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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 46 64
Rank change year-on-year -81 +18 -37
Permanent jobs citing Java 35 193 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.93% 4.69% 3.53%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.97% 14.90% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 27 139 44
10th Percentile - £43,750 £52,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £47,500 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.33% -10.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £84,375 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,500 £85,500 £89,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year -3.13% +5.89% +0.74%

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 586 1,295 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 15.51% 31.45% 32.29%
Number of salaries quoted 475 629 473
10th Percentile £28,750 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £75,900 £85,000 £87,500
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 1 December 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 1 December 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
Essex -3 13 £25,000 - 1
Hertfordshire +1 11 £42,500 -32.00% 23
Cambridgeshire -49 10 £67,500 - 12
Bedfordshire 0 1 £85,000 +78.95% 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 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (8.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 12 (34.29%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.71%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) Serverless
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (37.14%) MySQL
3 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) JMeter
2 1 (2.86%) Postman
2 1 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (2.86%) Selenium
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Aerospace
4 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Aviation
6 1 (2.86%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (40.00%) Graduate
2 13 (37.14%) Developer
2 13 (37.14%) Graduate Developer
3 9 (25.71%) IT Graduate
4 6 (17.14%) Azure Developer
4 6 (17.14%) C# Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Graduate C# Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 6 (17.14%) Graduate SQL Developer
4 6 (17.14%) PHP Developer
4 6 (17.14%) SQL Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Graduate Software Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Software Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Digital Transformation
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) CSS
2 13 (37.14%) .NET
2 13 (37.14%) jQuery
3 9 (25.71%) ASP.NET
4 5 (14.29%) React
5 3 (8.57%) Kafka
5 3 (8.57%) Spring
5 3 (8.57%) Spring Boot
6 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (2.86%) HTML
7 1 (2.86%) HTML5
7 1 (2.86%) Jest
7 1 (2.86%) Material-UI
7 1 (2.86%) Node.js
7 1 (2.86%) Playwright
7 1 (2.86%) REST
7 1 (2.86%) RESTful
7 1 (2.86%) Vue
7 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.57%) Arduino
2 3 (8.57%) IoT
2 3 (8.57%) Raspberry Pi
2 3 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.71%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.86%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.86%) FPGA
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.86%) Android
2 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 17 (48.57%) Agile
3 16 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (37.14%) MVC
4 13 (37.14%) OOP
5 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
6 10 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (28.57%) OO
7 7 (20.00%) AI
8 6 (17.14%) CI/CD
8 6 (17.14%) Innovative Thinking
9 5 (14.29%) Mathematics
10 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (11.43%) Physics
10 4 (11.43%) SDLC
11 3 (8.57%) Data Acquisition
11 3 (8.57%) Decision-Making
11 3 (8.57%) DevOps
11 3 (8.57%) Mathematical Modelling
11 3 (8.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) C++
2 17 (48.57%) Python
3 15 (42.86%) C#
4 13 (37.14%) PHP
4 13 (37.14%) SQL
5 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.43%) TypeScript
7 3 (8.57%) Assembly Language
7 3 (8.57%) C
7 3 (8.57%) MATLAB
7 3 (8.57%) Objective-C
7 3 (8.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (65.71%) Degree
2 15 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (17.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.86%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (2.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.86%) MISRA
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Istio
2 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Huawei