Java Developer Jobs in Cheltenham

Java Developer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Java Developer salary in Cheltenham is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 63 52
Rank change year-on-year +41 -11 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 1 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.11% 0.48% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.15% 0.49% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £50,750 -
25th Percentile £85,000 £51,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £59,375 £65,000
90th Percentile - £61,250 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £90,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +63.64% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Cheltenham with a recognized job title 87 407 241
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.67% 96.90% 81.42%
Number of salaries quoted 55 309 205
10th Percentile £27,150 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% +32.16%
75th Percentile £78,750 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Cheltenham

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Cheltenham.

Salary trend for Java Developer in Cheltenham

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes