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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 40 34
Rank change year-on-year -33 -6 +18
Permanent jobs citing Java 21 33 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.09% 4.60% 4.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.24% 14.35% 13.70%
Number of salaries quoted 21 25 42
10th Percentile - - £61,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £26,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -47.06% +30.77%
75th Percentile £78,250 £50,000 -
90th Percentile - £64,750 -
East of England median annual salary £51,359 £44,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +15.41% -47.65% +30.77%

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 401 230 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 20.80% 32.03% 33.05%
Number of salaries quoted 343 185 266
10th Percentile £41,225 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £62,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £89,500 £72,000 £86,250
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

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 29 August 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 29 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
Cambridge -23 21 £60,000 +41.18% 40
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Bluetooth
1 1 (4.76%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Big Data
1 1 (4.76%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) Neo4j
1 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (38.10%) 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
3 9 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 9 (42.86%) Java Software Developer
4 8 (38.10%) Software Engineer
5 7 (33.33%) Lead
5 7 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Android Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.76%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate C# Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) React
1 7 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) jQuery
3 1 (4.76%) Micronaut
3 1 (4.76%) PySpark
3 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Spring MVC
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) e-Learning
1 7 (33.33%) 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%) Life Science
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (47.62%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (38.10%) Kanban
3 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (38.10%) Scrum
3 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
3 8 (38.10%) User Experience
4 7 (33.33%) OO
4 7 (33.33%) Product Vision
4 7 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 7 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (33.33%) Scrum-ban
4 7 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 7 (33.33%) UX Design
4 7 (33.33%) Web Development
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) MVC
5 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) JavaScript
3 7 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Scala
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
1 1 (4.76%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Databricks