Java Job Trends in the South East

Java
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 110 35
Rank change year-on-year -34 -75 +9
Permanent jobs citing Java 222 232 711
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.17% 2.60% 5.88%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.85% 14.15% 19.30%
Number of salaries quoted 166 113 384
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £54,063 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,750 £87,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +3.23%

All Programming Languages
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 2,829 1,640 3,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.92% 18.39% 30.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,270 1,156 2,225
10th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £39,906 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Java job vacancy trend in the South East

Java
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the South East over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in the South East

Java
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the South East region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Thames Valley -13 114 £70,000 +7.69% 67
Berkshire -1 85 £70,000 +7.69% 38
Hampshire -32 41 £67,500 +28.57% 40
Surrey -41 32 £65,000 - 20
Oxfordshire -29 18 £87,500 +16.67% 22
West Sussex -30 16 £67,500 +1.89% 18
Kent -12 11 £33,500 +34.00%
Buckinghamshire -20 11 £60,000 +15.94% 7
East Sussex -12 3 £85,000 - 15
Middlesex +14 1 - - 1
Java
England

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (1.35%) Confluence
1 3 (1.35%) OpenStack
2 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
2 2 (0.90%) CMS
3 1 (0.45%) JBoss
3 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.90%) PTC Creo
2 2 (0.90%) Windchill
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Infor SunSystems
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.59%) AWS
2 61 (27.48%) Azure
3 25 (11.26%) GCP
4 23 (10.36%) Serverless
5 16 (7.21%) SaaS
6 15 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (5.41%) GitHub
8 8 (3.60%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.25%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (1.35%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (1.35%) ChatGPT
13 3 (1.35%) GitHub Copilot
13 3 (1.35%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.70%) MQTT
2 3 (1.35%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) ATM
3 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.06%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.81%) Relational Database
3 16 (7.21%) MySQL
4 12 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.05%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.70%) RDBMS
6 6 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (1.80%) Redis
8 3 (1.35%) GIS
9 2 (0.90%) Couchbase
9 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (0.90%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.90%) QGIS
9 2 (0.90%) Spotfire
9 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (23.87%) Git
2 22 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 16 (7.21%) JIRA
4 12 (5.41%) GitLab
4 12 (5.41%) JMeter
4 12 (5.41%) JUnit
5 11 (4.95%) Selenium
6 7 (3.15%) Mockito
7 6 (2.70%) IntelliJ
8 5 (2.25%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.80%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.80%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.35%) Eclipse RCP
10 3 (1.35%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.90%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.90%) Maven
11 2 (0.90%) Mocha
11 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 52 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.61%) Finance
3 22 (9.91%) Health Technology
4 17 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.70%) Digital Health
7 5 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.80%) Advertising
9 3 (1.35%) Law
9 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.90%) Aviation
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 90 (40.54%) Developer
2 73 (32.88%) Java Developer
3 56 (25.23%) Software Engineer
4 42 (18.92%) Senior
5 28 (12.61%) Java Engineer
6 24 (10.81%) Backend Developer
7 21 (9.46%) Senior Developer
8 20 (9.01%) Senior Java Developer
9 16 (7.21%) Analyst
10 13 (5.86%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.95%) Full-Stack Developer
11 11 (4.95%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) Graduate
12 10 (4.50%) Lead
12 10 (4.50%) Senior Java Engineer
13 9 (4.05%) Architect
13 9 (4.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (4.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (3.60%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.77%) Spring
2 34 (15.32%) REST
3 29 (13.06%) Spring Boot
4 24 (10.81%) Kafka
4 24 (10.81%) React
5 19 (8.56%) HTML
6 15 (6.76%) Hibernate
6 15 (6.76%) JSON
7 14 (6.31%) CSS
7 14 (6.31%) XML
8 12 (5.41%) RESTful
8 12 (5.41%) Swing
9 11 (4.95%) Web Services
10 10 (4.50%) jQuery
10 10 (4.50%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (4.50%) Terraform
11 9 (4.05%) Apache Camel
11 9 (4.05%) SOAP
12 8 (3.60%) ActiveMQ
12 8 (3.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.36%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 17 (7.66%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.21%) Algorithms
5 15 (6.76%) Product Ownership
6 9 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (4.05%) Robotics
7 5 (2.25%) Life Science
7 5 (2.25%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.25%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.80%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.80%) Hackathon
8 4 (1.80%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.35%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.90%) NHS
10 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Android
2 2 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.33%) Agile
1 74 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 72 (32.43%) CI/CD
3 58 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (23.87%) Microservices
5 47 (21.17%) Test Automation
6 46 (20.72%) AI
7 43 (19.37%) Computer Science
8 41 (18.47%) DevOps
9 39 (17.57%) SDLC
10 30 (13.51%) Containerisation
11 29 (13.06%) Scrum
12 27 (12.16%) Full-Stack Development
13 21 (9.46%) Code Quality
14 17 (7.66%) Mentoring
15 16 (7.21%) LLM
15 16 (7.21%) Roadmaps
15 16 (7.21%) Software Testing
16 15 (6.76%) Kanban
16 15 (6.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 90 (40.54%) Python
2 75 (33.78%) JavaScript
3 43 (19.37%) SQL
4 36 (16.22%) C++
5 32 (14.41%) TypeScript
6 24 (10.81%) C#
6 24 (10.81%) Go
7 13 (5.86%) Rust
8 10 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.15%) Kotlin
10 6 (2.70%) Apex Code
10 6 (2.70%) SOQL
11 4 (1.80%) C
11 4 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.35%) ABAP
12 3 (1.35%) Groovy
12 3 (1.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.90%) Bash
13 2 (0.90%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 53 (23.87%) Degree
2 43 (19.37%) Security Cleared
3 34 (15.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (11.71%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.15%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.25%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.35%) PhD
9 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.90%) MCAD
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.45%) CISSP
10 1 (0.45%) HNC
10 1 (0.45%) HND
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.76%) QA
2 6 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.90%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (23.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (19.82%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.05%) Kibana
3 8 (3.60%) Ansible
4 3 (1.35%) Grafana
5 2 (0.90%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.90%) Podman
5 2 (0.90%) Puppet
6 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (7.21%) Google
2 13 (5.86%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.05%) Splunk
4 8 (3.60%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.60%) Oracle
5 6 (2.70%) Sage
5 6 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.25%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.35%) SAP
8 2 (0.90%) PTC
9 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.45%) Infor
9 1 (0.45%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.45%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.45%) Veracode
9 1 (0.45%) Yahoo!