Java Software Engineer Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Java Software Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £80,000 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

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 785 836 507
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.20% 91.17% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 537 433 335
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,000 £28,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,700 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - +0.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £85,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Java Software Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Salary distribution trend for Java Software Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -
Java Software Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
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%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot

Java Software 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