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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 -19
Permanent jobs citing Java 176 42 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.93% 8.17% 7.65%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.05% 30.66% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 118 17 37
10th Percentile £53,500 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% +0.08%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £89,000
South West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +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 475 137 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.71% 26.65% 39.92%
Number of salaries quoted 332 85 150
10th Percentile £47,275 £29,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -5.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,125 £87,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -4 81 £75,000 +15.38% 36
Gloucester -9 69 £65,000 -26.76% 17
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 26 (14.77%) Apache
2 11 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (25.00%) AWS
2 24 (13.64%) Azure
3 13 (7.39%) OpenShift
4 11 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.11%) GCP
5 9 (5.11%) Serverless
6 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.27%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (2.27%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (2.27%) GitHub
10 2 (1.14%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) AMQP
2 4 (2.27%) IPv4
2 4 (2.27%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.57%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.57%) Network Security
3 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.80%) Big Data
1 19 (10.80%) MongoDB
2 14 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 13 (7.39%) Hadoop
4 12 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (3.41%) MySQL
7 5 (2.84%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (2.84%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.84%) Redis
8 2 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 28 (15.91%) Git
2 27 (15.34%) GitLab
3 22 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.11%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.55%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.55%) Subversion
6 4 (2.27%) JIRA
7 1 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.57%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.57%) Maven
7 1 (0.57%) Mocha
General
1 19 (10.80%) Finance
2 12 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.11%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.27%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.57%) Aviation
5 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 62 (35.23%) Software Engineer
2 50 (28.41%) Developer
3 32 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 32 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 27 (15.34%) Senior
5 23 (13.07%) Lead
6 20 (11.36%) Java Engineer
7 17 (9.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 14 (7.95%) Java Software Developer
9 13 (7.39%) C++ Developer
9 13 (7.39%) C++ Software Developer
9 13 (7.39%) C++/Java Developer
9 13 (7.39%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (6.82%) Data Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
11 11 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
12 9 (5.11%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (5.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (27.84%) Terraform
2 33 (18.75%) Spring
2 33 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 15 (8.52%) Apache NiFi
4 13 (7.39%) React
5 12 (6.82%) RESTful
6 11 (6.25%) Kafka
7 10 (5.68%) Node.js
8 9 (5.11%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (5.11%) RabbitMQ
8 9 (5.11%) Vue
9 8 (4.55%) REST
10 6 (3.41%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.41%) OpenAPI
10 6 (3.41%) Swagger
11 5 (2.84%) gRPC
11 5 (2.84%) Material-UI
12 4 (2.27%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (2.27%) boto
13 3 (1.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.93%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.52%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.41%) Distributed Applications
3 6 (3.41%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.27%) PKI
5 3 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.14%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.57%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 50 (28.41%) Linux
2 10 (5.68%) Windows
3 6 (3.41%) CentOS
3 6 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.84%) Debian
4 5 (2.84%) Ubuntu
5 4 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.14%) Android
6 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (48.30%) Software Engineering
2 75 (42.61%) CI/CD
3 69 (39.20%) DevOps
4 62 (35.23%) Agile
5 58 (32.95%) Containerisation
6 52 (29.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (17.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 27 (15.34%) DevSecOps
8 27 (15.34%) Scrum
9 26 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 26 (14.77%) Microservices
10 23 (13.07%) AI
11 20 (11.36%) Collaborative Culture
12 19 (10.80%) Test Automation
13 18 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 18 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (7.95%) Data Engineering
14 14 (7.95%) Data Pipeline
14 14 (7.95%) Deployment Automation
15 13 (7.39%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 103 (58.52%) Python
2 54 (30.68%) C++
3 29 (16.48%) JavaScript
4 24 (13.64%) Bash
5 18 (10.23%) Go
6 15 (8.52%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.39%) Scala
7 13 (7.39%) SQL
8 10 (5.68%) Rust
9 8 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.41%) C#
10 6 (3.41%) Groovy
11 5 (2.84%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.70%) C
13 1 (0.57%) ABAP
13 1 (0.57%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 131 (74.43%) Security Cleared
2 79 (44.89%) DV Cleared
3 36 (20.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.41%) Degree
5 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.27%) CCNA
6 4 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.27%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.27%) OSCP
6 4 (2.27%) RHCE
6 4 (2.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.39%) QA
2 8 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 49 (27.84%) Docker
2 8 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.27%) Squid
3 4 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (38.64%) Kubernetes
2 50 (28.41%) Ansible
3 17 (9.66%) Puppet
4 10 (5.68%) Rancher
5 8 (4.55%) Argo
5 8 (4.55%) Grafana
5 8 (4.55%) Kibana
5 8 (4.55%) logstash
5 8 (4.55%) yum
6 4 (2.27%) Packer
6 4 (2.27%) vCenter Server
6 4 (2.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (5.11%) Red Hat
2 8 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (4.55%) VMware
3 5 (2.84%) Atlassian
3 5 (2.84%) Google
3 5 (2.84%) Oracle
3 5 (2.84%) SaltStack
4 4 (2.27%) Splunk
5 1 (0.57%) SAP
5 1 (0.57%) ServiceNow