Java Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Java
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 36 53
Rank change year-on-year -35 +17 -14
Permanent jobs citing Java 28 55 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.30% 4.77% 3.98%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.14% 19.37% 9.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13 29 29
10th Percentile - £42,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £42,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £92,000 £90,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £61,500
% change year-on-year +13.04% -6.50% -1.60%

All Programming Languages
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 198 284 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 16.30% 24.61% 40.75%
Number of salaries quoted 114 168 257
10th Percentile £33,250 £34,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £84,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in Buckinghamshire

Java
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Buckinghamshire

Java
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Milton Keynes +4 13 £52,500 -30.00% 11
Bletchley -3 3 £52,500 -12.50%
Buckingham 0 2 - -
Beaconsfield -1 1 - -
Amersham - 1 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Chalfont St Giles - 1 - -
Chesham - 1 - -
Iver - 1 - -
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 5 (17.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (21.43%) MongoDB
2 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) GitLab
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 6 (21.43%) Selenium
3 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 4 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 4 (14.29%) Maven
3 4 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 4 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (10.71%) JUnit
4 3 (10.71%) Mockito
5 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 2 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (35.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (25.00%) Finance
5 6 (21.43%) Banking
6 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
7 2 (7.14%) Law
8 1 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (3.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Developer in Test
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Power Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Backend Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Graduate Developer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Graduate
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Leader
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (46.43%) HTML
1 13 (46.43%) Spring Boot
2 12 (42.86%) Spring
3 11 (39.29%) Kafka
4 9 (32.14%) React
5 7 (25.00%) Hibernate
6 5 (17.86%) CSS
6 5 (17.86%) RESTful
7 4 (14.29%) JPA
7 4 (14.29%) OAuth
7 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (14.29%) Redux
8 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
8 3 (10.71%) OAuth2
8 3 (10.71%) REST
8 3 (10.71%) Vue
9 2 (7.14%) .NET
9 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (7.14%) Playwright
10 1 (3.57%) GraalVM
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.57%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 10 (35.71%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 10 (35.71%) Machine Learning
3 10 (35.71%) Microservices
4 9 (32.14%) Containerisation
4 9 (32.14%) Data Privacy
4 9 (32.14%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (28.57%) DevOps
6 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (25.00%) SDLC
6 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) Community of Practice
8 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (17.86%) TDD
9 4 (14.29%) API Development
9 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
9 4 (14.29%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) SQL
2 16 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 12 (42.86%) C#
4 11 (39.29%) C++
4 11 (39.29%) Python
4 11 (39.29%) TypeScript
5 10 (35.71%) PHP
5 10 (35.71%) Rust
6 9 (32.14%) C
6 9 (32.14%) Dart
6 9 (32.14%) MATLAB
6 9 (32.14%) R
6 9 (32.14%) Ruby
7 1 (3.57%) Go
7 1 (3.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (42.86%) Degree
2 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 1 (3.57%) PingFederate
3 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Solace
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) WSO2
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle