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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 74 106
Rank change year-on-year +25 +32 -60
Permanent jobs citing Java 189 96 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.47% 2.85% 1.64%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.14% 17.11% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 142 58 41
10th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -7.94%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,938 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,875 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +3.23%

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 1,042 561 1,155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.60% 16.63% 24.03%
Number of salaries quoted 758 449 660
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,225
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £79,200 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +14 165 £75,000 +11.11% 73
South Yorkshire -21 20 £41,994 +67.98% 33
East Yorkshire -14 1 - - 1
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 2 (1.06%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.53%) Apache
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
2 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 117 (61.90%) AWS
2 68 (35.98%) Serverless
3 60 (31.75%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (26.98%) Amazon S3
5 50 (26.46%) AWS CloudFormation
6 49 (25.93%) Amazon ECS
7 45 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 28 (14.81%) Azure
9 23 (12.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 22 (11.64%) GitHub
11 20 (10.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (9.52%) Datadog
12 18 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (8.99%) Amazon ECR
13 17 (8.99%) Apigee
14 13 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (5.82%) GCP
16 9 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
17 8 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) 5G
1 2 (1.06%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.69%) DynamoDB
2 22 (11.64%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.05%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (6.88%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.35%) MongoDB
6 11 (5.82%) Relational Database
7 8 (4.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.23%) BigQuery
7 8 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.65%) MySQL
8 5 (2.65%) Power BI
8 5 (2.65%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.53%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (17.99%) Jenkins
2 27 (14.29%) Git
3 23 (12.17%) GitLab
4 13 (6.88%) Cypress.io
5 11 (5.82%) SonarQube
6 9 (4.76%) Maven
7 3 (1.59%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 36 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.34%) Public Sector
3 14 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.88%) Finance
5 8 (4.23%) Banking
6 7 (3.70%) Retail
7 4 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.59%) Legal
8 3 (1.59%) Local Government
8 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.06%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 95 (50.26%) Developer
2 74 (39.15%) Java Developer
3 59 (31.22%) Senior
4 39 (20.63%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (17.46%) Java Engineer
6 30 (15.87%) AWS Developer
6 30 (15.87%) Senior Developer
7 25 (13.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 25 (13.23%) Software Engineer
8 22 (11.64%) Senior Java Developer
9 21 (11.11%) Lead
10 15 (7.94%) Angular Developer
11 13 (6.88%) Consultant
11 13 (6.88%) Senior Java Engineer
11 13 (6.88%) Technical Consultant
12 12 (6.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.82%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (5.29%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (4.76%) Junior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (32.80%) AngularJS
2 48 (25.40%) Spring
3 45 (23.81%) Spring Boot
4 39 (20.63%) Node.js
5 21 (11.11%) React
6 17 (8.99%) Gherkin
6 17 (8.99%) Terraform
7 13 (6.88%) .NET
8 10 (5.29%) REST
9 9 (4.76%) Jest
9 9 (4.76%) RESTful
10 7 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (2.65%) PySpark
13 4 (2.12%) JSON
14 3 (1.59%) .NET Core
14 3 (1.59%) Kafka
14 3 (1.59%) OpenAPI
14 3 (1.59%) Redux
14 3 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.99%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.59%) Blog
5 3 (1.59%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.59%) NHS
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.99%) Linux
2 8 (4.23%) Windows
3 7 (3.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (34.92%) Full-Stack Development
2 65 (34.39%) CI/CD
3 62 (32.80%) Agile
4 53 (28.04%) DevOps
5 46 (24.34%) Software Engineering
6 37 (19.58%) Mentoring
7 34 (17.99%) Microservices
8 25 (13.23%) Coaching
8 25 (13.23%) Continuous Integration
9 18 (9.52%) DevSecOps
9 18 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 17 (8.99%) Secrets Management
11 15 (7.94%) TDD
12 14 (7.41%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 14 (7.41%) RBAC
12 14 (7.41%) Workflow
12 14 (7.41%) Workflow Management
13 13 (6.88%) Data Engineering
13 13 (6.88%) Scrum
13 13 (6.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 57 (30.16%) SQL
2 43 (22.75%) TypeScript
3 35 (18.52%) Python
4 25 (13.23%) Kotlin
5 21 (11.11%) Groovy
6 20 (10.58%) C#
7 19 (10.05%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.94%) Bash
9 10 (5.29%) C++
10 8 (4.23%) Scala
11 5 (2.65%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.59%) C
12 3 (1.59%) Ruby
13 2 (1.06%) Go
14 1 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.29%) Degree
2 10 (5.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.23%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 7 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.12%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) PhD
7 1 (0.53%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.35%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.29%) QA
3 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 42 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.23%) HP Fortify
3 7 (3.70%) Argo
4 5 (2.65%) Ansible
5 3 (1.59%) Packer
6 2 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.65%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.65%) IBM
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle
3 1 (0.53%) Google
3 1 (0.53%) SGI