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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 61 99
Rank change year-on-year +19 +38 -55
Permanent jobs citing Java 237 100 132
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.60% 3.79% 2.27%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.67% 17.06% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 156 65 102
10th Percentile £24,000 £32,500 £35,100
25th Percentile £49,572 £47,231 £45,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +10.76% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,548
England median annual salary £72,500 £77,500 £73,805
% change year-on-year -6.45% +5.01% -7.74%

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 1,205 586 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.30% 22.20% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 792 462 1,382
10th Percentile £31,325 £28,538 £31,579
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,598 £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 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £77,500
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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +17 197 £75,000 +3.81% 31
South Yorkshire -19 33 £24,000 -31.43% 6
North Yorkshire -4 1 £41,500 -40.71% 1
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 7 (2.95%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.27%) Apache
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.27%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 136 (57.38%) AWS
2 94 (39.66%) Serverless
3 83 (35.02%) Amazon ECS
3 83 (35.02%) Amazon S3
4 79 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 74 (31.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (29.11%) AWS Step Functions
7 45 (18.99%) Apigee
8 44 (18.57%) Amazon ECR
9 37 (15.61%) Azure
10 31 (13.08%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (11.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 22 (9.28%) GitHub
13 12 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.06%) Datadog
13 12 (5.06%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.38%) GCP
15 8 (3.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (30.38%) DynamoDB
2 35 (14.77%) NoSQL
3 27 (11.39%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.75%) MongoDB
6 15 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.80%) MySQL
8 8 (3.38%) Power BI
9 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.95%) BigQuery
9 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.27%) Tableau
11 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (29.54%) Jenkins
2 50 (21.10%) GitLab
3 40 (16.88%) Cypress.io
4 37 (15.61%) SonarQube
5 35 (14.77%) Maven
6 34 (14.35%) Git
7 6 (2.53%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.69%) JIRA
8 4 (1.69%) Selenium
9 3 (1.27%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.42%) Gatling
10 1 (0.42%) JMeter
10 1 (0.42%) JUnit
10 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (16.88%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.13%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.91%) Games
5 13 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.95%) Retail
7 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.27%) Back Office
9 2 (0.84%) Finance
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 151 (63.71%) Developer
2 106 (44.73%) Java Developer
3 58 (24.47%) Senior
4 41 (17.30%) Senior Developer
5 39 (16.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (14.77%) Lead
7 30 (12.66%) AWS Developer
8 28 (11.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 24 (10.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 17 (7.17%) Consultant
10 17 (7.17%) Java Consultant
10 17 (7.17%) Junior
10 17 (7.17%) Junior Consultant
10 17 (7.17%) Junior Java Consultant
10 17 (7.17%) Junior Technical Consultant
10 17 (7.17%) Software Engineer
10 17 (7.17%) Technical Consultant
11 12 (5.06%) Lead Developer
11 12 (5.06%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.22%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (34.18%) AngularJS
2 68 (28.69%) Spring Boot
3 50 (21.10%) Node.js
4 46 (19.41%) Spring
5 40 (16.88%) Gherkin
6 35 (14.77%) Jest
7 28 (11.81%) React
8 19 (8.02%) .NET
9 14 (5.91%) GraphQL
9 14 (5.91%) REST
10 13 (5.49%) Android SDK
11 12 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
11 12 (5.06%) RESTful
12 8 (3.38%) Kafka
12 8 (3.38%) Web Services
13 7 (2.95%) Classic ASP
13 7 (2.95%) Mustache
14 6 (2.53%) Flutter
14 6 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (5.49%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.49%) Social Media
3 9 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.38%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.53%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.42%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.49%) Android
2 11 (4.64%) Linux
3 7 (2.95%) Unix
3 7 (2.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.04%) Agile
2 99 (41.77%) CI/CD
3 76 (32.07%) DevOps
4 53 (22.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (18.14%) Microservices
6 41 (17.30%) Mentoring
7 34 (14.35%) SDLC
8 33 (13.92%) Software Engineering
9 31 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
11 27 (11.39%) Secure Coding
12 26 (10.97%) AI
12 26 (10.97%) Test Automation
13 25 (10.55%) ITIL
14 24 (10.13%) Coaching
14 24 (10.13%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 22 (9.28%) DevSecOps
16 20 (8.44%) Clean Code
17 19 (8.02%) Design Patterns
17 19 (8.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 75 (31.65%) TypeScript
2 63 (26.58%) SQL
3 46 (19.41%) Python
4 45 (18.99%) JavaScript
4 45 (18.99%) Kotlin
5 44 (18.57%) Groovy
6 37 (15.61%) C#
7 35 (14.77%) Bash
8 6 (2.53%) Go
9 5 (2.11%) Scala
10 4 (1.69%) C++
10 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.42%) C
11 1 (0.42%) Perl
11 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (16.03%) AWS Certification
2 23 (9.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (9.70%) ITIL Certification
3 15 (6.33%) Degree
3 15 (6.33%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.49%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.38%) TOGAF Certification
7 6 (2.53%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.91%) QA
2 7 (2.95%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 73 (30.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (14.35%) HP Fortify
2 15 (6.33%) Terraform
3 13 (5.49%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.95%) Argo
5 6 (2.53%) Ansible
6 3 (1.27%) Packer
7 2 (0.84%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (3.80%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.11%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.11%) IBM
3 3 (1.27%) Google
3 3 (1.27%) Oracle