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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 -40
Permanent jobs citing Java 17 63 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.45% 6.29% 3.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.37% 19.38% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 23
10th Percentile £47,800 £45,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -10.45%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £92,000 £84,750
South East median annual salary £61,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.77% +8.33% -4.00%

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 203 325 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 17.35% 32.47% 42.68%
Number of salaries quoted 166 187 229
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,938 £69,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Java job vacancy trend 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 7 December 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 7 December 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 -18 17 £60,000 -20.00% 16
Java
South East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Anypoint
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Boomi
3 1 (5.88%) GitHub
3 1 (5.88%) iPaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
3 1 (5.88%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.88%) Metadata
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
2 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Selenium
2 3 (17.65%) Cypress.io
2 3 (17.65%) WebDriver
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.88%) Postman
4 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
3 8 (47.06%) Law
4 7 (41.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Finance
6 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Salesforce Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer in Test
3 3 (17.65%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Graduate
5 1 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) REST
2 6 (35.29%) SOAP
3 5 (29.41%) .NET
4 4 (23.53%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (23.53%) Middleware
4 4 (23.53%) Visualforce
5 3 (17.65%) Playwright
5 3 (17.65%) RESTful
5 3 (17.65%) Spring
6 2 (11.76%) Kafka
6 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
7 1 (5.88%) jQuery
7 1 (5.88%) JSON
7 1 (5.88%) JWT
7 1 (5.88%) OAuth
7 1 (5.88%) OpenID
7 1 (5.88%) pytest
7 1 (5.88%) React
7 1 (5.88%) SAML
7 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (17.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Community of Practice
3 7 (41.18%) Technology Strategy
4 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
4 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
5 5 (29.41%) DevOps
6 4 (23.53%) Data Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
7 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) SDET
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) C#
2 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Apex Code
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Degree
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Control-M
2 1 (5.88%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) PingFederate
2 1 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) MuleSoft
2 4 (23.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.88%) Epicor
4 1 (5.88%) IBM
4 1 (5.88%) IFS
4 1 (5.88%) Infor
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Jitterbit
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) SnapLogic
4 1 (5.88%) Software AG
4 1 (5.88%) Talend
4 1 (5.88%) TIBCO
4 1 (5.88%) Workday