Java Software Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Java Software Engineer
England > East of England

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the East of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 - 148
Rank change year-on-year - - +127
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.029% - 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% - 0.043%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £57,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £110,000 £115,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +31.43% -

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 3,143 4,227 2,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.42% 90.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,759 2,504 1,462
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,157 £25,025
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
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 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Java Software Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the East of England

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Cambridgeshire - 1 £80,000 -
Java Software Engineer
England

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Java Software Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform