Java Job Trends in the South West

Java
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 42 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Java 274 158 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.02% 4.53% 4.50%
As % of the Programming Languages category 18.16% 20.31% 17.71%
Number of salaries quoted 186 58 232
10th Percentile £30,250 £43,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% -

All Programming Languages
South West

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,509 778 2,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 16.62% 22.32% 25.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,078 527 1,476
10th Percentile £33,525 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,617 £61,305
% change year-on-year +3.81% +2.14% -5.68%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Java job vacancy trend in the South West

Java
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the South West over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in the South West

Java
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 17 August 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 -11 132 £70,000 - 45
Somerset +4 41 £30,500 -49.17% 6
Dorset -5 36 £45,000 -5.26% 5
Devon +5 25 £65,000 +62.50% 5
Bristol -50 25 £60,000 - 22
Wiltshire -8 12 £85,000 +60.38% 5
Java
England

Java
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 25 (9.12%) Apache
2 9 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.19%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 72 (26.28%) AWS
2 36 (13.14%) Azure
3 25 (9.12%) GCP
4 15 (5.47%) OpenShift
5 11 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (4.01%) Serverless
6 10 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (3.28%) GitHub
8 8 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.19%) Figma
11 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.46%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (1.46%) AWS Fargate
13 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECR
13 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
13 2 (0.73%) Azure AKS
13 2 (0.73%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.46%) IPv4
1 4 (1.46%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (1.09%) AMQP
2 3 (1.09%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.03%) MongoDB
2 15 (5.47%) Big Data
3 14 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (4.01%) Hadoop
5 11 (4.01%) MySQL
6 6 (2.19%) Relational Database
7 5 (1.82%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.46%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.09%) Redis
9 3 (1.09%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.73%) GIS
10 2 (0.73%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 54 (19.71%) Git
2 31 (11.31%) Subversion
3 28 (10.22%) Jenkins
4 27 (9.85%) Eclipse
5 26 (9.49%) GitLab
6 24 (8.76%) JUnit
7 13 (4.74%) JIRA
7 13 (4.74%) Postman
8 10 (3.65%) Bitbucket
8 10 (3.65%) SonarQube
9 9 (3.28%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.55%) Cypress.io
11 6 (2.19%) Selenium
12 5 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (1.09%) JMeter
13 3 (1.09%) Maven
13 3 (1.09%) NUnit
13 3 (1.09%) Snyk
13 3 (1.09%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (12.04%) Social Skills
2 27 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (8.76%) Finance
4 15 (5.47%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.38%) Aerospace
6 10 (3.65%) Military
7 9 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.19%) Retail
9 5 (1.82%) Aviation
9 5 (1.82%) Avionics
9 5 (1.82%) Law
9 5 (1.82%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.73%) Electronics
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Games
10 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.73%) Legal
10 2 (0.73%) Local Government
10 2 (0.73%) Marketing
10 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 104 (37.96%) Software Engineer
2 96 (35.04%) Developer
3 67 (24.45%) Java Developer
4 48 (17.52%) Senior
5 34 (12.41%) Lead
5 34 (12.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 28 (10.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (9.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 25 (9.12%) Java Engineer
9 24 (8.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 24 (8.76%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (8.39%) DevOps Engineer
10 23 (8.39%) Junior
10 23 (8.39%) Junior Developer
10 23 (8.39%) Junior Java Developer
11 20 (7.30%) Software Developer
12 14 (5.11%) Data Engineer
13 13 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (4.01%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (22.99%) Spring
2 55 (20.07%) Spring Boot
3 51 (18.61%) React
4 48 (17.52%) RESTful
5 32 (11.68%) Web Services
6 26 (9.49%) AngularJS
6 26 (9.49%) Jakarta EE
6 26 (9.49%) Struts
7 17 (6.20%) .NET
8 16 (5.84%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (5.84%) Vue
9 14 (5.11%) Kafka
9 14 (5.11%) Node.js
10 12 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (4.38%) REST
11 7 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (2.19%) HTML
13 5 (1.82%) OpenAPI
13 5 (1.82%) Swagger
14 4 (1.46%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.55%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.09%) PKI
6 3 (1.09%) Robotics
7 2 (0.73%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.73%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.73%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.73%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.73%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.36%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.33%) Linux
2 11 (4.01%) Unix
2 11 (4.01%) Windows
3 4 (1.46%) Android
3 4 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.46%) CentOS
3 4 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.09%) Debian
4 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (51.82%) Software Engineering
2 109 (39.78%) Full-Stack Development
3 89 (32.48%) CI/CD
4 84 (30.66%) Agile
5 82 (29.93%) DevOps
6 57 (20.80%) Containerisation
7 54 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 45 (16.42%) Test Automation
10 41 (14.96%) Microservices
11 37 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (12.77%) AI
13 31 (11.31%) Computer Science
13 31 (11.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 30 (10.95%) Scrum
15 25 (9.12%) Observability
16 24 (8.76%) Requirements Analysis
17 22 (8.03%) Collaborative Culture
18 21 (7.66%) Data Science
18 21 (7.66%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 147 (53.65%) Python
2 74 (27.01%) JavaScript
3 68 (24.82%) C++
4 45 (16.42%) SQL
5 25 (9.12%) C#
6 24 (8.76%) Perl
7 21 (7.66%) Bash
8 20 (7.30%) Go
9 16 (5.84%) TypeScript
10 15 (5.47%) Scala
11 12 (4.38%) Rust
12 10 (3.65%) Groovy
13 8 (2.92%) C
14 7 (2.55%) PowerShell
15 4 (1.46%) COBOL
15 4 (1.46%) PHP
16 3 (1.09%) Ada
16 3 (1.09%) Ada 95
16 3 (1.09%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.73%) XAML
Qualifications
1 114 (41.61%) Security Cleared
2 65 (23.72%) DV Cleared
3 37 (13.50%) Degree
4 36 (13.14%) SC Cleared
5 30 (10.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.46%) CCNA
7 4 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.46%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.46%) OSCP
7 4 (1.46%) RHCE
7 4 (1.46%) RHCSA
8 3 (1.09%) OCP
8 3 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.73%) PhD
10 1 (0.36%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.57%) Accessibility
1 18 (6.57%) QA
2 10 (3.65%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.19%) WCAG
4 3 (1.09%) MIL-STD-1553
4 3 (1.09%) NIST
5 2 (0.73%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 61 (22.26%) Docker
2 6 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (1.82%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.46%) Squid
4 4 (1.46%) vSphere
5 2 (0.73%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (27.74%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.60%) Terraform
3 38 (13.87%) Ansible
4 11 (4.01%) Grafana
4 11 (4.01%) Puppet
5 9 (3.28%) Kibana
5 9 (3.28%) logstash
6 7 (2.55%) Rancher
7 5 (1.82%) Argo
7 5 (1.82%) yum
8 4 (1.46%) Packer
8 4 (1.46%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.46%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (4.38%) Red Hat
2 8 (2.92%) Oracle
3 5 (1.82%) Atlassian
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (1.82%) Peregrine
3 5 (1.82%) VMware
4 4 (1.46%) OneLogin
4 4 (1.46%) Splunk
5 3 (1.09%) Google
5 3 (1.09%) SaltStack
6 2 (0.73%) IBM
6 2 (0.73%) MuleSoft