (1.46%) dbt
16 3 (1.46%) GCP
16 3 (1.46%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.31%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (30.58%) DynamoDB
2 25 (12.14%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.19%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (8.74%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (7.77%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.43%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.43%) MySQL
6 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.46%) Power BI
8 2 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.97%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.97%) Tableau
9 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (31.55%) Jenkins
2 43 (20.87%) GitLab
3 42 (20.39%) SonarQube
4 40 (19.42%) Cypress.io
5 39 (18.93%) Maven
6 28 (13.59%) Git
7 7 (3.40%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.43%) Selenium
9 4 (1.94%) JIRA
10 3 (1.46%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.49%) Gatling
11 1 (0.49%) JMeter
11 1 (0.49%) JUnit
11 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (21.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.25%) Games
3 16 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.80%) Retail
5 13 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.31%) Finance
6 12 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.40%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.97%) Back Office
10 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 114 (55.34%) Developer
2 83 (40.29%) Java Developer
3 37 (17.96%) Senior
4 29 (14.08%) Lead
5 27 (13.11%) Software Engineer
6 25 (12.14%) Senior Developer
7 19 (9.22%) Architect
8 17 (8.25%) AWS Developer
8 17 (8.25%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (8.25%) Senior Java Developer
9 13 (6.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 13 (6.31%) Technical Leader
10 12 (5.83%) Junior
10 12 (5.83%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.34%) Consultant
11 11 (5.34%) Java Consultant
11 11 (5.34%) Java Engineer
11 11 (5.34%) Junior Consultant
11 11 (5.34%) Junior Java Consultant
11 11 (5.34%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (32.04%) Spring Boot
2 64 (31.07%) AngularJS
3 43 (20.87%) Spring
4 40 (19.42%) Node.js
5 39 (18.93%) Gherkin
5 39 (18.93%) Jest
6 20 (9.71%) React
7 19 (9.22%) .NET
8 18 (8.74%) REST
9 15 (7.28%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (6.80%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.31%) Android SDK
11 13 (6.31%) Web Services
12 11 (5.34%) RESTful
13 8 (3.88%) Kafka
14 7 (3.40%) Mustache
15 6 (2.91%) Flutter
15 6 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.91%) XML
16 5 (2.43%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.22%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (8.74%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.31%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.31%) Social Media
4 10 (4.85%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.88%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.40%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.43%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.97%) DataPower
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.49%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.31%) Android
2 10 (4.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (45.63%) CI/CD
2 92 (44.66%) Agile
3 77 (37.38%) DevOps
4 44 (21.36%) Microservices
5 39 (18.93%) Software Engineering
6 38 (18.45%) Mentoring
7 35 (16.99%) Full-Stack Development
8 33 (16.02%) SDLC
9 32 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (14.56%) AI
11 29 (14.08%) Computer Science
12 28 (13.59%) Secure Coding
13 23 (11.17%) ITIL
14 22 (10.68%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 21 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (9.71%) Architectural Patterns
17 19 (9.22%) Clean Code
17 19 (9.22%) Scrum
17 19 (9.22%) Test Automation
18 18 (8.74%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 72 (34.95%) TypeScript
2 52 (25.24%) SQL
3 50 (24.27%) JavaScript
4 46 (22.33%) Python
5 41 (19.90%) Groovy
5 41 (19.90%) Kotlin
6 38 (18.45%) Bash
6 38 (18.45%) C#
7 10 (4.85%) PL/SQL
8 8 (3.88%) C++
9 7 (3.40%) C
10 6 (2.91%) Go
11 3 (1.46%) Scala
12 2 (0.97%) R
12 2 (0.97%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 48 (23.30%) AWS Certification
2 27 (13.11%) Degree
3 26 (12.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (10.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (10.68%) ITIL Certification
5 20 (9.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (8.25%) Azure Certification
6 17 (8.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (8.25%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (6.80%) Security Cleared
8 12 (5.83%) SC Cleared
9 9 (4.37%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.80%) QA
2 4 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.49%) GDPR
4 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (35.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (18.93%) HP Fortify
2 21 (10.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.31%) Terraform
4 9 (4.37%) Ansible
5 3 (1.46%) Packer
6 2 (0.97%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) Grafana
7 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.43%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.43%) IBM
3 3 (1.46%) Oracle
3 3 (1.46%) Pega
3 3 (1.46%) WSO2
4 2 (0.97%) Google
5 1 (0.49%) Adobe