Java Job Trends in the East of England

Java
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 45 72
Rank change year-on-year -81 +27 -41
Permanent jobs citing Java 31 177 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.75% 5.03% 3.08%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.58% 15.62% 9.69%
Number of salaries quoted 23 125 40
10th Percentile - £43,750 £50,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% -11.86% +5.36%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £82,813
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £85,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -

All Programming Languages
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 556 1,133 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.49% 32.22% 31.76%
Number of salaries quoted 437 520 530
10th Percentile £30,000 £41,150 £35,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,250 £43,952
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% - -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Java job vacancy trend in the East of England

Java
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in the East of England

Java
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 January 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
Cambridgeshire -43 14 £61,250 -9.26% 25
Hertfordshire -4 8 £40,000 -31.91% 45
Essex -8 8 £25,000 - 48
Bedfordshire +3 1 £85,000 +78.95% 23
Java
England

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (9.68%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 11 (35.48%) AWS
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (6.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Internet
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
2 9 (29.03%) MySQL
3 4 (12.90%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (3.23%) Selenium
2 1 (3.23%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Finance
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Advertising
5 1 (3.23%) Aviation
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Publishing
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Graduate
1 10 (32.26%) Software Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 9 (29.03%) Graduate Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Applications Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Developer
3 5 (16.13%) C# Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Graduate C# Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 5 (16.13%) IT Graduate
3 5 (16.13%) PHP Developer
3 5 (16.13%) SQL Developer
4 4 (12.90%) C# Software Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Graduate C# Software Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Graduate Software Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) UI Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (32.26%) CSS
1 10 (32.26%) React
2 9 (29.03%) jQuery
3 7 (22.58%) .NET
4 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
4 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET
5 4 (12.90%) Node.js
5 4 (12.90%) Vue
6 3 (9.68%) Kafka
6 3 (9.68%) Spring
6 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
6 3 (9.68%) Web Services
7 1 (3.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (3.23%) HTML
7 1 (3.23%) HTML5
7 1 (3.23%) Jest
7 1 (3.23%) Material-UI
7 1 (3.23%) Micronaut
7 1 (3.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.68%) Arduino
2 3 (9.68%) e-Learning
2 3 (9.68%) IoT
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.68%) Raspberry Pi
2 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) FPGA
4 1 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Computer Science
2 15 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (45.16%) Agile
3 14 (45.16%) Software Engineering
4 10 (32.26%) AI
5 9 (29.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (29.03%) MVC
5 9 (29.03%) OOP
6 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.81%) OO
6 8 (25.81%) Physics
7 7 (22.58%) Mathematics
7 7 (22.58%) SDLC
7 7 (22.58%) User Experience
7 7 (22.58%) UX Design
8 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
8 6 (19.35%) Innovative Thinking
9 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
9 5 (16.13%) Machine Learning
9 5 (16.13%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 16 (51.61%) C++
3 14 (45.16%) JavaScript
4 10 (32.26%) C#
5 9 (29.03%) PHP
6 7 (22.58%) SQL
7 6 (19.35%) TypeScript
8 3 (9.68%) Assembly Language
8 3 (9.68%) C
8 3 (9.68%) MATLAB
8 3 (9.68%) Objective-C
8 3 (9.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) Degree
2 9 (29.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (22.58%) Security Cleared
4 6 (19.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
5 3 (9.68%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) MISRA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
1 2 (6.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Istio
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.23%) Huawei
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft