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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 45 27
Rank change year-on-year -45 -18 +2
Permanent jobs citing Java 31 39 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.04% 3.56% 5.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.16% 16.60% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29 25 122
10th Percentile £40,000 £53,500 £24,000
25th Percentile £57,250 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,000 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,200 £96,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% - -4.00%

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 433 235 737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 14.54% 21.44% 29.14%
Number of salaries quoted 350 179 557
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £32,300
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +0.75%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,500 £86,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 3 September 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 2 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 5 (16.13%) Figma
3 4 (12.90%) Azure
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.45%) Route 53
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 2 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.45%) GIS
2 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Postman
2 4 (12.90%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.68%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.45%) git-flow
4 2 (6.45%) JIRA
4 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.23%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.23%) Subversion
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Law
4 2 (6.45%) Electronics
4 2 (6.45%) Local Government
4 2 (6.45%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.23%) Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Developer
2 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Java Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
4 5 (16.13%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Research Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Software Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Software Team Leader
6 2 (6.45%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.45%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) RESTful
1 6 (19.35%) Web Services
2 4 (12.90%) React
3 3 (9.68%) Spring
3 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
3 3 (9.68%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.45%) Avalonia
4 2 (6.45%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.45%) CSS
4 2 (6.45%) Entity Framework
4 2 (6.45%) HTML
4 2 (6.45%) JSF
4 2 (6.45%) PrimeFaces
4 2 (6.45%) REST
4 2 (6.45%) Vue
4 2 (6.45%) WPF
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.45%) AI Agents
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Android
2 2 (6.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Agile
2 12 (38.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 10 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (32.26%) Software Engineering
3 10 (32.26%) Test Automation
4 9 (29.03%) Microservices
5 7 (22.58%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (22.58%) User Experience
6 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
6 6 (19.35%) Unit Testing
7 5 (16.13%) API Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Front End Development
7 5 (16.13%) Prototyping
8 4 (12.90%) DevOps
8 4 (12.90%) Scrum
8 4 (12.90%) Software Testing
9 3 (9.68%) OO
9 3 (9.68%) Requirements Analysis
9 3 (9.68%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.68%) C#
4 3 (9.68%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Scala
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) XAML
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (6.45%) PhD
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Puppet
2 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
1 2 (6.45%) Red Hat