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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 46 52
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 25 56 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.05% 4.98% 3.73%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.66% 20.51% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10 25 25
10th Percentile £45,700 £41,750 £45,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £65,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% +9.17% -10.45%
75th Percentile £61,875 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £112,400 £94,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -2.04%

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 183 273 366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 15.01% 24.27% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 123 141 239
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £67,875 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.61% +1.77%

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 15 October 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 October 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 -10 11 £51,000 -32.00% 9
Buckingham +3 2 - -
Bletchley -5 2 £52,500 -12.50% 4
Beaconsfield -2 1 - -
Amersham - 1 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Chalfont St Giles - 1 - -
Chesham - 1 - -
Iver - 1 - -
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 5 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) JIRA
1 6 (24.00%) Selenium
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
3 4 (16.00%) Bitbucket
3 4 (16.00%) Cucumber
3 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (16.00%) Maven
3 4 (16.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (16.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) Mockito
General
1 8 (32.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Developer in Test
4 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (4.00%) IT Graduate
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (52.00%) HTML
2 10 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 9 (36.00%) Kafka
3 9 (36.00%) Spring
4 7 (28.00%) React
5 5 (20.00%) CSS
5 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 4 (16.00%) JPA
6 4 (16.00%) Redux
7 3 (12.00%) REST
7 3 (12.00%) RESTful
8 2 (8.00%) .NET
8 2 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (8.00%) OAuth
8 2 (8.00%) Playwright
8 2 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (4.00%) GraalVM
9 1 (4.00%) JWT
9 1 (4.00%) Quarkus
9 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.00%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Android
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) AI
3 10 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 9 (36.00%) Data Privacy
5 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (28.00%) Microservices
6 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
7 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (20.00%) SDLC
8 5 (20.00%) TDD
9 4 (16.00%) Clean Code
9 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
9 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (12.00%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 17 (68.00%) SQL
2 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (48.00%) C#
4 11 (44.00%) C++
4 11 (44.00%) Python
4 11 (44.00%) TypeScript
5 10 (40.00%) PHP
5 10 (40.00%) Rust
6 9 (36.00%) C
6 9 (36.00%) Dart
6 9 (36.00%) MATLAB
6 9 (36.00%) R
6 9 (36.00%) Ruby
7 1 (4.00%) Go
7 1 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 12 (48.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) PingFederate
3 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Solace
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) WSO2
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle