Java Engineer Jobs in the South West

Java Engineer
England > South West

The median Java Engineer salary in the South West is £120,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 222 246
Rank change year-on-year +85 +24 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 43 65 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.23% 0.70% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.73% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 15 53 22
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £47,625
25th Percentile £45,625 £48,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £120,000 £52,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +128.57% -20.75% +26.19%
75th Percentile £140,677 £67,500 £77,715
90th Percentile - £85,000 £95,811
England median annual salary £107,500 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +53.57% -22.22% +20.00%

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 3,260 8,862 6,155
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.11% 89.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,021 6,471 3,849
10th Percentile £27,750 £28,000 £29,200
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,365 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the South West

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the South West

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the South West

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Gloucestershire +79 21 - - 19
Dorset +40 11 £47,500 -9.52% 7
Bristol +38 10 £122,773 +118.26% 10
Java Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Java Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 37 (86.05%) Agile
3 25 (58.14%) Public Sector
4 22 (51.16%) SDLC
5 21 (48.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 21 (48.84%) Artificial Intelligence
6 17 (39.53%) Microservices
7 16 (37.21%) Spring Boot
8 14 (32.56%) Docker
8 14 (32.56%) Test Automation
9 12 (27.91%) Software Engineering
9 12 (27.91%) Architectural Design
10 10 (23.26%) Finance
11 9 (20.93%) Git
11 9 (20.93%) AWS
11 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
12 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
12 8 (18.60%) Distributed Applications
12 8 (18.60%) End-to-End Testing
12 8 (18.60%) Micro Frontends
12 8 (18.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
12 8 (18.60%) Release Automation
12 8 (18.60%) npm
12 8 (18.60%) Jest
12 8 (18.60%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
12 8 (18.60%) Cucumber
12 8 (18.60%) RESTful

Java Engineer 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 (2.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
2 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 8 (18.60%) GCP
2 8 (18.60%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Internet
1 1 (2.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) MySQL
2 5 (11.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Git
2 8 (18.60%) Cucumber
2 8 (18.60%) Cypress.io
2 8 (18.60%) Sonatype Nexus
2 8 (18.60%) webpack
3 4 (9.30%) NetBeans
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) LabVIEW
4 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 25 (58.14%) Public Sector
2 10 (23.26%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Banking
4 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (37.21%) Spring Boot
2 8 (18.60%) Jest
2 8 (18.60%) RESTful
2 8 (18.60%) Web Services
3 5 (11.63%) Kafka
4 4 (9.30%) JavaFX
5 2 (4.65%) Spring
6 1 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.33%) HTML
6 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (48.84%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 8 (18.60%) Distributed Applications
2 8 (18.60%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (18.60%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Agile
2 22 (51.16%) SDLC
3 21 (48.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 17 (39.53%) Microservices
5 14 (32.56%) Test Automation
6 12 (27.91%) Architectural Design
6 12 (27.91%) Software Engineering
7 9 (20.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (18.60%) API Design
8 8 (18.60%) Change Management
8 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
8 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
8 8 (18.60%) End-to-End Testing
8 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven
8 8 (18.60%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 8 (18.60%) Micro Frontends
8 8 (18.60%) Release Automation
9 6 (13.95%) Scrum
10 5 (11.63%) UML
11 4 (9.30%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) Fortran
2 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.33%) MATLAB
2 1 (2.33%) Python
2 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) Def Stans
1 4 (9.30%) IEC 61508
2 1 (2.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (32.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Ansible
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.33%) Atlassian