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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 74 118
Rank change year-on-year +25 +44 -72
Permanent jobs citing Java 198 91 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.65% 2.75% 1.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.07% 15.88% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 144 55 49
10th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £41,750
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 £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,751 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 1,096 573 1,201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.67% 17.34% 23.62%
Number of salaries quoted 779 460 813
10th Percentile £33,750 £30,250 £33,800
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,025 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% -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 4 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 4 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 +17 171 £75,000 +11.11% 64
South Yorkshire -16 23 £47,988 +91.95% 16
East Yorkshire -13 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 (1.01%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.51%) Apache
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.51%) IIS
2 1 (0.51%) JBoss
2 1 (0.51%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 124 (62.63%) AWS
2 74 (37.37%) Serverless
3 67 (33.84%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (28.79%) Amazon S3
5 56 (28.28%) AWS CloudFormation
6 55 (27.78%) Amazon ECS
7 50 (25.25%) AWS Step Functions
8 29 (14.65%) Azure
9 24 (12.12%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 23 (11.62%) Amazon ECR
10 23 (11.62%) Apigee
11 22 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (10.61%) GitHub
13 16 (8.08%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (8.08%) Datadog
13 16 (8.08%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (5.05%) GCP
15 9 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.03%) Broadband
2 2 (1.01%) 5G
2 2 (1.01%) HTTP
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (24.24%) DynamoDB
2 23 (11.62%) NoSQL
3 21 (10.61%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (6.57%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 8 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (4.04%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.03%) MySQL
8 5 (2.53%) Power BI
8 5 (2.53%) Spark SQL
9 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (20.20%) Jenkins
2 29 (14.65%) GitLab
3 25 (12.63%) Git
4 19 (9.60%) Cypress.io
5 16 (8.08%) SonarQube
6 14 (7.07%) Maven
7 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.52%) JIRA
9 2 (1.01%) Selenium
10 1 (0.51%) Gatling
10 1 (0.51%) JMeter
10 1 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 36 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.65%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.57%) Finance
5 7 (3.54%) Retail
6 6 (3.03%) Games
6 6 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.02%) Banking
7 4 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Legal
8 3 (1.52%) Local Government
8 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.01%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 108 (54.55%) Developer
2 81 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 57 (28.79%) Senior
4 41 (20.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 33 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 29 (14.65%) AWS Developer
7 26 (13.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 24 (12.12%) Senior Java Developer
9 23 (11.62%) Lead
10 22 (11.11%) Java Engineer
11 20 (10.10%) Software Engineer
12 16 (8.08%) Angular Developer
13 13 (6.57%) Consultant
13 13 (6.57%) Technical Consultant
14 12 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 10 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
15 10 (5.05%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
16 9 (4.55%) Java Consultant
16 9 (4.55%) Junior
16 9 (4.55%) Junior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (33.84%) AngularJS
2 49 (24.75%) Spring Boot
3 47 (23.74%) Spring
4 39 (19.70%) Node.js
5 22 (11.11%) Gherkin
6 20 (10.10%) React
7 17 (8.59%) Terraform
8 14 (7.07%) .NET
8 14 (7.07%) Jest
9 10 (5.05%) RESTful
10 8 (4.04%) REST
11 7 (3.54%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (3.03%) Android SDK
12 6 (3.03%) GraphQL
13 5 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (2.53%) PySpark
14 4 (2.02%) CSS
14 4 (2.02%) JSON
15 3 (1.52%) Classic ASP
15 3 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.04%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.03%) Social Media
6 4 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.52%) Blog
7 3 (1.52%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.52%) NHS
8 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.01%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.51%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.59%) Linux
2 8 (4.04%) Windows
3 7 (3.54%) Unix
4 6 (3.03%) Android
5 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.37%) Agile
2 72 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 65 (32.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 55 (27.78%) DevOps
5 40 (20.20%) Mentoring
6 39 (19.70%) Software Engineering
7 32 (16.16%) Microservices
8 28 (14.14%) Coaching
9 24 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
10 20 (10.10%) Test Automation
11 18 (9.09%) DevSecOps
12 17 (8.59%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (8.08%) SDLC
13 16 (8.08%) Secrets Management
14 15 (7.58%) TDD
15 13 (6.57%) Data Engineering
15 13 (6.57%) ETL
15 13 (6.57%) ITIL
15 13 (6.57%) Workflow
15 13 (6.57%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (30.30%) SQL
2 48 (24.24%) TypeScript
3 35 (17.68%) Python
4 32 (16.16%) Kotlin
5 26 (13.13%) Groovy
6 21 (10.61%) C#
6 21 (10.61%) JavaScript
7 20 (10.10%) Bash
8 11 (5.56%) C++
9 8 (4.04%) Scala
10 5 (2.53%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.52%) C
11 3 (1.52%) Ruby
12 2 (1.01%) Go
13 1 (0.51%) Perl
13 1 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (10.61%) Security Cleared
2 14 (7.07%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.57%) AWS Certification
4 11 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 11 (5.56%) Degree
4 11 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.02%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.01%) PhD
7 1 (0.51%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.06%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.05%) QA
3 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.57%) HP Fortify
2 7 (3.54%) Argo
2 7 (3.54%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.53%) Ansible
4 3 (1.52%) Packer
5 2 (1.01%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.53%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.53%) IBM
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle
3 1 (0.51%) Google
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.51%) SGI