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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 35 16
Rank change year-on-year -34 -19 +4
Permanent jobs citing Java 30 80 270
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.35% 6.10% 11.35%
As % of the Programming Languages category 11.03% 16.60% 27.36%
Number of salaries quoted 19 51 248
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +6.19%

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 272 482 987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 12.21% 36.74% 41.49%
Number of salaries quoted 230 310 880
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,813 £47,500 £46,292
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £69,375 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £90,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -1.41%

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 2 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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Windchill
2 1 (3.33%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.00%) Serverless
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) AMQP
1 1 (3.33%) Bluetooth
1 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) DB2
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (10.00%) Aeronautics
1 3 (10.00%) Aviation
2 2 (6.67%) Finance
2 2 (6.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.33%) Automotive
3 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Legal
3 1 (3.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Ruby Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Software Team Leader
5 1 (3.33%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) React
2 11 (36.67%) Spring Boot
3 8 (26.67%) HTML
3 8 (26.67%) Spring
4 4 (13.33%) RESTful
4 4 (13.33%) Web Services
5 3 (10.00%) CSS
6 2 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.67%) Kafka
6 2 (6.67%) Node.js
6 2 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.67%) Vue
7 1 (3.33%) Deno
7 1 (3.33%) Jest
7 1 (3.33%) Keycloak
7 1 (3.33%) Next.js
7 1 (3.33%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.33%) Redux
7 1 (3.33%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
2 13 (43.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (23.33%) Microservices
4 6 (20.00%) AI
5 5 (16.67%) Analytics
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 4 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (13.33%) Configuration Management
6 4 (13.33%) Data Analytics
6 4 (13.33%) DevOps
6 4 (13.33%) Innovative Thinking
6 4 (13.33%) Machine Learning
6 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) OO
7 3 (10.00%) OWASP
7 3 (10.00%) Scrum
7 3 (10.00%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Python
2 14 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) C++
4 4 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (10.00%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.33%) Perl
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) Ruby
6 1 (3.33%) Scala
6 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 4 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.33%) OCA
6 1 (3.33%) OCP
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) NCSC
1 3 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Terraform
3 1 (3.33%) Ansible
3 1 (3.33%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (3.33%) Grafana
3 1 (3.33%) Kibana
3 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) Google
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Siemens