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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 86 115
Rank change year-on-year +40 +29 -68
Permanent jobs citing Java 220 90 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.07% 2.54% 1.56%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.52% 14.17% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 154 65 66
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £47,934
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -

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 1,188 635 1,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.58% 17.89% 24.49%
Number of salaries quoted 823 515 979
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £74,994 £71,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,650 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +25 186 £75,000 +7.14% 46
South Yorkshire -21 27 £52,130 +73.77% 13
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 (1.36%) JBoss
2 2 (0.91%) Apache
2 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 126 (57.27%) AWS
2 73 (33.18%) Serverless
3 66 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (28.64%) Amazon S3
5 61 (27.73%) Amazon ECS
6 60 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 54 (24.55%) AWS Step Functions
8 33 (15.00%) Azure
9 30 (13.64%) Amazon ECR
9 30 (13.64%) Apigee
10 24 (10.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (10.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 20 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
13 18 (8.18%) GitHub
14 12 (5.45%) Datadog
14 12 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (5.00%) GCP
16 9 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
16 9 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.91%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (24.55%) DynamoDB
2 29 (13.18%) NoSQL
3 23 (10.45%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (7.73%) MongoDB
4 17 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.55%) MySQL
5 10 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.09%) BigQuery
6 9 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (2.73%) Power BI
9 2 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.91%) Tableau
10 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 48 (21.82%) Jenkins
2 36 (16.36%) GitLab
3 26 (11.82%) Cypress.io
4 24 (10.91%) Git
5 23 (10.45%) SonarQube
6 21 (9.55%) Maven
7 6 (2.73%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.82%) Selenium
9 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.36%) JIRA
10 1 (0.45%) Gatling
10 1 (0.45%) JMeter
10 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
General
1 38 (17.27%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.82%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.91%) Games
4 13 (5.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (3.64%) Retail
6 6 (2.73%) Finance
7 4 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.36%) Back Office
8 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
9 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 131 (59.55%) Developer
2 92 (41.82%) Java Developer
3 54 (24.55%) Senior
4 41 (18.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (16.36%) Senior Developer
6 28 (12.73%) AWS Developer
7 27 (12.27%) Lead
8 26 (11.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 23 (10.45%) Senior Java Developer
9 23 (10.45%) Software Engineer
10 21 (9.55%) Java Engineer
11 15 (6.82%) Consultant
11 15 (6.82%) Technical Consultant
12 12 (5.45%) Angular Developer
12 12 (5.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.00%) Java Consultant
13 11 (5.00%) Junior
13 11 (5.00%) Junior Consultant
13 11 (5.00%) Junior Java Consultant
13 11 (5.00%) Junior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (31.82%) AngularJS
2 51 (23.18%) Spring Boot
3 40 (18.18%) Node.js
3 40 (18.18%) Spring
4 29 (13.18%) Gherkin
5 22 (10.00%) React
6 21 (9.55%) Jest
7 15 (6.82%) .NET
8 14 (6.36%) RESTful
9 13 (5.91%) Android SDK
9 13 (5.91%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.18%) Classic ASP
11 6 (2.73%) REST
12 5 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
13 4 (1.82%) Flutter
14 3 (1.36%) Drools
14 3 (1.36%) Redux
14 3 (1.36%) XML
14 3 (1.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.91%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.91%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.91%) Social Media
3 9 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.73%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.36%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.45%) Blog
9 1 (0.45%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.45%) NHS
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.73%) Linux
2 13 (5.91%) Android
3 7 (3.18%) Unix
3 7 (3.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (38.18%) Agile
2 76 (34.55%) CI/CD
3 61 (27.73%) Full-Stack Development
4 58 (26.36%) DevOps
5 41 (18.64%) Software Engineering
6 38 (17.27%) Mentoring
7 31 (14.09%) Microservices
8 28 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (11.82%) Coaching
10 25 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (10.45%) Test Automation
12 20 (9.09%) AI
12 20 (9.09%) Design Patterns
13 19 (8.64%) SDLC
14 18 (8.18%) DevSecOps
15 17 (7.73%) Secure Coding
16 16 (7.27%) ITIL
16 16 (7.27%) Software Architecture
16 16 (7.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 15 (6.82%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.18%) SQL
2 52 (23.64%) TypeScript
3 42 (19.09%) Kotlin
4 36 (16.36%) Python
5 33 (15.00%) Groovy
6 25 (11.36%) Bash
6 25 (11.36%) JavaScript
7 23 (10.45%) C#
8 7 (3.18%) Scala
9 6 (2.73%) C++
10 5 (2.27%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.82%) Go
12 3 (1.36%) C
13 1 (0.45%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) PHP
13 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 18 (8.18%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 15 (6.82%) ITIL Certification
4 13 (5.91%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.09%) Degree
6 4 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (1.82%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.00%) QA
2 8 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (21.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (9.09%) HP Fortify
2 17 (7.73%) Terraform
3 7 (3.18%) Argo
3 7 (3.18%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.27%) Ansible
5 3 (1.36%) Packer
6 2 (0.91%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.27%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.27%) IBM
2 2 (0.91%) Google
2 2 (0.91%) Oracle
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft