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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -61 -1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 19 89 234
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.69% 9.05% 8.17%
As % of the Programming Languages category 5.96% 22.47% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 14 61 215
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile - £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £76,875 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £111,250 £91,934
South West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -3.36%

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 319 396 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.55% 40.28% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 258 309 963
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,750 £39,658
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,231 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

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 9 April 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%) 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
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.26%) DB2
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
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 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Java Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) QA Test Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Security 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%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (47.37%) React
2 8 (42.11%) HTML
3 5 (26.32%) Spring Boot
4 4 (21.05%) Spring
4 4 (21.05%) Web Services
5 3 (15.79%) CSS
5 3 (15.79%) RESTful
6 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
6 2 (10.53%) Node.js
6 2 (10.53%) Vue
7 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
7 1 (5.26%) Deno
7 1 (5.26%) Keycloak
7 1 (5.26%) Next.js
7 1 (5.26%) OAuth
7 1 (5.26%) OAuth2
7 1 (5.26%) React Native
7 1 (5.26%) SOAP
7 1 (5.26%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Full-Stack Development
1 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (15.79%) Microservices
3 3 (15.79%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (10.53%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (10.53%) Benchmarking
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.53%) OO
4 2 (10.53%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (10.53%) PLM
4 2 (10.53%) Scrum
4 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) JavaScript
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
5 1 (5.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) OCA
2 1 (5.26%) OCP
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) NCSC
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Siemens