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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 112 77
Rank change year-on-year +34 -35 -60
Permanent jobs citing Java 75 44 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 3.24% 1.23% 2.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.34% 5.28% 7.51%
Number of salaries quoted 13 34 40
10th Percentile £42,750 - £42,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £32,500 £56,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £35,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -40.68% +5.36%
75th Percentile £67,500 £52,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £71,500 £62,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +6.90%

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 489 834 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 21.15% 23.33% 38.40%
Number of salaries quoted 367 457 532
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,375 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £66,438
90th Percentile £77,600 £72,500 £75,000
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 18 October 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 18 October 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 +41 35 £58,000 +18.37% 5
Derbyshire +4 18 £40,000 +6.67% 5
Leicestershire +35 13 £65,000 -7.14% 1
Nottinghamshire -9 6 £24,000 -31.43% 5
Lincolnshire - 3 - - 1
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 34 (45.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) JBoss
2 2 (2.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 45 (60.00%) AWS
1 45 (60.00%) Azure
2 34 (45.33%) GCP
3 4 (5.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.67%) PaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.00%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (52.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.33%) MariaDB
2 1 (1.33%) MySQL
2 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 46 (61.33%) Selenium
2 42 (56.00%) Cucumber
2 42 (56.00%) GitLab
2 42 (56.00%) Maven
3 41 (54.67%) JIRA
3 41 (54.67%) SonarQube
3 41 (54.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 39 (52.00%) Bitbucket
5 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
6 6 (8.00%) Git
7 5 (6.67%) JUnit
7 5 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (4.00%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.67%) Appium
9 2 (2.67%) Babel
9 2 (2.67%) Gradle
9 2 (2.67%) JMeter
9 2 (2.67%) TestNG
9 2 (2.67%) webpack
10 1 (1.33%) Mockito
General
1 47 (62.67%) Finance
2 43 (57.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (52.00%) Banking
4 9 (12.00%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 5 (6.67%) Retail
6 2 (2.67%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 43 (57.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (8.00%) Developer
2 6 (8.00%) Senior
3 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 4 (5.33%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (5.33%) Quality Engineer
4 4 (5.33%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 3 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Architect
6 2 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (2.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Lead
6 2 (2.67%) React Developer
6 2 (2.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (2.67%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (72.00%) HTML
2 45 (60.00%) Spring
2 45 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 44 (58.67%) CSS
4 43 (57.33%) React
5 42 (56.00%) Redux
6 41 (54.67%) JPA
7 39 (52.00%) Kafka
8 36 (48.00%) Hibernate
9 10 (13.33%) REST
10 8 (10.67%) RESTful
11 7 (9.33%) CSS3
11 7 (9.33%) HTML5
12 6 (8.00%) Jest
13 5 (6.67%) Sass
13 5 (6.67%) SOAP
14 3 (4.00%) Yocto
15 2 (2.67%) Spring Cloud
15 2 (2.67%) Spring MVC
16 1 (1.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 39 (52.00%) Enterprise Software
1 39 (52.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.00%) IoT
3 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (2.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.00%) Agile
2 49 (65.33%) DevOps
3 48 (64.00%) CI/CD
3 48 (64.00%) Test Automation
4 44 (58.67%) SDLC
4 44 (58.67%) Software Engineering
5 42 (56.00%) Front End Development
5 42 (56.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 42 (56.00%) Microservices
6 39 (52.00%) Containerisation
6 39 (52.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (52.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 38 (50.67%) Clean Code
8 36 (48.00%) TDD
9 15 (20.00%) Computer Science
10 13 (17.33%) AI
10 13 (17.33%) Machine Learning
11 12 (16.00%) Data Privacy
12 7 (9.33%) Mentoring
12 7 (9.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 60 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 54 (72.00%) SQL
3 22 (29.33%) Python
4 18 (24.00%) TypeScript
5 17 (22.67%) C
5 17 (22.67%) C++
6 15 (20.00%) C#
7 12 (16.00%) Dart
7 12 (16.00%) MATLAB
7 12 (16.00%) PHP
7 12 (16.00%) R
7 12 (16.00%) Ruby
7 12 (16.00%) Rust
8 5 (6.67%) Groovy
9 3 (4.00%) Go
10 2 (2.67%) Perl
10 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (20.00%) Degree
2 12 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.00%) HND
4 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (54.67%) QA
2 7 (9.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (57.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 42 (56.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Terraform
3 1 (1.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 39 (52.00%) Solace
2 3 (4.00%) Atmel
3 2 (2.67%) Allen-Bradley
3 2 (2.67%) AppDynamics
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) Siemens
3 2 (2.67%) Toshiba