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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 67 97
Rank change year-on-year -70 +30 -68
Permanent jobs citing Java 16 41 70
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.41% 2.86% 1.82%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.55% 9.36% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11 40 46
10th Percentile - - £31,875
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £100,000 - £82,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -9.38%

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 628 438 1,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 16.20% 30.54% 28.86%
Number of salaries quoted 407 373 943
10th Percentile £26,850 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,375 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £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 April 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 April 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 - 6 £60,000 - 8
Leicestershire - 5 £36,500 - 5
Nottinghamshire -39 3 £62,500 +56.25% 6
Derbyshire -29 2 £40,000 -33.33% 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 3 (18.75%) Kong
3 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) MariaDB
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 2 (12.50%) 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 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Java Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) CRM Architect
3 3 (18.75%) CRM Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce Architect
3 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce Solution Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Principal Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Strategy Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Supply Chain Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) Apollo GraphQL
2 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) J2EE
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) JPA
4 1 (6.25%) jQuery
4 1 (6.25%) OpenID
4 1 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.25%) pytest
4 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
1 3 (18.75%) Web Conferencing
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 4 (25.00%) Microservices
3 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Architecture Governance
4 3 (18.75%) B2B
4 3 (18.75%) Case Management
4 3 (18.75%) CRM
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
4 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Architecture
4 3 (18.75%) ERP
4 3 (18.75%) IT Strategy
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PHP
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Delphi
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
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 3 (18.75%) Adobe
1 3 (18.75%) Informatica
1 3 (18.75%) MuleSoft
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle