Java Jobs in the South West

Java
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Java skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -8
Permanent jobs citing Java 595 637 965
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.41% 9.39% 11.96%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.64% 24.95% 23.28%
Number of salaries quoted 439 323 536
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,600 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,675
90th Percentile £82,788 £82,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £73,805 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% +10.34% +11.54%

All Programming Languages
South West

Java is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 3,030 2,553 4,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 32.63% 37.65% 51.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 1,668 2,791
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £66,250 £71,250 £68,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 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
Gloucestershire -7 227 £60,000 -7.69% 26
Bristol -11 206 £62,500 -3.85% 52
Dorset +8 72 £52,500 - 10
Devon +2 40 £36,984 -7.54% 10
Wiltshire -33 26 £35,000 -23.50% 5
Somerset -11 14 £50,000 -9.09% 15
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 34 (5.71%) Apache
2 27 (4.54%) Apache Spark
3 14 (2.35%) Confluence
4 5 (0.84%) Tomcat
5 4 (0.67%) JBoss
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.50%) Captiva
6 3 (0.50%) FileNet
6 3 (0.50%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.50%) GlassFish
6 3 (0.50%) SAS
6 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.34%) Drupal
7 2 (0.34%) Mule
8 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 13 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.67%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) iTrent
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 259 (43.53%) AWS
2 201 (33.78%) Azure
3 69 (11.60%) OpenShift
4 62 (10.42%) GCP
5 34 (5.71%) SaaS
6 32 (5.38%) Serverless
7 31 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (4.71%) Power Platform
8 28 (4.71%) PowerApps
9 26 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (3.19%) GitHub
10 19 (3.19%) npm
11 18 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (2.35%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.68%) Amazon S3
14 10 (1.68%) Firebase
15 9 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
17 5 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.39%) DHCP
1 38 (6.39%) DNS
2 34 (5.71%) HTTP
2 34 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 21 (3.53%) AMQP
4 10 (1.68%) Network Security
5 8 (1.34%) Firewall
6 4 (0.67%) VPN
6 4 (0.67%) VSAN
7 3 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.34%) Internet
9 1 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.56%) Relational Database
2 38 (6.39%) Big Data
3 30 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 29 (4.87%) MySQL
5 27 (4.54%) Hadoop
6 23 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (3.53%) NoSQL
8 18 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (2.52%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.52%) Cloudera CDH
11 14 (2.35%) Power BI
12 13 (2.18%) Data Lake
13 12 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
13 12 (2.02%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.68%) RDBMS
15 8 (1.34%) Data Mining
15 8 (1.34%) Flink
16 7 (1.18%) Oracle Database
16 7 (1.18%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 61 (10.25%) Jenkins
2 56 (9.41%) Git
3 41 (6.89%) GitLab
4 29 (4.87%) JIRA
5 24 (4.03%) Subversion
6 23 (3.87%) Selenium
7 20 (3.36%) Cucumber
8 17 (2.86%) Maven
9 16 (2.69%) Visual Studio
10 15 (2.52%) Eclipse
11 13 (2.18%) Cypress.io
11 13 (2.18%) Storybook
12 10 (1.68%) LabVIEW
12 10 (1.68%) Oracle Forms
13 8 (1.34%) NetBeans
13 8 (1.34%) SonarQube
14 7 (1.18%) JUnit
15 6 (1.01%) IntelliJ
16 4 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
16 4 (0.67%) Toad
General
1 123 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.50%) Finance
3 64 (10.76%) Aerospace
4 45 (7.56%) Banking
5 39 (6.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
7 32 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 30 (5.04%) Fire and Rescue
9 23 (3.87%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.19%) Financial Institution
10 19 (3.19%) Retail
11 17 (2.86%) Electronics
12 16 (2.69%) Law
13 15 (2.52%) Military
14 14 (2.35%) Marketing
14 14 (2.35%) Tech for Good
15 11 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (1.68%) Games
17 8 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (31.60%) Developer
2 185 (31.09%) Software Engineer
3 129 (21.68%) Senior
4 68 (11.43%) Lead
5 61 (10.25%) Java Developer
6 58 (9.75%) Java Engineer
6 58 (9.75%) Software Developer
7 43 (7.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
8 39 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (6.39%) Java Software Engineer
10 36 (6.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 34 (5.71%) Senior Developer
12 33 (5.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (4.54%) Applications Developer
14 24 (4.03%) Architect
15 21 (3.53%) Full Stack Developer
16 17 (2.86%) Data Engineer
16 17 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
16 17 (2.86%) Lead Developer
17 15 (2.52%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (19.83%) React
2 113 (18.99%) Spring
3 87 (14.62%) Spring Boot
4 78 (13.11%) AngularJS
5 56 (9.41%) Node.js
6 49 (8.24%) HTML
6 49 (8.24%) REST
7 48 (8.07%) Kafka
8 41 (6.89%) CSS
9 31 (5.21%) Swagger
10 29 (4.87%) RESTful
11 28 (4.71%) OpenAPI
12 27 (4.54%) .NET
13 25 (4.20%) Hibernate
14 20 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (2.69%) gRPC
16 15 (2.52%) Material-UI
17 13 (2.18%) HTML5
17 13 (2.18%) Sass
18 10 (1.68%) Ionic Framework
Miscellaneous
1 46 (7.73%) Private Cloud
2 28 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.19%) Public Cloud
4 13 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.51%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.34%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.18%) Animation
9 7 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
9 7 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.18%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.18%) Video Editing
10 6 (1.01%) Blockchain
11 5 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.84%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (19.66%) Linux
2 76 (12.77%) Windows
3 50 (8.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 27 (4.54%) Apple iOS
5 19 (3.19%) Android
6 15 (2.52%) CentOS
6 15 (2.52%) Debian
6 15 (2.52%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.35%) Unix
8 7 (1.18%) AIX
8 7 (1.18%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.50%) Solaris
10 1 (0.17%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (49.58%) Agile
2 266 (44.71%) Software Engineering
3 158 (26.55%) DevOps
4 124 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
5 98 (16.47%) Microservices
6 94 (15.80%) Scrum
7 92 (15.46%) Continuous Integration
8 79 (13.28%) Actionable Insight
8 79 (13.28%) CI/CD
9 77 (12.94%) Test Automation
10 76 (12.77%) Open Source
11 74 (12.44%) Collaborative Working
11 74 (12.44%) Full Stack Development
12 64 (10.76%) Containerisation
13 61 (10.25%) SDLC
14 53 (8.91%) Mentoring
15 51 (8.57%) Computer Science
15 51 (8.57%) Software Architecture
16 44 (7.39%) User Experience
17 43 (7.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 275 (46.22%) Python
2 190 (31.93%) JavaScript
3 147 (24.71%) SQL
4 83 (13.95%) C#
5 71 (11.93%) TypeScript
6 58 (9.75%) Bash
7 49 (8.24%) PowerShell
8 41 (6.89%) C++
9 37 (6.22%) C
10 36 (6.05%) Go
11 31 (5.21%) Scala
12 23 (3.87%) PHP
13 22 (3.70%) Shell Script
14 17 (2.86%) Kotlin
15 14 (2.35%) Swift
16 12 (2.02%) Rust
17 10 (1.68%) Objective-C
17 10 (1.68%) Ruby
18 7 (1.18%) R
19 5 (0.84%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 216 (36.30%) Security Cleared
2 94 (15.80%) DV Cleared
3 86 (14.45%) SC Cleared
4 82 (13.78%) Degree
5 29 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.18%) HNC
7 7 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.01%) SANS
9 5 (0.84%) CISA
9 5 (0.84%) CISM
9 5 (0.84%) CISSP
9 5 (0.84%) CRISC
10 4 (0.67%) CCNA
10 4 (0.67%) CCNP
10 4 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.38%) QA
2 9 (1.51%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.18%) SLA
4 6 (1.01%) ISO 9001
4 6 (1.01%) NIST
4 6 (1.01%) TickIT
5 3 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.34%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.34%) SEPA
7 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.17%) AQAP
7 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 150 (25.21%) Docker
2 40 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (6.39%) Hyper-V
4 8 (1.34%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 153 (25.71%) Kubernetes
2 77 (12.94%) Ansible
3 54 (9.08%) Puppet
4 38 (6.39%) Terraform
5 10 (1.68%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.18%) Kibana
6 7 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.84%) Argo
7 5 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
7 5 (0.84%) Grafana
7 5 (0.84%) Opsgenie
8 3 (0.50%) Oracle Statspack
8 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (13.78%) Microsoft
2 52 (8.74%) Red Hat
3 40 (6.72%) Oracle
3 40 (6.72%) VMware
4 37 (6.22%) Google
5 15 (2.52%) SaltStack
6 13 (2.18%) Atlassian
7 11 (1.85%) SAP
8 10 (1.68%) Xamarin
9 8 (1.34%) Cisco
9 8 (1.34%) Teradata
10 7 (1.18%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.84%) Citrix
11 5 (0.84%) IBM
12 4 (0.67%) Civica
12 4 (0.67%) HP
12 4 (0.67%) NEC
13 3 (0.50%) Kofax
13 3 (0.50%) New Relic
13 3 (0.50%) Northgate