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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 75 120
Rank change year-on-year +28 +45 -68
Permanent jobs citing Java 205 93 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.75% 2.74% 1.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.14% 15.37% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 147 61 58
10th Percentile £33,250 £25,000 £41,375
25th Percentile £58,125 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,125 £77,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 1,130 605 1,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.15% 17.81% 23.45%
Number of salaries quoted 799 492 907
10th Percentile £33,700 £30,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,250 £68,113
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +2.46% -6.15%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +18 177 £75,000 +11.11% 29
South Yorkshire -18 23 £47,988 +77.73% 4
East Yorkshire -17 1 - -
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 2 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.49%) Apache
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) IIS
2 1 (0.49%) JBoss
2 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 125 (60.98%) AWS
2 74 (36.10%) Serverless
3 67 (32.68%) AWS Lambda
4 60 (29.27%) Amazon S3
5 59 (28.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 58 (28.29%) Amazon ECS
7 53 (25.85%) AWS Step Functions
8 29 (14.15%) Azure
9 26 (12.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 24 (11.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (11.71%) Amazon ECR
10 24 (11.71%) Apigee
11 23 (11.22%) GitHub
12 17 (8.29%) Amazon SQS
12 17 (8.29%) Datadog
12 17 (8.29%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (4.88%) GCP
14 9 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (3.90%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (3.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.93%) Broadband
2 2 (0.98%) 5G
2 2 (0.98%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) DNS
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (24.88%) DynamoDB
2 27 (13.17%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.22%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (6.34%) MongoDB
4 13 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.37%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.90%) BigQuery
6 8 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.93%) MySQL
8 5 (2.44%) Power BI
8 5 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.98%) Spark SQL
9 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (20.49%) Jenkins
2 30 (14.63%) GitLab
3 26 (12.68%) Git
4 20 (9.76%) Cypress.io
5 17 (8.29%) SonarQube
6 15 (7.32%) Maven
7 4 (1.95%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.46%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.46%) JIRA
9 2 (0.98%) Selenium
10 1 (0.49%) Gatling
10 1 (0.49%) JMeter
10 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (18.05%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.37%) Finance
5 8 (3.90%) Retail
6 6 (2.93%) Games
6 6 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Back Office
8 3 (1.46%) Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Legal
8 3 (1.46%) Local Government
8 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 116 (56.59%) Developer
2 87 (42.44%) Java Developer
3 59 (28.78%) Senior
4 41 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 36 (17.56%) Senior Developer
6 29 (14.15%) AWS Developer
7 26 (12.68%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 26 (12.68%) Lead
8 25 (12.20%) Senior Java Developer
9 20 (9.76%) Software Engineer
10 19 (9.27%) Java Engineer
11 16 (7.80%) Angular Developer
12 13 (6.34%) Consultant
12 13 (6.34%) Technical Consultant
13 12 (5.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (4.88%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
15 9 (4.39%) Java Consultant
15 9 (4.39%) Junior
15 9 (4.39%) Junior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (34.15%) AngularJS
2 50 (24.39%) Spring Boot
3 46 (22.44%) Spring
4 43 (20.98%) Node.js
5 23 (11.22%) Gherkin
6 22 (10.73%) React
7 17 (8.29%) Terraform
8 15 (7.32%) Jest
9 14 (6.83%) .NET
10 10 (4.88%) RESTful
11 7 (3.41%) REST
12 6 (2.93%) Android SDK
12 6 (2.93%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (2.44%) Classic ASP
13 5 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (1.95%) CSS
14 4 (1.95%) Flutter
14 4 (1.95%) JSON
15 3 (1.46%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.83%) Cloud Native
2 10 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.90%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.93%) Social Media
5 4 (1.95%) Legacy Code
5 4 (1.95%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.46%) Blog
6 3 (1.46%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.46%) NHS
7 2 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.49%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.29%) Linux
2 8 (3.90%) Windows
3 7 (3.41%) Unix
4 6 (2.93%) Android
5 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (36.10%) Agile
1 74 (36.10%) CI/CD
2 63 (30.73%) Full-Stack Development
3 58 (28.29%) DevOps
4 38 (18.54%) Software Engineering
5 36 (17.56%) Mentoring
6 31 (15.12%) Microservices
7 27 (13.17%) Continuous Integration
8 25 (12.20%) Coaching
9 20 (9.76%) DevSecOps
9 20 (9.76%) Test Automation
10 18 (8.78%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (8.29%) SDLC
11 17 (8.29%) Secrets Management
12 14 (6.83%) ITIL
12 14 (6.83%) Principle of Least Privilege
12 14 (6.83%) RBAC
12 14 (6.83%) Secure Coding
12 14 (6.83%) Workflow
12 14 (6.83%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (30.73%) SQL
2 52 (25.37%) TypeScript
3 37 (18.05%) Python
4 36 (17.56%) Kotlin
5 27 (13.17%) Groovy
6 22 (10.73%) C#
7 21 (10.24%) Bash
8 20 (9.76%) JavaScript
9 8 (3.90%) C++
9 8 (3.90%) Scala
10 5 (2.44%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.95%) Go
12 3 (1.46%) C
12 3 (1.46%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (10.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.83%) AWS Certification
4 12 (5.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 12 (5.85%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (5.37%) Degree
6 4 (1.95%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.98%) PhD
8 1 (0.49%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.37%) QA
2 9 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 47 (22.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (6.83%) HP Fortify
2 7 (3.41%) Argo
2 7 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.44%) Ansible
4 3 (1.46%) Packer
5 2 (0.98%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (2.44%) AppDynamics
1 5 (2.44%) IBM
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle
3 1 (0.49%) Google
3 1 (0.49%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.49%) SGI