Java Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Java Engineer
England > East of England

The median Java Engineer salary in the East of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 179 139
Rank change year-on-year +8 -40 +94
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 3 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.091% 0.024% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.025% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £59,125
25th Percentile £75,000 - £65,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £76,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £85,313
90th Percentile - - £85,875
England median annual salary £110,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -8.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 3,049 3,991 2,141
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 94.84% 96.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,734 2,092 1,423
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £82,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,525 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.79% -

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Java Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Cambridgeshire +19 1 £80,000 - 1
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Smartphone
2 2 (66.67%) WFM
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (66.67%) Rust
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) React
3 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Micronaut
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (66.67%) Smartphone
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
1 2 (66.67%) OO
1 2 (66.67%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (66.67%) WFM
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Rust
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform