Java Jobs in Bedfordshire

Java
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 48 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 -21 +24
Permanent jobs citing Java 14 2 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 2.36% 0.45% 10.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.28% 2.02% 23.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 23
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £62,500 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +4.00% +83.82%
75th Percentile £51,563 £67,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £52,125 - £85,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 81 99 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 13.64% 22.45% 42.18%
Number of salaries quoted 42 91 145
10th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £37,616
25th Percentile £46,563 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -8.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile £75,438 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £73,250
East of England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +14.29%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Bedfordshire

Java
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Bedfordshire.

Salary trend for Java in Bedfordshire

Java
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Bedford - 1 - - 4
Biggleswade - 1 - - 1
Dunstable - 1 - -
Henlow - 1 - -
Leighton Buzzard - 1 - -
Java
East of England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (71.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (92.86%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) GCP
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
3 4 (28.57%) SaaS
4 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Firebase
5 1 (7.14%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.14%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Bitbucket
2 13 (92.86%) JIRA
3 10 (71.43%) Cucumber
3 10 (71.43%) GitLab
3 10 (71.43%) Maven
3 10 (71.43%) Selenium
3 10 (71.43%) SonarQube
3 10 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 10 (71.43%) Banking
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
1 10 (71.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
2 4 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Mobile Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Xamarin Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Xamarin Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) CSS
1 13 (92.86%) HTML
2 10 (71.43%) Hibernate
2 10 (71.43%) JPA
2 10 (71.43%) Kafka
2 10 (71.43%) React
2 10 (71.43%) Redux
2 10 (71.43%) Spring
2 10 (71.43%) Spring Boot
3 4 (28.57%) .NET
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 4 (28.57%) Entity Framework
4 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
4 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (21.43%) CSS3
4 3 (21.43%) HTML5
4 3 (21.43%) LESS
4 3 (21.43%) Sass
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 1 (7.14%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (71.43%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (92.86%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) SDLC
3 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 10 (71.43%) Clean Code
3 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 10 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (71.43%) Front End Development
3 10 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (71.43%) Microservices
3 10 (71.43%) Performance Optimisation
3 10 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 10 (71.43%) TDD
3 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) MVC
4 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (21.43%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Mobile Development
5 1 (7.14%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) JavaScript
1 13 (92.86%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) Objective-C
3 3 (21.43%) C
3 3 (21.43%) C++
3 3 (21.43%) PHP
3 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.14%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Solace
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Xamarin
3 1 (7.14%) Google