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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 89 111
Rank change year-on-year +43 +22 -60
Permanent jobs citing Java 218 85 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.98% 2.39% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.73% 13.69% 6.35%
Number of salaries quoted 149 60 64
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £47,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +1.92% -0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,813 £76,204
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
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 1,164 621 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.89% 17.44% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 808 508 943
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,308 £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 £75,000 £70,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £88,148 £81,625 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 13 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 13 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 +23 185 £75,000 +9.09% 39
South Yorkshire -24 24 £42,565 +46.78% 11
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 (1.38%) JBoss
2 2 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.46%) Apache
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.46%) IIS
3 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 127 (58.26%) AWS
2 76 (34.86%) Serverless
3 69 (31.65%) AWS Lambda
4 64 (29.36%) Amazon S3
5 63 (28.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 62 (28.44%) Amazon ECS
7 55 (25.23%) AWS Step Functions
8 30 (13.76%) Azure
9 28 (12.84%) Amazon ECR
9 28 (12.84%) Apigee
10 26 (11.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 25 (11.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (9.63%) GitHub
13 19 (8.72%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (6.88%) Datadog
14 15 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (4.59%) GCP
16 9 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
17 8 (3.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.46%) DNS
2 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (25.23%) DynamoDB
2 27 (12.39%) NoSQL
3 24 (11.01%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (6.42%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.50%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.67%) BigQuery
6 8 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.21%) MySQL
7 7 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (3.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.29%) Power BI
9 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.92%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (21.10%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.60%) GitLab
3 25 (11.47%) Git
4 24 (11.01%) Cypress.io
5 21 (9.63%) SonarQube
6 19 (8.72%) Maven
7 6 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.83%) Selenium
9 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.38%) JIRA
10 1 (0.46%) Gatling
10 1 (0.46%) JMeter
10 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (18.35%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.47%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.50%) Games
4 12 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.59%) Finance
6 8 (3.67%) Retail
7 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.38%) Back Office
8 3 (1.38%) Legal
8 3 (1.38%) Local Government
8 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Banking
Job Titles
1 130 (59.63%) Developer
2 93 (42.66%) Java Developer
3 58 (26.61%) Senior
4 41 (18.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 37 (16.97%) Senior Developer
6 31 (14.22%) AWS Developer
7 27 (12.39%) Lead
8 26 (11.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 24 (11.01%) Senior Java Developer
10 20 (9.17%) Software Engineer
11 18 (8.26%) Java Engineer
12 14 (6.42%) Angular Developer
12 14 (6.42%) Consultant
12 14 (6.42%) Technical Consultant
13 12 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (4.59%) Applications Developer
14 10 (4.59%) Java Consultant
14 10 (4.59%) Junior
14 10 (4.59%) Junior Consultant
14 10 (4.59%) Junior Java Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (33.03%) AngularJS
2 51 (23.39%) Spring Boot
3 43 (19.72%) Node.js
3 43 (19.72%) Spring
4 27 (12.39%) Gherkin
5 24 (11.01%) React
6 19 (8.72%) Jest
7 16 (7.34%) .NET
8 12 (5.50%) Android SDK
8 12 (5.50%) GraphQL
9 11 (5.05%) RESTful
10 7 (3.21%) Classic ASP
10 7 (3.21%) REST
11 6 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (1.83%) CSS
13 4 (1.83%) Flutter
13 4 (1.83%) JSON
13 4 (1.83%) XML
14 3 (1.38%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.50%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.50%) Social Media
3 10 (4.59%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.75%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.38%) Blog
7 3 (1.38%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.38%) NHS
8 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.80%) Linux
2 12 (5.50%) Android
3 8 (3.67%) Windows
4 7 (3.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (38.07%) Agile
2 78 (35.78%) CI/CD
3 61 (27.98%) DevOps
3 61 (27.98%) Full-Stack Development
4 38 (17.43%) Software Engineering
5 37 (16.97%) Mentoring
6 32 (14.68%) Microservices
7 28 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (11.93%) Coaching
8 26 (11.93%) Continuous Integration
9 21 (9.63%) Design Patterns
9 21 (9.63%) Test Automation
10 19 (8.72%) DevSecOps
10 19 (8.72%) SDLC
11 17 (7.80%) AI
12 16 (7.34%) ITIL
12 16 (7.34%) Secrets Management
12 16 (7.34%) Secure Coding
13 15 (6.88%) Software Architecture
13 15 (6.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 62 (28.44%) SQL
2 54 (24.77%) TypeScript
3 44 (20.18%) Kotlin
4 37 (16.97%) Python
5 31 (14.22%) Groovy
6 24 (11.01%) C#
6 24 (11.01%) JavaScript
7 23 (10.55%) Bash
8 8 (3.67%) Scala
9 6 (2.75%) C++
10 5 (2.29%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.83%) Go
12 3 (1.38%) C
12 3 (1.38%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) Perl
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 18 (8.26%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.88%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 14 (6.42%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (4.59%) Degree
6 4 (1.83%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.46%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) QA
2 7 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (22.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (8.72%) Terraform
2 18 (8.26%) HP Fortify
3 7 (3.21%) Argo
3 7 (3.21%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.29%) Ansible
5 3 (1.38%) Packer
6 2 (0.92%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.29%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.29%) IBM
2 2 (0.92%) Oracle
3 1 (0.46%) Google
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.46%) SGI