Java Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 -11
Permanent jobs citing Java 283 432 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.21% 7.24% 8.52%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.82% 18.21% 18.87%
Number of salaries quoted 183 195 399
10th Percentile £38,338 £31,280 £38,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £83,125 £83,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 1,909 2,372 3,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.40% 39.75% 45.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 1,398 1,879
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,875 £34,892
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 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
Berkshire 0 172 £70,000 - 18
Buckinghamshire -41 57 £75,000 +10.29% 10
Oxfordshire -9 54 £57,500 +15.00% 3
Java
South East

Java
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 (9.89%) OpenStack
2 22 (7.77%) WebLogic
3 17 (6.01%) JBoss
4 14 (4.95%) Apache
5 11 (3.89%) Red Hat Fuse
6 7 (2.47%) Confluence
7 5 (1.77%) WebSphere
8 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
8 4 (1.41%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.71%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.71%) Documentum
9 2 (0.71%) FileNet
9 2 (0.71%) IBM Domino
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Spatial
10 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 104 (36.75%) AWS
2 75 (26.50%) Azure
3 46 (16.25%) Serverless
4 40 (14.13%) Amazon ECS
4 40 (14.13%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (5.65%) SaaS
6 6 (2.12%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.77%) GitHub
8 4 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.41%) GCP
8 4 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.41%) TestFlight
9 3 (1.06%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.06%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (0.71%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.71%) PaaS
10 2 (0.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) DNS
2 1 (0.35%) Firewall
2 1 (0.35%) HTTP
2 1 (0.35%) RNC
2 1 (0.35%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (18.02%) PostgreSQL
2 46 (16.25%) Relational Database
3 31 (10.95%) Elasticsearch
4 28 (9.89%) NoSQL
5 19 (6.71%) MySQL
5 19 (6.71%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.95%) Oracle Database
7 9 (3.18%) RDBMS
8 8 (2.83%) CouchDB
8 8 (2.83%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.77%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.77%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.06%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.06%) Big Data
10 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.06%) Impala
10 3 (1.06%) Looker
11 2 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (0.71%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 48 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 44 (15.55%) Git
3 28 (9.89%) JUnit
4 19 (6.71%) Cucumber
5 18 (6.36%) Selenium
6 15 (5.30%) Bitbucket
7 13 (4.59%) WebDriver
8 12 (4.24%) JIRA
8 12 (4.24%) REST Assured
8 12 (4.24%) TestNG
9 10 (3.53%) Gradle
9 10 (3.53%) JMeter
10 8 (2.83%) GitLab
11 5 (1.77%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (1.77%) Mockito
11 5 (1.77%) Oracle APEX
11 5 (1.77%) Serenity BDD
12 4 (1.41%) SoapUI
12 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
13 3 (1.06%) IntelliJ
General
1 91 (32.16%) Social Skills
2 50 (17.67%) Public Sector
3 45 (15.90%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (11.66%) Finance
5 23 (8.13%) Police
6 16 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.24%) Banking
8 10 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.12%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.77%) Back Office
10 5 (1.77%) Billing
10 5 (1.77%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.77%) Local Government
11 4 (1.41%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Legal
12 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 111 (39.22%) Developer
2 78 (27.56%) Senior
3 71 (25.09%) Java Developer
4 59 (20.85%) Lead
5 43 (15.19%) Software Engineer
6 32 (11.31%) Senior Developer
7 26 (9.19%) Analyst
7 26 (9.19%) Applications Support
8 24 (8.48%) Senior Applications Support
8 24 (8.48%) Senior Java Developer
9 23 (8.13%) Java Engineer
9 23 (8.13%) Technical Leader
10 22 (7.77%) Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (7.77%) Senior Analyst
10 22 (7.77%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
10 22 (7.77%) Senior Support Analyst
10 22 (7.77%) Support Analyst
11 20 (7.07%) Full Stack Developer
12 15 (5.30%) Full Stack Java Developer
13 14 (4.95%) Salesforce Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (31.45%) Spring
2 62 (21.91%) REST
3 56 (19.79%) Spring Boot
4 51 (18.02%) React
5 50 (17.67%) AngularJS
5 50 (17.67%) Web Services
6 44 (15.55%) Node.js
7 33 (11.66%) Apache Camel
8 31 (10.95%) J2EE
8 31 (10.95%) Kafka
9 30 (10.60%) JSON
10 29 (10.25%) Elastic Stack
11 28 (9.89%) XML
12 26 (9.19%) HTML
13 25 (8.83%) Java EE
14 24 (8.48%) .NET
15 22 (7.77%) CSS
16 20 (7.07%) RESTful
17 18 (6.36%) SOAP
18 16 (5.65%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.31%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (2.83%) Client/Server
3 8 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.83%) Private Cloud
3 8 (2.83%) PropTech
4 7 (2.47%) IoT
5 6 (2.12%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.77%) NHS
7 4 (1.41%) Chip and PIN
7 4 (1.41%) Device Driver
7 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.41%) Life Science
7 4 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
7 4 (1.41%) Mobile Payment
8 3 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.71%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 23 (8.13%) Unix
2 21 (7.42%) Linux
3 11 (3.89%) Windows
4 5 (1.77%) VMS
5 4 (1.41%) Android
5 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.71%) CentOS
6 2 (0.71%) Debian
6 2 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (51.94%) Agile
2 87 (30.74%) Microservices
3 83 (29.33%) TDD
4 72 (25.44%) DevOps
5 68 (24.03%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (24.03%) Software Engineering
6 62 (21.91%) Full Stack Development
7 61 (21.55%) Scrum
8 53 (18.73%) BDD
9 44 (15.55%) Mentoring
10 41 (14.49%) CI/CD
11 39 (13.78%) Kanban
12 38 (13.43%) Containerisation
13 37 (13.07%) SDLC
14 35 (12.37%) Design Patterns
15 31 (10.95%) Computer Science
15 31 (10.95%) Workflow
16 30 (10.60%) Test Automation
17 29 (10.25%) Actionable Insight
18 26 (9.19%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (36.04%) Python
2 97 (34.28%) JavaScript
3 72 (25.44%) SQL
4 35 (12.37%) Shell Script
5 24 (8.48%) C#
6 21 (7.42%) Kotlin
6 21 (7.42%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.95%) Go
8 12 (4.24%) Ruby
8 12 (4.24%) T-SQL
9 11 (3.89%) C++
9 11 (3.89%) Scala
10 9 (3.18%) MATLAB
11 7 (2.47%) C
11 7 (2.47%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.77%) PHP
13 4 (1.41%) Bash
13 4 (1.41%) Objective-C
13 4 (1.41%) Perl
13 4 (1.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 93 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 74 (26.15%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.19%) Degree
4 12 (4.24%) Azure Certification
4 12 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.89%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.18%) PhD
7 6 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.35%) HNC
10 1 (0.35%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.77%) SLA
2 13 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.18%) QA
4 2 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 82 (28.98%) Docker
2 20 (7.07%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.06%) HDFS
4 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 75 (26.50%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.13%) Ansible
3 23 (8.13%) Terraform
4 22 (7.77%) OpenSSO
4 22 (7.77%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.41%) Kibana
6 2 (0.71%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 43 (15.19%) Oracle
2 28 (9.89%) WSO2
3 22 (7.77%) Remedy
3 22 (7.77%) Salesforce
4 18 (6.36%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.41%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.41%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.41%) Google
5 4 (1.41%) Splunk
6 3 (1.06%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.06%) IBM
6 3 (1.06%) Informatica
7 2 (0.71%) EMC
7 2 (0.71%) Hyland
7 2 (0.71%) iManage
7 2 (0.71%) Laserfiche
7 2 (0.71%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.71%) OpenText
8 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.35%) Databricks