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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 57 99 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.42% 9.02% 15.07%
As % of the Programming Languages category 34.76% 27.42% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18 53 82
10th Percentile £52,125 £40,250 £42,625
25th Percentile £55,313 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £60,000 £62,450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -3.92% +13.55%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £82,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 164 361 407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 29.98% 32.88% 45.42%
Number of salaries quoted 93 209 241
10th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -3.45% +19.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,750 £80,250 £82,500
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

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for Java 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +7 23 £65,000 -1.89% 16
Gloucester +5 9 £88,750 +61.36% 11
Tewkesbury +9 2 - - 1
Stroud - 2 - - 1
Java
South West

Java
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.02%) Apache
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) AWS
2 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
2 4 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (7.02%) Serverless
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (1.75%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (14.04%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Neo4j
4 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.04%) GitLab
2 7 (12.28%) Git
3 4 (7.02%) JUnit
4 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.51%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
5 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 35 (61.40%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.02%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.51%) Games
5 1 (1.75%) Automotive
5 1 (1.75%) Electronics
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (61.40%) Senior
2 33 (57.89%) Java Engineer
3 32 (56.14%) Senior Java Engineer
4 14 (24.56%) Software Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Test Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Lead
7 3 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (5.26%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Developer
8 2 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) Data Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared Java Developer
9 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) Java Developer
9 1 (1.75%) Senior Developer
9 1 (1.75%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) Software Engineering Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (28.07%) React
2 7 (12.28%) Spring Boot
3 6 (10.53%) Spring
4 5 (8.77%) Hibernate
5 4 (7.02%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (7.02%) JSF
6 3 (5.26%) Kafka
7 1 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.75%) Jest
7 1 (1.75%) MERN Stack
7 1 (1.75%) OAuth
7 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.75%) PrimeFaces
7 1 (1.75%) Redux
7 1 (1.75%) REST
7 1 (1.75%) RESTful
7 1 (1.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (56.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (75.44%) Agile
2 39 (68.42%) Artificial Intelligence
3 34 (59.65%) SDLC
4 16 (28.07%) Software Engineering
5 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
6 10 (17.54%) DevOps
7 7 (12.28%) Machine Learning
8 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (10.53%) Microservices
9 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
9 5 (8.77%) Scrum
9 5 (8.77%) TDD
9 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
9 5 (8.77%) Unit Testing
10 4 (7.02%) BDD
10 4 (7.02%) Coaching
10 4 (7.02%) Software Testing
11 3 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (5.26%) System Testing
11 3 (5.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) Python
2 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
3 11 (19.30%) TypeScript
4 3 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (1.75%) C
5 1 (1.75%) Groovy
5 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Kibana
1 8 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.51%) Ansible
2 2 (3.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) IBM
1 11 (19.30%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle
3 6 (10.53%) Atlassian