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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 57 56
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 189 96 182
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.30% 4.01% 3.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.81% 14.01% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 125 56 130
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,625 £41,205
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,944 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £121,914 £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 908 685 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.64% 28.60% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 627 425 1,225
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,381
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,886 £65,000
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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +18 160 £72,500 +0.71% 43
South Yorkshire -22 21 £28,250 -33.53% 18
North Yorkshire -1 2 £57,000 -6.94% 5
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
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 (5.29%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.12%) Apache
3 4 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.12%) JBoss
4 2 (1.06%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.53%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.53%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.53%) IIS
5 1 (0.53%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 121 (64.02%) AWS
2 83 (43.92%) Serverless
3 58 (30.69%) Amazon ECS
4 54 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 48 (25.40%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (24.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 45 (23.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 40 (21.16%) Azure
9 33 (17.46%) Apigee
10 32 (16.93%) Amazon ECR
11 22 (11.64%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (8.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (7.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (6.88%) GitHub
15 11 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (4.76%) SaaS
17 5 (2.65%) Datadog
17 5 (2.65%) GCP
17 5 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (2.12%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.70%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (25.40%) DynamoDB
2 24 (12.70%) NoSQL
3 19 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (7.94%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.65%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.12%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.12%) MySQL
8 3 (1.59%) Power BI
8 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.06%) Big Data
9 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.06%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.06%) Tableau
10 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 52 (27.51%) Jenkins
2 34 (17.99%) GitLab
3 32 (16.93%) Cypress.io
3 32 (16.93%) Maven
3 32 (16.93%) SonarQube
4 21 (11.11%) Git
5 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.59%) Selenium
6 1 (0.53%) JIRA
6 1 (0.53%) JUnit
6 1 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 48 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 19 (10.05%) Finance
3 15 (7.94%) Retail
4 11 (5.82%) Financial Institution
4 11 (5.82%) Games
5 10 (5.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 8 (4.23%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.06%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Back Office
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (47.62%) Developer
2 68 (35.98%) Java Developer
3 30 (15.87%) Senior
4 28 (14.81%) Software Engineer
5 27 (14.29%) Architect
5 27 (14.29%) Lead
6 17 (8.99%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.94%) AWS Developer
8 14 (7.41%) Junior
9 13 (6.88%) Applications Architect
9 13 (6.88%) Senior Java Developer
10 12 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (6.35%) Java Engineer
11 11 (5.82%) Software Architect
11 11 (5.82%) Software Developer
12 10 (5.29%) Consultant
12 10 (5.29%) Java Consultant
12 10 (5.29%) Junior Consultant
12 10 (5.29%) Technical Consultant
12 10 (5.29%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.10%) Spring Boot
2 49 (25.93%) AngularJS
3 39 (20.63%) Spring
4 34 (17.99%) Node.js
5 32 (16.93%) Gherkin
5 32 (16.93%) Jest
6 19 (10.05%) .NET
7 15 (7.94%) React
8 14 (7.41%) REST
9 11 (5.82%) Kafka
9 11 (5.82%) Micronaut
9 11 (5.82%) Web Services
10 10 (5.29%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (5.29%) RESTful
11 9 (4.76%) GraphQL
12 7 (3.70%) Android SDK
12 7 (3.70%) Mustache
13 6 (3.17%) CSS
13 6 (3.17%) XML
14 5 (2.65%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.23%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.82%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.23%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.70%) Social Media
6 3 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.59%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.06%) DataPower
7 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.53%) IoT
8 1 (0.53%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.29%) Linux
2 7 (3.70%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.53%) Windows
3 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (43.92%) CI/CD
2 76 (40.21%) DevOps
3 69 (36.51%) Agile
4 47 (24.87%) Microservices
5 43 (22.75%) Mentoring
5 43 (22.75%) Software Engineering
6 41 (21.69%) Computer Science
7 29 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
8 28 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 28 (14.81%) SDLC
9 27 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
9 27 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 26 (13.76%) Migration
11 25 (13.23%) Enterprise Architecture
12 24 (12.70%) AI
12 24 (12.70%) Data Modelling
13 23 (12.17%) Application Security
13 23 (12.17%) EAI
13 23 (12.17%) TOGAF
14 21 (11.11%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.04%) TypeScript
2 55 (29.10%) JavaScript
3 53 (28.04%) Python
4 49 (25.93%) SQL
5 44 (23.28%) C#
6 33 (17.46%) Bash
7 31 (16.40%) Groovy
8 28 (14.81%) Kotlin
9 10 (5.29%) C
10 9 (4.76%) PL/SQL
11 8 (4.23%) C++
12 3 (1.59%) Go
12 3 (1.59%) Scala
13 2 (1.06%) Perl
13 2 (1.06%) PHP
13 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.06%) R
13 2 (1.06%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (25.40%) AWS Certification
2 40 (21.16%) Degree
3 36 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (13.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 23 (12.17%) Azure Certification
5 23 (12.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (12.17%) TOGAF Certification
6 16 (8.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 16 (8.47%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (4.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.65%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.12%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.06%) HND
10 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.53%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.53%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.82%) QA
2 2 (1.06%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.06%) GDPR
2 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 66 (34.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Squid
Systems Management
1 32 (16.93%) HP Fortify
2 22 (11.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.70%) Terraform
4 5 (2.65%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (13.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.12%) Google
3 3 (1.59%) Pega
3 3 (1.59%) WSO2
4 2 (1.06%) Allen-Bradley
4 2 (1.06%) Siemens
4 2 (1.06%) Toshiba
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe
5 1 (0.53%) New Relic
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle