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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 77 39
Rank change year-on-year +32 -38 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 145 82 174
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.35% 2.52% 5.70%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.14% 10.12% 15.68%
Number of salaries quoted 97 33 129
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,312 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,522 £86,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

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 720 810 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.60% 24.87% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 520 409 925
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.51%
75th Percentile £73,813 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,600 £87,500 £83,269
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 2 January 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 January 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 +35 126 £75,000 +15.38% 42
South Yorkshire -15 12 £32,500 -35.00% 31
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 2
North Yorkshire -7 1 £72,500 +38.10% 3
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 (6.90%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.07%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.38%) JBoss
4 2 (1.38%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.69%) CMS
5 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 102 (70.34%) AWS
2 58 (40.00%) Serverless
3 41 (28.28%) Azure
4 37 (25.52%) Amazon ECS
5 28 (19.31%) Amazon S3
6 25 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (15.17%) AWS Lambda
8 21 (14.48%) AWS Step Functions
9 17 (11.72%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (11.72%) Apigee
10 11 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
11 10 (6.90%) SaaS
12 5 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.45%) GitHub
12 5 (3.45%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 4 (2.76%) GCP
14 3 (2.07%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) AMQP
2 1 (0.69%) DNS
2 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.17%) DynamoDB
2 16 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.21%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (2.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (2.07%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.07%) MySQL
7 2 (1.38%) Big Data
7 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.38%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.69%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.69%) Power BI
8 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (25.52%) Jenkins
2 24 (16.55%) GitLab
3 18 (12.41%) Cypress.io
4 17 (11.72%) Maven
4 17 (11.72%) SonarQube
5 16 (11.03%) Git
6 2 (1.38%) Selenium
7 1 (0.69%) Appium
7 1 (0.69%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.69%) JUnit
7 1 (0.69%) Mockito
7 1 (0.69%) Postman
7 1 (0.69%) REST Assured
General
1 54 (37.24%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.86%) Finance
3 14 (9.66%) Retail
4 12 (8.28%) Financial Institution
5 10 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.52%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.76%) Games
9 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.38%) Law
10 2 (1.38%) Legal
10 2 (1.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (36.55%) Developer
2 41 (28.28%) Java Developer
3 31 (21.38%) Senior
4 28 (19.31%) Architect
5 27 (18.62%) Lead
6 22 (15.17%) Software Engineer
7 14 (9.66%) Applications Architect
8 12 (8.28%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.59%) Graduate
9 11 (7.59%) Lead Developer
9 11 (7.59%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (7.59%) Software Architect
10 9 (6.21%) Software Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Lead Java Developer
11 8 (5.52%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Software Engineering Graduate
11 8 (5.52%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.90%) Spring Boot
2 38 (26.21%) Spring
3 25 (17.24%) AngularJS
4 21 (14.48%) Node.js
5 17 (11.72%) Gherkin
5 17 (11.72%) Jest
6 16 (11.03%) .NET
6 16 (11.03%) React
7 15 (10.34%) CSS
8 13 (8.97%) REST
9 12 (8.28%) Micronaut
10 11 (7.59%) Kafka
10 11 (7.59%) Web Services
11 10 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (4.83%) Mustache
13 6 (4.14%) HTML
13 6 (4.14%) RESTful
14 5 (3.45%) Flutter
14 5 (3.45%) Hibernate
14 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.52%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.83%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.38%) DataPower
8 1 (0.69%) IoT
8 1 (0.69%) Robotics
8 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.03%) Linux
2 3 (2.07%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (40.69%) DevOps
2 58 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 46 (31.72%) Computer Science
4 44 (30.34%) Agile
4 44 (30.34%) Microservices
5 40 (27.59%) Mentoring
6 31 (21.38%) Software Engineering
7 28 (19.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 27 (18.62%) Migration
9 26 (17.93%) Architectural Patterns
9 26 (17.93%) Enterprise Architecture
10 24 (16.55%) Application Security
10 24 (16.55%) Data Modelling
10 24 (16.55%) EAI
10 24 (16.55%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (16.55%) TOGAF
11 23 (15.86%) Full-Stack Development
11 23 (15.86%) SDLC
12 18 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.03%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (42.07%) Python
2 57 (39.31%) TypeScript
3 54 (37.24%) JavaScript
4 43 (29.66%) C#
5 40 (27.59%) SQL
6 23 (15.86%) Bash
7 16 (11.03%) Groovy
8 14 (9.66%) C
9 12 (8.28%) Kotlin
10 11 (7.59%) C++
11 9 (6.21%) Scala
12 8 (5.52%) PHP
12 8 (5.52%) PL/SQL
13 7 (4.83%) PowerShell
14 6 (4.14%) Perl
15 5 (3.45%) Go
16 2 (1.38%) R
16 2 (1.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (32.41%) Degree
2 39 (26.90%) AWS Certification
2 39 (26.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (18.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 24 (16.55%) Azure Certification
4 24 (16.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (16.55%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (4.14%) HND
5 6 (4.14%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.69%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) QA
2 2 (1.38%) GDPR
2 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (30.34%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.72%) HP Fortify
3 9 (6.21%) Ansible
4 5 (3.45%) Terraform
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Kibana
5 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.14%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (4.14%) Siemens
2 6 (4.14%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.07%) Google
3 3 (2.07%) Pega
3 3 (2.07%) WSO2
4 1 (0.69%) Adobe
4 1 (0.69%) New Relic