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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 46 61
Rank change year-on-year -52 +15 -33
Permanent jobs citing Java 75 182 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.25% 4.34% 3.45%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.89% 15.57% 11.28%
Number of salaries quoted 49 126 47
10th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £53,800
25th Percentile £26,250 £47,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -10.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £53,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £69,750 £88,750 £88,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.13% +3.23% +3.33%

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 631 1,169 674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.90% 27.88% 30.55%
Number of salaries quoted 518 542 475
10th Percentile £28,750 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,250 £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 26 October 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 26 October 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
Cambridgeshire -35 26 £50,000 -28.57% 16
Essex +6 17 £25,000 - 5
Hertfordshire +6 17 £42,500 -43.33% 25
Bedfordshire -5 12 £72,500 +52.63% 3
Norfolk +12 3 - - 2
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 13 (17.33%) Confluence
2 6 (8.00%) IIS
2 6 (8.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.67%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (53.33%) Azure
2 28 (37.33%) AWS
3 14 (18.67%) GCP
4 8 (10.67%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (9.33%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (9.33%) Serverless
6 6 (8.00%) Entra ID
6 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.00%) SaaS
8 1 (1.33%) Amazon Alexa
8 1 (1.33%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.33%) Firebase
8 1 (1.33%) OCI
8 1 (1.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.00%) DMARC
1 6 (8.00%) SSL
2 4 (5.33%) Internet
3 1 (1.33%) 3GPP
3 1 (1.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (42.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (14.67%) MySQL
3 8 (10.67%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.67%) Redis
6 1 (1.33%) Big Data
6 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (22.67%) JIRA
2 16 (21.33%) GitLab
2 16 (21.33%) Selenium
3 15 (20.00%) Bitbucket
3 15 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 15 (20.00%) Maven
3 15 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 15 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (4.00%) Git
5 1 (1.33%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.33%) JMeter
5 1 (1.33%) Postman
5 1 (1.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 23 (30.67%) Finance
1 23 (30.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Banking
2 15 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (10.67%) Retail
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Aerospace
5 6 (8.00%) Czech Language
5 6 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Automotive
7 1 (1.33%) Aviation
7 1 (1.33%) Electronics
7 1 (1.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 16 (21.33%) Developer
3 14 (18.67%) Graduate
4 10 (13.33%) Graduate Developer
4 10 (13.33%) IT Graduate
5 9 (12.00%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Implementation Manager
6 7 (9.33%) Support Manager
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Implementation Manager
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Manager
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Support
6 7 (9.33%) Technical Support Manager
7 6 (8.00%) Administrator
7 6 (8.00%) Applications Support
7 6 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) IT Administrator
7 6 (8.00%) IT Support
7 6 (8.00%) Software Applications Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Software Support Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.00%) CSS
2 20 (26.67%) React
3 18 (24.00%) .NET
3 18 (24.00%) Kafka
3 18 (24.00%) Spring
3 18 (24.00%) Spring Boot
4 17 (22.67%) HTML
5 15 (20.00%) JPA
5 15 (20.00%) Redux
6 13 (17.33%) Hibernate
7 11 (14.67%) REST
8 10 (13.33%) ASP.NET
8 10 (13.33%) jQuery
9 6 (8.00%) JSON
9 6 (8.00%) SOAP
9 6 (8.00%) XML
10 4 (5.33%) RESTful
11 3 (4.00%) HTML5
11 3 (4.00%) Jest
12 2 (2.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.00%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 9 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (10.67%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.33%) IoT
6 3 (4.00%) Arduino
6 3 (4.00%) Raspberry Pi
6 3 (4.00%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.67%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.33%) FPGA
8 1 (1.33%) Home Automation
8 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Linux
2 6 (8.00%) Unix
2 6 (8.00%) Windows
3 4 (5.33%) Android
4 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.67%) Agile
2 33 (44.00%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (41.33%) Software Engineering
4 28 (37.33%) Computer Science
5 27 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (28.00%) CI/CD
7 20 (26.67%) SDLC
8 19 (25.33%) DevOps
8 19 (25.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (25.33%) Microservices
9 18 (24.00%) Front End Development
10 16 (21.33%) Containerisation
10 16 (21.33%) Performance Optimisation
10 16 (21.33%) Test Automation
11 14 (18.67%) Clean Code
11 14 (18.67%) TDD
12 10 (13.33%) MVC
12 10 (13.33%) OO
12 10 (13.33%) OOP
13 9 (12.00%) AI
Programming Languages
1 38 (50.67%) SQL
2 31 (41.33%) Python
3 30 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 22 (29.33%) C++
5 12 (16.00%) C#
6 11 (14.67%) PHP
7 6 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.00%) VBA
8 5 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.00%) Assembly Language
9 3 (4.00%) C
9 3 (4.00%) MATLAB
9 3 (4.00%) Objective-C
9 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.00%) Swift
10 1 (1.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (41.33%) Degree
2 21 (28.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (2.67%) PhD
6 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.33%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.00%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (8.00%) PCI DSS
2 6 (8.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) MISRA
System Software
1 19 (25.33%) Docker
2 6 (8.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.33%) Istio
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Solace
2 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (13.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.67%) ATG
4 2 (2.67%) Veritas
5 1 (1.33%) Google
5 1 (1.33%) Huawei