Java Developer Jobs in the South West

Java Developer
England > South West

The median Java Developer salary in the South West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 235 146
Rank change year-on-year +63 -89 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 11 56 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.54% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.56% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 6 51 53
10th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £45,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,250 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.08%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.03% +3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,471 10,031 5,777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 95.98% 89.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,149 7,260 3,762
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Java Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the South West

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the South West.

Salary trend for Java Developer 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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 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
Dorset +45 5 £45,000 -25.62% 2
Bristol +23 4 £60,000 - 12
Gloucestershire +62 1 £90,000 +80.00% 17
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 July 2025, Java Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (90.91%) Agile
3 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
4 7 (63.64%) AWS
4 7 (63.64%) Spring Boot
5 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 6 (54.55%) Spring
6 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
6 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
6 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (45.45%) Vue
6 5 (45.45%) React
7 4 (36.36%) Azure
7 4 (36.36%) SDLC
7 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (36.36%) Operational Stability
7 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
8 3 (27.27%) Docker
8 3 (27.27%) Microservices
9 2 (18.18%) Kafka
9 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
10 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
10 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
10 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
10 1 (9.09%) GCP
10 1 (9.09%) GitLab
10 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
10 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (9.09%) Serverless

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) Spring Boot
2 6 (54.55%) Spring
3 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
3 5 (45.45%) React
3 5 (45.45%) Vue
4 2 (18.18%) Kafka
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (36.36%) Operational Stability
5 4 (36.36%) SDLC
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
7 1 (9.09%) DevOps
7 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (9.09%) Secure Coding
7 1 (9.09%) TDD
7 1 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Bloomberg
1 1 (9.09%) Google