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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 58 63
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -25
Permanent jobs citing Java 186 92 186
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 4.09% 3.99% 3.69%
As % of the Programming Languages category 20.28% 13.88% 12.37%
Number of salaries quoted 119 63 133
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £41,482
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +7.88%
75th Percentile £75,000 £90,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £89,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.66% +4.14% -7.22%

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 917 663 1,504
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.18% 28.74% 29.83%
Number of salaries quoted 630 459 1,279
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £31,579
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £41,239
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 £83,525 £93,778 £77,618
England median annual salary £63,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.08% +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 11 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 11 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 +14 159 £75,000 +4.18% 44
South Yorkshire -16 21 £28,250 -19.29% 13
North Yorkshire -1 1 £41,500 -32.24% 5
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 (5.38%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.15%) Apache
2 4 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.15%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.15%) JBoss
3 2 (1.08%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.54%) IIS
4 1 (0.54%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 112 (60.22%) AWS
2 80 (43.01%) Serverless
3 58 (31.18%) Amazon ECS
4 55 (29.57%) Amazon S3
5 49 (26.34%) AWS Lambda
6 47 (25.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 46 (24.73%) AWS Step Functions
8 36 (19.35%) Azure
9 34 (18.28%) Apigee
10 33 (17.74%) Amazon ECR
11 23 (12.37%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (8.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (8.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (6.99%) GitHub
15 11 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (3.76%) SaaS
17 5 (2.69%) Datadog
17 5 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
18 4 (2.15%) dbt
19 3 (1.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.99%) Broadband
2 1 (0.54%) DNS
2 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (26.34%) DynamoDB
2 21 (11.29%) NoSQL
3 18 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (8.06%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (6.99%) Relational Database
6 4 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.15%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.15%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.15%) MySQL
6 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (2.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.61%) Power BI
8 2 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.08%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.08%) Tableau
9 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (27.96%) Jenkins
2 34 (18.28%) GitLab
3 33 (17.74%) Cypress.io
3 33 (17.74%) Maven
3 33 (17.74%) SonarQube
4 21 (11.29%) Git
5 3 (1.61%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.54%) JIRA
6 1 (0.54%) JUnit
General
1 44 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 17 (9.14%) Finance
2 17 (9.14%) Games
3 16 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (7.53%) Retail
5 11 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.84%) Financial Institution
7 8 (4.30%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (4.30%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.54%) Back Office
8 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 95 (51.08%) Developer
2 68 (36.56%) Java Developer
3 28 (15.05%) Senior
4 26 (13.98%) Lead
4 26 (13.98%) Software Engineer
5 23 (12.37%) Architect
6 17 (9.14%) Senior Developer
7 15 (8.06%) AWS Developer
8 13 (6.99%) Junior
9 12 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
9 12 (6.45%) Software Developer
10 11 (5.91%) Applications Architect
11 10 (5.38%) Consultant
11 10 (5.38%) Java Consultant
11 10 (5.38%) Junior Consultant
11 10 (5.38%) Junior Java Consultant
11 10 (5.38%) Software Architect
11 10 (5.38%) Technical Consultant
11 10 (5.38%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (29.57%) Spring Boot
2 50 (26.88%) AngularJS
3 38 (20.43%) Spring
4 34 (18.28%) Node.js
5 33 (17.74%) Gherkin
5 33 (17.74%) Jest
6 19 (10.22%) .NET
7 16 (8.60%) React
8 14 (7.53%) GraphQL
9 13 (6.99%) Android SDK
9 13 (6.99%) REST
10 11 (5.91%) Web Services
11 10 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.84%) Micronaut
12 9 (4.84%) RESTful
13 8 (4.30%) Kafka
14 7 (3.76%) Mustache
15 6 (3.23%) XML
16 5 (2.69%) Hibernate
17 4 (2.15%) Classic ASP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (11.83%) Enterprise Software
2 14 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.99%) Mobile App
3 13 (6.99%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (6.99%) Social Media
4 10 (5.38%) Cloud Native
5 8 (4.30%) Driving Licence
6 6 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.15%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.08%) DataPower
10 1 (0.54%) IoT
10 1 (0.54%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.99%) Android
2 8 (4.30%) Linux
3 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (45.70%) CI/CD
2 75 (40.32%) Agile
3 71 (38.17%) DevOps
4 42 (22.58%) Microservices
5 40 (21.51%) Software Engineering
6 38 (20.43%) Mentoring
7 35 (18.82%) Computer Science
8 31 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (15.59%) AI
9 29 (15.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (14.52%) SDLC
11 24 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 23 (12.37%) Architectural Patterns
12 23 (12.37%) Secure Coding
13 22 (11.83%) Data Modelling
13 22 (11.83%) Migration
14 21 (11.29%) Application Security
14 21 (11.29%) EAI
14 21 (11.29%) Enterprise Architecture
14 21 (11.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 65 (34.95%) TypeScript
2 50 (26.88%) JavaScript
3 45 (24.19%) Python
4 44 (23.66%) SQL
5 40 (21.51%) C#
6 34 (18.28%) Kotlin
7 33 (17.74%) Bash
8 32 (17.20%) Groovy
9 9 (4.84%) PL/SQL
10 8 (4.30%) C
10 8 (4.30%) C++
11 4 (2.15%) Go
12 3 (1.61%) Scala
13 2 (1.08%) R
13 2 (1.08%) Ruby
14 1 (0.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (24.73%) AWS Certification
2 34 (18.28%) Degree
3 32 (17.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (12.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 21 (11.29%) Azure Certification
5 21 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (11.29%) TOGAF Certification
6 17 (9.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 17 (9.14%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (4.30%) AWS Certified Developer
8 5 (2.69%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.15%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.54%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.91%) QA
2 2 (1.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.08%) GDPR
2 2 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 64 (34.41%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (17.74%) HP Fortify
2 18 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.76%) Terraform
4 4 (2.15%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) Grafana
5 1 (0.54%) Kibana
5 1 (0.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.61%) Pega
2 3 (1.61%) WSO2
3 2 (1.08%) Google
4 1 (0.54%) Adobe
4 1 (0.54%) New Relic
4 1 (0.54%) Oracle