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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 81 58
Rank change year-on-year -73 -23 +9
Permanent jobs citing Java 48 106 142
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.58% 3.17% 3.20%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.35% 15.27% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 47 61 85
10th Percentile £32,500 £25,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £26,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +52.94% -48.48% +13.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £60,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £143,250 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 1,103 694 1,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.38% 20.77% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 856 546 560
10th Percentile £35,250 £28,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -15.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £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 1 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 1 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 -37 22 £76,500 +53.00% 29
Suffolk - 8 £57,500 - 8
Essex -44 7 £25,000 -23.08% 3
Bedfordshire -17 6 £51,359 -29.16% 9
Hertfordshire -58 5 £135,500 +207.95% 11
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 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.08%) CMS
1 1 (2.08%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) AWS
2 8 (16.67%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) SaaS
4 2 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.08%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (2.08%) Datadog
5 1 (2.08%) Figma
5 1 (2.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.08%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.08%) Broadband
1 1 (2.08%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.25%) MySQL
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) Big Data
4 1 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.08%) Metadata
4 1 (2.08%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (8.33%) Legal
3 4 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.25%) Automotive
4 3 (6.25%) Games
4 3 (6.25%) Multimedia
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Lead
2 15 (31.25%) Developer
3 14 (29.17%) Software Engineer
4 11 (22.92%) Lead Software Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) Java Developer
5 8 (16.67%) Software Developer
6 7 (14.58%) Senior
7 6 (12.50%) Applications Support
8 5 (10.42%) Java Software Developer
9 4 (8.33%) Application Support Team Leader
9 4 (8.33%) Graduate
9 4 (8.33%) IT Support
9 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Senior Java Engineer
9 4 (8.33%) Support Team Leader
9 4 (8.33%) Team Leader
10 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Graduate Software Developer
10 3 (6.25%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.83%) React
2 7 (14.58%) CSS
2 7 (14.58%) Web Services
3 6 (12.50%) jQuery
4 3 (6.25%) CarPlay
4 3 (6.25%) HTML
4 3 (6.25%) RESTful
4 3 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (4.17%) .NET
5 2 (4.17%) Middleware
5 2 (4.17%) Redux
5 2 (4.17%) REST
5 2 (4.17%) SOAP
5 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.17%) Terraform
6 1 (2.08%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.08%) Node.js
6 1 (2.08%) PySpark
6 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.08%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) e-Learning
1 7 (14.58%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.33%) IoT
2 4 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.33%) Robotics
3 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.25%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Life Science
5 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (8.33%) Android
3 3 (6.25%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (45.83%) Software Engineering
2 18 (37.50%) Agile
2 18 (37.50%) OO
3 17 (35.42%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (22.92%) Computer Science
7 9 (18.75%) OOP
7 9 (18.75%) Scrum
7 9 (18.75%) User Experience
8 8 (16.67%) Kanban
9 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
9 7 (14.58%) Open Source
9 7 (14.58%) Product Vision
9 7 (14.58%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (14.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (14.58%) Scrum-ban
9 7 (14.58%) Test Strategy
9 7 (14.58%) UX Design
9 7 (14.58%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) C++
2 13 (27.08%) JavaScript
3 12 (25.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.75%) C#
5 8 (16.67%) PHP
5 8 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 6 (12.50%) C
7 5 (10.42%) Scala
7 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
8 4 (8.33%) Clojure
8 4 (8.33%) Erlang
8 4 (8.33%) Rust
9 3 (6.25%) Embedded C++
10 1 (2.08%) Ada
10 1 (2.08%) Bash
10 1 (2.08%) Objective-C
10 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
2 7 (14.58%) DBS Check
3 4 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.33%) HNC
3 4 (8.33%) HND
4 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.08%) Firmware
2 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.08%) Grafana
2 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.08%) Puppet
2 1 (2.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (10.42%) Oracle
2 3 (6.25%) Apple
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.08%) Databricks
4 1 (2.08%) SGI
4 1 (2.08%) VMware