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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 79 69
Rank change year-on-year -79 -10 +1
Permanent jobs citing Java 50 118 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.63% 3.48% 2.61%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.56% 16.16% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 49 72 70
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £26,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -47.06% +30.77%
75th Percentile £78,750 £74,688 -
90th Percentile £143,250 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +0.46%

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 1,097 730 1,091
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.75% 21.53% 24.53%
Number of salaries quoted 843 580 595
10th Percentile £35,250 £28,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.40% -16.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,900 £79,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -33 21 £76,500 +53.00% 52
Essex -42 9 £25,000 -13.04% 6
Suffolk - 8 £57,500 - 16
Bedfordshire -16 6 £51,359 -29.16% 7
Hertfordshire -63 6 £135,500 +59.41% 27
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 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.00%) CMS
1 1 (2.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 11 (22.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) SaaS
4 2 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.00%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (2.00%) Datadog
5 1 (2.00%) Figma
5 1 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Bluetooth
1 1 (2.00%) Broadband
1 1 (2.00%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.00%) MySQL
2 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
1 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Legal
3 4 (8.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.00%) Automotive
4 3 (6.00%) Games
4 3 (6.00%) Multimedia
5 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (40.00%) Developer
2 16 (32.00%) Lead
3 14 (28.00%) Software Engineer
4 13 (26.00%) Software Developer
5 11 (22.00%) Lead Software Engineer
6 10 (20.00%) Java Developer
7 7 (14.00%) Graduate
7 7 (14.00%) Java Software Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Applications Support
8 6 (12.00%) C# Developer
8 6 (12.00%) C# Software Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Graduate C# Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Graduate Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Graduate Software Developer
8 6 (12.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 6 (12.00%) SQL Developer
9 4 (8.00%) Application Support Team Leader
9 4 (8.00%) Azure Developer
9 4 (8.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) CSS
1 10 (20.00%) React
2 9 (18.00%) jQuery
3 7 (14.00%) Web Services
4 4 (8.00%) Spring
5 3 (6.00%) CarPlay
5 3 (6.00%) HTML
5 3 (6.00%) RESTful
6 2 (4.00%) .NET
6 2 (4.00%) Middleware
6 2 (4.00%) Redux
6 2 (4.00%) REST
6 2 (4.00%) SOAP
6 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.00%) Terraform
7 1 (2.00%) Hibernate
7 1 (2.00%) Node.js
7 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.00%) Spring MVC
7 1 (2.00%) WebGL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) e-Learning
1 7 (14.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.00%) IoT
2 4 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.00%) Robotics
2 4 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.00%) Raspberry Pi
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Life Science
5 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Android
3 3 (6.00%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.00%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (42.00%) OO
2 19 (38.00%) Agile
2 19 (38.00%) Software Engineering
3 18 (36.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (28.00%) Computer Science
4 14 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (24.00%) OOP
6 9 (18.00%) Scrum
6 9 (18.00%) User Experience
7 8 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 8 (16.00%) Kanban
7 8 (16.00%) MVC
8 7 (14.00%) Open Source
8 7 (14.00%) Product Vision
8 7 (14.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (14.00%) Scrum-ban
8 7 (14.00%) Test Strategy
8 7 (14.00%) UX Design
8 7 (14.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) Python
2 16 (32.00%) C++
2 16 (32.00%) SQL
3 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (24.00%) C#
5 11 (22.00%) PHP
6 8 (16.00%) TypeScript
7 6 (12.00%) C
8 5 (10.00%) Scala
8 5 (10.00%) Shell Script
9 4 (8.00%) Clojure
9 4 (8.00%) Erlang
9 4 (8.00%) Rust
10 3 (6.00%) Embedded C++
11 1 (2.00%) Ada
11 1 (2.00%) Bash
11 1 (2.00%) Objective-C
11 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Degree
2 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (14.00%) DBS Check
3 4 (8.00%) HNC
3 4 (8.00%) HND
4 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) Ansible
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.00%) Puppet
2 1 (2.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (6.00%) Apple
3 1 (2.00%) Databricks
3 1 (2.00%) SGI
3 1 (2.00%) VMware