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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 53 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 -41
Permanent jobs citing Java 213 98 159
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.72% 4.25% 2.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.80% 15.41% 9.92%
Number of salaries quoted 135 76 113
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,231 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +6.93% +7.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £86,750
England median annual salary £73,627 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.83% +3.45% -9.38%

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 1,133 636 1,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.77% 27.58% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 725 521 1,364
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £93,778 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +7 180 £75,000 +4.17% 25
South Yorkshire -22 27 £24,500 -30.00% 17
North Yorkshire -11 1 £41,500 -32.24% 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 7 (3.29%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.35%) JBoss
3 3 (1.41%) Apache
3 3 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.94%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (59.15%) AWS
2 95 (44.60%) Serverless
3 76 (35.68%) Amazon S3
4 75 (35.21%) Amazon ECS
5 72 (33.80%) AWS Lambda
6 63 (29.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 61 (28.64%) AWS Step Functions
8 45 (21.13%) Apigee
9 44 (20.66%) Amazon ECR
10 33 (15.49%) Azure
11 27 (12.68%) Amazon SQS
12 23 (10.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (10.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 17 (7.98%) GitHub
15 13 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (3.76%) Datadog
16 8 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
17 4 (1.88%) GCP
18 3 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
18 3 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (31.46%) DynamoDB
2 26 (12.21%) NoSQL
3 22 (10.33%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (8.45%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (6.10%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.35%) MySQL
7 5 (2.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (2.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.41%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.41%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.41%) Power BI
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (0.94%) Tableau
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.47%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (30.05%) Jenkins
2 46 (21.60%) GitLab
3 42 (19.72%) SonarQube
4 40 (18.78%) Cypress.io
5 39 (18.31%) Maven
6 25 (11.74%) Git
7 7 (3.29%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.35%) Selenium
9 4 (1.88%) JIRA
10 3 (1.41%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.47%) Gatling
11 1 (0.47%) JMeter
11 1 (0.47%) JUnit
11 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
General
1 44 (20.66%) Social Skills
2 16 (7.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (6.57%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.57%) Games
4 12 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.16%) Retail
6 8 (3.76%) Finance
7 6 (2.82%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.94%) Back Office
10 1 (0.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 122 (57.28%) Developer
2 85 (39.91%) Java Developer
3 44 (20.66%) Senior
4 31 (14.55%) Lead
5 30 (14.08%) Senior Developer
6 22 (10.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (10.33%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.92%) AWS Developer
7 19 (8.92%) Senior Java Developer
8 18 (8.45%) Architect
9 14 (6.57%) Junior
10 13 (6.10%) Consultant
10 13 (6.10%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (6.10%) Java Consultant
10 13 (6.10%) Junior Consultant
10 13 (6.10%) Junior Java Consultant
10 13 (6.10%) Junior Technical Consultant
10 13 (6.10%) Technical Consultant
10 13 (6.10%) Technical Leader
11 12 (5.63%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (31.46%) AngularJS
1 67 (31.46%) Spring Boot
2 47 (22.07%) Spring
3 41 (19.25%) Node.js
4 39 (18.31%) Gherkin
4 39 (18.31%) Jest
5 23 (10.80%) React
6 19 (8.92%) .NET
7 15 (7.04%) REST
8 14 (6.57%) GraphQL
9 13 (6.10%) Android SDK
10 12 (5.63%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (4.69%) Web Services
12 9 (4.23%) RESTful
13 8 (3.76%) Kafka
14 7 (3.29%) Mustache
15 6 (2.82%) Flutter
15 6 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (2.82%) XML
16 5 (2.35%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.98%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.10%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.10%) Social Media
4 10 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.76%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.82%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.35%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.94%) DataPower
8 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.47%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.10%) Android
2 12 (5.63%) Linux
3 3 (1.41%) Unix
3 3 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.13%) CI/CD
2 92 (43.19%) Agile
3 77 (36.15%) DevOps
4 43 (20.19%) Microservices
5 39 (18.31%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (18.31%) Mentoring
6 35 (16.43%) Software Engineering
7 33 (15.49%) SDLC
8 32 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (13.62%) AI
10 28 (13.15%) Secure Coding
11 27 (12.68%) Computer Science
12 23 (10.80%) ITIL
13 22 (10.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 21 (9.86%) Test Automation
15 20 (9.39%) Clean Code
15 20 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (8.92%) Architectural Patterns
16 19 (8.92%) Continuous Integration
17 18 (8.45%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 75 (35.21%) TypeScript
2 53 (24.88%) SQL
3 47 (22.07%) Python
4 45 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 41 (19.25%) Groovy
6 40 (18.78%) Kotlin
7 38 (17.84%) Bash
8 37 (17.37%) C#
9 9 (4.23%) PL/SQL
10 7 (3.29%) C++
11 6 (2.82%) C
11 6 (2.82%) Go
12 2 (0.94%) Scala
13 1 (0.47%) Perl
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) R
Qualifications
1 47 (22.07%) AWS Certification
2 25 (11.74%) Degree
3 24 (11.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (10.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 22 (10.33%) ITIL Certification
5 19 (8.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 16 (7.51%) Azure Certification
6 16 (7.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (7.51%) TOGAF Certification
7 14 (6.57%) Security Cleared
8 12 (5.63%) SC Cleared
9 9 (4.23%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.10%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 71 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (18.31%) HP Fortify
2 17 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 13 (6.10%) Terraform
4 6 (2.82%) Ansible
5 3 (1.41%) Argo
5 3 (1.41%) Packer
6 2 (0.94%) Kibana
7 1 (0.47%) Grafana
7 1 (0.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (7.98%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.35%) AppDynamics
2 5 (2.35%) IBM
3 3 (1.41%) Oracle
4 2 (0.94%) Google
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe