Java Jobs in the East of England

Java
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 108 45
Rank change year-on-year +42 -63 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 157 122 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 4.22% 1.83% 4.97%
As % of the Programming Languages category 15.64% 6.97% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 81 102 82
10th Percentile £25,000 £38,875 £45,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.98% -1.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 - £88,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +10.34%

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 1,004 1,750 1,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.97% 26.24% 34.19%
Number of salaries quoted 741 1,434 800
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £66,225 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,001 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the East of England

Java
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in the East of England.

Salary trend for Java in the East of England

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 July 2025.

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 July 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 +51 50 £85,000 +36.00% 107
Essex +38 42 £25,000 -60.00% 65
Cambridgeshire +18 37 £45,000 -47.06% 128
Norfolk +35 15 £40,101 -30.26% 23
Bedfordshire +3 11 £60,000 -7.69% 60
Suffolk -28 2 - - 15
Java
England

Java
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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (8.28%) Confluence
2 10 (6.37%) IIS
2 10 (6.37%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
3 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.27%) WebLogic
3 2 (1.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (54.14%) AWS
2 67 (42.68%) Azure
3 26 (16.56%) Pulumi
4 23 (14.65%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (14.65%) Serverless
5 17 (10.83%) SaaS
6 15 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (9.55%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (9.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (9.55%) AWS CodePipeline
6 15 (9.55%) GCP
7 14 (8.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (8.92%) Amazon EventBridge
7 14 (8.92%) AWS CodeBuild
7 14 (8.92%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 14 (8.92%) AWS Step Functions
7 14 (8.92%) Boomi
8 9 (5.73%) Entra ID
8 9 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 26 (16.56%) Broadband
2 9 (5.73%) DMARC
2 9 (5.73%) SSL
3 1 (0.64%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.64%) 5G
3 1 (0.64%) RTP
3 1 (0.64%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.11%) SQL Server
2 27 (17.20%) NoSQL
2 27 (17.20%) Relational Database
3 26 (16.56%) RDBMS
4 20 (12.74%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (11.46%) Big Data
6 17 (10.83%) MySQL
7 7 (4.46%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.18%) Redis
9 3 (1.91%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.27%) Power BI
11 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 26 (16.56%) Jaeger
2 17 (10.83%) GitLab
3 16 (10.19%) JIRA
3 16 (10.19%) Maven
3 16 (10.19%) Selenium
4 15 (9.55%) Bitbucket
4 15 (9.55%) Cucumber
4 15 (9.55%) SonarQube
4 15 (9.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 9 (5.73%) Git
6 2 (1.27%) Eclipse
6 2 (1.27%) Eclipse RCP
6 2 (1.27%) git-flow
6 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.64%) JMeter
7 1 (0.64%) Postman
General
1 56 (35.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (21.02%) Finance
3 24 (15.29%) Social Skills
4 19 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (10.83%) Banking
6 15 (9.55%) Law
6 15 (9.55%) Public Sector
7 13 (8.28%) Retail
8 9 (5.73%) Czech Language
8 9 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Electronics
9 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.27%) Legal
10 1 (0.64%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 43 (27.39%) Developer
2 41 (26.11%) Lead
3 31 (19.75%) Software Engineer
4 27 (17.20%) Team Leader
5 22 (14.01%) Graduate
6 21 (13.38%) Software Developer
7 16 (10.19%) Graduate Developer
7 16 (10.19%) IT Graduate
8 11 (7.01%) Applications Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Implementation Manager
9 10 (6.37%) Support Manager
9 10 (6.37%) Technical Implementation Manager
9 10 (6.37%) Technical Manager
9 10 (6.37%) Technical Support
9 10 (6.37%) Technical Support Manager
10 9 (5.73%) Administrator
10 9 (5.73%) IT Administrator
10 9 (5.73%) IT Support
11 7 (4.46%) PHP Developer
12 6 (3.82%) Applications Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (26.11%) .NET
2 36 (22.93%) CSS
3 26 (16.56%) Elastic Stack
3 26 (16.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 21 (13.38%) Node.js
5 20 (12.74%) Spring
6 19 (12.10%) RESTful
7 18 (11.46%) ASP.NET
7 18 (11.46%) HTML
8 17 (10.83%) Kafka
8 17 (10.83%) React
9 16 (10.19%) jQuery
9 16 (10.19%) REST
9 16 (10.19%) Spring Boot
10 15 (9.55%) JPA
10 15 (9.55%) Pandas
10 15 (9.55%) Redux
11 14 (8.92%) JWT
11 14 (8.92%) OAuth
12 13 (8.28%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.83%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (9.55%) Cyberattack
2 15 (9.55%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.82%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.55%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.55%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.55%) Smartphone
6 3 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
7 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.64%) Home Automation
8 1 (0.64%) IoT
8 1 (0.64%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (35.67%) Linux
2 36 (22.93%) Unix
3 22 (14.01%) Android
4 14 (8.92%) Windows
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (57.96%) Agile
2 59 (37.58%) DevOps
3 57 (36.31%) Software Engineering
4 56 (35.67%) Containerisation
5 51 (32.48%) CI/CD
6 47 (29.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (26.75%) Computer Science
7 42 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (26.11%) Performance Optimisation
9 38 (24.20%) OO
10 36 (22.93%) Task Automation
11 35 (22.29%) Mentoring
11 35 (22.29%) Roadmaps
12 30 (19.11%) Line Management
12 30 (19.11%) OOP
13 29 (18.47%) High Availability
14 28 (17.83%) Mathematics
15 27 (17.20%) Continuous Integration
16 26 (16.56%) Product Management
16 26 (16.56%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.32%) Python
2 72 (45.86%) JavaScript
3 50 (31.85%) SQL
4 43 (27.39%) C++
5 42 (26.75%) Go
6 38 (24.20%) C#
7 27 (17.20%) Bash
8 25 (15.92%) Rust
9 19 (12.10%) PHP
10 10 (6.37%) PowerShell
10 10 (6.37%) VBA
11 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.91%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.27%) Ada
13 1 (0.64%) C
13 1 (0.64%) Groovy
13 1 (0.64%) Tcl
13 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (29.94%) Degree
2 32 (20.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (19.11%) Security Cleared
4 27 (17.20%) AWS Certification
5 15 (9.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.27%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.27%) PhD
7 1 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.64%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.64%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.83%) QA
2 9 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.82%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (38.22%) Docker
2 10 (6.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 60 (38.22%) Kubernetes
2 43 (27.39%) Terraform
3 41 (26.11%) Ansible
4 26 (16.56%) Argo
4 26 (16.56%) Kustomize
4 26 (16.56%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.37%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.64%) SCCM
7 1 (0.64%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (17.20%) Google
2 18 (11.46%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.55%) ServiceNow
3 15 (9.55%) Solace
4 14 (8.92%) Informatica
4 14 (8.92%) MuleSoft
4 14 (8.92%) Salesforce
5 13 (8.28%) Oracle
6 2 (1.27%) ATG
6 2 (1.27%) Veritas
7 1 (0.64%) EMC
7 1 (0.64%) F5
7 1 (0.64%) Okta
7 1 (0.64%) Workday