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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 115 75
Rank change year-on-year +25 -40 -60
Permanent jobs citing Java 41 41 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.88% 1.18% 2.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.95% 5.14% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 15 32 37
10th Percentile £37,450 - £41,500
25th Percentile £53,075 £32,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £35,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +65.71% -40.68% +5.36%
75th Percentile £65,625 £50,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £62,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 458 797 641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 20.95% 23.03% 40.49%
Number of salaries quoted 375 460 535
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,842 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -13.02% +4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 7 November 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 November 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
Derbyshire 0 14 £40,000 -17.95% 4
Northamptonshire +38 12 £58,000 +24.73% 13
Leicestershire +26 9 £65,000 -7.14% 4
Nottinghamshire -5 6 £24,000 -31.43% 11
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 (4.88%) JBoss
1 2 (4.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) AWS
2 10 (24.39%) Azure
3 5 (12.20%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.88%) Kong
5 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.44%) GitHub
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.44%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.44%) MySQL
3 1 (2.44%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Selenium
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 7 (17.07%) Git
4 6 (14.63%) Cucumber
4 6 (14.63%) GitLab
4 6 (14.63%) JUnit
5 5 (12.20%) Katalon Studio
5 5 (12.20%) Maven
6 4 (9.76%) JIRA
6 4 (9.76%) SonarQube
6 4 (9.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (7.32%) REST Assured
8 2 (4.88%) Appium
8 2 (4.88%) Babel
8 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (4.88%) Gradle
8 2 (4.88%) JMeter
8 2 (4.88%) TestNG
8 2 (4.88%) webpack
9 1 (2.44%) Mockito
General
1 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Finance
3 5 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.88%) Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Senior
2 6 (14.63%) Developer
2 6 (14.63%) Software Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Java Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Architect
4 4 (9.76%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Quality Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Embedded Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) CRM Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Principal Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Supply Chain Architect
6 2 (4.88%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) HTML
2 9 (21.95%) Spring
2 9 (21.95%) Spring Boot
3 8 (19.51%) React
4 7 (17.07%) CSS
4 7 (17.07%) REST
5 5 (12.20%) Redux
5 5 (12.20%) RESTful
5 5 (12.20%) SOAP
6 4 (9.76%) CSS3
6 4 (9.76%) HTML5
6 4 (9.76%) JPA
6 4 (9.76%) Kafka
7 3 (7.32%) Jest
7 3 (7.32%) Node.js
7 3 (7.32%) Yocto
8 2 (4.88%) Apollo GraphQL
8 2 (4.88%) GraphQL
8 2 (4.88%) Sass
8 2 (4.88%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (7.32%) IoT
2 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.44%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Linux
2 3 (7.32%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (39.02%) Agile
2 15 (36.59%) Computer Science
3 13 (31.71%) AI
3 13 (31.71%) DevOps
3 13 (31.71%) Machine Learning
4 12 (29.27%) CI/CD
4 12 (29.27%) Data Privacy
4 12 (29.27%) Test Automation
5 8 (19.51%) Microservices
5 8 (19.51%) Software Engineering
6 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.07%) SDLC
7 5 (12.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.20%) Front End Development
7 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
8 4 (9.76%) API Development
8 4 (9.76%) Clean Code
8 4 (9.76%) Event-Driven
8 4 (9.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) JavaScript
2 22 (53.66%) Python
3 18 (43.90%) C
4 17 (41.46%) SQL
5 16 (39.02%) C++
6 15 (36.59%) C#
6 15 (36.59%) TypeScript
7 13 (31.71%) PHP
8 12 (29.27%) Dart
8 12 (29.27%) MATLAB
8 12 (29.27%) R
8 12 (29.27%) Ruby
8 12 (29.27%) Rust
9 5 (12.20%) Groovy
10 2 (4.88%) Go
10 2 (4.88%) Perl
10 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
11 1 (2.44%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Degree
2 12 (29.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.32%) HND
4 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
1 4 (9.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (9.76%) Terraform
3 1 (2.44%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (7.32%) Atmel
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle
2 2 (4.88%) Adobe
2 2 (4.88%) Allen-Bradley
2 2 (4.88%) AppDynamics
2 2 (4.88%) Informatica
2 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
2 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
2 2 (4.88%) SAP
2 2 (4.88%) Siemens
2 2 (4.88%) Solace
2 2 (4.88%) Toshiba