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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 59 56
Rank change year-on-year +13 -3 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 180 97 182
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.35% 3.93% 4.04%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.95% 13.45% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 119 50 129
10th Percentile £31,250 £38,125 £41,227
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £146,300 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -6.45%

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 859 721 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.76% 29.18% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 600 402 1,213
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,065 £53,500 £51,498
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +3.89% -8.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £96,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +20 151 £72,500 +0.71% 35
South Yorkshire -19 20 £24,000 -38.06% 10
East Yorkshire - 6 - - 2
North Yorkshire -3 2 £57,000 +8.57% 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 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.22%) Apache
3 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.22%) JBoss
4 2 (1.11%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.56%) IIS
5 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 124 (68.89%) AWS
2 80 (44.44%) Serverless
3 56 (31.11%) Amazon ECS
4 50 (27.78%) Amazon S3
5 45 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 44 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
7 42 (23.33%) AWS Step Functions
8 41 (22.78%) Azure
9 32 (17.78%) Apigee
10 31 (17.22%) Amazon ECR
11 21 (11.67%) Amazon SQS
12 13 (7.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 11 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (6.11%) GitHub
15 10 (5.56%) SaaS
16 5 (2.78%) Entra ID
16 5 (2.78%) GCP
16 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
17 4 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Broadband
1 1 (0.56%) DNS
1 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.44%) DynamoDB
2 20 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.78%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.22%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.22%) MySQL
8 3 (1.67%) Power BI
9 2 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.11%) Big Data
9 2 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.11%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.11%) Tableau
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (28.89%) Jenkins
2 35 (19.44%) GitLab
3 31 (17.22%) Cypress.io
3 31 (17.22%) Maven
3 31 (17.22%) SonarQube
4 20 (11.11%) Git
5 3 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.67%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) JUnit
6 1 (0.56%) Mockito
General
1 53 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.11%) Finance
3 14 (7.78%) Retail
4 12 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 11 (6.11%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.44%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.78%) Games
9 4 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.11%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (43.33%) Developer
2 63 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 29 (16.11%) Senior
4 28 (15.56%) Architect
5 27 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 24 (13.33%) Lead
7 15 (8.33%) Junior
8 14 (7.78%) Applications Architect
8 14 (7.78%) AWS Developer
9 13 (7.22%) Senior Developer
10 12 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (6.67%) Java Engineer
11 11 (6.11%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (6.11%) Software Architect
12 10 (5.56%) Consultant
12 10 (5.56%) Java Consultant
12 10 (5.56%) Junior Consultant
12 10 (5.56%) Junior Java Consultant
12 10 (5.56%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (29.44%) Spring Boot
2 46 (25.56%) AngularJS
3 38 (21.11%) Spring
4 31 (17.22%) Gherkin
4 31 (17.22%) Jest
5 30 (16.67%) Node.js
6 19 (10.56%) .NET
7 15 (8.33%) React
8 14 (7.78%) REST
9 13 (7.22%) CSS
10 12 (6.67%) Micronaut
11 11 (6.11%) Kafka
11 11 (6.11%) Web Services
12 10 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.56%) RESTful
13 7 (3.89%) Mustache
14 6 (3.33%) HTML
14 6 (3.33%) XML
15 5 (2.78%) Hibernate
15 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 26 (14.44%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (6.11%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.44%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.11%) DataPower
7 1 (0.56%) IoT
7 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.56%) Social Media
7 1 (0.56%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (1.11%) Windows
3 1 (0.56%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (41.67%) DevOps
2 74 (41.11%) CI/CD
3 58 (32.22%) Agile
4 48 (26.67%) Microservices
5 46 (25.56%) Computer Science
6 45 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 41 (22.78%) Software Engineering
8 32 (17.78%) SDLC
9 28 (15.56%) Architectural Patterns
9 28 (15.56%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 27 (15.00%) Migration
10 27 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (14.44%) Enterprise Architecture
12 25 (13.89%) Data Modelling
13 24 (13.33%) Application Security
13 24 (13.33%) EAI
13 24 (13.33%) TOGAF
14 22 (12.22%) Secure Coding
15 18 (10.00%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.33%) TypeScript
2 61 (33.89%) Python
3 56 (31.11%) JavaScript
4 50 (27.78%) SQL
5 44 (24.44%) C#
6 34 (18.89%) Bash
7 30 (16.67%) Groovy
8 19 (10.56%) Kotlin
9 14 (7.78%) C
10 9 (5.00%) PL/SQL
11 8 (4.44%) C++
12 6 (3.33%) Perl
13 5 (2.78%) PHP
13 5 (2.78%) Scala
14 4 (2.22%) Go
14 4 (2.22%) PowerShell
15 2 (1.11%) R
15 2 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 50 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 45 (25.00%) Degree
3 37 (20.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 28 (15.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (13.33%) Azure Certification
5 24 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
6 15 (8.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (4.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 6 (3.33%) HND
8 6 (3.33%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.22%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.67%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.56%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (1.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.11%) GDPR
2 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (35.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (17.22%) HP Fortify
2 24 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.89%) Ansible
3 7 (3.89%) Terraform
4 1 (0.56%) Grafana
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
4 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.33%) Allen-Bradley
2 6 (3.33%) Siemens
2 6 (3.33%) Toshiba
3 4 (2.22%) Google
4 3 (1.67%) Pega
4 3 (1.67%) WSO2
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe
5 1 (0.56%) New Relic
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle