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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 53 91
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 -47
Permanent jobs citing Java 228 102 137
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.70% 4.11% 2.43%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.45% 15.99% 8.61%
Number of salaries quoted 146 74 106
10th Percentile £24,500 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,716 £47,231 £46,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,996 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +2.12% +8.83% +4.37%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £77,068
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,548
England median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -2.67% +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 1,172 638 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.01% 25.72% 28.25%
Number of salaries quoted 747 520 1,370
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,838 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,778 £77,500
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 May 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 May 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 +12 195 £75,000 +4.17% 44
South Yorkshire -16 27 £24,000 -31.43% 13
North Yorkshire -7 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 7 (3.07%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.19%) JBoss
3 3 (1.32%) Apache
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (57.02%) AWS
2 96 (42.11%) Serverless
3 81 (35.53%) Amazon ECS
3 81 (35.53%) Amazon S3
4 77 (33.77%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (31.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 67 (29.39%) AWS Step Functions
7 49 (21.49%) Apigee
8 48 (21.05%) Amazon ECR
9 33 (14.47%) Azure
10 28 (12.28%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (10.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 19 (8.33%) GitHub
13 12 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (4.39%) Datadog
14 10 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (3.07%) Azure AKS
15 7 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.07%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (31.58%) DynamoDB
2 28 (12.28%) NoSQL
3 24 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
4 20 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.14%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.63%) Power BI
7 6 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.19%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.19%) MySQL
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.32%) Tableau
10 1 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 70 (30.70%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.25%) GitLab
3 43 (18.86%) Cypress.io
3 43 (18.86%) SonarQube
4 40 (17.54%) Maven
5 29 (12.72%) Git
6 7 (3.07%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.19%) Selenium
8 4 (1.75%) JIRA
9 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.44%) Gatling
10 1 (0.44%) JMeter
10 1 (0.44%) JUnit
10 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
General
1 42 (18.42%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.02%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.14%) Games
5 13 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.82%) Retail
7 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.32%) Back Office
9 2 (0.88%) Finance
9 2 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 141 (61.84%) Developer
2 98 (42.98%) Java Developer
3 55 (24.12%) Senior
4 39 (17.11%) Senior Developer
5 35 (15.35%) Lead
6 33 (14.47%) Full-Stack Developer
7 26 (11.40%) Senior Java Developer
8 25 (10.96%) AWS Developer
9 19 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 17 (7.46%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.58%) Consultant
11 15 (6.58%) Java Consultant
11 15 (6.58%) Junior
11 15 (6.58%) Junior Consultant
11 15 (6.58%) Junior Java Consultant
11 15 (6.58%) Junior Technical Consultant
11 15 (6.58%) Technical Consultant
12 14 (6.14%) Architect
13 13 (5.70%) Lead Developer
13 13 (5.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (34.21%) AngularJS
2 71 (31.14%) Spring Boot
3 50 (21.93%) Spring
4 43 (18.86%) Node.js
5 42 (18.42%) Gherkin
6 40 (17.54%) Jest
7 26 (11.40%) React
8 19 (8.33%) .NET
9 15 (6.58%) REST
10 14 (6.14%) GraphQL
11 13 (5.70%) Android SDK
12 12 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (4.39%) Web Services
14 9 (3.95%) RESTful
15 8 (3.51%) Kafka
16 7 (3.07%) Mustache
17 6 (2.63%) Classic ASP
17 6 (2.63%) Flutter
17 6 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
17 6 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (5.70%) Mobile App
2 13 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
2 13 (5.70%) Social Media
3 9 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.63%) Legacy Code
6 5 (2.19%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.88%) DataPower
7 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.44%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.58%) Linux
2 13 (5.70%) Android
3 7 (3.07%) Unix
3 7 (3.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (43.42%) Agile
2 96 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 77 (33.77%) DevOps
4 47 (20.61%) Full-Stack Development
5 43 (18.86%) Microservices
6 36 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 34 (14.91%) SDLC
8 33 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (12.72%) AI
9 29 (12.72%) Secure Coding
10 28 (12.28%) Software Engineering
11 25 (10.96%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (10.53%) ITIL
13 23 (10.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 22 (9.65%) Computer Science
14 22 (9.65%) Test Automation
15 21 (9.21%) Scrum
16 20 (8.77%) Clean Code
17 19 (8.33%) DevSecOps
18 18 (7.89%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 78 (34.21%) TypeScript
2 58 (25.44%) SQL
3 48 (21.05%) Python
4 44 (19.30%) Groovy
5 42 (18.42%) Kotlin
6 41 (17.98%) JavaScript
7 39 (17.11%) Bash
8 36 (15.79%) C#
9 8 (3.51%) PL/SQL
10 6 (2.63%) C++
10 6 (2.63%) Go
11 5 (2.19%) C
12 3 (1.32%) Scala
13 1 (0.44%) Perl
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 44 (19.30%) AWS Certification
2 23 (10.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (10.09%) ITIL Certification
3 21 (9.21%) Degree
4 19 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (6.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (6.14%) Security Cleared
7 12 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 12 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.26%) SC Cleared
7 12 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
8 9 (3.95%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.14%) QA
2 5 (2.19%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (32.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 40 (17.54%) HP Fortify
2 15 (6.58%) Terraform
3 14 (6.14%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.07%) Argo
5 6 (2.63%) Ansible
6 3 (1.32%) Packer
7 2 (0.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (5.70%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.19%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.19%) IBM
3 3 (1.32%) Google
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe