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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 77 100
Rank change year-on-year -69 +23 -41
Permanent jobs citing Java 56 121 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.79% 3.50% 1.74%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.41% 14.72% 7.95%
Number of salaries quoted 49 78 67
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £47,950
25th Percentile £35,000 £26,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,359 £44,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.73% -48.24% +30.77%
75th Percentile £78,250 £64,375 -
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.18% -1.49% -

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 1,035 822 1,031
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 14.65% 23.78% 21.85%
Number of salaries quoted 757 657 799
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,250 £33,650
25th Percentile £46,000 £39,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £92,988 £78,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,375
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.00% -7.12%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 20 £60,000 +33.33% 19
Essex -32 11 £25,000 - 8
Bedfordshire -8 9 £51,359 -29.16% 2
Hertfordshire -49 9 £135,500 +59.41% 11
Suffolk - 7 £57,500 - 9
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 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.79%) CMS
1 1 (1.79%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) AWS
2 15 (26.79%) Azure
3 10 (17.86%) SaaS
4 5 (8.93%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (1.79%) Dagster
5 1 (1.79%) dbt
5 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.79%) Figma
5 1 (1.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.93%) Broadband
2 1 (1.79%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.79%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.71%) MySQL
3 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.79%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (7.14%) Legal
3 4 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Law
5 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (46.43%) Developer
2 18 (32.14%) Software Developer
3 17 (30.36%) Lead
4 14 (25.00%) Software Engineer
5 12 (21.43%) Java Developer
6 11 (19.64%) Lead Software Engineer
7 10 (17.86%) Graduate
8 9 (16.07%) C# Developer
8 9 (16.07%) C# Software Developer
8 9 (16.07%) Graduate C# Developer
8 9 (16.07%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 9 (16.07%) Graduate Developer
8 9 (16.07%) Graduate Software Developer
8 9 (16.07%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 9 (16.07%) Java Software Developer
8 9 (16.07%) SQL Developer
9 7 (12.50%) Azure Developer
9 7 (12.50%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 7 (12.50%) PHP Developer
10 6 (10.71%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (23.21%) CSS
2 12 (21.43%) jQuery
3 10 (17.86%) React
4 7 (12.50%) Web Services
5 4 (7.14%) Spring
6 3 (5.36%) HTML
6 3 (5.36%) REST
6 3 (5.36%) RESTful
6 3 (5.36%) SOAP
7 2 (3.57%) .NET
7 2 (3.57%) Kafka
7 2 (3.57%) Middleware
7 2 (3.57%) Redux
7 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.79%) Hibernate
8 1 (1.79%) JSON
8 1 (1.79%) Micronaut
8 1 (1.79%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.79%) Tailwind CSS
8 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.14%) Robotics
2 4 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Anti-Piracy
4 1 (1.79%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.79%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.79%) IoT
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.93%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Android
2 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Agile
2 20 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (32.14%) OO
3 18 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (30.36%) Software Engineering
5 16 (28.57%) Computer Science
6 15 (26.79%) OOP
7 13 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (19.64%) MVC
9 9 (16.07%) Scrum
9 9 (16.07%) User Experience
10 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
10 8 (14.29%) Kanban
10 8 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (12.50%) Product Vision
11 7 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 7 (12.50%) Scrum-ban
11 7 (12.50%) Test Strategy
11 7 (12.50%) UX Design
11 7 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 21 (37.50%) Python
2 20 (35.71%) SQL
3 16 (28.57%) C++
4 15 (26.79%) C#
5 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
5 13 (23.21%) PHP
6 8 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.93%) C
7 5 (8.93%) Scala
8 4 (7.14%) Clojure
8 4 (7.14%) Erlang
8 4 (7.14%) Rust
8 4 (7.14%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) Ada
9 1 (1.79%) Bash
9 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Degree
2 10 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 4 (7.14%) HNC
4 4 (7.14%) HND
5 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.79%) Firmware
2 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) FTK
3 1 (1.79%) Ansible
3 1 (1.79%) Puppet
3 1 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) Cellebrite
5 1 (1.79%) VMware