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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 145 56 100
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 6.17% 10.24% 8.93%
As % of the Programming Languages category 33.33% 34.15% 27.17%
Number of salaries quoted 95 17 54
10th Percentile £48,650 £52,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £77,188
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% - -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 435 164 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.50% 29.98% 32.86%
Number of salaries quoted 308 93 221
10th Percentile £42,500 £27,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
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 11 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 11 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
Gloucester -8 62 £65,000 -26.76% 23
Cheltenham -13 57 £75,000 +17.65% 22
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 26 (17.93%) Apache
2 9 (6.21%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) JBoss
4 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (24.14%) AWS
2 13 (8.97%) Azure
3 11 (7.59%) OpenShift
4 9 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.83%) GCP
5 7 (4.83%) Serverless
6 6 (4.14%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (2.76%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (1.38%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.38%) GitHub
9 2 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) IPv4
1 4 (2.76%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (2.07%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.48%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.34%) Big Data
3 12 (8.28%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (8.28%) NoSQL
4 11 (7.59%) Hadoop
5 6 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.45%) MySQL
7 3 (2.07%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.07%) Redis
8 2 (1.38%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (14.48%) Git
1 21 (14.48%) GitLab
2 17 (11.72%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.52%) Bitbucket
3 8 (5.52%) Cucumber
3 8 (5.52%) SonarQube
4 7 (4.83%) Subversion
5 4 (2.76%) JIRA
6 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.69%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.69%) Mocha
General
1 15 (10.34%) Finance
2 12 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (4.83%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.07%) Social Skills
5 1 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (37.93%) Software Engineer
2 40 (27.59%) Developer
3 28 (19.31%) Java Developer
4 24 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (13.79%) Software Developer
6 19 (13.10%) Java Engineer
6 19 (13.10%) Java Software Engineer
6 19 (13.10%) Lead
7 15 (10.34%) Senior
8 14 (9.66%) Data Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 12 (8.28%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (5.52%) Java Software Developer
12 7 (4.83%) C++ Developer
12 7 (4.83%) C++ Software Developer
12 7 (4.83%) C++/Java Developer
12 7 (4.83%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (4.83%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.52%) Terraform
2 26 (17.93%) Spring
2 26 (17.93%) Spring Boot
3 17 (11.72%) Apache NiFi
4 13 (8.97%) React
5 11 (7.59%) Kafka
5 11 (7.59%) Vue
6 9 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.52%) Node.js
7 8 (5.52%) REST
8 7 (4.83%) RESTful
9 6 (4.14%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.76%) boto
10 4 (2.76%) OpenAPI
10 4 (2.76%) Swagger
11 3 (2.07%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (2.07%) gRPC
11 3 (2.07%) Material-UI
11 3 (2.07%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.72%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.07%) PKI
6 2 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.38%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.38%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.76%) Linux
2 7 (4.83%) Windows
3 4 (2.76%) CentOS
3 4 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.76%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.07%) Debian
4 3 (2.07%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.38%) Android
5 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (51.72%) Software Engineering
2 67 (46.21%) DevOps
3 59 (40.69%) CI/CD
4 51 (35.17%) Agile
5 41 (28.28%) Containerisation
6 39 (26.90%) Infrastructure as Code
7 31 (21.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 28 (19.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 24 (16.55%) AI
10 22 (15.17%) Scrum
11 21 (14.48%) DevSecOps
12 20 (13.79%) Data Science
13 19 (13.10%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (11.72%) Microservices
14 17 (11.72%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (11.03%) Data Engineering
15 16 (11.03%) Data Pipeline
16 15 (10.34%) Test Automation
17 14 (9.66%) ETL
17 14 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 92 (63.45%) Python
2 41 (28.28%) C++
3 27 (18.62%) JavaScript
4 20 (13.79%) Bash
5 16 (11.03%) Go
6 15 (10.34%) SQL
6 15 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 11 (7.59%) Scala
8 10 (6.90%) Rust
9 8 (5.52%) Groovy
10 5 (3.45%) C#
10 5 (3.45%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.07%) C
11 3 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.69%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 105 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 64 (44.14%) DV Cleared
3 21 (14.48%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.76%) CCNA
4 4 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.76%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (2.76%) OSCP
4 4 (2.76%) RHCE
4 4 (2.76%) RHCSA
5 2 (1.38%) Degree
6 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.90%) Data Quality
1 10 (6.90%) QA
2 7 (4.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 36 (24.83%) Docker
2 5 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.76%) Squid
3 4 (2.76%) vSphere
4 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (35.86%) Kubernetes
2 38 (26.21%) Ansible
3 11 (7.59%) Puppet
4 9 (6.21%) Rancher
5 8 (5.52%) Grafana
5 8 (5.52%) Kibana
5 8 (5.52%) logstash
6 7 (4.83%) Argo
6 7 (4.83%) yum
7 4 (2.76%) Packer
7 4 (2.76%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (4.83%) Red Hat
2 5 (3.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.45%) Oracle
2 5 (3.45%) VMware
3 4 (2.76%) Splunk
4 3 (2.07%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.07%) Google
4 3 (2.07%) SaltStack