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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 54 21
Rank change year-on-year -62 -33 +9
Permanent jobs citing Java 21 54 329
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.59% 3.30% 8.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.02% 11.92% 25.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17 45 187
10th Percentile £40,949 £26,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £78,750 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -7.69%

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 523 453 1,298
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.58% 27.72% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 412 362 1,078
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -20 6 £60,000 -11.11% 5
Southampton -19 5 £72,500 +52.63% 11
Fleet -8 1 £52,500 -
Portsmouth -8 1 £92,500 +79.34%
Romsey - 1 £62,500 - 1
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 (9.52%) JBoss
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 8 (38.10%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Boomi
4 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
2 4 (19.05%) Android Studio
3 3 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (14.29%) Postman
3 3 (14.29%) Selenium
4 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
4 2 (9.52%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (9.52%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (4.76%) JMeter
5 1 (4.76%) JUnit
5 1 (4.76%) NUnit
5 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.76%) Snyk
General
1 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Android Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Systems Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technology Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) React
2 4 (19.05%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) SOAP
3 3 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (14.29%) HTML
3 3 (14.29%) JSON
4 2 (9.52%) Kafka
4 2 (9.52%) XML
5 1 (4.76%) CSS
5 1 (4.76%) gRPC
5 1 (4.76%) Next.js
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (4.76%) React Native
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Spring
5 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Structures
2 3 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (23.81%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 8 (38.10%) Software Engineering
4 7 (33.33%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
6 4 (19.05%) Android Development
6 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
6 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
7 3 (14.29%) API Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Kanban
7 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Software Architecture
8 2 (9.52%) Test Management
8 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) JavaScript
1 9 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) C#
2 6 (28.57%) Go
2 6 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 5 (23.81%) C
3 5 (23.81%) C++
3 5 (23.81%) SQL
4 4 (19.05%) Rust
5 1 (4.76%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.76%) PHP
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) Degree
3 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
5 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
5 2 (9.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Podman
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) IFS
3 1 (4.76%) NVIDIA