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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 11 51
Rank change year-on-year -40 +40 -17
Permanent jobs citing Java 20 115 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.63% 10.60% 2.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 10.70% 26.74% 6.96%
Number of salaries quoted 15 81 6
10th Percentile £26,250 £47,500 £56,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £61,250 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.82% +14.58%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,000 - £78,750
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -37.04% -10.00% +25.00%

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 187 430 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.61% 39.63% 39.86%
Number of salaries quoted 146 235 146
10th Percentile £31,250 £46,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,250 £43,952
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £82,125 £81,250
90th Percentile £74,375 £85,000 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 November 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 -29 16 £55,000 -21.43% 24
Peterborough -9 1 £55,000 - 5
St Neots - 1 - -
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 4 (20.00%) IIS
1 4 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DMARC
1 4 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (5.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) Redis
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
2 2 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Czech Language
2 4 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) IT Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Android Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Embedded Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Embedded Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Graduate
4 2 (10.00%) Graduate Applications Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (5.00%) Principal Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) React
2 5 (25.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (20.00%) JSON
3 4 (20.00%) SOAP
3 4 (20.00%) XML
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
5 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.00%) JPA
5 2 (10.00%) Node.js
5 2 (10.00%) Redux
5 2 (10.00%) RESTful
6 1 (5.00%) Jest
6 1 (5.00%) Material-UI
6 1 (5.00%) Micronaut
6 1 (5.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) SDLC
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (20.00%) CRM
6 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 4 (20.00%) Data Privacy
6 4 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
6 4 (20.00%) Project Management
7 3 (15.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) C++
4 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) VBA
5 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (5.00%) OCP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.00%) Istio
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Solace
3 1 (5.00%) ATG
3 1 (5.00%) Huawei