Java Job Trends in Derbyshire

Java
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 49 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 -15 +6
Permanent jobs citing Java 19 8 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 4.19% 1.31% 4.30%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.84% 8.08% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 17
10th Percentile - £31,250 £51,800
25th Percentile £81,250 £36,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £37,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% -35.34% +36.47%
75th Percentile £83,750 £56,563 -
90th Percentile - £62,500 £62,300
East Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £37,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year +53.33% -35.34% +5.45%

All Programming Languages
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 87 99 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 19.21% 16.20% 25.06%
Number of salaries quoted 51 57 66
10th Percentile £25,625 £35,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £37,500 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £63,125 £52,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £61,250 £66,875
East Midlands median annual salary £45,195 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.61% -9.09% +10.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Derbyshire

Java
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Java

Java
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Derby 0 5 £82,500 +120.00% 2
Glossop - 3 - -
High Peak - 3 - -
Chesterfield -5 1 - - 1
Dronfield - 1 - -
Alfreton - 1 - -
Ashbourne - 1 - -
Bakewell - 1 - -
Belper - 1 - -
Buxton - 1 - -
Java
East Midlands

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 6 (31.58%) Bitbucket
2 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
2 6 (31.58%) GitLab
2 6 (31.58%) Maven
2 6 (31.58%) Selenium
2 6 (31.58%) SonarQube
2 6 (31.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (57.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Banking
4 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
5 4 (21.05%) Corporate Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Investment Banking
5 4 (21.05%) Retail
6 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
7 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (5.26%) Electronics
7 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Embedded Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (68.42%) HTML
2 6 (31.58%) CSS
2 6 (31.58%) JPA
2 6 (31.58%) Kafka
2 6 (31.58%) React
2 6 (31.58%) Redux
2 6 (31.58%) Spring
2 6 (31.58%) Spring Boot
3 5 (26.32%) REST
4 4 (21.05%) CSS3
4 4 (21.05%) HTML5
4 4 (21.05%) Jest
4 4 (21.05%) RESTful
4 4 (21.05%) Sass
5 3 (15.79%) Yocto
6 2 (10.53%) Hibernate
7 1 (5.26%) .NET
7 1 (5.26%) Node.js
7 1 (5.26%) Pandas
7 1 (5.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (31.58%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.79%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (15.79%) IoT
3 1 (5.26%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.26%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
3 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 8 (42.11%) Computer Science
3 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
3 8 (42.11%) DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (36.84%) Data Privacy
4 7 (36.84%) Machine Learning
5 6 (31.58%) Front End Development
5 6 (31.58%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 6 (31.58%) Performance Optimisation
5 6 (31.58%) SDLC
5 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 4 (21.05%) Mathematics
7 4 (21.05%) Migration
7 4 (21.05%) Responsive Web Design
7 4 (21.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) JavaScript
2 15 (78.95%) SQL
3 12 (63.16%) C++
3 12 (63.16%) Python
4 11 (57.89%) TypeScript
5 10 (52.63%) C
5 10 (52.63%) C#
6 8 (42.11%) Rust
7 7 (36.84%) Dart
7 7 (36.84%) MATLAB
7 7 (36.84%) PHP
7 7 (36.84%) R
7 7 (36.84%) Ruby
8 1 (5.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) HND
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Marathon
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Solace
2 3 (15.79%) Atmel