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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 72 115
Rank change year-on-year -60 +43 -67
Permanent jobs citing Java 58 121 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.91% 3.90% 1.77%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.69% 15.03% 6.62%
Number of salaries quoted 48 74 100
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £38,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £26,250 £52,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,180 £44,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.50% -28.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,250 £65,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £79,125 £87,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% -6.25%

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 867 805 1,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.63% 25.96% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 594 654 1,502
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,252 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,375 £80,001
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -34 27 £72,500 +61.11% 12
Essex -39 11 £25,000 -13.04% 5
Bedfordshire +5 9 £51,359 -14.40% 6
Hertfordshire -52 9 £135,500 +59.41% 6
Suffolk - 2 £53,750 - 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 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.72%) CMS
1 1 (1.72%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 31 (53.45%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) Azure
3 10 (17.24%) SaaS
4 5 (8.62%) GCP
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (1.72%) Dagster
5 1 (1.72%) dbt
5 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.72%) Figma
5 1 (1.72%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Broadband
2 1 (1.72%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.72%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.34%) MySQL
3 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (22.41%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Law
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.17%) Legal
7 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (37.93%) Developer
1 22 (37.93%) Software Engineer
2 21 (36.21%) Lead
3 18 (31.03%) Software Developer
4 16 (27.59%) Lead Software Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Graduate
5 10 (17.24%) Java Developer
6 9 (15.52%) C# Developer
6 9 (15.52%) C# Software Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Graduate C# Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Graduate Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Graduate Software Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 9 (15.52%) Java Software Developer
6 9 (15.52%) SQL Developer
7 7 (12.07%) Azure Developer
7 7 (12.07%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 7 (12.07%) PHP Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Technical Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) React
2 12 (20.69%) Web Services
3 11 (18.97%) CSS
4 10 (17.24%) jQuery
5 5 (8.62%) Spring
6 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (5.17%) Node.js
6 3 (5.17%) Vue
7 2 (3.45%) .NET
7 2 (3.45%) Kafka
7 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.72%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.72%) HTML
8 1 (1.72%) JSON
8 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.72%) REST
8 1 (1.72%) Sass
8 1 (1.72%) SOAP
8 1 (1.72%) WebGL
8 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.69%) e-Learning
1 12 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Robotics
2 4 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.17%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.72%) Anti-Piracy
5 1 (1.72%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.72%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.72%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) Agile
2 25 (43.10%) Full-Stack Development
3 23 (39.66%) Software Engineering
4 22 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (34.48%) Computer Science
5 20 (34.48%) OO
6 17 (29.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (27.59%) User Experience
8 14 (24.14%) OOP
8 14 (24.14%) UX Design
9 13 (22.41%) Requirements Gathering
9 13 (22.41%) Scrum
10 12 (20.69%) Kanban
10 12 (20.69%) Product Vision
10 12 (20.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 12 (20.69%) Scrum-ban
10 12 (20.69%) Test Strategy
10 12 (20.69%) Web Development
11 11 (18.97%) MVC
12 6 (10.34%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.00%) Python
2 17 (29.31%) SQL
3 16 (27.59%) C++
3 16 (27.59%) JavaScript
4 13 (22.41%) C#
4 13 (22.41%) TypeScript
5 11 (18.97%) PHP
6 5 (8.62%) C
6 5 (8.62%) Scala
7 4 (6.90%) Clojure
7 4 (6.90%) Erlang
7 4 (6.90%) Rust
8 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.72%) Ada
9 1 (1.72%) Go
9 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Degree
2 12 (20.69%) DBS Check
3 10 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.17%) HNC
4 3 (5.17%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
1 1 (1.72%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (1.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) FTK
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Cellebrite
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) Google