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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 71 16
Rank change year-on-year -52 -55 +21
Permanent jobs citing Java 36 43 372
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.76% 2.22% 9.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.14% 8.60% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 32 35 210
10th Percentile £46,750 £26,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £47,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.11% -17.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,250 £81,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -11.54%

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 700 500 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.80% 25.87% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 569 356 915
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,200
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,500 £78,750 £80,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%

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 14 August 2026.

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 14 August 2026. 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
Farnborough -31 17 £75,000 +11.11% 6
Southampton -24 9 £74,000 +55.79% 8
Romsey - 4 £62,500 -
Fleet -3 1 £52,500 -
Fareham -39 1 £41,500 +27.69%
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 2 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) JBoss
2 1 (2.78%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) Serverless
4 6 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.78%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (2.78%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (16.67%) MQTT
2 1 (2.78%) ATM
2 1 (2.78%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.78%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (61.11%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Selenium
3 2 (5.56%) Android Studio
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 2 (5.56%) JMeter
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.78%) Gatling
4 1 (2.78%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (2.78%) JUnit
4 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.78%) NUnit
4 1 (2.78%) Ranorex
4 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.78%) Snyk
4 1 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Software Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Lead
4 5 (13.89%) Lead Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Lead Java Developer
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) IT Support Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Performance Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) QA Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Real Time Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Software Tester
6 1 (2.78%) Support Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Test Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) React
2 7 (19.44%) Kafka
3 5 (13.89%) Spring
4 3 (8.33%) REST
5 2 (5.56%) .NET
5 2 (5.56%) gRPC
6 1 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.78%) Apache Camel
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Core
6 1 (2.78%) JSON
6 1 (2.78%) Middleware
6 1 (2.78%) Next.js
6 1 (2.78%) Node.js
6 1 (2.78%) Playwright
6 1 (2.78%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.78%) React Native
6 1 (2.78%) SOAP
6 1 (2.78%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Data Structures
2 7 (19.44%) Algorithms
3 6 (16.67%) Product Ownership
4 5 (13.89%) Robotics
5 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (2.78%) Lidar
7 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.78%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 22 (61.11%) Software Engineering
3 21 (58.33%) Agile
4 16 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 16 (44.44%) DevOps
5 15 (41.67%) Test Automation
6 12 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 10 (27.78%) Computer Science
7 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (22.22%) Microservices
8 8 (22.22%) Scrum
9 7 (19.44%) Software Delivery
10 6 (16.67%) AI
10 6 (16.67%) Edge Computing
10 6 (16.67%) Machine Learning
11 5 (13.89%) Code Quality
11 5 (13.89%) Kanban
11 5 (13.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 5 (13.89%) SDLC
12 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (61.11%) Python
2 19 (52.78%) JavaScript
3 15 (41.67%) Go
4 13 (36.11%) TypeScript
5 12 (33.33%) Rust
6 5 (13.89%) C++
7 4 (11.11%) C#
8 3 (8.33%) C
8 3 (8.33%) SQL
9 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.78%) Ada
10 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 15 (41.67%) Degree
3 9 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
6 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 7 (19.44%) Terraform
3 6 (16.67%) Ansible
4 2 (5.56%) Podman
4 2 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.78%) Infor
3 1 (2.78%) NVIDIA
3 1 (2.78%) Veracode
3 1 (2.78%) Yahoo!