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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 30 22
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Java 29 120 173
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 2.49% 5.65% 10.57%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.45% 20.20% 24.86%
Number of salaries quoted 19 92 152
10th Percentile £54,500 £24,000 £45,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,265 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £77,542
90th Percentile £98,500 £87,500 £89,406
South West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.70%

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 233 594 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 19.98% 27.97% 42.52%
Number of salaries quoted 183 387 617
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,100 £40,650
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,750 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

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 19 October 2025.

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 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) AWS
2 8 (27.59%) Azure
3 6 (20.69%) Serverless
4 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.90%) GCP
7 2 (6.90%) SaaS
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.34%) AMQP
2 1 (3.45%) Bluetooth
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (13.79%) Relational Database
2 3 (10.34%) InfluxDB
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) DB2
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) Appium
3 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (10.34%) Aeronautics
1 3 (10.34%) Aviation
1 3 (10.34%) Finance
1 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.45%) Back Office
2 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.45%) Legal
2 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Software Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Java Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Site Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Lead
3 2 (6.90%) Security Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) Consultant
4 1 (3.45%) Development Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Java Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Lead Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) React
2 7 (24.14%) Spring Boot
3 6 (20.69%) Spring
4 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (10.34%) Kafka
5 3 (10.34%) RESTful
6 2 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.90%) Vue
7 1 (3.45%) .NET
7 1 (3.45%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (3.45%) EJB
7 1 (3.45%) Jest
7 1 (3.45%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.45%) Playwright
7 1 (3.45%) Redux
7 1 (3.45%) SwiftUI
7 1 (3.45%) UIKit
7 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Private Cloud
2 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
2 3 (10.34%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (10.34%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.45%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Software Engineering
2 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
4 9 (31.03%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (24.14%) Microservices
6 6 (20.69%) Analytics
6 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Configuration Management
6 6 (20.69%) DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) AI
7 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (17.24%) Innovative Thinking
7 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
8 4 (13.79%) Machine Learning
9 3 (10.34%) Containerisation
9 3 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 2 (6.90%) Application Security
10 2 (6.90%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) C++
3 5 (17.24%) SQL
4 3 (10.34%) Go
4 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.90%) C
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.45%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) Swift
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) NCSC
1 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 1 (3.45%) GDPR
2 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (24.14%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) Progress Chef
2 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Genesys