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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 55 112
Rank change year-on-year -92 +57 -61
Permanent jobs citing Java 16 88 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.34% 4.50% 1.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.13% 17.56% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 10 34 50
10th Percentile £25,000 - £32,375
25th Percentile £27,688 £32,500 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £46,250 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.84% -11.06% -10.34%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,000 - £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 751 501 1,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.17% 25.64% 26.73%
Number of salaries quoted 443 356 945
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £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 20 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 20 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
Nottinghamshire -34 7 £47,500 +5.56% 38
Northamptonshire -9 6 £60,000 - 6
Leicestershire -39 2 £42,750 - 30
Derbyshire -19 1 - - 4
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 7 (43.75%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
1 1 (6.25%) JMeter
1 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) C# Developer
2 3 (18.75%) C# Software Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Graduate
2 3 (18.75%) Graduate C# Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Graduate C# Software Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Graduate Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Graduate Software Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Graduate SQL Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Architect
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Principal Java Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Graduate PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) CSS
1 3 (18.75%) jQuery
2 2 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
4 3 (18.75%) Design Patterns
4 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) MVC
4 3 (18.75%) OOP
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Debt
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
5 2 (12.50%) OO
5 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) PHP
4 3 (18.75%) C++
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) C
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Argo
2 1 (6.25%) Kustomize
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Google