Java Developer Jobs in the South West

Java Developer
England > South West

The median Java Developer salary in the South West is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 192 164
Rank change year-on-year +8 -28 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 65 53 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.80% 1.02% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.08% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 47 41 122
10th Percentile £24,000 £46,250 £43,875
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £68,125 £78,750 £85,938
90th Percentile £73,750 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +14.29%

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 7,711 4,892 7,922
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.94% 94.31% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 4,593 3,481 4,896
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,440 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the South West

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Java Developer 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 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 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 +22 42 £58,750 -16.07% 4
Dorset -19 7 £50,000 +2.56% 1
Wiltshire -21 7 - -
Gloucestershire 0 5 £57,500 -23.33%
Devon -15 1 £45,000 -35.71%
Somerset -18 1 £50,000 -4.76%
Java Developer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Java Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 65 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (58.46%) AWS
3 34 (52.31%) Spring Boot
4 31 (47.69%) Spring
5 22 (33.85%) Microservices
6 20 (30.77%) Agile
6 20 (30.77%) Software Engineering
7 17 (26.15%) Relational Database
8 15 (23.08%) Docker
8 15 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
8 15 (23.08%) SQL
9 14 (21.54%) Jenkins
9 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
9 14 (21.54%) React
10 13 (20.00%) GitLab
10 13 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 13 (20.00%) Kafka
10 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (20.00%) Scrum
11 12 (18.46%) MySQL
12 11 (16.92%) TDD
12 11 (16.92%) Azure
12 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
13 10 (15.38%) Code Quality
13 10 (15.38%) REST
13 10 (15.38%) DevOps
13 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
13 10 (15.38%) Git
13 10 (15.38%) JUnit

Java Developer 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 6 (9.23%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 38 (58.46%) AWS
2 11 (16.92%) Azure
3 5 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 3 (4.62%) GCP
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (1.54%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.15%) Relational Database
2 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (18.46%) MySQL
4 7 (10.77%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.54%) Big Data
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 13 (20.00%) GitLab
3 10 (15.38%) Git
3 10 (15.38%) JUnit
4 8 (12.31%) Maven
5 7 (10.77%) DbUnit
5 7 (10.77%) Mockito
6 6 (9.23%) JIRA
General
1 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
1 6 (9.23%) Tech for Good
2 4 (6.15%) Marketing
3 2 (3.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.54%) Aviation
4 1 (1.54%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (52.31%) Spring Boot
2 31 (47.69%) Spring
3 14 (21.54%) React
4 13 (20.00%) Kafka
5 10 (15.38%) REST
6 8 (12.31%) RESTful
7 7 (10.77%) Hibernate
7 7 (10.77%) JPA
7 7 (10.77%) LDAP
7 7 (10.77%) OAuth
7 7 (10.77%) OAuth2
7 7 (10.77%) OpenID
7 7 (10.77%) PowerMock
7 7 (10.77%) SAML
7 7 (10.77%) Web Services
7 7 (10.77%) XML
8 6 (9.23%) Java EE
9 4 (6.15%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (6.15%) Node.js
10 3 (4.62%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.15%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) Microservices
2 20 (30.77%) Agile
2 20 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 15 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 13 (20.00%) Scrum
5 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
5 11 (16.92%) TDD
6 10 (15.38%) Code Quality
6 10 (15.38%) DevOps
7 7 (10.77%) E-Commerce
7 7 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (9.23%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (9.23%) Open Source
8 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
9 4 (6.15%) Continuous Deployment
9 4 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.15%) Innovative Thinking
9 4 (6.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 4 (6.15%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (23.08%) SQL
3 9 (13.85%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.62%) Go
6 2 (3.08%) Python
7 1 (1.54%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) Degree
4 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft