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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 74 105
Rank change year-on-year +25 +31 -55
Permanent jobs citing Java 193 94 78
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.51% 2.86% 1.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.97% 16.73% 6.85%
Number of salaries quoted 142 56 40
10th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £38,625
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% -8.19%
75th Percentile £85,000 £76,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,125 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +1.91%

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 1,074 562 1,139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.97% 17.07% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 768 448 675
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £34,000
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 £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £63,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year +3.17% -1.56% -1.54%

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 23 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 23 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 +16 169 £75,000 +11.11% 73
South Yorkshire -24 20 £41,994 +67.98% 26
East Yorkshire -16 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 (1.04%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.52%) Apache
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.52%) IIS
2 1 (0.52%) JBoss
2 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 123 (63.73%) AWS
2 74 (38.34%) Serverless
3 67 (34.72%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (29.53%) Amazon S3
4 57 (29.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 55 (28.50%) Amazon ECS
6 52 (26.94%) AWS Step Functions
7 28 (14.51%) Azure
8 25 (12.95%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 24 (12.44%) GitHub
10 22 (11.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (11.40%) Amazon ECR
10 22 (11.40%) Apigee
11 19 (9.84%) Datadog
11 19 (9.84%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (5.70%) GCP
14 9 (4.66%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (4.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) 5G
1 2 (1.04%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (24.87%) DynamoDB
2 24 (12.44%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.88%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (6.22%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.18%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.15%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.59%) MySQL
7 5 (2.59%) Power BI
7 5 (2.59%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (20.21%) Jenkins
2 28 (14.51%) GitLab
3 27 (13.99%) Git
4 18 (9.33%) Cypress.io
5 16 (8.29%) SonarQube
6 14 (7.25%) Maven
7 4 (2.07%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.55%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.55%) JIRA
9 1 (0.52%) Selenium
General
1 37 (19.17%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.51%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.74%) Finance
5 7 (3.63%) Retail
6 6 (3.11%) Banking
7 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Legal
8 3 (1.55%) Local Government
8 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.04%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 102 (52.85%) Developer
2 80 (41.45%) Java Developer
3 57 (29.53%) Senior
4 41 (21.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 31 (16.06%) AWS Developer
5 31 (16.06%) Senior Developer
6 30 (15.54%) Java Engineer
7 27 (13.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 23 (11.92%) Senior Java Developer
8 23 (11.92%) Software Engineer
9 22 (11.40%) Lead
10 16 (8.29%) Angular Developer
11 13 (6.74%) Consultant
11 13 (6.74%) Technical Consultant
12 12 (6.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 11 (5.70%) Senior Java Engineer
14 10 (5.18%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (5.18%) Senior Software Engineer
15 9 (4.66%) Java Consultant
15 9 (4.66%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (35.75%) AngularJS
2 50 (25.91%) Spring Boot
3 48 (24.87%) Spring
4 41 (21.24%) Node.js
5 22 (11.40%) Gherkin
6 20 (10.36%) React
7 18 (9.33%) Terraform
8 14 (7.25%) Jest
9 13 (6.74%) .NET
10 9 (4.66%) REST
10 9 (4.66%) RESTful
11 7 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
12 5 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (2.59%) PySpark
13 4 (2.07%) JSON
14 3 (1.55%) .NET Core
14 3 (1.55%) Classic ASP
14 3 (1.55%) CSS
14 3 (1.55%) Redux
14 3 (1.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.81%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.55%) Blog
5 3 (1.55%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.55%) NHS
6 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.81%) Linux
2 8 (4.15%) Windows
3 7 (3.63%) Unix
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.27%) CI/CD
2 67 (34.72%) Agile
2 67 (34.72%) Full-Stack Development
3 59 (30.57%) DevOps
4 44 (22.80%) Software Engineering
5 38 (19.69%) Mentoring
6 33 (17.10%) Microservices
7 26 (13.47%) Coaching
7 26 (13.47%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (10.36%) DevSecOps
9 18 (9.33%) Secrets Management
9 18 (9.33%) Test Automation
10 15 (7.77%) Principle of Least Privilege
10 15 (7.77%) RBAC
10 15 (7.77%) SDLC
10 15 (7.77%) Workflow
10 15 (7.77%) Workflow Management
11 14 (7.25%) TDD
12 13 (6.74%) ETL
12 13 (6.74%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.57%) SQL
2 49 (25.39%) TypeScript
3 36 (18.65%) Python
4 28 (14.51%) Kotlin
5 26 (13.47%) Groovy
6 20 (10.36%) Bash
6 20 (10.36%) C#
7 19 (9.84%) JavaScript
8 10 (5.18%) C++
9 8 (4.15%) Scala
10 5 (2.59%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.55%) C
11 3 (1.55%) Ruby
12 2 (1.04%) Go
13 1 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (10.88%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.74%) AWS Certification
2 13 (6.74%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 11 (5.70%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (5.18%) Degree
5 4 (2.07%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.04%) PhD
7 1 (0.52%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.18%) QA
3 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 48 (24.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.74%) HP Fortify
2 8 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.63%) Argo
4 5 (2.59%) Ansible
5 3 (1.55%) Packer
6 2 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.59%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.59%) IBM
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle
3 1 (0.52%) Google
3 1 (0.52%) SGI