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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 86 49
Rank change year-on-year -85 -37 +19
Permanent jobs citing Java 43 96 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.51% 2.90% 3.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.86% 14.66% 14.19%
Number of salaries quoted 40 53 107
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,689 £26,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £42,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.76% -39.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £53,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £143,250 £68,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.23%

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 1,114 655 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.18% 19.75% 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 885 528 536
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £35,938 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 £78,250 +56.50% 25
Suffolk - 11 £60,000 - 5
Bedfordshire -27 6 £51,359 -29.16% 7
Essex -39 6 £25,000 -23.08% 3
Hertfordshire -49 5 £135,500 +218.82% 14
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 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.33%) Camunda
1 1 (2.33%) CMS
1 1 (2.33%) Ethereum
1 1 (2.33%) Headless CMS
1 1 (2.33%) Hyperledger
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.33%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 11 (25.58%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) SaaS
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (2.33%) Datadog
5 1 (2.33%) Figma
5 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.33%) Broadband
1 1 (2.33%) LTE
1 1 (2.33%) NFC
1 1 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) MySQL
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) Big Data
3 1 (2.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.33%) Metadata
3 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Git
2 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Finance
3 4 (9.30%) Legal
3 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.98%) Automotive
4 3 (6.98%) Games
4 3 (6.98%) Multimedia
5 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Developer
2 11 (25.58%) Lead
3 9 (20.93%) Software Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Senior
5 6 (13.95%) Applications Support
5 6 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.95%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Application Support Team Leader
6 4 (9.30%) IT Support
6 4 (9.30%) Java Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Java Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Software Developer
6 4 (9.30%) Support Team Leader
6 4 (9.30%) Team Leader
7 3 (6.98%) Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.98%) Graduate
7 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Sales Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) CSS
2 5 (11.63%) jQuery
2 5 (11.63%) React
3 4 (9.30%) Terraform
4 3 (6.98%) CarPlay
4 3 (6.98%) HTML
4 3 (6.98%) REST
4 3 (6.98%) RESTful
4 3 (6.98%) Spring
5 2 (4.65%) .NET
5 2 (4.65%) Kafka
5 2 (4.65%) Middleware
5 2 (4.65%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.65%) Redux
5 2 (4.65%) SOAP
5 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.65%) Web Services
6 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.33%) MEAN Stack
6 1 (2.33%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) IoT
2 4 (9.30%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (9.30%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.30%) Robotics
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.98%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (4.65%) e-Learning
4 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.33%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.33%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.58%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Android
3 3 (6.98%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.98%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (6.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Software Engineering
2 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (30.23%) OO
4 12 (27.91%) Agile
5 10 (23.26%) Computer Science
6 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
7 8 (18.60%) Full-Stack Development
7 8 (18.60%) OOP
8 7 (16.28%) Microservices
8 7 (16.28%) Open Source
9 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
10 5 (11.63%) AI
10 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.63%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (11.63%) Product Roadmap
11 4 (9.30%) Actionable Insight
11 4 (9.30%) DevOps
11 4 (9.30%) Scrum
11 4 (9.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) C++
1 12 (27.91%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) SQL
3 9 (20.93%) C#
4 8 (18.60%) JavaScript
5 7 (16.28%) C
5 7 (16.28%) PHP
6 5 (11.63%) Scala
6 5 (11.63%) Shell Script
7 4 (9.30%) Clojure
7 4 (9.30%) Erlang
7 4 (9.30%) Rust
8 3 (6.98%) Bash
8 3 (6.98%) Embedded C++
8 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
8 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.33%) Ada
9 1 (2.33%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) DV Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) HNC
2 4 (9.30%) HND
2 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.65%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
System Software
1 6 (13.95%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.98%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.98%) Ansible
2 3 (6.98%) Puppet
2 3 (6.98%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.33%) Grafana
3 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.98%) Apple
3 3 (6.98%) VMware
4 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) SGI