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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 19 36
Rank change year-on-year -61 +17 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 36 338 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.82% 9.04% 5.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.14% 28.74% 14.36%
Number of salaries quoted 28 194 86
10th Percentile £26,750 £40,000 £35,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,788 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £75,188
90th Percentile £79,875 £88,750 £86,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -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 504 1,176 780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 25.48% 31.47% 40.65%
Number of salaries quoted 353 800 622
10th Percentile £29,800 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Fareham +19 12 £32,500 -35.00% 3
Southampton -4 7 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Basingstoke -22 4 - - 3
Farnborough -4 2 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Portsmouth +3 1 - - 2
Fleet -8 1 - - 1
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
2 4 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 2 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (5.56%) Matillion
4 2 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.78%) SaaS
5 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) HTTP
1 4 (11.11%) HTTPS
1 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Big Data
2 3 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) DB2
4 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.78%) MariaDB
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.78%) Gradle
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) JMeter
3 1 (2.78%) JUnit
3 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Applications Support
3 7 (19.44%) Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Applications Support Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Junior
3 7 (19.44%) Junior Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Support Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Junior Java Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (11.11%) Mobile Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Embedded Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) RESTful
2 4 (11.11%) J2EE
2 4 (11.11%) Spring
2 4 (11.11%) Vue
3 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.33%) React
4 2 (5.56%) Kafka
4 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.78%) ADO
5 1 (2.78%) Drools
5 1 (2.78%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Android
3 4 (11.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Computer Science
2 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (19.44%) ERP
3 7 (19.44%) ITIL
3 7 (19.44%) Logistics
3 7 (19.44%) Microservices
3 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
4 6 (16.67%) Agile
4 6 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (11.11%) Analytics
6 4 (11.11%) Application Security
6 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 4 (11.11%) Cryptography
6 4 (11.11%) Key Management
6 4 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
6 4 (11.11%) Reverse Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 4 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) C++
1 12 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) SQL
3 9 (25.00%) C
4 8 (22.22%) Kotlin
5 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
6 4 (11.11%) Objective-C
7 3 (8.33%) C#
7 3 (8.33%) Go
8 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.78%) Delphi
9 1 (2.78%) Rust
9 1 (2.78%) Scala
9 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) SAP
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) VMware