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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 31 15
Rank change year-on-year +10 -16 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 41 58 145
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.29% 8.37% 16.90%
As % of the Programming Languages category 28.28% 18.59% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28 35 69
10th Percentile £50,500 £41,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £79,500 £83,550
South West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year - +7.88% +4.78%

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 145 312 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 22.24% 45.02% 51.05%
Number of salaries quoted 98 115 261
10th Percentile £32,750 £41,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,900 £80,000
South West median annual salary £54,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% - +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 20 December 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 20 December 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 -3 20 £67,500 +5.88% 11
Gloucester +12 13 £75,000 -6.25% 6
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 9 (21.95%) Apache
2 5 (12.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) AWS
2 11 (26.83%) Azure
3 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
3 8 (19.51%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (19.51%) Serverless
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (21.95%) MongoDB
3 6 (14.63%) Neo4j
4 4 (9.76%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.44%) Big Data
6 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) JUnit
3 7 (17.07%) GitLab
4 5 (12.20%) Bitbucket
4 5 (12.20%) JIRA
5 4 (9.76%) Cucumber
5 4 (9.76%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.32%) Jenkins
6 3 (7.32%) Subversion
7 1 (2.44%) Selenium
7 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (12.20%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.76%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.88%) Games
3 2 (4.88%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (56.10%) Software Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (9.76%) Senior
3 4 (9.76%) Test Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) C Software Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Lead
6 1 (2.44%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Software Engineering Team Leader
6 1 (2.44%) Software Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (48.78%) React
2 9 (21.95%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.07%) Spring
4 7 (17.07%) Spring Boot
5 6 (14.63%) MERN Stack
6 5 (12.20%) Hibernate
6 5 (12.20%) JSF
7 4 (9.76%) PrimeFaces
8 3 (7.32%) Kafka
9 2 (4.88%) Vue
10 1 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (2.44%) Jest
10 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (2.44%) Redux
10 1 (2.44%) REST
10 1 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (31.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (63.41%) Software Engineering
2 16 (39.02%) Agile
2 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
2 16 (39.02%) DevOps
3 10 (24.39%) Microservices
4 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.51%) Scrum
5 6 (14.63%) AI
5 6 (14.63%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (12.20%) Coaching
6 5 (12.20%) Machine Learning
6 5 (12.20%) Mentoring
6 5 (12.20%) Unit Testing
7 4 (9.76%) DevSecOps
7 4 (9.76%) Kanban
7 4 (9.76%) SDLC
7 4 (9.76%) User Experience
8 3 (7.32%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 31 (75.61%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) JavaScript
3 16 (39.02%) TypeScript
4 7 (17.07%) C
5 4 (9.76%) Bash
5 4 (9.76%) Go
5 4 (9.76%) Kotlin
6 3 (7.32%) SQL
7 2 (4.88%) Groovy
8 1 (2.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (63.41%) Security Cleared
2 19 (46.34%) DV Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (51.22%) Kubernetes
2 8 (19.51%) Kibana
3 4 (9.76%) Ansible
3 4 (9.76%) Terraform
4 3 (7.32%) Argo
4 3 (7.32%) Rancher
4 3 (7.32%) yum
5 2 (4.88%) Grafana
6 1 (2.44%) logstash
6 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Atlassian
2 6 (14.63%) Oracle