Java Jobs in Essex

Java
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 66 38
Rank change year-on-year +40 -28 -29
Permanent jobs citing Java 36 13 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 7.42% 1.48% 5.89%
As % of the Programming Languages category 24.66% 5.68% 20.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 10 5
10th Percentile - £37,300 £58,200
25th Percentile - £46,313 £63,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £62,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% -26.47% +88.89%
75th Percentile £33,750 £68,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £41,750 £69,875 -
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -28.00% -10.71% +27.27%

All Programming Languages
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 146 229 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 30.10% 26.14% 28.73%
Number of salaries quoted 90 203 145
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £32,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £66,813 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £74,750 £80,750
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Essex

Java
Salary Trend in Essex

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java in Essex.

Salary trend for Java in Essex

Java
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Essex over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Essex

Java
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Essex region over the 6 months to 22 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
Epping - 8 £32,500 - 1
Southend-on-Sea -4 2 - - 2
Buckhurst Hill - 2 - -
Colchester +17 1 - - 12
Purfleet - 1 - -
Waltham Abbey - 1 - -
Grays - 1 - -
Chigwell - 1 - -
Java
East of England

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 1 (2.78%) IIS
1 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) Azure
2 16 (44.44%) AWS
3 8 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (22.22%) Pulumi
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) MySQL
3 8 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 8 (22.22%) RDBMS
3 8 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) Big Data
4 2 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Jaeger
General
1 16 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Graduate
3 10 (27.78%) Graduate Developer
3 10 (27.78%) IT Graduate
4 8 (22.22%) Lead
4 8 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 8 (22.22%) Team Leader
5 7 (19.44%) Implementation Manager
5 7 (19.44%) Support Manager
5 7 (19.44%) Technical Implementation Manager
5 7 (19.44%) Technical Manager
5 7 (19.44%) Technical Support
5 7 (19.44%) Technical Support Manager
6 5 (13.89%) Graduate Support Manager
6 5 (13.89%) Graduate Technical Support
7 2 (5.56%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Agile Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 2 (5.56%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (52.78%) .NET
2 10 (27.78%) ASP.NET
2 10 (27.78%) CSS
2 10 (27.78%) jQuery
3 8 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (22.22%) Node.js
3 8 (22.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (22.22%) Pandas
4 2 (5.56%) gRPC
4 2 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Cyberattack
2 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Android
2 8 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (72.22%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) OO
3 17 (47.22%) Computer Science
3 17 (47.22%) Software Engineering
4 16 (44.44%) Containerisation
5 15 (41.67%) Task Automation
6 14 (38.89%) OOP
7 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (30.56%) High Availability
9 10 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (27.78%) MVC
10 9 (25.00%) DevOps
11 8 (22.22%) Android Development
11 8 (22.22%) Budget Control
11 8 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (22.22%) Line Management
11 8 (22.22%) Mentoring
11 8 (22.22%) Product Management
11 8 (22.22%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Python
2 18 (50.00%) C++
3 16 (44.44%) Go
3 16 (44.44%) JavaScript
4 12 (33.33%) C#
5 10 (27.78%) PHP
6 8 (22.22%) Bash
6 8 (22.22%) Rust
7 2 (5.56%) SQL
8 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 17 (47.22%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 8 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 18 (50.00%) Terraform
2 16 (44.44%) Ansible
3 8 (22.22%) Argo
3 8 (22.22%) Kustomize
3 8 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) SCCM
4 1 (2.78%) SCOM
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (2.78%) F5
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) Okta