Garbage Collection Job Trends in the South West

Garbage Collection
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Garbage Collection skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 - 252
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Garbage Collection 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.016% - 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 7
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £100,000
England median annual salary £118,750 £90,000 £100,000
% change year-on-year +31.94% -10.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

Garbage Collection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,521 2,658 6,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.75% 90.16% 86.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,077 1,488 5,102
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Garbage Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Garbage Collection relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Garbage Collection job vacancy trend in the South West

Garbage Collection
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Garbage Collection.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Garbage Collection within the South West region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
Dorset - 1 - -
Garbage Collection
England

Garbage Collection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring WebFlux
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes