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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 70 45
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 -12
Permanent jobs citing Java 152 87 172
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.46% 2.78% 5.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.97% 11.10% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 101 34 128
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,443 £45,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £57,369 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.38% -11.74% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,938 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +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 725 784 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.29% 25.07% 34.95%
Number of salaries quoted 520 388 965
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,813 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,525 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +33 131 £75,000 +11.11% 33
South Yorkshire -10 14 £25,000 -50.00% 38
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 6
North Yorkshire -7 1 £72,500 +38.10% 9
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 (6.58%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.63%) Apache
3 4 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.32%) JBoss
4 2 (1.32%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.66%) CMS
5 1 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.66%) IIS
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 106 (69.74%) AWS
2 62 (40.79%) Serverless
3 41 (26.97%) Amazon ECS
3 41 (26.97%) Azure
4 32 (21.05%) Amazon S3
5 29 (19.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (17.11%) AWS Lambda
7 25 (16.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 20 (13.16%) Amazon ECR
8 20 (13.16%) Apigee
9 13 (8.55%) Amazon SQS
10 11 (7.24%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (6.58%) SaaS
12 6 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.95%) GitHub
13 5 (3.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (3.29%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.29%) GCP
13 5 (3.29%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) AMQP
2 1 (0.66%) DNS
2 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.66%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.11%) DynamoDB
2 15 (9.87%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.89%) NoSQL
4 9 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.97%) MySQL
8 2 (1.32%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.32%) Big Data
8 2 (1.32%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.32%) Power BI
8 2 (1.32%) Tableau
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 41 (26.97%) Jenkins
2 27 (17.76%) GitLab
3 21 (13.82%) Cypress.io
4 20 (13.16%) Maven
4 20 (13.16%) SonarQube
5 17 (11.18%) Git
6 2 (1.32%) Selenium
7 1 (0.66%) Appium
7 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.66%) JUnit
7 1 (0.66%) Mockito
7 1 (0.66%) Postman
7 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
General
1 55 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.13%) Finance
3 14 (9.21%) Retail
4 12 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.63%) Games
9 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Law
10 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (1.32%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (37.50%) Developer
2 45 (29.61%) Java Developer
3 32 (21.05%) Senior
4 28 (18.42%) Architect
5 26 (17.11%) Lead
6 22 (14.47%) Software Engineer
7 14 (9.21%) Applications Architect
8 13 (8.55%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.89%) Senior Java Developer
10 11 (7.24%) Graduate
10 11 (7.24%) Software Architect
11 10 (6.58%) Junior
11 10 (6.58%) Lead Developer
12 9 (5.92%) Software Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
13 8 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
13 8 (5.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (27.63%) Spring Boot
2 38 (25.00%) Spring
3 29 (19.08%) AngularJS
4 21 (13.82%) Node.js
5 20 (13.16%) Gherkin
5 20 (13.16%) Jest
6 17 (11.18%) .NET
7 16 (10.53%) React
8 15 (9.87%) CSS
9 13 (8.55%) REST
10 12 (7.89%) Micronaut
11 11 (7.24%) Kafka
11 11 (7.24%) Web Services
12 10 (6.58%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (4.61%) Mustache
14 6 (3.95%) HTML
14 6 (3.95%) RESTful
15 5 (3.29%) Flutter
15 5 (3.29%) Hibernate
15 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.45%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.92%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.26%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.61%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.32%) DataPower
8 1 (0.66%) IoT
8 1 (0.66%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (1.97%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (41.45%) DevOps
2 61 (40.13%) CI/CD
3 48 (31.58%) Agile
4 46 (30.26%) Computer Science
5 44 (28.95%) Microservices
6 39 (25.66%) Mentoring
7 32 (21.05%) Software Engineering
8 28 (18.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 27 (17.76%) Migration
10 26 (17.11%) Architectural Patterns
10 26 (17.11%) Enterprise Architecture
10 26 (17.11%) SDLC
11 24 (15.79%) Application Security
11 24 (15.79%) Data Modelling
11 24 (15.79%) EAI
11 24 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (15.79%) TOGAF
12 23 (15.13%) Full-Stack Development
13 18 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (10.53%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.79%) Python
2 60 (39.47%) TypeScript
3 53 (34.87%) JavaScript
4 44 (28.95%) C#
5 41 (26.97%) SQL
6 26 (17.11%) Bash
7 19 (12.50%) Groovy
8 14 (9.21%) C
9 13 (8.55%) Kotlin
10 11 (7.24%) C++
11 9 (5.92%) Scala
12 8 (5.26%) PHP
12 8 (5.26%) PL/SQL
13 7 (4.61%) PowerShell
14 6 (3.95%) Perl
15 5 (3.29%) Go
16 2 (1.32%) R
16 2 (1.32%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (30.92%) Degree
2 42 (27.63%) AWS Certification
3 39 (25.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (17.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (15.79%) Azure Certification
5 24 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (15.79%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (4.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (4.61%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (3.95%) HND
7 6 (3.95%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.29%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (3.29%) SC Cleared
8 5 (3.29%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.66%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) QA
2 2 (1.32%) GDPR
2 2 (1.32%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.66%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 48 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 20 (13.16%) HP Fortify
3 9 (5.92%) Ansible
4 5 (3.29%) Terraform
5 1 (0.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.66%) Kibana
5 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.95%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (3.95%) Siemens
2 6 (3.95%) Toshiba
3 4 (2.63%) Google
4 3 (1.97%) Pega
4 3 (1.97%) WSO2
5 1 (0.66%) Adobe
5 1 (0.66%) New Relic