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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 54 109
Rank change year-on-year -95 +55 -59
Permanent jobs citing Java 16 78 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.35% 4.41% 1.78%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.19% 15.89% 6.39%
Number of salaries quoted 12 38 49
10th Percentile £26,075 - £32,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,100 £46,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -11.90% -9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £97,000 - £82,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £73,805
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.62% -7.74%

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 731 491 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.06% 27.77% 27.83%
Number of salaries quoted 435 370 943
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,125 £70,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 6 May 2026.

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 6 May 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
Northamptonshire -11 5 £60,000 - 6
Leicestershire -35 5 £36,500 - 1
Nottinghamshire -42 5 £47,500 +5.56% 7
Derbyshire -30 1 - - 2
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Kong
3 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 2 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Graduate
3 2 (12.50%) Graduate C# Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Graduate C# Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Graduate Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Graduate Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Principal Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (12.50%) J2EE
1 2 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Apollo GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) Django
2 1 (6.25%) Flask
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (6.25%) pytest
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
1 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Case Management
4 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Line Management
5 2 (12.50%) People Management
5 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) PHP
3 3 (18.75%) C
3 3 (18.75%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) C++
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Delphi
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) R
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Ansible
3 1 (6.25%) Argo
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Kustomize
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Adobe
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Informatica
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SAP