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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 54 79
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 -42
Permanent jobs citing Java 211 99 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.92% 4.36% 2.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.41% 15.76% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 133 76 114
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year - +6.93% +7.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £86,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year - +1.62% -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 1,087 628 1,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.20% 27.68% 29.07%
Number of salaries quoted 721 518 1,357
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £31,579
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £78,750
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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +9 180 £75,000 +4.18% 42
South Yorkshire -25 25 £24,500 -30.00% 13
North Yorkshire -6 1 £41,500 -32.24% 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 10 (4.74%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.37%) JBoss
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.95%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (60.19%) AWS
2 97 (45.97%) Serverless
3 76 (36.02%) Amazon ECS
4 74 (35.07%) Amazon S3
5 70 (33.18%) AWS Lambda
6 62 (29.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 59 (27.96%) AWS Step Functions
8 44 (20.85%) Apigee
9 43 (20.38%) Amazon ECR
10 36 (17.06%) Azure
11 27 (12.80%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (10.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (9.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 16 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
14 16 (7.58%) GitHub
15 7 (3.32%) Datadog
15 7 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (1.42%) dbt
16 3 (1.42%) GCP
16 3 (1.42%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.16%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (30.81%) DynamoDB
2 25 (11.85%) NoSQL
3 21 (9.95%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (7.58%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.37%) MySQL
7 5 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.42%) Power BI
9 2 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.95%) Tableau
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 67 (31.75%) Jenkins
2 45 (21.33%) GitLab
3 42 (19.91%) SonarQube
4 40 (18.96%) Cypress.io
5 39 (18.48%) Maven
6 28 (13.27%) Git
7 7 (3.32%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.37%) Selenium
9 4 (1.90%) JIRA
10 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.47%) Gatling
11 1 (0.47%) JMeter
11 1 (0.47%) JUnit
11 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (20.85%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (6.64%) Games
3 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.16%) Retail
5 8 (3.79%) Finance
6 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.95%) Back Office
9 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 121 (57.35%) Developer
2 87 (41.23%) Java Developer
3 43 (20.38%) Senior
4 30 (14.22%) Senior Developer
5 28 (13.27%) Lead
6 23 (10.90%) Software Engineer
7 21 (9.95%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (9.48%) Senior Java Developer
9 19 (9.00%) Architect
10 17 (8.06%) AWS Developer
11 14 (6.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 13 (6.16%) Junior
12 13 (6.16%) Technical Leader
13 12 (5.69%) Consultant
13 12 (5.69%) Java Consultant
13 12 (5.69%) Junior Consultant
13 12 (5.69%) Junior Java Consultant
13 12 (5.69%) Junior Technical Consultant
13 12 (5.69%) Software Developer
13 12 (5.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (33.18%) Spring Boot
2 68 (32.23%) AngularJS
3 48 (22.75%) Spring
4 42 (19.91%) Node.js
5 39 (18.48%) Gherkin
5 39 (18.48%) Jest
6 21 (9.95%) React
7 19 (9.00%) .NET
8 18 (8.53%) REST
9 15 (7.11%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (6.64%) GraphQL
11 13 (6.16%) Android SDK
11 13 (6.16%) Web Services
12 9 (4.27%) RESTful
13 8 (3.79%) Kafka
14 7 (3.32%) Mustache
15 6 (2.84%) Flutter
15 6 (2.84%) Hibernate
15 6 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (8.53%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.16%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.16%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.16%) Social Media
4 10 (4.74%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.32%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.37%) Legacy Code
8 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.95%) DataPower
9 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.16%) Android
2 12 (5.69%) Linux
3 2 (0.95%) Unix
3 2 (0.95%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.55%) Agile
2 93 (44.08%) CI/CD
3 79 (37.44%) DevOps
4 46 (21.80%) Microservices
5 39 (18.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (18.48%) Mentoring
6 35 (16.59%) Software Engineering
7 33 (15.64%) SDLC
8 32 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (14.22%) AI
10 29 (13.74%) Computer Science
11 28 (13.27%) Secure Coding
12 23 (10.90%) ITIL
13 22 (10.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 21 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 20 (9.48%) Architectural Patterns
15 20 (9.48%) Clean Code
15 20 (9.48%) Scrum
15 20 (9.48%) Test Automation
16 19 (9.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.60%) TypeScript
2 53 (25.12%) SQL
3 50 (23.70%) JavaScript
4 47 (22.27%) Python
5 41 (19.43%) Groovy
6 39 (18.48%) Kotlin
7 38 (18.01%) Bash
7 38 (18.01%) C#
8 10 (4.74%) PL/SQL
9 8 (3.79%) C++
10 7 (3.32%) C
11 6 (2.84%) Go
12 2 (0.95%) R
13 1 (0.47%) Perl
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (22.75%) AWS Certification
2 27 (12.80%) Degree
3 26 (12.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (10.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (10.43%) ITIL Certification
5 20 (9.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (8.06%) Azure Certification
6 17 (8.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (8.06%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (6.64%) Security Cleared
8 12 (5.69%) SC Cleared
9 9 (4.27%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.16%) QA
2 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (35.07%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (18.48%) HP Fortify
2 21 (9.95%) Kubernetes
3 15 (7.11%) Terraform
4 9 (4.27%) Ansible
5 3 (1.42%) Packer
6 2 (0.95%) Argo
6 2 (0.95%) Kibana
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.37%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.37%) IBM
3 3 (1.42%) Oracle
3 3 (1.42%) Pega
3 3 (1.42%) WSO2
4 2 (0.95%) Google
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe