Java Engineer Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Java Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Java Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 88 66
Rank change year-on-year +17 -22 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 1 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.14% 0.089% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.096% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.83%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £76,250
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £80,000 - £76,250
% change year-on-year - - +27.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 649 1,045 562
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 92.81% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 426 572 341
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £54,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.02% +3.81% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £85,000 £81,250
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Java Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Cambridge - 1 £80,000 - 1
Java Engineer
East of England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 13 October 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform