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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 56 39
Rank change year-on-year -53 -17 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 14 126 93
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.56% 4.60% 5.23%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.28% 15.77% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11 64 70
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £45,600 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% +5.38%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £75,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £86,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -2.04%

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 427 799 687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 17.01% 29.19% 38.64%
Number of salaries quoted 356 544 564
10th Percentile £29,750 £38,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £58,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +9.35% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,188 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,500 £85,000 £79,625
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 30 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 30 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 +5 6 £55,000 -24.14% 34
Farnborough -14 2 £56,250 -33.82% 2
Portsmouth -2 1 - - 34
Winchester -2 1 £57,500 +27.78%
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 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) DB2
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) JMeter
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Gradle
3 1 (7.14%) Postman
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Java Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Support Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Junior
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) React
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
2 3 (21.43%) Vue
3 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) Drools
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
1 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (28.57%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
3 3 (21.43%) Product Management
3 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
3 3 (21.43%) Rapid Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) Microservices
4 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
5 1 (7.14%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (7.14%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
5 1 (7.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C++
2 4 (28.57%) Go
3 3 (21.43%) Python
4 2 (14.29%) C
4 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) C#
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
1 2 (14.29%) VMware