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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 11 22
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -7
Permanent jobs citing Java 166 54 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.70% 10.17% 9.14%
As % of the Programming Languages category 36.01% 35.29% 27.57%
Number of salaries quoted 110 18 45
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £60,313 £55,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -3.92%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 461 153 341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.61% 28.81% 33.14%
Number of salaries quoted 322 90 175
10th Percentile £45,125 £27,500 £36,550
25th Percentile £58,750 £42,125 £45,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £53,750 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.88% -6.52% -0.86%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,438 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,375 £81,400
South West median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -8 70 £75,000 +15.38% 47
Gloucester -9 68 £65,000 -26.76% 27
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 25 (15.06%) Apache
2 10 (6.02%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.41%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) JBoss
4 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.49%) AWS
2 19 (11.45%) Azure
3 13 (7.83%) OpenShift
4 11 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (5.42%) GCP
6 8 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (4.82%) Serverless
7 7 (4.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.81%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.20%) GitHub
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.41%) AMQP
1 4 (2.41%) IPv4
1 4 (2.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.05%) MongoDB
2 16 (9.64%) Big Data
3 14 (8.43%) NoSQL
4 13 (7.83%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (7.23%) Hadoop
6 7 (4.22%) MySQL
6 7 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.41%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.81%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.81%) Redis
10 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (16.27%) Git
2 25 (15.06%) GitLab
3 21 (12.65%) Jenkins
4 10 (6.02%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.82%) Cucumber
5 8 (4.82%) SonarQube
5 8 (4.82%) Subversion
6 4 (2.41%) JIRA
7 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.60%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.60%) Maven
7 1 (0.60%) Mocha
General
1 17 (10.24%) Finance
2 12 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.82%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.41%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (37.35%) Software Engineer
2 47 (28.31%) Developer
3 32 (19.28%) Java Developer
4 29 (17.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (16.27%) Software Developer
6 23 (13.86%) Java Engineer
7 22 (13.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 20 (12.05%) Lead
8 20 (12.05%) Senior
9 12 (7.23%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 12 (7.23%) Java Software Developer
10 11 (6.63%) C++ Developer
10 11 (6.63%) C++ Software Developer
10 11 (6.63%) C++/Java Developer
11 10 (6.02%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 8 (4.82%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.51%) Terraform
2 30 (18.07%) Spring
2 30 (18.07%) Spring Boot
3 15 (9.04%) Apache NiFi
4 14 (8.43%) React
5 11 (6.63%) RESTful
5 11 (6.63%) Vue
6 9 (5.42%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (5.42%) Kafka
6 9 (5.42%) Node.js
6 9 (5.42%) REST
7 8 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (4.22%) AngularJS
9 5 (3.01%) OpenAPI
9 5 (3.01%) Swagger
10 4 (2.41%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (2.41%) boto
10 4 (2.41%) gRPC
10 4 (2.41%) Material-UI
11 3 (1.81%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.84%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.61%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.01%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.41%) PKI
6 3 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.20%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 44 (26.51%) Linux
2 8 (4.82%) Windows
3 5 (3.01%) CentOS
3 5 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.41%) Debian
4 4 (2.41%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.41%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.20%) Android
5 2 (1.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (51.20%) Software Engineering
2 74 (44.58%) DevOps
3 68 (40.96%) CI/CD
4 57 (34.34%) Agile
5 51 (30.72%) Containerisation
6 46 (27.71%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (19.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 29 (17.47%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (15.06%) AI
9 25 (15.06%) Scrum
10 24 (14.46%) DevSecOps
11 22 (13.25%) Microservices
12 20 (12.05%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (10.84%) Data Science
14 17 (10.24%) Test Automation
15 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 16 (9.64%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (9.64%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (8.43%) Data Engineering
16 14 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 100 (60.24%) Python
2 52 (31.33%) C++
3 28 (16.87%) JavaScript
4 22 (13.25%) Bash
5 18 (10.84%) Go
6 15 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 14 (8.43%) SQL
8 11 (6.63%) Scala
9 10 (6.02%) Rust
10 6 (3.61%) C#
10 6 (3.61%) Groovy
10 6 (3.61%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.81%) C
11 3 (1.81%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.60%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (73.49%) Security Cleared
2 72 (43.37%) DV Cleared
3 31 (18.67%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.01%) Degree
5 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.41%) CCNA
5 4 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.41%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.41%) OSCP
5 4 (2.41%) RHCE
5 4 (2.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.63%) QA
2 8 (4.82%) Data Quality
3 7 (4.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 43 (25.90%) Docker
2 6 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (3.61%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.41%) Squid
3 4 (2.41%) vSphere
4 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 60 (36.14%) Kubernetes
2 45 (27.11%) Ansible
3 14 (8.43%) Puppet
4 11 (6.63%) Rancher
5 8 (4.82%) Argo
5 8 (4.82%) Grafana
5 8 (4.82%) Kibana
5 8 (4.82%) logstash
5 8 (4.82%) yum
6 4 (2.41%) Packer
6 4 (2.41%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (4.82%) Red Hat
2 6 (3.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.61%) VMware
3 5 (3.01%) Oracle
4 4 (2.41%) Google
4 4 (2.41%) SaltStack
4 4 (2.41%) Splunk
5 3 (1.81%) Atlassian