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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 44 67
Rank change year-on-year -60 +23 -42
Permanent jobs citing Java 48 181 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.47% 4.33% 3.49%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.84% 15.47% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 39 125 44
10th Percentile - £43,750 £52,900
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -10.00% +20.97%
75th Percentile £57,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £74,500 £86,500 £87,125
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 612 1,170 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.73% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of salaries quoted 516 529 463
10th Percentile £28,750 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,938 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £85,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 9 November 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 9 November 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
Essex +1 16 £25,000 - 9
Cambridgeshire -45 15 £60,000 -14.29% 31
Hertfordshire +3 14 £42,500 -39.29% 27
Bedfordshire 0 2 £72,500 +52.63% 11
Norfolk +11 1 - -
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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.17%) IIS
2 2 (4.17%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) Azure
2 15 (31.25%) AWS
3 6 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (10.42%) Serverless
5 3 (6.25%) SaaS
6 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Alexa
7 1 (2.08%) BigCommerce
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) Firebase
7 1 (2.08%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) OCI
7 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Internet
2 2 (4.17%) DMARC
2 2 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 13 (27.08%) MySQL
3 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.17%) Redis
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 2 (4.17%) GitLab
2 2 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JMeter
3 1 (2.08%) Maven
3 1 (2.08%) Postman
3 1 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.08%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Aerospace
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.42%) Retail
5 2 (4.17%) Czech Language
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Aviation
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Electronics
6 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Graduate
3 12 (25.00%) Graduate Developer
4 10 (20.83%) IT Graduate
5 7 (14.58%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Implementation Manager
6 5 (10.42%) Support Manager
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Implementation Manager
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Manager
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Support
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Support Manager
7 4 (8.33%) Applications Support
7 4 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Developer
7 4 (8.33%) C# Developer
7 4 (8.33%) PHP Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Software Support Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) SQL Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) .NET
2 15 (31.25%) CSS
3 12 (25.00%) jQuery
4 10 (20.83%) ASP.NET
5 7 (14.58%) React
6 5 (10.42%) REST
7 4 (8.33%) Kafka
7 4 (8.33%) Spring
7 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 3 (6.25%) HTML
8 3 (6.25%) RESTful
9 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.17%) HTML5
9 2 (4.17%) Jest
9 2 (4.17%) JSON
9 2 (4.17%) Node.js
9 2 (4.17%) SOAP
9 2 (4.17%) Web Services
9 2 (4.17%) XML
10 1 (2.08%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 5 (10.42%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.33%) IoT
4 3 (6.25%) Arduino
4 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.25%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (6.25%) Virtual Team
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.08%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.08%) FPGA
6 1 (2.08%) Home Automation
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Android
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (52.08%) Computer Science
3 21 (43.75%) Agile
4 16 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 13 (27.08%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (25.00%) MVC
6 12 (25.00%) OOP
7 11 (22.92%) OO
8 8 (16.67%) AI
9 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
10 6 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
10 6 (12.50%) Mathematics
10 6 (12.50%) SDLC
11 5 (10.42%) DevOps
11 5 (10.42%) Physics
11 5 (10.42%) System Testing
11 5 (10.42%) Task Automation
12 4 (8.33%) Front End Development
12 4 (8.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 24 (50.00%) Python
2 21 (43.75%) C++
3 19 (39.58%) SQL
4 14 (29.17%) C#
5 13 (27.08%) JavaScript
5 13 (27.08%) PHP
6 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.25%) Assembly Language
7 3 (6.25%) C
7 3 (6.25%) MATLAB
7 3 (6.25%) Objective-C
7 3 (6.25%) Swift
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (56.25%) Degree
2 18 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) DBS Check
5 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.08%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (2.08%) OCP
6 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
2 4 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.08%) MISRA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.08%) Istio
3 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) ATG
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) Huawei
3 1 (2.08%) Solace
3 1 (2.08%) Veritas