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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 41 34
Rank change year-on-year -12 -7 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 2 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 0.40% 0.36% 1.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.55% 1.20% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.45% +28.89%
East Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £35,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +64.29% -41.67% +9.09%

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 44 83 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 8.71% 29.86% 21.01%
Number of salaries quoted 28 54 37
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £39,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £69,000 £53,438 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,575 £64,250 £74,750
East Midlands median annual salary £45,390 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.22% -4.76% -4.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Java job vacancy trend 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 2 January 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
Derby -11 1 £40,000 -33.33%
Java
East Midlands

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) JPA
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Budget Control
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google