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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 86 107
Rank change year-on-year +46 +21 -54
Permanent jobs citing Java 215 86 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.91% 2.46% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.60% 14.17% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 147 59 62
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £47,231 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -0.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,125 £77,068
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 1,156 607 1,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.64% 17.36% 23.56%
Number of salaries quoted 805 498 924
10th Percentile £33,350 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,410 £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 £71,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +1.63% -5.38%

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 19 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 19 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 +18 184 £75,000 +9.09% 53
South Yorkshire -22 23 £36,000 +24.14% 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 2 (0.93%) JBoss
1 2 (0.93%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.47%) Apache
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.47%) IIS
2 1 (0.47%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 125 (58.14%) AWS
2 74 (34.42%) Serverless
3 67 (31.16%) AWS Lambda
4 62 (28.84%) Amazon S3
5 61 (28.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 60 (27.91%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (24.65%) AWS Step Functions
8 29 (13.49%) Azure
9 26 (12.09%) Amazon ECR
9 26 (12.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 26 (12.09%) Apigee
10 25 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (9.77%) GitHub
12 18 (8.37%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (6.98%) Datadog
13 15 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (4.65%) GCP
15 9 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.47%) DNS
2 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (24.65%) DynamoDB
2 26 (12.09%) NoSQL
3 24 (11.16%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (6.05%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.12%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.72%) BigQuery
6 8 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.79%) MySQL
7 6 (2.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.33%) Power BI
9 2 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.93%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (20.47%) Jenkins
2 32 (14.88%) GitLab
3 25 (11.63%) Git
4 22 (10.23%) Cypress.io
5 19 (8.84%) SonarQube
6 17 (7.91%) Maven
7 5 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.40%) JIRA
8 3 (1.40%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Gatling
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 40 (18.60%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.16%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.58%) Games
4 12 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.65%) Finance
6 8 (3.72%) Retail
7 4 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Back Office
8 3 (1.40%) Legal
8 3 (1.40%) Local Government
8 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Banking
Job Titles
1 127 (59.07%) Developer
2 92 (42.79%) Java Developer
3 58 (26.98%) Senior
4 41 (19.07%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (16.74%) Senior Developer
6 32 (14.88%) AWS Developer
7 27 (12.56%) Lead
8 26 (12.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 24 (11.16%) Senior Java Developer
10 19 (8.84%) Software Engineer
11 18 (8.37%) Java Engineer
12 15 (6.98%) Angular Developer
13 14 (6.51%) Consultant
13 14 (6.51%) Technical Consultant
14 12 (5.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (4.65%) Java Consultant
15 10 (4.65%) Junior
15 10 (4.65%) Junior Consultant
15 10 (4.65%) Junior Java Consultant
15 10 (4.65%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (32.56%) AngularJS
2 50 (23.26%) Spring Boot
3 44 (20.47%) Spring
4 42 (19.53%) Node.js
5 25 (11.63%) Gherkin
6 24 (11.16%) React
7 17 (7.91%) Jest
8 14 (6.51%) .NET
9 12 (5.58%) Android SDK
9 12 (5.58%) GraphQL
10 10 (4.65%) RESTful
11 7 (3.26%) REST
12 6 (2.79%) Classic ASP
12 6 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (1.86%) CSS
14 4 (1.86%) Flutter
14 4 (1.86%) JSON
15 3 (1.40%) .NET Core
15 3 (1.40%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.58%) Mobile App
2 12 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (5.58%) Social Media
3 10 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.33%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.40%) Blog
7 3 (1.40%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.40%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.91%) Linux
2 12 (5.58%) Android
3 8 (3.72%) Windows
4 7 (3.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (37.21%) Agile
2 77 (35.81%) CI/CD
3 61 (28.37%) Full-Stack Development
4 60 (27.91%) DevOps
5 37 (17.21%) Software Engineering
6 35 (16.28%) Mentoring
7 31 (14.42%) Microservices
8 26 (12.09%) Continuous Integration
8 26 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (11.16%) Coaching
10 20 (9.30%) Design Patterns
10 20 (9.30%) Test Automation
11 19 (8.84%) DevSecOps
12 18 (8.37%) SDLC
13 16 (7.44%) AI
13 16 (7.44%) Secrets Management
14 15 (6.98%) ITIL
14 15 (6.98%) Secure Coding
15 14 (6.51%) Clean Code
15 14 (6.51%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 60 (27.91%) SQL
2 52 (24.19%) TypeScript
3 43 (20.00%) Kotlin
4 36 (16.74%) Python
5 29 (13.49%) Groovy
6 22 (10.23%) C#
7 21 (9.77%) Bash
7 21 (9.77%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.72%) Scala
9 6 (2.79%) C++
10 5 (2.33%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.86%) Go
12 3 (1.40%) C
12 3 (1.40%) Ruby
13 1 (0.47%) Perl
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.44%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (6.05%) ITIL Certification
5 10 (4.65%) Degree
6 4 (1.86%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.12%) QA
2 7 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (21.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (8.37%) Terraform
2 16 (7.44%) HP Fortify
3 7 (3.26%) Argo
3 7 (3.26%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.33%) Ansible
5 3 (1.40%) Packer
6 2 (0.93%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.33%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.33%) IBM
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle
3 1 (0.47%) Google
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.47%) SGI