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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 62 69
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 -42
Permanent jobs citing Java 118 120 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.48% 2.68% 3.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.21% 10.91% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 72 72 42
10th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £49,075
25th Percentile £26,250 £60,938 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £74,688 - £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,125
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +10.34%

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 728 1,100 787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 21.46% 24.57% 31.06%
Number of salaries quoted 578 596 501
10th Percentile £29,100 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £46,250 £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 £63,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £63,075 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -3.85% +1.63%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Hertfordshire +33 41 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Cambridgeshire -15 32 £50,000 -41.18% 13
Essex +9 30 £28,750 -26.28% 7
Bedfordshire -5 12 £72,500 +38.10% 10
Norfolk +18 3 - - 2
Java
England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (11.02%) Confluence
2 9 (7.63%) IIS
2 9 (7.63%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.54%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (50.85%) Azure
2 56 (47.46%) AWS
3 21 (17.80%) AWS Lambda
3 21 (17.80%) Serverless
4 17 (14.41%) SaaS
5 15 (12.71%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (12.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (11.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (11.86%) Amazon EventBridge
6 14 (11.86%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (11.86%) AWS CodeBuild
6 14 (11.86%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 14 (11.86%) AWS CodePipeline
6 14 (11.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 14 (11.86%) Boomi
6 14 (11.86%) GCP
7 9 (7.63%) Entra ID
7 9 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Copilot
7 9 (7.63%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.63%) DMARC
1 9 (7.63%) SSL
2 3 (2.54%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) 3GPP
3 1 (0.85%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (32.20%) SQL Server
2 18 (15.25%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (13.56%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (12.71%) Big Data
5 12 (10.17%) MySQL
6 5 (4.24%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.54%) Oracle Database
7 3 (2.54%) Redis
8 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) GitLab
1 16 (13.56%) JIRA
1 16 (13.56%) Selenium
2 15 (12.71%) Bitbucket
2 15 (12.71%) Cucumber
2 15 (12.71%) Maven
2 15 (12.71%) SonarQube
2 15 (12.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 6 (5.08%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.85%) JMeter
4 1 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 30 (25.42%) Finance
1 30 (25.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.71%) Banking
5 14 (11.86%) Law
5 14 (11.86%) Public Sector
6 12 (10.17%) Retail
7 9 (7.63%) Czech Language
7 9 (7.63%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (7.63%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.08%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Automotive
10 1 (0.85%) Aviation
10 1 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 37 (31.36%) Developer
2 21 (17.80%) Software Developer
3 20 (16.95%) Graduate
3 20 (16.95%) Software Engineer
4 14 (11.86%) Lead
5 13 (11.02%) Graduate Developer
5 13 (11.02%) IT Graduate
6 10 (8.47%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) Implementation Manager
6 10 (8.47%) Support Manager
6 10 (8.47%) Technical Implementation Manager
6 10 (8.47%) Technical Manager
6 10 (8.47%) Technical Support
6 10 (8.47%) Technical Support Manager
7 9 (7.63%) Administrator
7 9 (7.63%) IT Administrator
7 9 (7.63%) IT Support
8 6 (5.08%) Applications Support Engineer
8 6 (5.08%) Embedded Software Developer
8 6 (5.08%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (30.51%) .NET
2 29 (24.58%) CSS
3 21 (17.80%) Spring
4 18 (15.25%) Node.js
4 18 (15.25%) React
4 18 (15.25%) RESTful
5 17 (14.41%) Kafka
5 17 (14.41%) Spring Boot
6 16 (13.56%) HTML
7 15 (12.71%) JPA
7 15 (12.71%) Pandas
7 15 (12.71%) Redux
8 14 (11.86%) JWT
8 14 (11.86%) OAuth
8 14 (11.86%) REST
9 13 (11.02%) ASP.NET
9 13 (11.02%) Hibernate
9 13 (11.02%) jQuery
10 9 (7.63%) SOAP
10 9 (7.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.73%) Enterprise Software
2 15 (12.71%) Cyberattack
2 15 (12.71%) Product Ownership
3 12 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.93%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.39%) IoT
6 4 (3.39%) Smartphone
7 3 (2.54%) Arduino
7 3 (2.54%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.85%) Home Automation
9 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.88%) Linux
2 21 (17.80%) Android
3 9 (7.63%) Unix
3 9 (7.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (49.15%) Agile
2 50 (42.37%) CI/CD
3 49 (41.53%) Software Engineering
4 44 (37.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (36.44%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (28.81%) Computer Science
7 32 (27.12%) DevOps
7 32 (27.12%) OO
8 31 (26.27%) Containerisation
9 29 (24.58%) Line Management
10 28 (23.73%) OOP
11 23 (19.49%) Mathematics
11 23 (19.49%) Project Management
12 21 (17.80%) Android Development
13 20 (16.95%) SDLC
14 19 (16.10%) Analytics
14 19 (16.10%) Design Patterns
14 19 (16.10%) Microservices
15 18 (15.25%) Clean Code
15 18 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.22%) JavaScript
2 50 (42.37%) Python
3 47 (39.83%) SQL
4 42 (35.59%) C++
5 29 (24.58%) C#
6 19 (16.10%) Rust
7 16 (13.56%) Go
8 14 (11.86%) PHP
9 9 (7.63%) PowerShell
9 9 (7.63%) VBA
10 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.54%) Assembly Language
11 3 (2.54%) C
11 3 (2.54%) MATLAB
11 3 (2.54%) Objective-C
11 3 (2.54%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (30.51%) Degree
2 35 (29.66%) Security Cleared
3 27 (22.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (12.71%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.69%) PhD
7 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.85%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.25%) QA
2 9 (7.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.08%) PCI DSS
3 6 (5.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 33 (27.97%) Docker
2 9 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 34 (28.81%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.56%) Terraform
3 15 (12.71%) Ansible
4 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.63%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.85%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.71%) Solace
3 14 (11.86%) Informatica
3 14 (11.86%) MuleSoft
3 14 (11.86%) Salesforce
3 14 (11.86%) ServiceNow
4 13 (11.02%) Oracle
5 2 (1.69%) ATG
5 2 (1.69%) Veritas
6 1 (0.85%) Google