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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 10 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 84 80 197
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.84% 17.47% 11.22%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.47% 46.78% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 47 17 135
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,562 £35,500
25th Percentile £48,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile - £74,750 £85,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -7.93%

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 251 171 697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.45% 37.34% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 155 81 558
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £32,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £73,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -18 32 £67,500 +8.00% 10
Gloucester -15 22 £75,000 +17.65% 5
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 (15.48%) Apache
2 4 (4.76%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.38%) AWS
2 16 (19.05%) Azure
3 8 (9.52%) GCP
4 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (7.14%) Serverless
6 5 (5.95%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.76%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.19%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.19%) GitHub
9 1 (1.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) IPv4
1 4 (4.76%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.38%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (13.10%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.33%) Big Data
5 4 (4.76%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.57%) MySQL
6 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.38%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (2.38%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Git
2 12 (14.29%) GitLab
3 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 6 (7.14%) Bitbucket
5 6 (7.14%) SonarQube
5 6 (7.14%) Subversion
6 4 (4.76%) JIRA
7 2 (2.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.38%) Gradle
7 2 (2.38%) Maven
8 1 (1.19%) JUnit
General
1 9 (10.71%) Aerospace
2 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (1.19%) Finance
5 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Developer
4 12 (14.29%) Java Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 11 (13.10%) Java Developer
5 11 (13.10%) Senior
6 9 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.71%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Lead
8 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Security Engineer
11 2 (2.38%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.38%) Test Engineer
12 1 (1.19%) Consultant
12 1 (1.19%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.67%) React
2 12 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 12 (14.29%) Vue
3 11 (13.10%) Apache NiFi
3 11 (13.10%) Spring
3 11 (13.10%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.33%) REST
5 6 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (7.14%) Kafka
6 5 (5.95%) Node.js
7 4 (4.76%) boto
7 4 (4.76%) MERN Stack
8 3 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.57%) RESTful
9 2 (2.38%) gRPC
9 2 (2.38%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.38%) JPA
9 2 (2.38%) Material-UI
9 2 (2.38%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.38%) Blockchain
4 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.19%) PKI
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.86%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
2 4 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.38%) CentOS
3 2 (2.38%) Debian
3 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.10%) Software Engineering
2 46 (54.76%) DevOps
3 29 (34.52%) Agile
4 22 (26.19%) CI/CD
5 21 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (23.81%) AI
7 19 (22.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (22.62%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (21.43%) Scrum
9 17 (20.24%) Data Science
10 16 (19.05%) Containerisation
10 16 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (13.10%) Collaborative Culture
11 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (11.90%) Test Automation
13 8 (9.52%) DevSecOps
13 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (9.52%) Kanban
14 7 (8.33%) Clean Code
14 7 (8.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 56 (66.67%) Python
2 21 (25.00%) C++
3 19 (22.62%) Bash
4 18 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.10%) Go
6 10 (11.90%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.14%) SQL
8 5 (5.95%) Groovy
8 5 (5.95%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.95%) Rust
9 4 (4.76%) C
10 3 (3.57%) C#
10 3 (3.57%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.38%) Elixir
11 2 (2.38%) Erlang
11 2 (2.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (72.62%) Security Cleared
2 38 (45.24%) DV Cleared
3 20 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.76%) CCNA
4 4 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.76%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.76%) OSCP
4 4 (4.76%) RHCE
4 4 (4.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (20.24%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.76%) Squid
2 4 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.76%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.76%) vSphere
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 21 (25.00%) Terraform
3 19 (22.62%) Ansible
4 8 (9.52%) Grafana
5 7 (8.33%) Rancher
6 6 (7.14%) Argo
6 6 (7.14%) Kibana
6 6 (7.14%) logstash
6 6 (7.14%) yum
7 5 (5.95%) Puppet
8 4 (4.76%) Packer
8 4 (4.76%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.76%) Oracle
2 4 (4.76%) Splunk
2 4 (4.76%) VMware
3 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.38%) Google
3 2 (2.38%) SaltStack