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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 48 79
Rank change year-on-year -73 +31 -51
Permanent jobs citing Java 37 162 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.78% 4.91% 2.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.88% 13.92% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 23 114 90
10th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £39,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,625 £51,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -16.80% -10.71%
75th Percentile £78,500 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile - £77,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.06% +8.97% -6.45%

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 538 1,164 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 11.30% 35.27% 33.27%
Number of salaries quoted 396 594 1,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,550 £32,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £66,100 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +20.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -36 18 £75,000 +11.11% 6
Hertfordshire -10 9 £40,000 -27.27% 6
Bedfordshire +1 5 - - 4
Essex -7 5 £25,000 - 3
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 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (8.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (40.54%) AWS
2 8 (21.62%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (5.41%) SaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (2.70%) Dagster
4 1 (2.70%) dbt
4 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Internet
2 1 (2.70%) Broadband
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) MySQL
1 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) Redis
3 1 (2.70%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.70%) Selenium
2 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Aerospace
2 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Law
3 1 (2.70%) Advertising
3 1 (2.70%) Electronics
3 1 (2.70%) Publishing
3 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Software Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Lead
2 7 (18.92%) Lead Software Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Developer
3 6 (16.22%) Graduate
3 6 (16.22%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Trainer
4 5 (13.51%) Trainer
5 4 (10.81%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Developer
5 4 (10.81%) C# Developer
5 4 (10.81%) C# Software Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Graduate C# Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Graduate Software Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 4 (10.81%) PHP Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
5 4 (10.81%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (37.84%) React
2 7 (18.92%) CSS
2 7 (18.92%) Web Services
3 6 (16.22%) jQuery
4 5 (13.51%) AngularJS
5 4 (10.81%) Kafka
5 4 (10.81%) Spring
5 4 (10.81%) Vue
6 3 (8.11%) .NET
6 3 (8.11%) Node.js
6 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
7 2 (5.41%) ASP.NET
8 1 (2.70%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 1 (2.70%) HTML
8 1 (2.70%) HTML5
8 1 (2.70%) Jest
8 1 (2.70%) Material-UI
8 1 (2.70%) Micronaut
8 1 (2.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) e-Learning
1 7 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
3 3 (8.11%) Arduino
3 3 (8.11%) IoT
3 3 (8.11%) Raspberry Pi
3 3 (8.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.70%) Anti-Piracy
5 1 (2.70%) FPGA
5 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Android
2 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) Computer Science
2 17 (45.95%) Software Engineering
3 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (37.84%) Agile
5 13 (35.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 11 (29.73%) User Experience
6 11 (29.73%) UX Design
7 10 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (24.32%) AI
8 9 (24.32%) OO
9 8 (21.62%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (21.62%) Kanban
9 8 (21.62%) Scrum
10 7 (18.92%) Physics
10 7 (18.92%) Product Vision
10 7 (18.92%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (18.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 7 (18.92%) Scrum-ban
10 7 (18.92%) Test Strategy
10 7 (18.92%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 27 (72.97%) Python
2 18 (48.65%) JavaScript
3 14 (37.84%) C++
4 10 (27.03%) TypeScript
5 7 (18.92%) C#
6 6 (16.22%) PHP
6 6 (16.22%) SQL
7 3 (8.11%) Assembly Language
7 3 (8.11%) C
7 3 (8.11%) MATLAB
7 3 (8.11%) Objective-C
7 3 (8.11%) Swift
8 1 (2.70%) Go
8 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (56.76%) Degree
2 7 (18.92%) DBS Check
2 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (16.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.92%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) MISRA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
1 2 (5.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) FTK
2 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Istio
3 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Cellebrite
2 1 (2.70%) Huawei
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft