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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 81 42
Rank change year-on-year +36 -39 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 142 82 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.26% 2.48% 5.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.64% 10.14% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 96 33 132
10th Percentile £31,250 £40,312 £46,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £52,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,522 £87,500
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 723 809 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.71% 24.43% 36.47%
Number of salaries quoted 525 407 922
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £36,000
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 £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,650 £83,750
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 29 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 29 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 +39 122 £75,000 +15.38% 124
South Yorkshire -18 12 £32,500 -35.00% 89
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 28
North Yorkshire -4 1 £72,500 +38.10% 30
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 9 (6.34%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 3 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.41%) JBoss
4 2 (1.41%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.70%) CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.70%) IIS
5 1 (0.70%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 98 (69.01%) AWS
2 53 (37.32%) Serverless
3 41 (28.87%) Azure
4 34 (23.94%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (17.61%) Amazon S3
6 23 (16.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (14.08%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (13.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 17 (11.97%) Amazon ECR
9 17 (11.97%) Apigee
10 10 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (7.04%) SaaS
11 9 (6.34%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.52%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.52%) Power Automate
13 4 (2.82%) GCP
14 3 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.11%) dbt
14 3 (2.11%) GitHub
15 2 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) AMQP
2 1 (0.70%) DNS
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.08%) DynamoDB
2 16 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.75%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.52%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.82%) MySQL
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.11%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.41%) Big Data
8 2 (1.41%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.70%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.70%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.70%) Power BI
9 1 (0.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (24.65%) Jenkins
2 24 (16.90%) GitLab
3 18 (12.68%) Cypress.io
4 17 (11.97%) Maven
4 17 (11.97%) SonarQube
5 13 (9.15%) Git
6 2 (1.41%) Selenium
7 1 (0.70%) Appium
7 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.70%) JUnit
7 1 (0.70%) Mockito
7 1 (0.70%) Postman
7 1 (0.70%) REST Assured
General
1 52 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 23 (16.20%) Finance
3 15 (10.56%) Retail
4 12 (8.45%) Financial Institution
5 10 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.63%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.63%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.82%) Games
9 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.41%) Law
10 2 (1.41%) Legal
10 2 (1.41%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (36.62%) Developer
2 39 (27.46%) Java Developer
3 30 (21.13%) Senior
4 28 (19.72%) Lead
5 26 (18.31%) Architect
6 22 (15.49%) Software Engineer
7 13 (9.15%) Applications Architect
8 12 (8.45%) Graduate
8 12 (8.45%) Lead Developer
9 11 (7.75%) Senior Developer
10 10 (7.04%) Senior Java Developer
10 10 (7.04%) Software Architect
11 9 (6.34%) Software Developer
12 8 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (5.63%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Lead Java Developer
12 8 (5.63%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (5.63%) Software Engineering Graduate
12 8 (5.63%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (26.76%) Spring Boot
2 37 (26.06%) Spring
3 23 (16.20%) AngularJS
4 19 (13.38%) Node.js
5 17 (11.97%) Gherkin
5 17 (11.97%) Jest
6 16 (11.27%) .NET
6 16 (11.27%) CSS
7 15 (10.56%) React
8 12 (8.45%) Micronaut
8 12 (8.45%) REST
9 10 (7.04%) Kafka
9 10 (7.04%) Web Services
10 9 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (4.23%) HTML
11 6 (4.23%) Mustache
11 6 (4.23%) RESTful
12 5 (3.52%) ASP.NET
12 5 (3.52%) Hibernate
12 5 (3.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.20%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.34%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.63%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.93%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.23%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.41%) DataPower
8 1 (0.70%) IoT
8 1 (0.70%) Robotics
8 1 (0.70%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.27%) Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.14%) DevOps
2 55 (38.73%) CI/CD
3 45 (31.69%) Computer Science
4 44 (30.99%) Agile
5 42 (29.58%) Microservices
6 40 (28.17%) Mentoring
7 30 (21.13%) Software Engineering
8 26 (18.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (17.61%) Migration
9 25 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (16.90%) Architectural Patterns
10 24 (16.90%) Enterprise Architecture
11 23 (16.20%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (15.49%) Application Security
12 22 (15.49%) Data Modelling
12 22 (15.49%) EAI
12 22 (15.49%) SDLC
12 22 (15.49%) TOGAF
13 18 (12.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (10.56%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 58 (40.85%) Python
2 54 (38.03%) TypeScript
3 51 (35.92%) JavaScript
4 41 (28.87%) C#
5 40 (28.17%) SQL
6 23 (16.20%) Bash
7 16 (11.27%) Groovy
8 14 (9.86%) C
9 12 (8.45%) C++
10 11 (7.75%) Kotlin
11 9 (6.34%) PHP
11 9 (6.34%) Scala
12 8 (5.63%) PL/SQL
13 7 (4.93%) PowerShell
14 6 (4.23%) Perl
15 5 (3.52%) Go
16 2 (1.41%) R
16 2 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (32.39%) Degree
2 38 (26.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (26.06%) AWS Certification
4 25 (17.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 22 (15.49%) Azure Certification
5 22 (15.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (15.49%) TOGAF Certification
6 6 (4.23%) HND
6 6 (4.23%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.23%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.23%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.52%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.70%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.45%) QA
2 2 (1.41%) GDPR
2 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (28.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 17 (11.97%) HP Fortify
3 9 (6.34%) Ansible
4 5 (3.52%) Terraform
5 1 (0.70%) Grafana
5 1 (0.70%) Kibana
5 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.23%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (4.23%) Siemens
2 6 (4.23%) Toshiba
3 3 (2.11%) Google
3 3 (2.11%) Pega
3 3 (2.11%) WSO2
4 1 (0.70%) Adobe
4 1 (0.70%) New Relic