Java Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Java Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Java Engineer salary in Bristol is £122,773 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 126 142
Rank change year-on-year +38 +16 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 10 35 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.80% 1.13% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.16% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 18
10th Percentile £100,648 £40,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £104,868 £45,313 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £56,250 £68,474
Median % change year-on-year +118.26% -17.85% +36.95%
75th Percentile £140,677 £80,000 £77,715
90th Percentile - £91,934 £97,290
South West median annual salary £120,000 £52,500 £66,250
% change year-on-year +128.57% -20.75% +26.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,187 3,008 2,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 96.91% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 808 2,249 1,546
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £46,594 £42,500 £42,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,471 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £74,250
90th Percentile £86,625 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in Bristol

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in Bristol.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in Bristol

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in Bristol

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer 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 Bristol region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Finance
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Java
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 8 (80.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 8 (80.00%) Docker
2 8 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (80.00%) Event-Driven
2 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (80.00%) Distributed Applications
2 8 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (80.00%) API Design
2 8 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (80.00%) Release Automation
2 8 (80.00%) npm
2 8 (80.00%) Jest
2 8 (80.00%) Architectural Design
2 8 (80.00%) Micro Frontends
2 8 (80.00%) GCP
2 8 (80.00%) webpack
2 8 (80.00%) Public Cloud
2 8 (80.00%) RESTful
2 8 (80.00%) Cypress.io
2 8 (80.00%) Azure

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) GCP
1 8 (80.00%) npm
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Cucumber
1 8 (80.00%) Cypress.io
1 8 (80.00%) Git
1 8 (80.00%) Sonatype Nexus
1 8 (80.00%) webpack
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 8 (80.00%) Jest
2 8 (80.00%) RESTful
2 8 (80.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 8 (80.00%) Distributed Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Legacy Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Microservices
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) API Design
2 8 (80.00%) Architectural Design
2 8 (80.00%) Change Management
2 8 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
2 8 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (80.00%) Event-Driven
2 8 (80.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 8 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 8 (80.00%) Micro Frontends
2 8 (80.00%) Release Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker