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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 12 19
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Java 106 78 157
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.78% 13.68% 10.60%
As % of the Programming Languages category 31.74% 41.49% 28.34%
Number of salaries quoted 69 16 104
10th Percentile £47,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £59,250 £51,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -7.20%

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 334 188 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.20% 32.98% 37.41%
Number of salaries quoted 229 94 433
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,325 £32,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.57% -4.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,375 £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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -15 40 £75,000 +15.38% 14
Gloucester -13 37 £65,000 +1.96% 19
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 17 (16.04%) Apache
2 4 (3.77%) Confluence
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.64%) AWS
2 13 (12.26%) Azure
3 8 (7.55%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (6.60%) GCP
4 7 (6.60%) OpenShift
5 6 (5.66%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (5.66%) Serverless
6 4 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudTrail
6 4 (3.77%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (1.89%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.89%) GitHub
7 2 (1.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.77%) IPv4
1 4 (3.77%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (1.89%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.98%) MongoDB
2 13 (12.26%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (10.38%) NoSQL
4 10 (9.43%) Big Data
5 6 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.72%) Hadoop
7 4 (3.77%) MySQL
8 3 (2.83%) Redis
9 2 (1.89%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.94%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 18 (16.98%) Git
1 18 (16.98%) GitLab
2 12 (11.32%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.60%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.60%) Cucumber
3 7 (6.60%) SonarQube
4 6 (5.66%) Subversion
5 4 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 7 (6.60%) Aerospace
1 7 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (4.72%) Finance
3 4 (3.77%) Social Skills
4 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (48.11%) Software Engineer
2 21 (19.81%) Developer
3 18 (16.98%) Java Developer
3 18 (16.98%) Senior
4 16 (15.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Java Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Java Software Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Lead
6 11 (10.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (4.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.21%) Apache NiFi
1 14 (13.21%) Spring
1 14 (13.21%) Spring Boot
2 11 (10.38%) Vue
3 10 (9.43%) Kafka
4 8 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (6.60%) React
6 6 (5.66%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.66%) REST
7 5 (4.72%) Node.js
7 5 (4.72%) RESTful
8 4 (3.77%) boto
9 3 (2.83%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.89%) gRPC
10 2 (1.89%) Material-UI
10 2 (1.89%) OpenAPI
10 2 (1.89%) Swagger
11 1 (0.94%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.72%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.87%) Linux
2 5 (4.72%) Windows
3 4 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) CentOS
4 2 (1.89%) Debian
4 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (60.38%) Software Engineering
2 54 (50.94%) DevOps
3 40 (37.74%) CI/CD
4 33 (31.13%) Agile
5 28 (26.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 27 (25.47%) Containerisation
7 26 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (23.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (20.75%) AI
10 20 (18.87%) Scrum
11 19 (17.92%) Data Science
11 19 (17.92%) Platform Engineering
12 16 (15.09%) Collaborative Culture
13 13 (12.26%) DevSecOps
14 12 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (10.38%) Data Engineering
15 11 (10.38%) Test Automation
16 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 10 (9.43%) Microservices
16 10 (9.43%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 68 (64.15%) Python
2 25 (23.58%) C++
3 18 (16.98%) Bash
3 18 (16.98%) JavaScript
4 15 (14.15%) Go
5 10 (9.43%) SQL
6 8 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.60%) Groovy
7 7 (6.60%) Rust
7 7 (6.60%) Scala
8 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.77%) C#
10 3 (2.83%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 76 (71.70%) Security Cleared
2 48 (45.28%) DV Cleared
3 23 (21.70%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.77%) CCNA
4 4 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.77%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.77%) OSCP
4 4 (3.77%) RHCE
4 4 (3.77%) RHCSA
5 1 (0.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.60%) QA
2 6 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (19.81%) Docker
2 4 (3.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.77%) Squid
2 4 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.77%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (35.85%) Kubernetes
2 28 (26.42%) Terraform
3 26 (24.53%) Ansible
4 8 (7.55%) Rancher
5 7 (6.60%) Grafana
5 7 (6.60%) Kibana
5 7 (6.60%) logstash
5 7 (6.60%) Puppet
6 6 (5.66%) Argo
6 6 (5.66%) yum
7 4 (3.77%) Packer
7 4 (3.77%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.94%) Podman
Vendors
1 6 (5.66%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.77%) Oracle
2 4 (3.77%) Splunk
2 4 (3.77%) VMware
3 2 (1.89%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.89%) Google
3 2 (1.89%) SaltStack