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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 28 37
Rank change year-on-year -78 +9 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 20 212 92
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 0.92% 6.32% 5.03%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.17% 21.16% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 15 138 74
10th Percentile - £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -12.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,000 £75,250
90th Percentile £81,000 £87,500 £86,175
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -2.44%

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 480 1,002 730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.99% 29.85% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 355 677 581
10th Percentile £28,000 £40,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,813 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £66,875 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +3 6 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Fareham +11 5 £32,500 -35.00% 1
Portsmouth -1 1 - - 3
Fleet -10 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 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Redis
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (10.00%) JMeter
3 2 (10.00%) JUnit
3 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) Gradle
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Applications Support
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Android Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Junior
5 2 (10.00%) Junior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Kafka Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Support Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Vue
2 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) React
2 3 (15.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.00%) Drools
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Linux
2 4 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (25.00%) ERP
3 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 5 (25.00%) Logistics
3 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Microservices
5 3 (15.00%) Product Management
5 3 (15.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (15.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.00%) Observability
6 2 (10.00%) Validation
7 1 (5.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) C++
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (20.00%) C
4 4 (20.00%) Kotlin
5 3 (15.00%) Go
6 1 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.00%) Scala
6 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) VMware