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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 105 80
Rank change year-on-year -2 -25 -66
Permanent jobs citing Java 26 43 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.07% 1.50% 2.24%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.65% 5.83% 5.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17 38 27
10th Percentile £35,750 - £44,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £35,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -41.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £55,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £64,000 £98,500
England median annual salary £78,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.50% +6.67% -

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 460 737 636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.88% 25.64% 41.81%
Number of salaries quoted 381 457 525
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £73,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Java job vacancy trend 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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +28 13 £58,000 +24.73% 19
Leicestershire +25 9 £56,350 -19.50% 28
Nottinghamshire -13 2 £24,000 -31.43% 24
Derbyshire -15 2 £40,000 -33.33% 32
Java
England

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (7.69%) JBoss
1 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) OpenShift
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (11.54%) Kong
4 3 (11.54%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.85%) MariaDB
2 1 (3.85%) MySQL
2 1 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
1 7 (26.92%) Selenium
2 6 (23.08%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) JUnit
4 4 (15.38%) GitLab
4 4 (15.38%) Katalon Studio
5 3 (11.54%) Cucumber
6 2 (7.69%) Babel
6 2 (7.69%) Gradle
6 2 (7.69%) JIRA
6 2 (7.69%) Maven
6 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
6 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (7.69%) webpack
7 1 (3.85%) Appium
7 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (3.85%) JMeter
7 1 (3.85%) Mockito
7 1 (3.85%) TestNG
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Senior
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Quality Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 3 (11.54%) CRM Architect
5 3 (11.54%) CRM Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce Architect
5 3 (11.54%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Java Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Principal Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Principal Solutions Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Strategy Architect
5 3 (11.54%) Supply Chain Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) React
1 7 (26.92%) Spring
1 7 (26.92%) Spring Boot
2 5 (19.23%) CSS
3 4 (15.38%) Node.js
3 4 (15.38%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) SOAP
4 3 (11.54%) Apollo GraphQL
4 3 (11.54%) GraphQL
4 3 (11.54%) HTML
4 3 (11.54%) Kafka
4 3 (11.54%) Redux
4 3 (11.54%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) CSS3
5 2 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 2 (7.69%) HTML5
5 2 (7.69%) JPA
5 2 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) Spring MVC
6 1 (3.85%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.54%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.85%) IoT
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 1 (3.85%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) DevOps
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
3 7 (26.92%) Microservices
4 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
4 5 (19.23%) SDLC
5 4 (15.38%) API Development
5 4 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
5 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 4 (15.38%) Customer Experience
5 4 (15.38%) Software Engineering
5 4 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Architecture Governance
6 3 (11.54%) Case Management
6 3 (11.54%) Front End Development
6 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) C
1 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
1 6 (23.08%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) Groovy
3 3 (11.54%) PHP
4 2 (7.69%) Go
4 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.69%) SQL
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) C++
5 1 (3.85%) Delphi
5 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
1 2 (7.69%) HND
1 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Terraform
2 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.85%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Adobe
1 3 (11.54%) Informatica
1 3 (11.54%) MuleSoft
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
1 3 (11.54%) Salesforce
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
2 2 (7.69%) Allen-Bradley
2 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 2 (7.69%) Siemens
2 2 (7.69%) Toshiba
3 1 (3.85%) Atmel