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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +6 0
Permanent jobs citing Java 103 78 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.08% 14.61% 11.21%
As % of the Programming Languages category 32.80% 42.16% 28.40%
Number of salaries quoted 60 16 128
10th Percentile £47,475 £50,000 £34,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%

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 314 185 662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.53% 34.64% 39.48%
Number of salaries quoted 203 92 524
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,275 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,939 £41,813 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +4.76% -12.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £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 8 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 8 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 -16 40 £70,000 +7.69% 9
Gloucester -11 33 £75,000 +17.65% 21
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 (16.50%) Apache
2 4 (3.88%) Confluence
3 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.97%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.21%) AWS
2 17 (16.50%) Azure
3 9 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (8.74%) GCP
4 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (6.80%) Serverless
5 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
5 6 (5.83%) OpenShift
6 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (3.88%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (3.88%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (1.94%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.94%) GitHub
8 2 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.88%) IPv4
1 4 (3.88%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (2.91%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.50%) MongoDB
2 16 (15.53%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (10.68%) Big Data
3 11 (10.68%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.85%) MySQL
6 4 (3.88%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.91%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.91%) Redis
8 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.94%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 19 (18.45%) Git
2 17 (16.50%) GitLab
3 14 (13.59%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.74%) Cucumber
5 8 (7.77%) Bitbucket
5 8 (7.77%) SonarQube
6 7 (6.80%) Subversion
7 4 (3.88%) JIRA
8 2 (1.94%) Gradle
8 2 (1.94%) Maven
9 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (8.74%) Aerospace
2 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.88%) Social Skills
4 3 (2.91%) Finance
5 2 (1.94%) Law
6 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (48.54%) Software Engineer
2 19 (18.45%) Developer
3 16 (15.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.53%) Senior
4 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 14 (13.59%) Java Developer
6 12 (11.65%) Java Engineer
6 12 (11.65%) Java Software Engineer
7 11 (10.68%) Lead
8 10 (9.71%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Lead Data Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (3.88%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (3.88%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) Spring
1 16 (15.53%) Spring Boot
2 14 (13.59%) Apache NiFi
3 13 (12.62%) Vue
4 12 (11.65%) React
5 10 (9.71%) AngularJS
6 9 (8.74%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (8.74%) Kafka
7 7 (6.80%) REST
8 6 (5.83%) Node.js
9 5 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.85%) RESTful
10 4 (3.88%) boto
11 3 (2.91%) gRPC
11 3 (2.91%) Material-UI
11 3 (2.91%) OpenAPI
11 3 (2.91%) Swagger
12 2 (1.94%) ActiveMQ
12 2 (1.94%) JPA
12 2 (1.94%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.85%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.94%) PKI
5 1 (0.97%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (18.45%) Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Windows
2 4 (3.88%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.91%) CentOS
3 3 (2.91%) Debian
3 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (62.14%) Software Engineering
2 57 (55.34%) DevOps
3 36 (34.95%) Agile
4 34 (33.01%) CI/CD
5 28 (27.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 24 (23.30%) Containerisation
6 24 (23.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 24 (23.30%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (21.36%) AI
8 21 (20.39%) Platform Engineering
8 21 (20.39%) Scrum
9 18 (17.48%) Data Science
10 16 (15.53%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (13.59%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.65%) Microservices
12 12 (11.65%) Test Automation
13 11 (10.68%) TDD
14 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (9.71%) Kanban
14 10 (9.71%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 68 (66.02%) Python
2 23 (22.33%) C++
3 21 (20.39%) Bash
3 21 (20.39%) JavaScript
4 15 (14.56%) Go
5 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.77%) SQL
7 7 (6.80%) Rust
8 6 (5.83%) Groovy
8 6 (5.83%) Scala
9 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.88%) C#
10 4 (3.88%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.94%) C
12 1 (0.97%) Elixir
12 1 (0.97%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 75 (72.82%) Security Cleared
2 44 (42.72%) DV Cleared
3 24 (23.30%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (3.88%) CCNA
4 4 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.88%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (3.88%) OSCP
4 4 (3.88%) RHCE
4 4 (3.88%) RHCSA
5 1 (0.97%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) QA
2 5 (4.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (20.39%) Docker
2 4 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) Squid
2 4 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.88%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.88%) vSphere
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 37 (35.92%) Kubernetes
2 30 (29.13%) Terraform
3 28 (27.18%) Ansible
4 9 (8.74%) Grafana
4 9 (8.74%) Rancher
5 8 (7.77%) Kibana
5 8 (7.77%) logstash
5 8 (7.77%) Puppet
6 7 (6.80%) Argo
6 7 (6.80%) yum
7 4 (3.88%) Packer
7 4 (3.88%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.97%) Podman
8 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (6.80%) Red Hat
2 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.88%) Oracle
2 4 (3.88%) Splunk
2 4 (3.88%) VMware
3 3 (2.91%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.91%) Google
3 3 (2.91%) SaltStack