Junior Jobs in the South East

Junior
England > South East

The median Junior salary in the South East is £33,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 140 181
Rank change year-on-year -38 +41 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior 143 328 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.48% 1.86% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.70% 1.98% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 126 236 189
10th Percentile £26,250 £22,813 £23,250
25th Percentile £27,500 £26,000 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £30,000 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -11.76% +4.62%
75th Percentile £42,627 £40,000 £38,750
90th Percentile £45,625 £44,375 £45,000
England median annual salary £36,000 £30,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -14.29% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 8,425 16,577 12,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.99% 94.08% 90.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,513 11,781 7,967
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +0.95%

Junior
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Junior in the South East

Junior
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior in the South East.

Salary trend for Junior in the South East

Junior
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior in the South East

Junior
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 Junior within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Hampshire +59 40 £40,000 +14.29% 33
Kent +42 33 £31,000 +11.71% 12
Thames Valley -54 26 £33,500 +7.20% 33
Isle of Wight - 16 £40,101 -
Oxfordshire +4 12 £29,500 -30.59% 10
Berkshire +18 11 £33,500 +11.67% 15
East Sussex +4 8 £29,000 +22.11%
Middlesex -12 6 - - 1
Surrey +20 5 £39,000 +20.00% 14
West Sussex +27 3 £35,000 +50.54% 4
Buckinghamshire -45 3 £27,000 -10.00% 11
Junior
England

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, Junior job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Junior in the job title.

1 61 (42.66%) Degree
1 61 (42.66%) Social Skills
2 58 (40.56%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (33.57%) Computer Science
4 46 (32.17%) Mathematics
4 46 (32.17%) Physics
5 40 (27.97%) UML
5 40 (27.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (26.57%) Project Management
6 38 (26.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 35 (24.48%) Rational DOORS
7 35 (24.48%) SysML
7 35 (24.48%) MATLAB
7 35 (24.48%) Simulink
7 35 (24.48%) IBM
7 35 (24.48%) PLM
7 35 (24.48%) Teamcenter
7 35 (24.48%) Aerospace
7 35 (24.48%) Electronics
7 35 (24.48%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 35 (24.48%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 35 (24.48%) Systems Engineering
8 33 (23.08%) JavaScript
9 32 (22.38%) HTML
10 31 (21.68%) CSS
11 23 (16.08%) C#
12 21 (14.69%) Java
12 21 (14.69%) PHP
12 21 (14.69%) SQL
13 20 (13.99%) Python

Junior Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (3.50%) Apache
2 1 (0.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.70%) Confluence
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (24.48%) Simulink
2 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 35 (24.48%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.70%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.70%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (8.39%) AWS
2 8 (5.59%) Azure
3 5 (3.50%) SaaS
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.10%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.70%) GitHub
7 1 (0.70%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.70%) Serverless
7 1 (0.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) Internet
1 2 (1.40%) Wireless
2 1 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.29%) MySQL
2 4 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.10%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.40%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.40%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) Big Data
5 1 (0.70%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.70%) Metadata
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (24.48%) Rational DOORS
2 14 (9.79%) Git
3 5 (3.50%) Eclipse
3 5 (3.50%) Eclipse RCP
4 2 (1.40%) JIRA
5 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.70%) JUnit
5 1 (0.70%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.70%) Postman
5 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (42.66%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.48%) Aerospace
2 35 (24.48%) Electronics
3 10 (6.99%) Retail
4 7 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.10%) Finance
6 3 (2.10%) Law
7 2 (1.40%) Legal
7 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Aviation
8 1 (0.70%) Billing
8 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Swedish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (22.38%) HTML
2 31 (21.68%) CSS
3 13 (9.09%) RESTful
4 11 (7.69%) Node.js
5 10 (6.99%) .NET
5 10 (6.99%) Laravel
6 9 (6.29%) CakePHP
7 7 (4.90%) LAMP
7 7 (4.90%) Web Services
8 6 (4.20%) React
9 5 (3.50%) JSP
9 5 (3.50%) Middleware
10 4 (2.80%) .NET Framework
10 4 (2.80%) J2EE
10 4 (2.80%) Next.js
10 4 (2.80%) REST
11 3 (2.10%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.10%) SOAP
12 2 (1.40%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.40%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.10%) Driving Licence
1 3 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (0.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (0.70%) Blog
3 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.70%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
3 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.70%) Robotics
3 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.69%) Linux
1 11 (7.69%) Windows
2 4 (2.80%) Mac OS
2 4 (2.80%) SUSE
2 4 (2.80%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (1.40%) VMS
3 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.70%) Android
4 1 (0.70%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.70%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (40.56%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (33.57%) Computer Science
3 46 (32.17%) Mathematics
3 46 (32.17%) Physics
4 40 (27.97%) UML
5 38 (26.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (26.57%) Project Management
6 35 (24.48%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 35 (24.48%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 35 (24.48%) PLM
6 35 (24.48%) SysML
6 35 (24.48%) Systems Engineering
7 18 (12.59%) E-Commerce
8 16 (11.19%) Mentoring
9 13 (9.09%) Agile
9 13 (9.09%) Software Engineering
10 10 (6.99%) Analytics
10 10 (6.99%) MVC
10 10 (6.99%) Time Management
11 9 (6.29%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 35 (24.48%) MATLAB
2 33 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 23 (16.08%) C#
4 21 (14.69%) Java
4 21 (14.69%) PHP
4 21 (14.69%) SQL
5 20 (13.99%) Python
6 6 (4.20%) C++
6 6 (4.20%) TypeScript
7 5 (3.50%) Ada
7 5 (3.50%) Bash
7 5 (3.50%) Rust
8 3 (2.10%) C
9 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (42.66%) Degree
2 40 (27.97%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.40%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.40%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.40%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.70%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.70%) CCNA
5 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.70%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.40%) QA
2 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.20%) Docker
3 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.80%) NFS
5 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.70%) Nessus
2 1 (0.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (24.48%) IBM
2 12 (8.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.90%) VMware
4 6 (4.20%) SAP
5 4 (2.80%) Twitter
6 2 (1.40%) Meraki
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco
7 1 (0.70%) Google
7 1 (0.70%) NETGEAR
7 1 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.70%) Snow
7 1 (0.70%) Sophos
7 1 (0.70%) Ubiquiti