Principal Java Engineer Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Principal Java Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Principal Java Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.12% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - -
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 - -

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 726 998 519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.75% 92.15% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 479 541 336
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £27,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +2.86%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £46,750 £53,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -11.79% -0.93% +1.90%

Principal Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Principal Java Engineer job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary distribution trend for Principal Java Engineer job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Principal Java 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 Principal Java Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 27 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 - 1 £80,000 -
Principal Java Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, Principal Java 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 Principal Java 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

Principal Java 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