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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -17 +10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 80 80 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.80% 19.75% 11.42%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.65% 52.98% 27.34%
Number of salaries quoted 46 18 129
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,572 £34,800
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,438 £76,250
90th Percentile - £74,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -5.74%

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 245 151 695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.75% 37.28% 41.77%
Number of salaries quoted 147 68 568
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £64,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £74,500 £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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -25 27 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Gloucester -12 24 £75,000 +17.65% 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 12 (15.00%) Apache
2 3 (3.75%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.50%) AWS
2 16 (20.00%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) GCP
4 6 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.25%) Serverless
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.25%) GitHub
8 1 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) IPv4
1 3 (3.75%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.50%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.50%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.75%) Big Data
3 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.00%) Neo4j
4 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.75%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Git
2 11 (13.75%) GitLab
3 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 7 (8.75%) Subversion
6 6 (7.50%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.75%) JIRA
8 3 (3.75%) JUnit
9 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.50%) Gradle
9 2 (2.50%) Maven
General
1 9 (11.25%) Aerospace
2 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (3.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.50%) Law
3 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Java Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 12 (15.00%) Senior
4 11 (13.75%) Senior Software Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.50%) Test Engineer
10 1 (1.25%) C Software Engineer
10 1 (1.25%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) React
2 12 (15.00%) AngularJS
2 12 (15.00%) Spring
2 12 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 12 (15.00%) Vue
3 10 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
4 7 (8.75%) REST
5 6 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (6.25%) Kafka
6 5 (6.25%) Node.js
7 4 (5.00%) MERN Stack
8 3 (3.75%) boto
8 3 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.75%) RESTful
9 2 (2.50%) gRPC
9 2 (2.50%) Hibernate
9 2 (2.50%) JPA
9 2 (2.50%) Material-UI
9 2 (2.50%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.25%) PKI
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (21.25%) Linux
2 3 (3.75%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) CentOS
3 2 (2.50%) Debian
3 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (63.75%) Software Engineering
2 46 (57.50%) DevOps
3 26 (32.50%) Agile
4 21 (26.25%) CI/CD
5 20 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 19 (23.75%) AI
6 19 (23.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 19 (23.75%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (22.50%) Scrum
8 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (20.00%) Data Science
10 15 (18.75%) Containerisation
11 12 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (11.25%) DevSecOps
13 9 (11.25%) Kanban
13 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
14 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 7 (8.75%) Clean Code
15 7 (8.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 53 (66.25%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) C++
3 19 (23.75%) Bash
4 17 (21.25%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.00%) Go
6 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.50%) SQL
8 5 (6.25%) Rust
9 4 (5.00%) C
9 4 (5.00%) Groovy
9 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.75%) C#
10 3 (3.75%) Kotlin
11 2 (2.50%) Elixir
11 2 (2.50%) Erlang
12 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 61 (76.25%) Security Cleared
2 39 (48.75%) DV Cleared
3 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.75%) CCNA
4 3 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.75%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.75%) OSCP
4 3 (3.75%) RHCE
4 3 (3.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
System Software
1 16 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) Squid
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.75%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.75%) vSphere
3 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 20 (25.00%) Terraform
3 17 (21.25%) Ansible
4 8 (10.00%) Grafana
4 8 (10.00%) Rancher
5 7 (8.75%) Argo
5 7 (8.75%) yum
6 6 (7.50%) Kibana
6 6 (7.50%) logstash
7 5 (6.25%) Puppet
8 3 (3.75%) Packer
8 3 (3.75%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Red Hat
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle
2 3 (3.75%) Splunk
2 3 (3.75%) VMware
3 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.50%) Google
3 2 (2.50%) SaltStack