Java Developer Job Trends 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 28 May 2026.

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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 145 225
Rank change year-on-year -33 +80 -47
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 33 9 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.43% 0.34% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.37% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 51
10th Percentile £28,750 £48,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £41,313 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
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 7,269 2,436 8,961
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 92.38% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,035 1,547 6,829
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,906
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -13.65%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -19 10 - - 6
Dorset -7 8 £65,000 +44.44%
Somerset - 5 £29,500 - 4
Bristol -20 3 £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 28 May 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 33 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 13 (39.39%) Spring
4 12 (36.36%) AWS
5 11 (33.33%) C++
6 10 (30.30%) Docker
6 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
7 9 (27.27%) DevOps
7 9 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 9 (27.27%) Spring Boot
8 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
9 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.21%) RESTful
10 6 (18.18%) Agile
10 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
10 6 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 6 (18.18%) Degree
10 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
10 6 (18.18%) Git
10 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (18.18%) React
10 6 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
10 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
10 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
10 6 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
11 5 (15.15%) Eclipse
11 5 (15.15%) J2EE

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 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
2 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) GCP
2 4 (12.12%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) Eclipse
2 5 (15.15%) JUnit
2 5 (15.15%) Subversion
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Gradle
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) JIRA
3 1 (3.03%) Maven
3 1 (3.03%) Mockito
3 1 (3.03%) TestNG
General
1 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Aeronautics
2 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
2 2 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Automotive
2 2 (6.06%) Retail
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Health Technology
3 1 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.03%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) Spring
2 9 (27.27%) Spring Boot
3 7 (21.21%) RESTful
4 6 (18.18%) React
5 5 (15.15%) J2EE
5 5 (15.15%) Struts
5 5 (15.15%) Web Services
6 2 (6.06%) Kafka
6 2 (6.06%) REST
7 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
7 1 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.03%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.03%) JSON
7 1 (3.03%) JWT
7 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
7 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
7 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.03%) Spring Batch
7 1 (3.03%) Spring WebFlux
7 1 (3.03%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) DevOps
1 9 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
1 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
2 8 (24.24%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (18.18%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 6 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
4 6 (18.18%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
5 4 (12.12%) Front End Development
5 4 (12.12%) Microservices
6 2 (6.06%) Migration
6 2 (6.06%) Regression Testing
6 2 (6.06%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (6.06%) SDLC
6 2 (6.06%) Test Automation
7 1 (3.03%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 11 (33.33%) C++
4 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.15%) Perl
6 1 (3.03%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
1 6 (18.18%) DV Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 10 (30.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Google