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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 85 80 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 5.45% 16.53% 10.85%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.58% 44.44% 27.84%
Number of salaries quoted 46 17 131
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile - £95,000 £85,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.04% +6.52% -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 278 180 686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 17.81% 37.19% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 174 87 548
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £65,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -17 34 £68,750 +5.77% 11
Gloucester -17 25 £75,000 +17.65% 8
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 15 (17.65%) Apache
2 4 (4.71%) Confluence
3 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.41%) AWS
2 16 (18.82%) Azure
3 10 (11.76%) GCP
4 9 (10.59%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (8.24%) Serverless
6 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (2.35%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.18%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) IPv4
1 4 (4.71%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (3.53%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (14.12%) MongoDB
3 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.41%) Big Data
5 4 (4.71%) MySQL
5 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.53%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.35%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (18.82%) Git
2 15 (17.65%) GitLab
3 13 (15.29%) Jenkins
4 9 (10.59%) Cucumber
5 8 (9.41%) SonarQube
6 7 (8.24%) Bitbucket
7 6 (7.06%) Subversion
8 4 (4.71%) JIRA
9 2 (2.35%) Gradle
9 2 (2.35%) Maven
10 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (10.59%) Aerospace
2 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.71%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.35%) Law
5 1 (1.18%) Finance
5 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (50.59%) Software Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) Developer
3 14 (16.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 14 (16.47%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 12 (14.12%) Java Engineer
4 12 (14.12%) Java Software Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Java Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Senior
6 9 (10.59%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (9.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Lead
9 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Lead Data Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.35%) Consultant
11 2 (2.35%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (15.29%) Vue
2 12 (14.12%) Apache NiFi
2 12 (14.12%) React
3 11 (12.94%) Spring
3 11 (12.94%) Spring Boot
4 10 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.41%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (8.24%) REST
7 6 (7.06%) Node.js
8 5 (5.88%) Kafka
9 4 (4.71%) boto
9 4 (4.71%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.71%) RESTful
10 3 (3.53%) gRPC
10 3 (3.53%) Material-UI
10 3 (3.53%) OpenAPI
10 3 (3.53%) Swagger
11 2 (2.35%) Hibernate
11 2 (2.35%) JPA
11 2 (2.35%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.35%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.82%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Windows
2 4 (4.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.53%) CentOS
3 3 (3.53%) Debian
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.06%) Software Engineering
2 48 (56.47%) DevOps
3 29 (34.12%) Agile
4 25 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 22 (25.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (23.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 19 (22.35%) AI
7 19 (22.35%) Scrum
8 18 (21.18%) Containerisation
8 18 (21.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (21.18%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (18.82%) Data Science
10 15 (17.65%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (12.94%) Test Automation
13 9 (10.59%) Kanban
13 9 (10.59%) Microservices
14 8 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 8 (9.41%) SFIA
15 7 (8.24%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 57 (67.06%) Python
2 23 (27.06%) C++
3 21 (24.71%) Bash
4 19 (22.35%) JavaScript
5 14 (16.47%) Go
6 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.24%) Rust
8 6 (7.06%) SQL
9 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
10 4 (4.71%) Groovy
11 3 (3.53%) C#
11 3 (3.53%) Kotlin
11 3 (3.53%) Scala
12 2 (2.35%) C
12 2 (2.35%) Elixir
12 2 (2.35%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 62 (72.94%) Security Cleared
2 35 (41.18%) DV Cleared
3 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.71%) CCNA
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.71%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.71%) OSCP
4 4 (4.71%) RHCE
4 4 (4.71%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (17.65%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.71%) Squid
2 4 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.71%) VMware NSX
2 4 (4.71%) vSphere
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 25 (29.41%) Terraform
3 23 (27.06%) Ansible
4 10 (11.76%) Grafana
5 8 (9.41%) Kibana
5 8 (9.41%) logstash
5 8 (9.41%) Rancher
6 7 (8.24%) Puppet
7 6 (7.06%) Argo
7 6 (7.06%) yum
8 4 (4.71%) Packer
8 4 (4.71%) ZABBIX
9 2 (2.35%) Prometheus
10 1 (1.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) Red Hat
2 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.71%) Oracle
2 4 (4.71%) Splunk
2 4 (4.71%) VMware
3 3 (3.53%) Google
3 3 (3.53%) SaltStack
4 2 (2.35%) Atlassian