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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -56 -4 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 19 88 247
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.72% 8.61% 8.99%
As % of the Programming Languages category 6.29% 22.17% 22.85%
Number of salaries quoted 14 61 226
10th Percentile £59,750 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,698 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% -2.34%
75th Percentile £86,875 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £111,250 £91,934
South West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +13.04% -0.86%

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 302 397 1,081
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.46% 38.85% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 249 306 953
10th Percentile £29,550 £39,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%

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 26 March 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Windchill
2 1 (5.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Database
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.26%) Automotive
1 1 (5.26%) Finance
1 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
1 1 (5.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) React
2 8 (42.11%) HTML
3 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
4 5 (26.32%) Spring
5 4 (21.05%) RESTful
5 4 (21.05%) Web Services
6 3 (15.79%) CSS
7 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
7 2 (10.53%) Node.js
7 2 (10.53%) Vue
8 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
8 1 (5.26%) Deno
8 1 (5.26%) Jest
8 1 (5.26%) Kafka
8 1 (5.26%) Keycloak
8 1 (5.26%) Next.js
8 1 (5.26%) OAuth
8 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
8 1 (5.26%) Redux
8 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Software Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Full-Stack Development
3 6 (31.58%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
6 2 (10.53%) Benchmarking
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
6 2 (10.53%) OO
6 2 (10.53%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (10.53%) OWASP
6 2 (10.53%) PLM
6 2 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Security Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) TypeScript
3 2 (10.53%) C#
4 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
4 1 (5.26%) Perl
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
4 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) OCA
2 1 (5.26%) OCP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) NCSC
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kibana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Siemens