Java Job Trends in Hampshire

Java
South East > Hampshire

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 38 44
Rank change year-on-year -73 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Java 15 168 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.61% 5.39% 4.83%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.42% 18.12% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 11 93 65
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £86,000
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.00%

All Programming Languages
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 439 927 666
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.87% 29.75% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 354 623 543
10th Percentile £29,750 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,063 £42,500 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,125 £66,445
90th Percentile £78,750 £83,000 £77,500
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 Hampshire

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

Java job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Java
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Hampshire over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in Hampshire

Java
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 6 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
Southampton -1 7 £55,000 -22.81% 7
Portsmouth +7 1 - - 2
Winchester +1 1 £57,500 +27.78%
Farnborough -14 1 £75,000 -11.76% 2
Java
South East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.67%) MariaDB
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JMeter
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Gradle
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Kafka Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Android Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Support Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Junior Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) React
1 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (20.00%) Vue
3 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
3 2 (13.33%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) Drools
4 1 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) SOAP
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (20.00%) Product Management
4 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (20.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (13.33%) Microservices
5 2 (13.33%) Observability
6 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) DevSecOps
6 1 (6.67%) Event-Driven
6 1 (6.67%) Innovative Thinking
6 1 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) C++
2 4 (26.67%) C
2 4 (26.67%) Go
2 4 (26.67%) Kotlin
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) VMware