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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 31 16
Rank change year-on-year +12 -15 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 57 52 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.23% 8.27% 15.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.54% 17.51% 31.51%
Number of salaries quoted 33 29 87
10th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,000 £86,100
South West median annual salary £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% +4.35%

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 156 297 530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.51% 47.22% 48.05%
Number of salaries quoted 95 101 350
10th Percentile £33,150 £40,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £78,875
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.53%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +1 24 £66,250 +6.00% 13
Gloucester +15 20 £75,000 -6.25% 12
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 (22.81%) Apache
2 5 (8.77%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (56.14%) AWS
2 17 (29.82%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (15.79%) Serverless
4 8 (14.04%) Amazon S3
5 5 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (5.26%) GCP
7 3 (5.26%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.07%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (15.79%) MongoDB
3 8 (14.04%) Neo4j
4 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.26%) Big Data
6 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.75%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.75%) MySQL
7 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (19.30%) Git
2 9 (15.79%) JUnit
3 8 (14.04%) GitLab
4 7 (12.28%) Cucumber
5 6 (10.53%) Bitbucket
5 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
6 5 (8.77%) Cypress.io
6 5 (8.77%) JIRA
6 5 (8.77%) Subversion
7 3 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.51%) Gradle
8 2 (3.51%) Maven
9 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 5 (8.77%) Aerospace
1 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
2 2 (3.51%) Finance
2 2 (3.51%) Games
2 2 (3.51%) Law
2 2 (3.51%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) Software Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Developer
3 6 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Senior
4 5 (8.77%) Test Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) C Software Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Lead
7 2 (3.51%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.75%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (1.75%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (1.75%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.11%) React
2 12 (21.05%) AngularJS
2 12 (21.05%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (19.30%) Spring
3 11 (19.30%) Spring Boot
4 8 (14.04%) MERN Stack
5 6 (10.53%) Hibernate
6 5 (8.77%) Vue
7 4 (7.02%) JSF
7 4 (7.02%) Kafka
7 4 (7.02%) PrimeFaces
8 3 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (5.26%) REST
8 3 (5.26%) RESTful
9 2 (3.51%) JPA
10 1 (1.75%) ActiveMQ
10 1 (1.75%) gRPC
10 1 (1.75%) Node.js
10 1 (1.75%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.51%) Blockchain
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
3 1 (1.75%) PKI
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.75%) CentOS
2 1 (1.75%) Debian
2 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (61.40%) Software Engineering
2 25 (43.86%) DevOps
3 23 (40.35%) Agile
4 21 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 13 (22.81%) Microservices
6 11 (19.30%) Scrum
7 10 (17.54%) AI
7 10 (17.54%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (14.04%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (12.28%) DevSecOps
10 7 (12.28%) Kanban
10 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
11 6 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.53%) SDLC
11 6 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (8.77%) Coaching
12 5 (8.77%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 42 (73.68%) Python
2 23 (40.35%) JavaScript
3 19 (33.33%) TypeScript
4 10 (17.54%) Bash
5 9 (15.79%) C
6 7 (12.28%) Go
7 6 (10.53%) Kotlin
8 4 (7.02%) C++
8 4 (7.02%) SQL
9 3 (5.26%) Groovy
10 2 (3.51%) Elixir
10 2 (3.51%) Erlang
11 1 (1.75%) C#
11 1 (1.75%) Rust
Qualifications
1 40 (70.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (49.12%) DV Cleared
3 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.79%) Kibana
3 8 (14.04%) Ansible
3 8 (14.04%) Terraform
4 6 (10.53%) Grafana
5 5 (8.77%) Argo
5 5 (8.77%) Rancher
5 5 (8.77%) yum
6 3 (5.26%) logstash
6 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.51%) Puppet
8 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (12.28%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.75%) SaltStack