Java Job Trends in Cheltenham

Java
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 6 10
Rank change year-on-year -18 +4 +9
Permanent jobs citing Java 32 24 76
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 5.65% 22.64% 16.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.07% 48.00% 35.19%
Number of salaries quoted 21 11 60
10th Percentile - £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +5.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,125 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £87,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%

All Programming Languages
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 114 50 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 20.14% 47.17% 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 26 173
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,875 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £87,500 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Java job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Java
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Cheltenham

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.13%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (6.25%) Neo4j
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
1 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.13%) Git
1 1 (3.13%) GitLab
1 1 (3.13%) Gradle
1 1 (3.13%) Maven
General
1 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Software Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Java Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 2 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Lead
8 1 (3.13%) Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Lead Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Software Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) React
2 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.25%) MERN Stack
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
2 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
3 1 (3.13%) JPA
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.25%) Blockchain
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 12 (37.50%) DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
4 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 5 (15.63%) Agile
5 5 (15.63%) Scrum
6 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (12.50%) SFIA
6 4 (12.50%) TDD
7 3 (9.38%) DevSecOps
7 3 (9.38%) Microservices
8 2 (6.25%) API Design
8 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.25%) Security Monitoring
8 2 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (6.25%) User Stories
8 2 (6.25%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) C++
3 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.38%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 2 (6.25%) C
5 2 (6.25%) Elixir
5 2 (6.25%) Erlang
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (78.13%) Security Cleared
2 17 (53.13%) DV Cleared
3 14 (43.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
3 3 (9.38%) Terraform
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (3.13%) Atlassian