Java Developer Job Trends in the South West

Java Developer
England > South West

The median Java Developer salary in the South West is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 147 226
Rank change year-on-year -27 +79 -58
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 35 10 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.46% 0.36% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.39% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 22 6 52
10th Percentile £28,750 £48,750 £43,075
25th Percentile £30,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% - -4.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -3.03%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 7,204 2,547 9,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 92.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,005 1,615 7,035
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,600 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,405 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Java Developer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in the South West

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in the South West

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the South West over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the South West

Java Developer
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 Java Developer within the South West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Gloucestershire -21 11 £70,000 -22.22% 2
Dorset -3 7 £52,500 +16.67% 4
Somerset - 7 £29,500 - 4
Bristol -14 4 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Wiltshire - 2 £60,000 -
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 4 June 2026, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (45.71%) Python
3 14 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 13 (37.14%) C++
4 13 (37.14%) Spring
5 11 (31.43%) AWS
5 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
6 10 (28.57%) JavaScript
7 9 (25.71%) DevOps
7 9 (25.71%) Docker
7 9 (25.71%) Git
7 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
7 9 (25.71%) RESTful
8 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
8 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
8 8 (22.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (22.86%) Degree
8 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (22.86%) React
8 8 (22.86%) Requirements Analysis
8 8 (22.86%) Spring Boot
8 8 (22.86%) Technical Architecture
9 7 (20.00%) Eclipse
9 7 (20.00%) J2EE
9 7 (20.00%) JUnit
9 7 (20.00%) Perl
9 7 (20.00%) Struts
9 7 (20.00%) Subversion
9 7 (20.00%) Web Services
10 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement

Java Developer Skill Set
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 11 (31.43%) AWS
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) GCP
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.57%) MySQL
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Git
2 7 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 7 (20.00%) JUnit
2 7 (20.00%) Subversion
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
4 1 (2.86%) GitLab
4 1 (2.86%) Gradle
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) Maven
4 1 (2.86%) Mockito
4 1 (2.86%) TestNG
General
1 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
3 2 (5.71%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.71%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (5.71%) Retail
3 2 (5.71%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.86%) Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (37.14%) Spring
2 9 (25.71%) RESTful
3 8 (22.86%) React
3 8 (22.86%) Spring Boot
4 7 (20.00%) J2EE
4 7 (20.00%) Struts
4 7 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (5.71%) Kafka
5 2 (5.71%) REST
6 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.86%) JSON
6 1 (2.86%) JWT
6 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.86%) Spring Batch
6 1 (2.86%) Spring MVC
6 1 (2.86%) Spring WebFlux
6 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Linux
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
3 9 (25.71%) DevOps
4 8 (22.86%) CI/CD
4 8 (22.86%) Computer Science
4 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Requirements Analysis
4 8 (22.86%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.29%) Agile
6 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.43%) Microservices
8 3 (8.57%) Design Patterns
8 3 (8.57%) Front End Development
9 2 (5.71%) Issue Tracking
9 2 (5.71%) Migration
9 2 (5.71%) Regression Testing
9 2 (5.71%) Requirements Gathering
9 2 (5.71%) SDLC
9 2 (5.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 16 (45.71%) Python
3 13 (37.14%) C++
4 10 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 7 (20.00%) Perl
6 1 (2.86%) Go
6 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 6 (17.14%) DV Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared
2 6 (17.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Grafana
2 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Google