Java Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Java
South West > Gloucestershire

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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 77 65 198
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.46% 16.21% 11.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.69% 47.45% 27.35%
Number of salaries quoted 44 22 128
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £35,575
25th Percentile £56,875 £48,202 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 243 137 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 20.39% 34.16% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 142 76 588
10th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -1.82%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Java job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Java
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Gloucestershire

Java
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheltenham -19 28 £67,500 +8.00% 14
Gloucester +1 25 £75,000 +25.00% 15
Java
South West

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 13 (16.88%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 30 (38.96%) AWS
2 20 (25.97%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) GCP
4 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.19%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.19%) Serverless
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (24.68%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (11.69%) NoSQL
3 8 (10.39%) MongoDB
3 8 (10.39%) Neo4j
4 5 (6.49%) Big Data
5 3 (3.90%) MySQL
5 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) Git
2 10 (12.99%) Cucumber
3 8 (10.39%) GitLab
3 8 (10.39%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.09%) Subversion
5 6 (7.79%) SonarQube
6 5 (6.49%) JUnit
7 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.60%) Gradle
9 2 (2.60%) Maven
10 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 6 (7.79%) Aerospace
2 4 (5.19%) Social Skills
3 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.60%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Law
5 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Senior
3 12 (15.58%) Senior Software Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Developer
4 10 (12.99%) Java Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) C Software Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) React
2 15 (19.48%) AngularJS
3 12 (15.58%) Apache NiFi
4 11 (14.29%) Vue
5 9 (11.69%) Spring
5 9 (11.69%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.39%) MERN Stack
7 6 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (6.49%) REST
9 4 (5.19%) Kafka
9 4 (5.19%) Node.js
10 3 (3.90%) Hibernate
10 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.90%) RESTful
11 2 (2.60%) JPA
12 1 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
12 1 (1.30%) JSF
12 1 (1.30%) Middleware
12 1 (1.30%) PrimeFaces
12 1 (1.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.60%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) PKI
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.78%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) CentOS
2 1 (1.30%) Debian
2 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (68.83%) Software Engineering
2 41 (53.25%) DevOps
3 22 (28.57%) Agile
4 18 (23.38%) AI
4 18 (23.38%) CI/CD
5 17 (22.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 17 (22.08%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (22.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (18.18%) Data Science
7 12 (15.58%) Collaborative Culture
7 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (14.29%) Scrum
9 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (10.39%) Containerisation
10 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.39%) Kanban
11 7 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (9.09%) Microservices
11 7 (9.09%) SDLC
12 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (68.83%) Python
2 25 (32.47%) JavaScript
3 16 (20.78%) Bash
3 16 (20.78%) TypeScript
4 13 (16.88%) Go
5 12 (15.58%) C++
6 8 (10.39%) C
7 6 (7.79%) Kotlin
7 6 (7.79%) SQL
8 4 (5.19%) Groovy
8 4 (5.19%) Rust
9 3 (3.90%) C#
10 2 (2.60%) Elixir
10 2 (2.60%) Erlang
11 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (76.62%) Security Cleared
2 37 (48.05%) DV Cleared
3 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (20.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (19.48%) Terraform
3 12 (15.58%) Ansible
4 9 (11.69%) Grafana
5 8 (10.39%) Rancher
6 7 (9.09%) Argo
6 7 (9.09%) Kibana
6 7 (9.09%) yum
7 6 (7.79%) logstash
8 3 (3.90%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.90%) Puppet
9 1 (1.30%) Podman
9 1 (1.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (3.90%) Atlassian
2 1 (1.30%) Google
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle
2 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
2 1 (1.30%) SaltStack