Principal Java Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Principal Java Engineer
England > East of England

The median Principal Java Engineer salary in the East of England is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Principal Java Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.027% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - -
75th Percentile £85,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £102,500 £107,500 £120,000
% change year-on-year -4.65% -10.42% +128.57%

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 3,335 3,847 1,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.48% 90.67% 95.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,060 1,957 1,363
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £53,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% -0.93% +1.90%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £68,421
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,350
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.07% -

Principal Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Principal Java Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Principal Java Engineer job vacancy trend in the East of England

Principal Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Principal Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Principal Java Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Principal Java Engineer
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 Principal Java Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 November 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 - 1 £80,000 - 2
Principal Java Engineer
England

Principal Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, Principal Java Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring Principal Java Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot

Principal Java Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform