Java Job Trends in the East Midlands

Java
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 123 79
Rank change year-on-year +55 -44 -61
Permanent jobs citing Java 84 44 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.65% 1.11% 2.63%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.63% 4.69% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 21 33 38
10th Percentile £42,500 - £40,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £32,500 £56,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £37,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -35.34% +5.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £62,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year -3.13% +0.46% +9.84%

All Programming Languages
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 505 939 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.93% 23.68% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 370 546 523
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,188 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £63,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.60% -3.85% +1.56%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the East Midlands

Java
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
Northamptonshire +39 35 £58,000 +16.00% 8
Derbyshire +11 19 £82,500 +120.00% 7
Leicestershire +42 13 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Nottinghamshire +5 13 £46,250 +32.14% 11
Lincolnshire - 3 - - 3
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (40.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) JBoss
2 2 (2.38%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.14%) Azure
2 47 (55.95%) AWS
3 34 (40.48%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) ChatGPT
4 4 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.38%) PaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (1.19%) DNS
2 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (47.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (54.76%) Selenium
2 42 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 42 (50.00%) GitLab
2 42 (50.00%) JIRA
2 42 (50.00%) Maven
3 41 (48.81%) SonarQube
3 41 (48.81%) Sonatype Nexus
4 39 (46.43%) Bitbucket
5 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 5 (5.95%) Git
6 5 (5.95%) JUnit
6 5 (5.95%) Katalon Studio
7 3 (3.57%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.38%) Appium
8 2 (2.38%) Babel
8 2 (2.38%) Gradle
8 2 (2.38%) JMeter
8 2 (2.38%) TestNG
8 2 (2.38%) webpack
9 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 52 (61.90%) Finance
2 45 (53.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (46.43%) Banking
4 15 (17.86%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (5.95%) Investment Banking
5 5 (5.95%) Retail
6 4 (4.76%) Law
7 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.19%) Electronics
9 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 42 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Developer
3 8 (9.52%) Java Developer
4 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.14%) Senior
6 5 (5.95%) React Developer
7 4 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Senior Quality Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Architect
8 3 (3.57%) Embedded Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (2.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Lead
9 2 (2.38%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (64.29%) HTML
2 48 (57.14%) Spring
2 48 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 45 (53.57%) CSS
3 45 (53.57%) React
4 42 (50.00%) Redux
5 40 (47.62%) JPA
6 39 (46.43%) Kafka
7 35 (41.67%) Hibernate
8 12 (14.29%) RESTful
9 11 (13.10%) REST
10 7 (8.33%) CSS3
10 7 (8.33%) HTML5
11 6 (7.14%) Jest
11 6 (7.14%) SOAP
12 5 (5.95%) Sass
12 5 (5.95%) Web Services
13 4 (4.76%) Material-UI
14 3 (3.57%) Yocto
15 2 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 39 (46.43%) Enterprise Software
1 39 (46.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 3 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.57%) IoT
4 2 (2.38%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.71%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Android
3 2 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (70.24%) Agile
2 50 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 50 (59.52%) DevOps
3 48 (57.14%) Full-Stack Development
3 48 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 48 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 45 (53.57%) Front End Development
5 44 (52.38%) SDLC
6 42 (50.00%) Microservices
7 41 (48.81%) Containerisation
8 40 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (46.43%) Performance Optimisation
10 38 (45.24%) Clean Code
11 36 (42.86%) TDD
12 17 (20.24%) Artificial Intelligence
13 16 (19.05%) Computer Science
14 13 (15.48%) Machine Learning
14 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (14.29%) Data Privacy
16 8 (9.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (72.62%) JavaScript
2 56 (66.67%) SQL
3 24 (28.57%) Python
4 19 (22.62%) C++
5 17 (20.24%) C
5 17 (20.24%) TypeScript
6 16 (19.05%) C#
7 13 (15.48%) PHP
7 13 (15.48%) Rust
8 12 (14.29%) Dart
8 12 (14.29%) MATLAB
8 12 (14.29%) R
8 12 (14.29%) Ruby
9 5 (5.95%) Groovy
10 4 (4.76%) Go
11 2 (2.38%) Perl
11 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (19.05%) Degree
2 13 (15.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.57%) HND
4 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (48.81%) QA
2 7 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 45 (53.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (52.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.57%) Terraform
3 2 (2.38%) Ansible
4 1 (1.19%) CA Service Virtualization
4 1 (1.19%) Marathon
Vendors
1 39 (46.43%) Solace
2 3 (3.57%) Atmel
3 2 (2.38%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (2.38%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.38%) Oracle
3 2 (2.38%) Siemens
3 2 (2.38%) Toshiba