Junior Jobs in the East of England

Junior
England > East of England

The median Junior salary in the East of England is £32,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 124 126
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 72 107 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.42% 1.76% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.70% 1.88% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 58 94 52
10th Percentile £21,025 £22,150 £22,025
25th Percentile £21,250 £24,060 £25,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £27,500 £31,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -12.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £42,627 £32,375 £43,125
90th Percentile £43,750 £33,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £36,000 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 2,665 5,696 4,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.67% 93.93% 84.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,522 4,346 2,298
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,809 £26,675
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,206 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,000 £75,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the East of England

Junior
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior in the East of England.

Salary trend for Junior in the East of England

Junior
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior in the East of England

Junior
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 Junior within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Norfolk +39 26 £40,101 +60.40%
Essex +28 23 £22,500 -30.77% 6
Suffolk -23 9 - -
Cambridgeshire +24 7 £43,750 +80.49% 10
Hertfordshire +18 7 £35,000 +22.81% 14
Junior
England

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Junior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 40 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 29 (40.28%) Degree
3 25 (34.72%) Microsoft
4 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (27.78%) Customer Service
6 18 (25.00%) Mathematics
6 18 (25.00%) Physics
7 16 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 16 (22.22%) Project Management
7 16 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
7 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (20.83%) Driving Licence
8 15 (20.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (20.83%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 15 (20.83%) UML
8 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
8 15 (20.83%) PLM
9 14 (19.44%) Electronics
9 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (18.06%) Rational DOORS
10 13 (18.06%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
10 13 (18.06%) Systems Engineering
10 13 (18.06%) IBM
10 13 (18.06%) MATLAB
10 13 (18.06%) Simulink
10 13 (18.06%) SysML
10 13 (18.06%) Teamcenter
10 13 (18.06%) Aerospace
11 10 (13.89%) Customer Experience
12 9 (12.50%) Business Development

Junior Skill Set
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 2 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (18.06%) Simulink
3 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (4.17%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.39%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.94%) AWS
3 3 (4.17%) Azure
4 2 (2.78%) Google Ads
4 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.39%) Asana
5 1 (1.39%) Figma
5 1 (1.39%) GCP
5 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) HTTP
1 1 (1.39%) Internet
1 1 (1.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.78%) MySQL
2 2 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Scylla
3 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (4.17%) Git
3 2 (2.78%) Eclipse
3 2 (2.78%) Eclipse RCP
3 2 (2.78%) JIRA
3 2 (2.78%) Vite
3 2 (2.78%) webpack
4 1 (1.39%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.39%) GitLab
4 1 (1.39%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 40 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Electronics
3 13 (18.06%) Aerospace
4 7 (9.72%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Law
6 3 (4.17%) Legal
6 3 (4.17%) Marketing
7 2 (2.78%) Finance
7 2 (2.78%) Retail
8 1 (1.39%) Advertising
8 1 (1.39%) Automotive
8 1 (1.39%) Aviation
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) Node.js
2 4 (5.56%) CSS
2 4 (5.56%) HTML
3 3 (4.17%) Laravel
4 2 (2.78%) Bootstrap
4 2 (2.78%) CSS3
4 2 (2.78%) HTML5
4 2 (2.78%) jQuery
4 2 (2.78%) JSP
4 2 (2.78%) Middleware
4 2 (2.78%) Sass
4 2 (2.78%) Vue
5 1 (1.39%) .NET
5 1 (1.39%) Django
5 1 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.39%) OAuth
5 1 (1.39%) REST
5 1 (1.39%) SOAP
5 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.83%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.78%) Social Media
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.39%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.39%) e-Learning
3 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.39%) Motion Graphics
3 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.39%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) Linux
2 3 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.39%) Android
3 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (27.78%) Customer Service
3 18 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 18 (25.00%) Physics
4 16 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 16 (22.22%) Project Management
5 15 (20.83%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.83%) PLM
5 15 (20.83%) UML
6 14 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (18.06%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 13 (18.06%) SysML
7 13 (18.06%) Systems Engineering
8 10 (13.89%) Customer Experience
9 9 (12.50%) Business Development
9 9 (12.50%) Business Enablement
10 8 (11.11%) Technology Enablement
10 8 (11.11%) Time Management
11 5 (6.94%) DevOps
12 4 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.06%) MATLAB
2 9 (12.50%) Python
3 6 (8.33%) SQL
4 4 (5.56%) Java
5 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.17%) PHP
6 2 (2.78%) Ada
6 2 (2.78%) C#
6 2 (2.78%) Rust
7 1 (1.39%) Bash
7 1 (1.39%) C
7 1 (1.39%) C++
7 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (40.28%) Degree
2 15 (20.83%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
4 1 (1.39%) CISSP
4 1 (1.39%) GCIA
4 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) GDPR
1 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Graylog
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 13 (18.06%) IBM
3 8 (11.11%) YouTube
4 3 (4.17%) Adobe
4 3 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) TikTok
6 1 (1.39%) Facebook
6 1 (1.39%) Instagram
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) Splunk
6 1 (1.39%) Toshiba
6 1 (1.39%) Twitter