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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 87 41
Rank change year-on-year +32 -46 -18
Permanent jobs citing Java 136 79 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.92% 2.31% 6.38%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.71% 9.56% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 95 30 134
10th Percentile £31,250 £39,920 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £84,500 £83,628 £88,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +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 727 826 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.97% 24.16% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 532 420 895
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £73,000 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 +43 116 £75,000 +29.39% 28
South Yorkshire -17 12 £32,500 -35.00% 15
East Yorkshire - 6 - -
North Yorkshire -14 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 8 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.68%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.21%) Apache
3 3 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.47%) JBoss
4 2 (1.47%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.74%) IIS
5 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 94 (69.12%) AWS
2 48 (35.29%) Serverless
3 40 (29.41%) Azure
4 32 (23.53%) Amazon ECS
5 22 (16.18%) Amazon S3
6 21 (15.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (13.24%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
8 17 (12.50%) Apigee
8 17 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 10 (7.35%) SaaS
10 9 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.68%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.68%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.94%) GCP
14 3 (2.21%) dbt
15 2 (1.47%) IaaS
16 1 (0.74%) Adobe Analytics
16 1 (0.74%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.47%) AMQP
2 1 (0.74%) DNS
2 1 (0.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.24%) DynamoDB
2 16 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.62%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.15%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.68%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.94%) MySQL
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.21%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.47%) Big Data
8 2 (1.47%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.74%) Power BI
9 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.38%) GitLab
3 18 (13.24%) Cypress.io
4 17 (12.50%) Maven
4 17 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 10 (7.35%) Git
6 2 (1.47%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) Appium
7 1 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.74%) JUnit
7 1 (0.74%) Mockito
7 1 (0.74%) Postman
7 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
General
1 49 (36.03%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.91%) Finance
3 14 (10.29%) Retail
4 12 (8.82%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.88%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.15%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.21%) Games
8 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.47%) Law
9 2 (1.47%) Legal
9 2 (1.47%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (33.82%) Developer
2 34 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 28 (20.59%) Senior
4 27 (19.85%) Lead
5 24 (17.65%) Architect
6 22 (16.18%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.82%) Applications Architect
7 12 (8.82%) Graduate
8 11 (8.09%) Lead Developer
9 9 (6.62%) Software Architect
9 9 (6.62%) Software Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Logistics Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Senior Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (5.88%) Software Engineering Graduate
10 8 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (27.21%) Spring Boot
2 35 (25.74%) Spring
3 21 (15.44%) AngularJS
4 17 (12.50%) Gherkin
4 17 (12.50%) Jest
4 17 (12.50%) Node.js
5 16 (11.76%) .NET
5 16 (11.76%) CSS
6 15 (11.03%) React
7 12 (8.82%) Micronaut
8 11 (8.09%) REST
9 9 (6.62%) Web Services
10 8 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (5.88%) Kafka
11 6 (4.41%) Flutter
11 6 (4.41%) HTML
11 6 (4.41%) RESTful
12 5 (3.68%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.68%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.68%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.44%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (11.03%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.62%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.88%) Driving Licence
5 7 (5.15%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.47%) DataPower
8 1 (0.74%) IoT
8 1 (0.74%) Robotics
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (2.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.44%) DevOps
2 53 (38.97%) CI/CD
3 43 (31.62%) Computer Science
4 42 (30.88%) Agile
5 39 (28.68%) Mentoring
6 38 (27.94%) Microservices
7 30 (22.06%) Software Engineering
8 26 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 23 (16.91%) Migration
11 22 (16.18%) Architectural Patterns
11 22 (16.18%) Enterprise Architecture
12 21 (15.44%) SDLC
13 20 (14.71%) Application Security
13 20 (14.71%) Data Modelling
13 20 (14.71%) EAI
13 20 (14.71%) TOGAF
14 17 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 56 (41.18%) Python
2 51 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 49 (36.03%) JavaScript
4 39 (28.68%) C#
5 38 (27.94%) SQL
6 24 (17.65%) Bash
7 16 (11.76%) Groovy
8 14 (10.29%) C
9 12 (8.82%) C++
10 9 (6.62%) Kotlin
10 9 (6.62%) PHP
11 8 (5.88%) PL/SQL
11 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
11 8 (5.88%) Scala
12 6 (4.41%) Go
12 6 (4.41%) Perl
13 2 (1.47%) R
13 2 (1.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (32.35%) Degree
2 36 (26.47%) AWS Certification
2 36 (26.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (16.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 20 (14.71%) Azure Certification
4 20 (14.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (14.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (4.41%) HND
5 6 (4.41%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.41%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.41%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.68%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.74%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.74%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) QA
2 2 (1.47%) GDPR
2 2 (1.47%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (27.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (21.32%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.50%) HP Fortify
3 9 (6.62%) Ansible
4 5 (3.68%) Terraform
5 1 (0.74%) Grafana
5 1 (0.74%) Kibana
5 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.41%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (4.41%) Siemens
2 6 (4.41%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.21%) Google
3 3 (2.21%) Pega
3 3 (2.21%) WSO2
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe
4 1 (0.74%) New Relic