Java Job Trends in Gloucester

Java
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 16
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 62 9 32
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 9.63% 9.78% 10.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.75% 42.86% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 30 2 13
10th Percentile £55,000 £73,375 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £76,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £88,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +61.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £101,563 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £105,125 -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £73,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% +16.67% -4.00%

All Programming Languages
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 160 21 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucester 24.84% 22.83% 34.81%
Number of salaries quoted 91 12 53
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,625 £41,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £51,250 £51,913
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% -2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £96,125 £65,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -8.70% -4.17%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Java job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Java
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Gloucester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Gloucester over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Gloucester

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 25 (40.32%) Apache
2 8 (12.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.61%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 23 (37.10%) AWS
2 8 (12.90%) Azure
3 7 (11.29%) OpenShift
4 5 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (8.06%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (8.06%) GCP
5 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.84%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.74%) Big Data
1 11 (17.74%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (16.13%) Hadoop
2 10 (16.13%) MongoDB
2 10 (16.13%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.06%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.06%) MySQL
4 3 (4.84%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) Git
2 11 (17.74%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.13%) GitLab
4 8 (12.90%) Cucumber
4 8 (12.90%) SonarQube
5 7 (11.29%) Subversion
6 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.61%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.61%) Maven
7 1 (1.61%) Mocha
General
1 11 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
1 11 (17.74%) Finance
2 3 (4.84%) Aerospace
2 3 (4.84%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (43.55%) Software Engineer
2 13 (20.97%) Data Engineer
3 12 (19.35%) Java Engineer
3 12 (19.35%) Java Software Engineer
4 11 (17.74%) Developer
4 11 (17.74%) Java Developer
5 10 (16.13%) Lead
6 9 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (11.29%) Python Engineer
7 7 (11.29%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (9.68%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (8.06%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (8.06%) Lead Java Engineer
9 5 (8.06%) Lead Software Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Security Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Senior
10 2 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.23%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 1 (1.61%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (27.42%) Terraform
2 16 (25.81%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (12.90%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (12.90%) Kafka
3 8 (12.90%) Vue
4 6 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (6.45%) OpenAPI
5 4 (6.45%) React
5 4 (6.45%) REST
5 4 (6.45%) Swagger
6 3 (4.84%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
6 3 (4.84%) gRPC
6 3 (4.84%) Material-UI
6 3 (4.84%) Node.js
6 3 (4.84%) Spring
6 3 (4.84%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.23%) RESTful
8 1 (1.61%) JSON
8 1 (1.61%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (4.84%) PKI
3 2 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) CentOS
2 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.84%) Debian
3 3 (4.84%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (54.84%) Software Engineering
2 33 (53.23%) DevOps
3 26 (41.94%) Agile
4 23 (37.10%) CI/CD
5 19 (30.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (27.42%) AI
6 17 (27.42%) Containerisation
7 15 (24.19%) Collaborative Culture
7 15 (24.19%) Data Engineering
7 15 (24.19%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (20.97%) Data Science
8 13 (20.97%) ETL
8 13 (20.97%) Scrum
9 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (16.13%) Analytics
10 10 (16.13%) Kanban
10 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (12.90%) Data Governance
11 8 (12.90%) Data Integration
11 8 (12.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 47 (75.81%) Python
2 16 (25.81%) Go
3 15 (24.19%) Bash
3 15 (24.19%) SQL
4 12 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 11 (17.74%) C++
6 9 (14.52%) TypeScript
7 8 (12.90%) Groovy
7 8 (12.90%) Rust
8 5 (8.06%) Scala
9 3 (4.84%) C#
10 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (72.58%) Security Cleared
2 18 (29.03%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.29%) QA
3 5 (8.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (33.87%) Kubernetes
2 17 (27.42%) Ansible
3 10 (16.13%) Puppet
4 9 (14.52%) Rancher
5 8 (12.90%) Grafana
5 8 (12.90%) Kibana
5 8 (12.90%) logstash
6 7 (11.29%) Argo
6 7 (11.29%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (4.84%) Google
1 3 (4.84%) Red Hat
1 3 (4.84%) SaltStack
2 1 (1.61%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle