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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -53 -6 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 22 87 250
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.85% 8.37% 9.41%
As % of the Programming Languages category 7.33% 21.38% 23.83%
Number of salaries quoted 15 61 229
10th Percentile £60,500 £47,231 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,698 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +12.00% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £90,000 £111,250 £91,934
South West median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £58,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +14.22% +0.33%

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 300 407 1,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 11.66% 39.13% 39.47%
Number of salaries quoted 249 309 925
10th Percentile £29,550 £39,550 £38,536
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +0.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,500 £93,778 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,625
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.26% -4.32%

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 18 March 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 (4.55%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Windchill
2 1 (4.55%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle Database
3 2 (9.09%) DB2
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
1 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (4.55%) Automotive
1 1 (4.55%) Finance
1 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
1 1 (4.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.55%) Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Graduate
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) React
2 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
3 8 (36.36%) HTML
4 6 (27.27%) Spring
5 4 (18.18%) RESTful
5 4 (18.18%) Web Services
6 3 (13.64%) CSS
7 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
7 2 (9.09%) Node.js
7 2 (9.09%) Vue
8 1 (4.55%) Bootstrap
8 1 (4.55%) EJB
8 1 (4.55%) Jest
8 1 (4.55%) Kafka
8 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
8 1 (4.55%) Next.js
8 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
8 1 (4.55%) Redux
8 1 (4.55%) SOAP
8 1 (4.55%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Software Engineering
2 9 (40.91%) Full-Stack Development
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Microservices
5 3 (13.64%) Application Security
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.64%) OO
5 3 (13.64%) OWASP
5 3 (13.64%) Security Testing
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (9.09%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (9.09%) Benchmarking
6 2 (9.09%) CAD
6 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 2 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 2 (9.09%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) OCA
3 1 (4.55%) OCP
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) NCSC
1 3 (13.64%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Kibana
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Siemens