Java Job Trends in Suffolk

Java
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 2 0 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Suffolk 0.42% - 1.87%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.94% - 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 11
10th Percentile £44,125 - £40,000
25th Percentile £46,563 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 - £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.08%
75th Percentile £61,563 - £55,000
90th Percentile £64,375 - -
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £44,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +23.60% -28.80% -3.85%

All Programming Languages
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 68 148 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Suffolk 14.41% 25.39% 17.52%
Number of salaries quoted 28 148 68
10th Percentile £35,250 £55,650 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £66,200 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £66,215 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.59% +32.43% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £66,254 £55,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £66,309 £66,250
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -4.35%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Java job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Java
Salary Trend in Suffolk

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Suffolk

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Suffolk over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Suffolk

Java
Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 21 June 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
Ipswich - 2 £53,750 - 1
Java
East of England

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle