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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 39 14
Rank change year-on-year -45 -25 +37
Permanent jobs citing Java 16 29 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.74% 4.17% 8.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.49% 15.34% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 67
10th Percentile £56,750 £26,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £28,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £50,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.00% -41.18% +23.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,750 -
90th Percentile £170,000 £76,750 £86,000
East of England median annual salary £63,750 £42,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -39.29% -3.45%

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 459 189 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.14% 27.19% 37.96%
Number of salaries quoted 389 154 232
10th Percentile £43,500 £31,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £69,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -20.58% +15.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £71,750 -
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £51,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.50% -14.17% +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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -32 16 £76,500 +53.00% 36
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 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Bluetooth
1 1 (6.25%) LTE
1 1 (6.25%) NFC
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Big Data
1 1 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (6.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Automotive
2 3 (18.75%) Games
2 3 (18.75%) Multimedia
3 1 (6.25%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Java Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Software Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Sales Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Systems Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CarPlay
2 2 (12.50%) React
2 2 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) Micronaut
3 1 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) IoT
2 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (18.75%) Onboarding
3 3 (18.75%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (12.50%) e-Learning
4 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
5 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Life Science
5 1 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Android
1 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
2 3 (18.75%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
1 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) AI
2 5 (31.25%) OO
3 4 (25.00%) Android Development
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (18.75%) Client Onboarding
4 3 (18.75%) Commercial Awareness
4 3 (18.75%) iOS Development
4 3 (18.75%) Mobile Development
4 3 (18.75%) Multithreaded Programming
4 3 (18.75%) Presales
4 3 (18.75%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (18.75%) Product Vision
4 3 (18.75%) Prototyping
4 3 (18.75%) Rapid Prototyping
4 3 (18.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C++
2 3 (18.75%) Embedded C++
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) C
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (6.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Apple
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks