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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 33 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -21 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 36 67 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.73% 7.11% 17.95%
As % of the Programming Languages category 25.53% 17.68% 35.27%
Number of salaries quoted 18 32 83
10th Percentile £52,125 £40,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,563 £46,952 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,063 £78,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,875 £85,000
South West median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

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 141 379 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 26.36% 40.23% 50.91%
Number of salaries quoted 92 141 253
10th Percentile £29,350 £37,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,313 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,375 £82,500 £82,150
South West median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +9 19 £65,000 +4.00% 23
Gloucester +10 9 £88,750 -1.39% 27
Tewkesbury +5 2 - -
Stroud - 2 - - 2
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 7 (19.44%) Apache
2 4 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 6 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (16.67%) Serverless
3 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (11.11%) Azure
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.56%) Neo4j
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Git
2 7 (19.44%) GitLab
3 5 (13.89%) JUnit
4 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 4 (11.11%) JIRA
5 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.78%) Selenium
6 1 (2.78%) Subversion
General
1 15 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.11%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.56%) Games
4 1 (2.78%) Automotive
4 1 (2.78%) Electronics
4 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Software Engineer
2 14 (38.89%) Senior
3 12 (33.33%) Java Engineer
4 11 (30.56%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) C Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Software Team Leader
8 1 (2.78%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (47.22%) React
2 7 (19.44%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (19.44%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 6 (16.67%) Spring
4 5 (13.89%) JSF
5 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.33%) PrimeFaces
6 2 (5.56%) Kafka
6 2 (5.56%) MERN Stack
7 1 (2.78%) Jest
7 1 (2.78%) Redux
7 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (30.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (13.89%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) Agile
2 18 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 16 (44.44%) AI
4 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 14 (38.89%) SDLC
5 11 (30.56%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) Microservices
7 7 (19.44%) Scrum
8 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 5 (13.89%) Coaching
9 5 (13.89%) Machine Learning
9 5 (13.89%) Unit Testing
10 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
10 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (11.11%) User Experience
11 2 (5.56%) Containerisation
11 2 (5.56%) Customer Requirements
11 2 (5.56%) Decision-Making
11 2 (5.56%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) Python
2 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
2 13 (36.11%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.33%) C
4 2 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) Go
5 1 (2.78%) Groovy
5 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (22.22%) Kibana
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.78%) Argo
4 1 (2.78%) Rancher
4 1 (2.78%) yum
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) IBM
1 11 (30.56%) Red Hat
2 7 (19.44%) Atlassian
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle