Java Job Trends in West Sussex

Java
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Java skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 41 37
Rank change year-on-year +19 -4 +13
Permanent jobs citing Java 26 13 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 6.34% 2.77% 6.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 43.33% 11.50% 16.95%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 38
10th Percentile £57,750 £42,500 £43,225
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +40.00% -7.92%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £59,375
90th Percentile £73,500 £79,000 £61,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £63,250
% change year-on-year +13.04% -9.09% +1.20%

All Programming Languages
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 60 113 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 14.63% 24.09% 35.81%
Number of salaries quoted 34 92 183
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,125 £61,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,750
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 West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Java in West Sussex

Java
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in West Sussex over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in West Sussex

Java
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 13 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
Bognor Regis - 11 - -
Crawley +4 7 - -
Burgess Hill +3 7 £70,000 -
Shoreham-by-Sea - 1 - -
Java
South East

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (3.85%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
2 7 (26.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.85%) Azure
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.85%) Couchbase
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) JUnit
2 1 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 18 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Development Manager
1 7 (26.92%) Java Development Manager
2 4 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Development Manager
4 2 (7.69%) Software Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) React
2 5 (19.23%) Kafka
3 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (15.38%) REST
4 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
4 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.69%) Spring
6 1 (3.85%) .NET
6 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.85%) gRPC
6 1 (3.85%) Node.js
6 1 (3.85%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Algorithms
2 7 (26.92%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Cyberattack
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Android
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 13 (50.00%) Microservices
1 13 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 11 (42.31%) Scrum
2 11 (42.31%) Time Management
3 8 (30.77%) Waterfall
4 7 (26.92%) Analytics
4 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) Data Analytics
4 7 (26.92%) Multithreaded Programming
4 7 (26.92%) Multithreading
4 7 (26.92%) People Management
4 7 (26.92%) Process Improvement
4 7 (26.92%) Software Delivery
4 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Kanban
5 2 (7.69%) TDD
5 2 (7.69%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) Rust
4 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (26.92%) Cisco
1 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.85%) Splunk