Java Jobs in the South West

Java
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 29 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -2
Permanent jobs citing Java 217 618 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.23% 6.70% 9.34%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.09% 20.12% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 117 456 329
10th Percentile £43,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,603 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £84,375 £83,800
England median annual salary £71,991 £73,805 £80,000
% change year-on-year -2.46% -7.74% +10.34%

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 1,029 3,071 2,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 29.53% 33.30% 37.89%
Number of salaries quoted 795 2,438 1,720
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,700
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,500 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,807 £66,250 £70,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the South West

Java
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Java in the South West

Java
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

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 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
Bristol +7 102 £62,500 - 48
Gloucestershire +4 75 £60,000 - 64
Dorset -2 22 £47,500 -9.52% 23
Somerset +6 9 £58,000 +16.00% 10
Devon -13 4 £40,000 +8.15% 17
Wiltshire +22 1 £53,000 +51.43% 7
Java
England

Java
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 20 (9.22%) Jupyter
2 8 (3.69%) Confluence
3 6 (2.76%) Apache
4 5 (2.30%) NetWeaver
4 5 (2.30%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.46%) Camunda
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (2.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.94%) AWS
2 63 (29.03%) Azure
3 25 (11.52%) GCP
4 11 (5.07%) PaaS
5 8 (3.69%) Apigee
5 8 (3.69%) npm
6 6 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (2.76%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (2.76%) GitHub
6 6 (2.76%) Serverless
7 5 (2.30%) IaaS
8 4 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.84%) SaaS
9 3 (1.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.92%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.92%) Datadog
10 2 (0.92%) IBM Cloud
10 2 (0.92%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.23%) SSL
2 2 (0.92%) DNS
2 2 (0.92%) Internet
2 2 (0.92%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (0.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.46%) Network Security
3 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (10.14%) Big Data
2 21 (9.68%) NoSQL
3 16 (7.37%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.07%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.07%) MySQL
5 8 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.76%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.30%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (2.30%) SAP BW
7 5 (2.30%) SAP Data Services
7 5 (2.30%) SAP HANA
7 5 (2.30%) SQL Server
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.46%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.46%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.46%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 33 (15.21%) Git
2 26 (11.98%) GitLab
3 10 (4.61%) Cucumber
3 10 (4.61%) Cypress.io
3 10 (4.61%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (4.15%) JIRA
5 8 (3.69%) Jenkins
5 8 (3.69%) webpack
6 6 (2.76%) Eclipse
6 6 (2.76%) Eclipse RCP
7 5 (2.30%) JUnit
7 5 (2.30%) Maven
7 5 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.84%) NetBeans
9 3 (1.38%) Appium
9 3 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.38%) Selenium
10 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.46%) CMake
11 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (40.09%) Finance
2 46 (21.20%) Banking
3 33 (15.21%) Public Sector
4 29 (13.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (11.52%) Social Skills
6 16 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.99%) Electronics
8 6 (2.76%) Marketing
8 6 (2.76%) Retail
9 5 (2.30%) General Ledger
9 5 (2.30%) Legal
9 5 (2.30%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.30%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.84%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.38%) Law
11 3 (1.38%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.92%) Military
12 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (36.87%) Software Engineer
2 70 (32.26%) Senior
3 43 (19.82%) Java Engineer
4 38 (17.51%) Developer
5 27 (12.44%) Lead
6 21 (9.68%) Senior Java Engineer
7 20 (9.22%) Data Scientist
7 20 (9.22%) Senior Data Scientist
7 20 (9.22%) Senior Software Engineer
8 16 (7.37%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.99%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (5.53%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (4.61%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 10 (4.61%) Java Developer
12 10 (4.61%) Lead Java Engineer
13 9 (4.15%) Senior Developer
14 7 (3.23%) Development Manager
14 7 (3.23%) Junior
14 7 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (24.42%) React
2 42 (19.35%) Spring Boot
3 28 (12.90%) Spring
4 23 (10.60%) AngularJS
5 17 (7.83%) Node.js
5 17 (7.83%) RESTful
6 16 (7.37%) Kafka
7 15 (6.91%) Web Services
8 10 (4.61%) HTML
8 10 (4.61%) OAuth
8 10 (4.61%) REST
8 10 (4.61%) Vue
9 9 (4.15%) Android Jetpack
9 9 (4.15%) GraphQL
9 9 (4.15%) Jetpack Compose
10 8 (3.69%) CSS
10 8 (3.69%) Jest
11 7 (3.23%) SwiftUI
11 7 (3.23%) UIKit
12 6 (2.76%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.82%) Algorithms
2 23 (10.60%) Cyberattack
2 23 (10.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.99%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (5.53%) Data Structures
5 12 (5.53%) Private Cloud
5 12 (5.53%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.69%) Distributed Applications
6 8 (3.69%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.23%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.76%) DataPower
8 6 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.30%) Hackathon
9 5 (2.30%) Learning Management System
9 5 (2.30%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.84%) Reference Data
11 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.92%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.75%) Linux
2 21 (9.68%) Apple iOS
3 20 (9.22%) Android
4 15 (6.91%) Windows
5 7 (3.23%) Unix
6 5 (2.30%) AIX
6 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (57.60%) Software Engineering
2 110 (50.69%) Agile
3 64 (29.49%) Microservices
4 60 (27.65%) Mentoring
5 56 (25.81%) Test Automation
6 55 (25.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 51 (23.50%) CI/CD
8 49 (22.58%) DevOps
9 44 (20.28%) Computer Science
9 44 (20.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 40 (18.43%) Mathematics
10 40 (18.43%) SDLC
11 37 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (15.21%) Containerisation
13 25 (11.52%) Scrum
14 24 (11.06%) Machine Learning
15 22 (10.14%) OO
15 22 (10.14%) Unit Testing
16 21 (9.68%) Statistics
17 20 (9.22%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 97 (44.70%) Python
2 80 (36.87%) JavaScript
3 43 (19.82%) SQL
4 28 (12.90%) C#
5 25 (11.52%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.29%) C++
7 14 (6.45%) Kotlin
8 11 (5.07%) Go
8 11 (5.07%) Rust
9 9 (4.15%) Bash
10 7 (3.23%) C
10 7 (3.23%) Swift
11 3 (1.38%) Ada
11 3 (1.38%) Clojure
11 3 (1.38%) PHP
12 2 (0.92%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.92%) Ruby
13 1 (0.46%) Fortran
13 1 (0.46%) Lua
13 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 71 (32.72%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.74%) Degree
3 42 (19.35%) DV Cleared
4 24 (11.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (10.14%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.30%) PhD
8 3 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.38%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.69%) QA
2 4 (1.84%) Def Stans
2 4 (1.84%) IEC 61508
3 2 (0.92%) NIST
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 75 (34.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.15%) Terraform
3 6 (2.76%) Kibana
4 5 (2.30%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (1.84%) Ansible
6 2 (0.92%) Argo
6 2 (0.92%) Grafana
6 2 (0.92%) Graylog
6 2 (0.92%) Istio
6 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (8.29%) IBM
2 15 (6.91%) Google
3 14 (6.45%) Oracle
4 11 (5.07%) Microsoft
5 10 (4.61%) SAP
6 8 (3.69%) Atlassian
7 6 (2.76%) Apple
8 4 (1.84%) F5
9 2 (0.92%) Databricks
9 2 (0.92%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.92%) Splunk
10 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.46%) SnapLogic