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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 31 14
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 43 74 147
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 8.35% 7.44% 16.67%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.16% 18.69% 34.27%
Number of salaries quoted 17 36 91
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +0.08% +13.55%
75th Percentile £88,750 £78,750 £77,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,375 £85,000
South West median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +8.70%

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 138 396 429
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 26.80% 39.80% 48.64%
Number of salaries quoted 85 148 254
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £81,800 £80,525
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +10 19 £65,000 +4.00% 10
Gloucester +11 9 £88,750 -1.39% 18
Tewkesbury +6 2 - -
Stroud - 2 - -
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 6 (13.95%) Apache
2 4 (9.30%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Amazon S3
2 6 (13.95%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (13.95%) Serverless
3 5 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (6.98%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (4.65%) Azure
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) MongoDB
2 8 (18.60%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) GitLab
2 8 (18.60%) Git
3 6 (13.95%) JUnit
4 4 (9.30%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.30%) JIRA
5 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 24 (55.81%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.98%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.65%) Games
4 1 (2.33%) Automotive
4 1 (2.33%) Electronics
4 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (55.81%) Senior
2 22 (51.16%) Java Engineer
3 21 (48.84%) Senior Java Engineer
4 15 (34.88%) Software Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Developer
6 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Java Software Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Software Engineering Team Leader
7 1 (2.33%) Team Leader
7 1 (2.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) React
2 7 (16.28%) Spring Boot
3 6 (13.95%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (13.95%) Hibernate
3 6 (13.95%) Spring
4 5 (11.63%) JSF
5 3 (6.98%) Kafka
5 3 (6.98%) PrimeFaces
6 1 (2.33%) Jest
6 1 (2.33%) OAuth
6 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.33%) Redux
6 1 (2.33%) REST
6 1 (2.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (48.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (76.74%) Agile
2 25 (58.14%) AI
3 23 (53.49%) SDLC
4 17 (39.53%) Software Engineering
5 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
6 10 (23.26%) DevOps
7 8 (18.60%) Microservices
8 6 (13.95%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (13.95%) Mentoring
8 6 (13.95%) Scrum
8 6 (13.95%) Unit Testing
9 4 (9.30%) Coaching
9 4 (9.30%) Machine Learning
10 3 (6.98%) Collaborative Culture
10 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (6.98%) User Experience
11 2 (4.65%) Containerisation
11 2 (4.65%) Customer Requirements
11 2 (4.65%) TDD
11 2 (4.65%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) Python
2 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
2 11 (25.58%) TypeScript
3 3 (6.98%) C++
4 1 (2.33%) C
4 1 (2.33%) Groovy
4 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Kibana
2 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (25.58%) IBM
1 11 (25.58%) Red Hat
2 8 (18.60%) Oracle
3 7 (16.28%) Atlassian