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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 32 11
Rank change year-on-year -29 -21 +6
Permanent jobs citing Java 32 83 235
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.59% 5.81% 13.94%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.03% 17.47% 31.71%
Number of salaries quoted 20 61 212
10th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £59,375 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,750 £78,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £97,500 £95,818
South West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +4.35%

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 266 475 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 13.19% 33.24% 43.95%
Number of salaries quoted 220 311 658
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,125
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +3.95% +4.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £87,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 3 January 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 (3.13%) Confluence
1 1 (3.13%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Windchill
2 1 (3.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Teamcenter
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (12.50%) Serverless
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) GitHub
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) AMQP
2 1 (3.13%) Bluetooth
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.38%) InfluxDB
2 3 (9.38%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (9.38%) Aeronautics
1 3 (9.38%) Aviation
2 2 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.13%) Back Office
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.13%) Legal
3 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (9.38%) Java Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Site Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Lead
6 1 (3.13%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) React
1 11 (34.38%) Spring Boot
2 9 (28.13%) Spring
3 8 (25.00%) HTML
4 4 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (12.50%) Web Services
5 2 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (6.25%) CSS
5 2 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (6.25%) RESTful
6 1 (3.13%) EJB
6 1 (3.13%) Jest
6 1 (3.13%) OpenAPI
6 1 (3.13%) Qt
6 1 (3.13%) Redux
6 1 (3.13%) SOAP
6 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Augmented Reality
2 3 (9.38%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Software Engineering
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
3 10 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (21.88%) Microservices
5 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
6 5 (15.63%) AI
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 4 (12.50%) Data Analytics
7 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (12.50%) Innovative Thinking
7 4 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 3 (9.38%) Application Security
8 3 (9.38%) Containerisation
8 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
8 3 (9.38%) OWASP
8 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) C++
4 3 (9.38%) C#
4 3 (9.38%) Go
4 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) C
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.88%) Degree
4 4 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
7 1 (3.13%) OCA
7 1 (3.13%) OCP
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) NCSC
1 3 (9.38%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 9001
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (9.38%) Grafana
2 3 (9.38%) Progress Chef
2 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 4 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (9.38%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) Siemens