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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 128 40
Rank change year-on-year +61 -88 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 115 103 359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.87% 1.70% 6.54%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.25% 5.86% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 82 80 110
10th Percentile £25,000 £36,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -10.71% +27.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £85,250
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +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 868 1,757 2,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.21% 28.97% 36.74%
Number of salaries quoted 702 1,463 982
10th Percentile £33,199 £31,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,230 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £79,875 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +35 37 £50,000 -28.57% 68
Hertfordshire +39 36 £85,000 +36.00% 35
Essex +37 24 £25,000 -60.00% 21
Norfolk +33 11 £57,500 - 8
Bedfordshire +5 7 £47,500 -26.92% 16
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 9 (7.83%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.35%) IIS
3 3 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (1.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.74%) WordPress
5 1 (0.87%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.87%) Documentum
5 1 (0.87%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 46 (40.00%) Azure
2 45 (39.13%) AWS
3 25 (21.74%) SaaS
4 20 (17.39%) Serverless
5 18 (15.65%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (13.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (13.91%) Amazon SQS
6 16 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (13.04%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (13.04%) AWS CodePipeline
8 14 (12.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 14 (12.17%) AWS CodeBuild
8 14 (12.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 14 (12.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (12.17%) Boomi
9 7 (6.09%) GitHub
10 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.35%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.48%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) DMARC
1 4 (3.48%) SSL
2 1 (0.87%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.87%) 5G
2 1 (0.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) LTE
2 1 (0.87%) RTP
2 1 (0.87%) SpaceWire
2 1 (0.87%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 20 (17.39%) Big Data
3 19 (16.52%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (13.91%) MySQL
5 15 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.22%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.48%) Redis
9 3 (2.61%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.61%) Power BI
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.74%) SQLite
11 1 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.87%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.91%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 5 (4.35%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.48%) Maven
6 3 (2.61%) Gradle
6 3 (2.61%) Subversion
7 2 (1.74%) Eclipse RCP
7 2 (1.74%) git-flow
7 2 (1.74%) GitLab
8 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.87%) Log4j
General
1 20 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (16.52%) Finance
3 17 (14.78%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 15 (13.04%) Law
5 10 (8.70%) Retail
6 4 (3.48%) Czech Language
6 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Electronics
7 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (40.00%) Developer
2 29 (25.22%) Software Engineer
3 22 (19.13%) Senior
4 18 (15.65%) Software Developer
5 16 (13.91%) Graduate
5 16 (13.91%) Lead
6 13 (11.30%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Graduate Developer
7 12 (10.43%) IT Graduate
8 9 (7.83%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.22%) PHP Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Android Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Agile C# Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Graduate C# Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 4 (3.48%) IT Support
11 4 (3.48%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Technical Implementation Manager
11 4 (3.48%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (33.91%) .NET
2 23 (20.00%) Node.js
3 22 (19.13%) CSS
4 20 (17.39%) ASP.NET
5 18 (15.65%) React
6 16 (13.91%) RESTful
7 15 (13.04%) JWT
7 15 (13.04%) OAuth
7 15 (13.04%) Pandas
8 12 (10.43%) jQuery
9 11 (9.57%) Electron
10 10 (8.70%) .NET Framework
10 10 (8.70%) Spring
11 9 (7.83%) REST
12 8 (6.96%) HTML
12 8 (6.96%) SOAP
12 8 (6.96%) Vue
12 8 (6.96%) XML
13 7 (6.09%) Entity Framework
14 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Cyberattack
2 8 (6.96%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.48%) Smartphone
5 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.74%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.74%) Replication
6 2 (1.74%) Robotics
7 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (23.48%) Android
2 26 (22.61%) Linux
3 10 (8.70%) Windows
4 5 (4.35%) Apple iOS
4 5 (4.35%) Unix
5 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (52.17%) Agile
2 51 (44.35%) Software Engineering
3 45 (39.13%) OO
4 38 (33.04%) CI/CD
5 30 (26.09%) Line Management
6 29 (25.22%) Computer Science
7 28 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (22.61%) DevOps
8 26 (22.61%) Project Management
9 25 (21.74%) Mathematics
9 25 (21.74%) OOP
10 24 (20.87%) Analytics
11 21 (18.26%) Android Development
11 21 (18.26%) Design Patterns
11 21 (18.26%) MVC
12 20 (17.39%) Containerisation
13 19 (16.52%) Event-Driven
14 18 (15.65%) Collaborative Working
15 17 (14.78%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 52 (45.22%) C#
2 44 (38.26%) Python
3 43 (37.39%) C++
4 31 (26.96%) JavaScript
5 25 (21.74%) Rust
5 25 (21.74%) SQL
6 19 (16.52%) PHP
7 16 (13.91%) Go
8 13 (11.30%) TypeScript
9 7 (6.09%) Objective-C
10 6 (5.22%) C
10 6 (5.22%) T-SQL
11 5 (4.35%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.35%) VBA
12 2 (1.74%) Ada
12 2 (1.74%) XAML
13 1 (0.87%) Bash
13 1 (0.87%) Groovy
13 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.87%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 36 (31.30%) Degree
2 31 (26.96%) Security Cleared
3 21 (18.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (13.04%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (20.87%) Docker
2 5 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (20.87%) Kubernetes
2 19 (16.52%) Terraform
3 15 (13.04%) Ansible
4 5 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.87%) SCCM
6 1 (0.87%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (13.04%) Microsoft
1 15 (13.04%) ServiceNow
2 14 (12.17%) Informatica
2 14 (12.17%) MuleSoft
2 14 (12.17%) Salesforce
3 9 (7.83%) Oracle
4 7 (6.09%) Xamarin
5 2 (1.74%) Adobe
5 2 (1.74%) Google
6 1 (0.87%) ATG
6 1 (0.87%) EMC
6 1 (0.87%) F5
6 1 (0.87%) Okta
6 1 (0.87%) Workday