Java Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Java
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 28 40
Rank change year-on-year -40 +12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Java 21 35 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.28% 5.62% 4.25%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.75% 15.49% 11.25%
Number of salaries quoted 21 25 53
10th Percentile - £25,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £26,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -47.06% +30.77%
75th Percentile £78,250 £50,000 -
90th Percentile - £61,500 -
East of England median annual salary £51,359 £44,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.73% -34.81% +7.57%

All Programming Languages
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 311 226 578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 18.93% 36.28% 37.75%
Number of salaries quoted 241 173 453
10th Percentile £40,928 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £54,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -13.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £71,250 £85,000
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Java job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Java
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Cambridgeshire

Java
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 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Cambridge -24 21 £65,000 +100.00% 5
Java
East of England

Java
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 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Bluetooth
1 1 (4.76%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Software Developer
2 10 (47.62%) Software Engineer
3 9 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Java Software Developer
4 8 (38.10%) Lead
4 8 (38.10%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate C# Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) PHP Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) React
1 8 (38.10%) Web Services
2 3 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) jQuery
3 1 (4.76%) Micronaut
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) e-Learning
1 8 (38.10%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
2 10 (47.62%) Software Engineering
3 9 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (42.86%) User Experience
4 8 (38.10%) Kanban
4 8 (38.10%) OO
4 8 (38.10%) Product Vision
4 8 (38.10%) Requirements Gathering
4 8 (38.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 8 (38.10%) Scrum
4 8 (38.10%) Scrum-ban
4 8 (38.10%) Test Strategy
4 8 (38.10%) UX Design
4 8 (38.10%) Web Development
5 2 (9.52%) Clean Code
5 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
5 2 (9.52%) MVC
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 8 (38.10%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) TypeScript
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Go
4 1 (4.76%) PHP
4 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes