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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 96 42
Rank change year-on-year +29 -54 -24
Permanent jobs citing Java 104 78 192
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.95% 1.89% 5.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.28% 8.00% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 80 30 143
10th Percentile £30,625 £41,230 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,965 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +16.45% -11.30% +8.92%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £77,715
90th Percentile £78,875 £83,000 £88,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 639 975 1,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.12% 23.65% 38.42%
Number of salaries quoted 505 486 986
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,797
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 +41 82 £67,500 +3.85% 31
South Yorkshire -3 14 £25,000 -47.37% 5
East Yorkshire - 6 - -
North Yorkshire -18 1 £72,500 - 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 5 (4.81%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.88%) Apache
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.96%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.96%) CMS
3 1 (0.96%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.96%) IIS
3 1 (0.96%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 68 (65.38%) AWS
2 40 (38.46%) Azure
3 20 (19.23%) Serverless
4 10 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
4 10 (9.62%) SaaS
5 5 (4.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (4.81%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.81%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.85%) GCP
7 3 (2.88%) dbt
8 2 (1.92%) IaaS
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.96%) GitHub
9 1 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) AMQP
2 1 (0.96%) DNS
2 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 7 (6.73%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.77%) MySQL
6 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.88%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.92%) Big Data
8 2 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.92%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.96%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.96%) Power BI
9 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.65%) GitLab
3 4 (3.85%) Git
4 2 (1.92%) Postman
4 2 (1.92%) Selenium
5 1 (0.96%) Appium
5 1 (0.96%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.96%) Mockito
5 1 (0.96%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.96%) SoapUI
General
1 41 (39.42%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.08%) Finance
3 11 (10.58%) Financial Institution
4 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.69%) Retail
5 6 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.88%) Games
7 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.92%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Legal
9 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (35.58%) Developer
2 25 (24.04%) Senior
3 21 (20.19%) Java Developer
4 17 (16.35%) Lead
5 16 (15.38%) Architect
5 16 (15.38%) Software Engineer
6 13 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 12 (11.54%) Lead Developer
8 10 (9.62%) Graduate
9 9 (8.65%) Applications Architect
10 8 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (7.69%) Java Engineer
11 7 (6.73%) Junior
11 7 (6.73%) Lead Software Developer
11 7 (6.73%) Senior Developer
11 7 (6.73%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (5.77%) Graduate Developer
12 6 (5.77%) IT Graduate
12 6 (5.77%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (5.77%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.35%) CSS
2 16 (15.38%) .NET
2 16 (15.38%) Node.js
2 16 (15.38%) Spring
3 13 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.58%) Micronaut
5 8 (7.69%) React
6 7 (6.73%) RESTful
7 6 (5.77%) ASP.NET
7 6 (5.77%) jQuery
8 5 (4.81%) Flutter
8 5 (4.81%) HTML
8 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (3.85%) REST
10 3 (2.88%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.88%) Apache Camel
10 3 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.88%) Kafka
10 3 (2.88%) SOAP
10 3 (2.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.81%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.96%) IoT
5 1 (0.96%) Robotics
5 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.54%) Linux
2 3 (2.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.65%) Computer Science
1 35 (33.65%) DevOps
1 35 (33.65%) Mentoring
2 33 (31.73%) CI/CD
3 24 (23.08%) Microservices
3 24 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 23 (22.12%) Agile
4 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 16 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
6 16 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 16 (15.38%) Enterprise Architecture
6 16 (15.38%) Migration
7 14 (13.46%) Application Security
7 14 (13.46%) Data Modelling
7 14 (13.46%) EAI
7 14 (13.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
7 14 (13.46%) TOGAF
8 13 (12.50%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 46 (44.23%) Python
2 41 (39.42%) JavaScript
3 36 (34.62%) SQL
4 34 (32.69%) C#
5 27 (25.96%) TypeScript
6 12 (11.54%) PHP
7 10 (9.62%) C
7 10 (9.62%) C++
8 9 (8.65%) Bash
8 9 (8.65%) Kotlin
8 9 (8.65%) PowerShell
9 8 (7.69%) Scala
10 6 (5.77%) Go
10 6 (5.77%) Perl
11 4 (3.85%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.92%) Ruby
13 1 (0.96%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (34.62%) Degree
2 28 (26.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (20.19%) AWS Certification
4 17 (16.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 14 (13.46%) Azure Certification
5 14 (13.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (13.46%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (11.54%) SC Cleared
6 12 (11.54%) Security Cleared
7 6 (5.77%) HND
7 6 (5.77%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.96%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) GDPR
2 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (13.46%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) Squid
Systems Management
1 22 (21.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.69%) Ansible
3 5 (4.81%) Terraform
4 2 (1.92%) Kibana
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.77%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (5.77%) Siemens
2 6 (5.77%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.88%) Google
3 3 (2.88%) Pega
3 3 (2.88%) WSO2
4 2 (1.92%) New Relic