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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 11 20
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 137 58 109
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.04% 10.51% 9.11%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.08% 35.15% 27.25%
Number of salaries quoted 89 18 61
10th Percentile £47,750 £50,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,125 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% - -4.00%

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 427 165 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.83% 29.89% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 298 94 260
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,325 £33,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £41,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.83% -7.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £72,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £81,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 2 September 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 2 September 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
Gloucester -10 59 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Cheltenham -15 52 £75,000 +15.38% 31
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 25 (18.25%) Apache
2 9 (6.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) JBoss
4 1 (0.73%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.82%) AWS
2 12 (8.76%) Azure
3 11 (8.03%) OpenShift
4 9 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.11%) GCP
5 7 (5.11%) Serverless
6 6 (4.38%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.92%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (2.92%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.46%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.46%) GitHub
9 2 (1.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.92%) IPv4
1 4 (2.92%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (2.19%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.33%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.95%) Big Data
3 11 (8.03%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (8.03%) Hadoop
3 11 (8.03%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.65%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.65%) MySQL
6 3 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.19%) Redis
7 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (13.87%) Git
1 19 (13.87%) GitLab
2 15 (10.95%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.84%) Bitbucket
4 7 (5.11%) Cucumber
4 7 (5.11%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.38%) Subversion
6 4 (2.92%) JIRA
7 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.73%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.73%) Maven
7 1 (0.73%) Mocha
General
1 14 (10.22%) Finance
2 11 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (5.11%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.19%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (39.42%) Software Engineer
2 34 (24.82%) Developer
3 28 (20.44%) Java Developer
4 23 (16.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (13.14%) Java Engineer
5 18 (13.14%) Java Software Engineer
5 18 (13.14%) Lead
6 14 (10.22%) Data Engineer
6 14 (10.22%) Software Developer
7 13 (9.49%) Senior
8 12 (8.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 9 (6.57%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Java Software Developer
11 7 (5.11%) C++ Developer
11 7 (5.11%) C++ Software Developer
11 7 (5.11%) C++/Java Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (5.11%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (26.28%) Terraform
2 26 (18.98%) Spring
2 26 (18.98%) Spring Boot
3 16 (11.68%) Apache NiFi
4 13 (9.49%) React
5 11 (8.03%) Kafka
6 10 (7.30%) Vue
7 8 (5.84%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.84%) Node.js
7 8 (5.84%) REST
8 6 (4.38%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.38%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (4.38%) RESTful
9 4 (2.92%) boto
9 4 (2.92%) OpenAPI
9 4 (2.92%) Swagger
10 3 (2.19%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (2.19%) gRPC
10 3 (2.19%) Material-UI
10 3 (2.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.65%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.19%) PKI
6 2 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.46%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.73%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.73%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.63%) Linux
2 7 (5.11%) Windows
3 4 (2.92%) CentOS
3 4 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.19%) Debian
4 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.46%) Android
5 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (53.28%) Software Engineering
2 64 (46.72%) DevOps
3 56 (40.88%) CI/CD
4 48 (35.04%) Agile
5 39 (28.47%) Containerisation
6 38 (27.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (22.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 27 (19.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (16.79%) AI
10 21 (15.33%) Scrum
11 20 (14.60%) Data Science
11 20 (14.60%) DevSecOps
12 18 (13.14%) Collaborative Culture
13 17 (12.41%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (11.68%) Data Engineering
14 16 (11.68%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (11.68%) Microservices
15 15 (10.95%) Test Automation
16 14 (10.22%) ETL
17 13 (9.49%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 90 (65.69%) Python
2 34 (24.82%) C++
3 26 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 18 (13.14%) Bash
5 15 (10.95%) SQL
6 14 (10.22%) Go
6 14 (10.22%) TypeScript
7 11 (8.03%) Scala
8 9 (6.57%) Rust
9 8 (5.84%) Groovy
10 5 (3.65%) C#
10 5 (3.65%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.19%) C
11 3 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.73%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 98 (71.53%) Security Cleared
2 63 (45.99%) DV Cleared
3 16 (11.68%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.92%) CCNA
4 4 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.92%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.92%) OSCP
4 4 (2.92%) RHCE
4 4 (2.92%) RHCSA
5 1 (0.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.57%) QA
3 7 (5.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (25.55%) Docker
2 5 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.65%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.92%) Squid
3 4 (2.92%) vSphere
4 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (37.23%) Kubernetes
2 37 (27.01%) Ansible
3 10 (7.30%) Puppet
4 8 (5.84%) Rancher
5 7 (5.11%) Grafana
5 7 (5.11%) Kibana
5 7 (5.11%) logstash
6 6 (4.38%) Argo
6 6 (4.38%) yum
7 4 (2.92%) Packer
7 4 (2.92%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (5.11%) Red Hat
2 5 (3.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.65%) Oracle
2 5 (3.65%) VMware
3 4 (2.92%) Splunk
4 3 (2.19%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.19%) Google
4 3 (2.19%) SaltStack