Java Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 179 184
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 74 83 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.10% 1.35% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.50% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 47 57 90
10th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -1.75% +23.91%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,389 5,529 6,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.92% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 3,220 4,174
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Berkshire +19 66 £80,000 +14.29% 4
Buckinghamshire -21 6 £67,500 -12.90% 2
Oxfordshire +4 2 £92,500 +48.00%
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 Thames Valley region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 74 (100.00%) Java
2 60 (81.08%) AWS
3 59 (79.73%) Microservices
4 51 (68.92%) Agile
5 49 (66.22%) TDD
6 46 (62.16%) Spring
6 46 (62.16%) Spring Boot
6 46 (62.16%) Docker
7 43 (58.11%) Kubernetes
8 41 (55.41%) DevOps
8 41 (55.41%) REST
8 41 (55.41%) Jenkins
8 41 (55.41%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (55.41%) Serverless
9 40 (54.05%) JavaScript
10 39 (52.70%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (52.70%) Amazon ECS
11 38 (51.35%) Scrum
11 38 (51.35%) Kanban
11 38 (51.35%) BDD
12 36 (48.65%) AngularJS
12 36 (48.65%) Git
13 35 (47.30%) Ansible
14 34 (45.95%) Relational Database
14 34 (45.95%) Azure
15 33 (44.59%) Node.js
15 33 (44.59%) Apache Camel
15 33 (44.59%) Web Services
16 31 (41.89%) Distributed Systems
17 30 (40.54%) Security Cleared

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 28 (37.84%) OpenStack
2 11 (14.86%) JBoss
3 10 (13.51%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 60 (81.08%) AWS
2 41 (55.41%) Serverless
3 39 (52.70%) Amazon ECS
3 39 (52.70%) Amazon EKS
4 34 (45.95%) Azure
5 4 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (4.05%) AWS IoT
6 3 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.35%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (55.41%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (45.95%) Relational Database
3 22 (29.73%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.81%) MySQL
5 4 (5.41%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.70%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (55.41%) Jenkins
2 36 (48.65%) Git
3 14 (18.92%) JUnit
4 5 (6.76%) Bitbucket
4 5 (6.76%) Mockito
5 4 (5.41%) JMeter
6 2 (2.70%) Gradle
7 1 (1.35%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.35%) Jasmine
7 1 (1.35%) JIRA
7 1 (1.35%) Maven
General
1 24 (32.43%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.11%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.41%) Banking
4 3 (4.05%) Finance
4 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Police
5 1 (1.35%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (62.16%) Spring
1 46 (62.16%) Spring Boot
2 41 (55.41%) REST
3 36 (48.65%) AngularJS
4 33 (44.59%) Apache Camel
4 33 (44.59%) Node.js
4 33 (44.59%) Web Services
5 28 (37.84%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (28.38%) XML
7 20 (27.03%) JSON
8 12 (16.22%) Kafka
9 10 (13.51%) RESTful
10 9 (12.16%) J2EE
11 8 (10.81%) Hibernate
11 8 (10.81%) SOAP
12 5 (6.76%) HTML
12 5 (6.76%) React Native
13 4 (5.41%) ActiveMQ
13 4 (5.41%) jQuery
13 4 (5.41%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 31 (41.89%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.41%) NHS
3 3 (4.05%) IoT
4 2 (2.70%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.70%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (79.73%) Microservices
2 51 (68.92%) Agile
3 49 (66.22%) TDD
4 41 (55.41%) DevOps
5 38 (51.35%) BDD
5 38 (51.35%) Kanban
5 38 (51.35%) Scrum
6 24 (32.43%) Full Stack Development
7 18 (24.32%) BPEL
8 16 (21.62%) Process Management
8 16 (21.62%) SDLC
8 16 (21.62%) Workflow
9 12 (16.22%) CI/CD
10 6 (8.11%) Architectural Design
10 6 (8.11%) Mentoring
10 6 (8.11%) Product Roadmap
10 6 (8.11%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.11%) Test Automation
11 5 (6.76%) API Development
11 5 (6.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 74 (100.00%) Java
2 40 (54.05%) JavaScript
3 26 (35.14%) Python
4 24 (32.43%) SQL
5 11 (14.86%) Shell Script
6 8 (10.81%) Kotlin
7 5 (6.76%) Go
8 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (40.54%) Security Cleared
2 27 (36.49%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) AWS Certification
3 11 (14.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 46 (62.16%) Docker
2 20 (27.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (58.11%) Kubernetes
2 35 (47.30%) Ansible
3 20 (27.03%) Terraform
4 4 (5.41%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (37.84%) WSO2
2 4 (5.41%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.41%) Splunk
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) IBM