Java Software Engineer Jobs in the South West

Java Software Engineer
England > South West

The median Java Software Engineer salary in the South West is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 260 287
Rank change year-on-year +21 +27 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 43 21 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.47% 0.30% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.34% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35 13 24
10th Percentile £39,658 - -
25th Percentile £45,625 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £58,125 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
England median annual salary £72,500 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.71% +21.43% +27.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 8,793 6,253 7,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.29% 96.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,433 3,885 5,117
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,100 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in the South West

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in the South West

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in the South West

Java Software 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 Software Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Bristol +6 20 £54,000 -22.24% 14
Dorset -4 13 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Gloucestershire -13 8 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Somerset +7 2 £57,500 +9.52% 3
Java Software Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Java Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (93.02%) Software Engineering
3 29 (67.44%) AWS
4 26 (60.47%) Microservices
5 23 (53.49%) Spring Boot
6 22 (51.16%) Agile
7 15 (34.88%) Spring
8 14 (32.56%) Kafka
9 13 (30.23%) Scrum
9 13 (30.23%) MySQL
10 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
11 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
11 11 (25.58%) AngularJS
11 11 (25.58%) Docker
12 10 (23.26%) React
12 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
12 10 (23.26%) Code Quality
13 9 (20.93%) Relational Database
13 9 (20.93%) Azure
14 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
14 8 (18.60%) Python
15 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
15 6 (13.95%) REST
15 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
15 6 (13.95%) Git
16 5 (11.63%) C#
16 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
16 5 (11.63%) GCP
16 5 (11.63%) Serverless
16 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving

Java Software 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 2 (4.65%) JBoss
1 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 29 (67.44%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
3 5 (11.63%) Serverless
4 4 (9.30%) npm
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.23%) MySQL
2 9 (20.93%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.65%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
1 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.30%) Maven
3 2 (4.65%) IntelliJ
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (53.49%) Spring Boot
2 15 (34.88%) Spring
3 14 (32.56%) Kafka
4 11 (25.58%) AngularJS
5 10 (23.26%) React
6 6 (13.95%) REST
7 4 (9.30%) Java EE
7 4 (9.30%) Node.js
7 4 (9.30%) OpenAPI
7 4 (9.30%) RESTful
7 4 (9.30%) Swagger
7 4 (9.30%) Web Services
8 2 (4.65%) HTML
8 2 (4.65%) J2EE
8 2 (4.65%) JPA
8 2 (4.65%) jQuery
8 2 (4.65%) JSON
8 2 (4.65%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (4.65%) XML
8 2 (4.65%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (93.02%) Software Engineering
2 26 (60.47%) Microservices
3 22 (51.16%) Agile
4 13 (30.23%) Scrum
5 10 (23.26%) Code Quality
6 8 (18.60%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (11.63%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (9.30%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (9.30%) BDD
8 4 (9.30%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (9.30%) Design Patterns
8 4 (9.30%) DevOps
8 4 (9.30%) Fintech
8 4 (9.30%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.98%) Coaching
9 3 (6.98%) TDD
9 3 (6.98%) Unit Testing
9 3 (6.98%) User Experience
9 3 (6.98%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 11 (25.58%) JavaScript
3 8 (18.60%) Python
4 5 (11.63%) C#
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) Ruby
7 1 (2.33%) C++
7 1 (2.33%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 11 (25.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle