Java Job Trends in Bristol

Java
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 28 15
Rank change year-on-year -44 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Java 26 86 262
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.07% 7.25% 10.76%
As % of the Programming Languages category 8.97% 18.70% 26.41%
Number of salaries quoted 16 57 241
10th Percentile £55,000 £47,231 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,698 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +15.19% +4.17%
75th Percentile £88,125 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £123,021 £91,934
South West median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 290 460 992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.94% 38.75% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 246 307 886
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +1.37%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,011 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.34%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Java job vacancy trend in Bristol

Java
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Bristol over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Bristol

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (3.85%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Windchill
2 1 (3.85%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (7.69%) GCP
3 2 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Database
3 2 (7.69%) DB2
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.85%) Git
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (11.54%) Aeronautics
1 3 (11.54%) Aviation
2 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Automotive
2 1 (3.85%) Finance
2 1 (3.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (11.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Graduate
5 1 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.85%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) React
2 9 (34.62%) Spring Boot
3 8 (30.77%) HTML
4 6 (23.08%) Spring
5 4 (15.38%) RESTful
5 4 (15.38%) Web Services
6 3 (11.54%) CSS
7 2 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.69%) Node.js
7 2 (7.69%) Vue
8 1 (3.85%) Bootstrap
8 1 (3.85%) Deno
8 1 (3.85%) Jest
8 1 (3.85%) Kafka
8 1 (3.85%) Keycloak
8 1 (3.85%) Next.js
8 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
8 1 (3.85%) OpenAPI
8 1 (3.85%) Redux
8 1 (3.85%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Private Cloud
2 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.54%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (11.54%) Virtual Reality
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Software Engineering
2 12 (46.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) AI
5 4 (15.38%) Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Innovative Thinking
5 4 (15.38%) Machine Learning
5 4 (15.38%) Microservices
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Application Security
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
6 3 (11.54%) OO
6 3 (11.54%) OWASP
6 3 (11.54%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) C++
3 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.54%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.85%) Perl
5 1 (3.85%) PHP
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) Degree
4 4 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.85%) OCA
6 1 (3.85%) OCP
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) NCSC
1 3 (11.54%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Kibana
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Siemens