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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 53 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -27
Permanent jobs citing Java 186 95 172
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.98% 4.26% 3.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.77% 15.10% 11.51%
Number of salaries quoted 118 68 126
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,188 £46,673 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year - +7.31% +6.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,484 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £88,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.22%

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 941 629 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.11% 28.23% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 646 471 1,269
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,250 £31,579
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £93,778 £78,220
England median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.96% +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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +13 158 £75,000 +4.18% 40
South Yorkshire -23 22 £25,000 -28.57% 11
North Yorkshire -5 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 (5.38%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.15%) JBoss
3 3 (1.61%) Apache
3 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (59.14%) AWS
2 80 (43.01%) Serverless
3 60 (32.26%) Amazon ECS
4 57 (30.65%) Amazon S3
5 51 (27.42%) AWS Lambda
6 48 (25.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 48 (25.81%) AWS Step Functions
7 36 (19.35%) Apigee
8 35 (18.82%) Amazon ECR
8 35 (18.82%) Azure
9 24 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (8.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 13 (6.99%) GitHub
13 11 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.69%) Datadog
14 5 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (2.15%) SaaS
16 3 (1.61%) dbt
16 3 (1.61%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.99%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (27.42%) DynamoDB
2 22 (11.83%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (8.06%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (6.99%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.69%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.69%) MySQL
7 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.61%) Power BI
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.08%) Tableau
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (29.03%) Jenkins
2 36 (19.35%) GitLab
3 35 (18.82%) Cypress.io
4 34 (18.28%) Maven
4 34 (18.28%) SonarQube
5 21 (11.29%) Git
6 4 (2.15%) Selenium
7 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.54%) Gatling
8 1 (0.54%) JIRA
8 1 (0.54%) JMeter
8 1 (0.54%) JUnit
8 1 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.14%) Games
3 16 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (8.06%) Finance
5 14 (7.53%) Retail
6 11 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (3.23%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.54%) Back Office
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (51.61%) Developer
2 67 (36.02%) Java Developer
3 30 (16.13%) Senior
4 27 (14.52%) Lead
5 26 (13.98%) Software Engineer
6 21 (11.29%) Architect
7 18 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 15 (8.06%) AWS Developer
9 13 (6.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (6.45%) Junior
10 12 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (6.45%) Software Developer
11 11 (5.91%) Technical Leader
12 10 (5.38%) Applications Architect
12 10 (5.38%) Consultant
12 10 (5.38%) Java Consultant
12 10 (5.38%) Junior Consultant
12 10 (5.38%) Junior Java Consultant
12 10 (5.38%) Junior Technical Consultant
12 10 (5.38%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (30.11%) Spring Boot
2 52 (27.96%) AngularJS
3 38 (20.43%) Spring
4 34 (18.28%) Gherkin
4 34 (18.28%) Jest
4 34 (18.28%) Node.js
5 20 (10.75%) .NET
6 17 (9.14%) React
7 14 (7.53%) GraphQL
8 13 (6.99%) Android SDK
8 13 (6.99%) REST
9 11 (5.91%) Web Services
10 10 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (5.38%) RESTful
11 8 (4.30%) Kafka
12 7 (3.76%) Mustache
13 6 (3.23%) Micronaut
14 5 (2.69%) Flutter
14 5 (2.69%) Hibernate
14 5 (2.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.75%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.99%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.99%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.99%) Social Media
4 11 (5.91%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.30%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.76%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.15%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.08%) DataPower
10 1 (0.54%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.99%) Android
2 8 (4.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (45.70%) CI/CD
2 79 (42.47%) Agile
3 69 (37.10%) DevOps
4 41 (22.04%) Microservices
5 39 (20.97%) Mentoring
5 39 (20.97%) Software Engineering
6 32 (17.20%) Computer Science
7 30 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 29 (15.59%) AI
8 29 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (15.59%) SDLC
9 25 (13.44%) Secure Coding
10 22 (11.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 21 (11.29%) Architectural Patterns
12 20 (10.75%) Data Modelling
12 20 (10.75%) Migration
13 19 (10.22%) EAI
13 19 (10.22%) Enterprise Architecture
13 19 (10.22%) ITIL
13 19 (10.22%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 64 (34.41%) TypeScript
2 48 (25.81%) JavaScript
3 45 (24.19%) SQL
4 44 (23.66%) Python
5 40 (21.51%) C#
6 34 (18.28%) Bash
6 34 (18.28%) Kotlin
7 33 (17.74%) Groovy
8 9 (4.84%) C++
8 9 (4.84%) PL/SQL
9 8 (4.30%) C
10 5 (2.69%) Go
11 3 (1.61%) Scala
12 2 (1.08%) R
12 2 (1.08%) Ruby
13 1 (0.54%) PHP
13 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (24.19%) AWS Certification
2 31 (16.67%) Degree
3 30 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (11.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 19 (10.22%) Azure Certification
5 19 (10.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (10.22%) TOGAF Certification
6 18 (9.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 18 (9.68%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (4.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (3.23%) Security Cleared
9 5 (2.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.08%) GDPR
2 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 64 (34.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (18.28%) HP Fortify
2 17 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.76%) Terraform
4 4 (2.15%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Grafana
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
5 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.61%) Pega
2 3 (1.61%) WSO2
3 2 (1.08%) Google
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe
4 1 (0.54%) New Relic
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle