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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 82 87
Rank change year-on-year -64 +5 -20
Permanent jobs citing Java 52 116 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.68% 3.33% 2.00%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.77% 15.05% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 48 74 65
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £41,563 £27,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,430 £45,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.95% -47.06% +30.77%
75th Percentile £78,250 £66,188 -
90th Percentile £93,250 £87,500 £89,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

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 1,090 771 1,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 14.21% 22.16% 23.13%
Number of salaries quoted 834 624 709
10th Percentile £34,300 £29,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,438 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -39 20 £62,500 +31.58% 46
Essex -41 9 £25,000 -13.04% 6
Hertfordshire -52 8 £135,500 +59.41% 16
Suffolk - 8 £57,500 - 10
Bedfordshire -16 7 £51,359 -29.16% 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 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.92%) CMS
1 1 (1.92%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 24 (46.15%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 11 (21.15%) SaaS
4 5 (9.62%) GCP
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.92%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (1.92%) Datadog
5 1 (1.92%) Figma
5 1 (1.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Broadband
2 1 (1.92%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.92%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.77%) MySQL
2 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) Big Data
3 1 (1.92%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.92%) Metadata
3 1 (1.92%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Git
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Legal
3 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Developer
2 17 (32.69%) Lead
3 15 (28.85%) Software Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Software Engineer
5 12 (23.08%) Java Developer
6 11 (21.15%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (17.31%) Java Software Developer
8 7 (13.46%) Graduate
9 6 (11.54%) Applications Support
9 6 (11.54%) C# Developer
9 6 (11.54%) C# Software Developer
9 6 (11.54%) Graduate C# Developer
9 6 (11.54%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 6 (11.54%) Graduate Developer
9 6 (11.54%) Graduate Software Developer
9 6 (11.54%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 6 (11.54%) SQL Developer
10 4 (7.69%) Application Support Team Leader
10 4 (7.69%) Azure Developer
10 4 (7.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) CSS
1 10 (19.23%) React
2 9 (17.31%) jQuery
3 7 (13.46%) Web Services
4 4 (7.69%) Spring
5 3 (5.77%) HTML
5 3 (5.77%) RESTful
6 2 (3.85%) .NET
6 2 (3.85%) Middleware
6 2 (3.85%) Redux
6 2 (3.85%) REST
6 2 (3.85%) SOAP
6 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.85%) Terraform
7 1 (1.92%) MEAN Stack
7 1 (1.92%) Micronaut
7 1 (1.92%) PySpark
7 1 (1.92%) Svelte
7 1 (1.92%) Tailwind CSS
7 1 (1.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) e-Learning
1 7 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.69%) Robotics
2 4 (7.69%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.92%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.92%) IoT
5 1 (1.92%) Life Science
5 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Android
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 20 (38.46%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (36.54%) Software Engineering
4 18 (34.62%) OO
4 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (23.08%) OOP
7 11 (21.15%) Computer Science
8 9 (17.31%) Scrum
8 9 (17.31%) User Experience
9 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.38%) Kanban
9 8 (15.38%) MVC
10 7 (13.46%) Product Vision
10 7 (13.46%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (13.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 7 (13.46%) Scrum-ban
10 7 (13.46%) Test Strategy
10 7 (13.46%) UX Design
10 7 (13.46%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) SQL
3 14 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 13 (25.00%) C++
5 12 (23.08%) C#
6 11 (21.15%) PHP
7 8 (15.38%) TypeScript
8 6 (11.54%) C
9 5 (9.62%) Scala
9 5 (9.62%) Shell Script
10 4 (7.69%) Clojure
10 4 (7.69%) Erlang
10 4 (7.69%) Rust
11 1 (1.92%) Ada
11 1 (1.92%) Bash
11 1 (1.92%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (13.46%) DBS Check
3 4 (7.69%) HNC
3 4 (7.69%) HND
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.31%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
2 1 (1.92%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.92%) Firmware
2 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.92%) Puppet
2 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
1 5 (9.62%) Oracle
2 3 (5.77%) Google
3 1 (1.92%) Databricks
3 1 (1.92%) SGI
3 1 (1.92%) VMware