Java Developer Job Trends in the South West

Java Developer
England > South West

The median Java Developer salary in the South West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 October 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 169 159
Rank change year-on-year +1 -10 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 7 53 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.20% 0.81% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.86% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3 35 45
10th Percentile £62,000 £24,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £63,125 £44,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -17.86% +3.70%
75th Percentile £84,375 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,750 £80,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -3.03%

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 3,338 6,193 4,410
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 94.39% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 3,825 3,423
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 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
Dorset +15 4 - - 2
Gloucestershire +28 1 £90,000 +50.00% 1
Java Developer
England

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 October 2025, 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 7 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (57.14%) Operational Stability
4 4 (57.14%) SDLC
5 3 (42.86%) AWS
5 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
6 2 (28.57%) Docker
6 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
6 2 (28.57%) QA
6 2 (28.57%) Spring
6 2 (28.57%) TDD
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
7 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
7 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 1 (14.29%) GitLab

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 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (14.29%) Health Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth
3 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (57.14%) Operational Stability
3 4 (57.14%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (28.57%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
6 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes