Java Developer Job Trends in the South West

Java Developer
England > South West

The median Java Developer salary in the South West is £48,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 153 171
Rank change year-on-year -33 +18 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 64 11 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.63% 0.31% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.34% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 56 6 47
10th Percentile £28,750 £48,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -14.71% +6.25%

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 9,436 3,254 7,147
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 92.73% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6,537 2,133 4,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,027 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.15% -11.71% -6.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -8.33%

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 18 September 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 18 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
Gloucestershire -26 29 £67,750 -24.72% 2
Somerset - 27 £30,500 - 1
Dorset -8 4 £52,500 +16.67% 3
Bristol -37 3 £70,000 +16.67% 5
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 64 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (62.50%) C++
3 36 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (51.56%) Python
5 30 (46.88%) Git
6 29 (45.31%) Computer Science
6 29 (45.31%) Degree
7 28 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (43.75%) Eclipse
7 28 (43.75%) RESTful
8 27 (42.19%) Jakarta EE
8 27 (42.19%) Struts
8 27 (42.19%) Subversion
8 27 (42.19%) Web Services
9 26 (40.63%) JavaScript
9 26 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (40.63%) React
10 25 (39.06%) Perl
11 21 (32.81%) JUnit
12 20 (31.25%) Requirements Analysis
12 20 (31.25%) Technical Architecture
13 19 (29.69%) Software Engineering
14 17 (26.56%) Linux
15 15 (23.44%) DV Cleared
15 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
16 13 (20.31%) Docker
17 12 (18.75%) AWS
18 11 (17.19%) Azure
18 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
19 9 (14.06%) 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.56%) Apache
1 1 (1.56%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.75%) AWS
2 11 (17.19%) Azure
3 9 (14.06%) GCP
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) MySQL
1 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.56%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 30 (46.88%) Git
2 28 (43.75%) Eclipse
3 27 (42.19%) Subversion
4 21 (32.81%) JUnit
5 2 (3.13%) JIRA
6 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.56%) Maven
General
1 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (9.38%) Retail
2 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.25%) Finance
4 2 (3.13%) Health Technology
4 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.13%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (43.75%) RESTful
2 27 (42.19%) Jakarta EE
2 27 (42.19%) Struts
2 27 (42.19%) Web Services
3 26 (40.63%) React
4 5 (7.81%) Spring
5 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.56%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.56%) JSON
6 1 (1.56%) Kafka
6 1 (1.56%) LAMP
6 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.56%) Spring Batch
6 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (1.56%) PKI
2 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Unix
3 1 (1.56%) CentOS
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (56.25%) Full-Stack Development
2 29 (45.31%) Computer Science
3 26 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (31.25%) Requirements Analysis
4 20 (31.25%) Technical Architecture
5 19 (29.69%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.50%) DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 6 (9.38%) CI/CD
8 6 (9.38%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (9.38%) SDLC
9 4 (6.25%) Agile
10 3 (4.69%) OO
11 2 (3.13%) Containerisation
11 2 (3.13%) Design Patterns
11 2 (3.13%) High Availability
11 2 (3.13%) Issue Tracking
11 2 (3.13%) Microservices
11 2 (3.13%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 64 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (62.50%) C++
3 33 (51.56%) Python
4 26 (40.63%) JavaScript
5 25 (39.06%) Perl
6 1 (1.56%) C#
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (45.31%) Degree
2 28 (43.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (23.44%) DV Cleared
3 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 13 (20.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle
2 1 (1.56%) Atlassian