Java Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Java Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Berkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 79 102
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 28 57 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.44% 2.83% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.55% 3.09% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 17
10th Percentile £52,000 £60,000 £55,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +12.28%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £84,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.89% +1.92% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,810 1,846 1,696
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 91.80% 93.29%
Number of salaries quoted 864 993 1,190
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,749
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £60,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +10.09% -5.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Java Developer job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Berkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Java Developer job vacancies in Berkshire

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Berkshire

Java Developer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Reading +16 27 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Wokingham -2 1 £55,000 -26.67% 4
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 2 December 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 Berkshire region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 26 (92.86%) Microservices
2 26 (92.86%) REST
2 26 (92.86%) Spring Boot
3 23 (82.14%) Agile
3 23 (82.14%) Amazon ECS
3 23 (82.14%) Amazon EKS
3 23 (82.14%) AWS
3 23 (82.14%) Docker
3 23 (82.14%) Jenkins
3 23 (82.14%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (82.14%) Relational Database
3 23 (82.14%) Serverless
3 23 (82.14%) Spring
3 23 (82.14%) TDD
4 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
4 22 (78.57%) JavaScript
4 22 (78.57%) Web Services
5 21 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 20 (71.43%) JUnit
7 19 (67.86%) Apache Camel
7 19 (67.86%) BDD
8 18 (64.29%) ActiveMQ
8 18 (64.29%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (64.29%) Dynatrace
8 18 (64.29%) Hibernate
8 18 (64.29%) HTML
8 18 (64.29%) JMeter
8 18 (64.29%) jQuery

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.57%) JBoss
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Amazon ECS
1 23 (82.14%) Amazon EKS
1 23 (82.14%) AWS
1 23 (82.14%) Serverless
2 18 (64.29%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (82.14%) PostgreSQL
1 23 (82.14%) Relational Database
2 18 (64.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (82.14%) Jenkins
2 20 (71.43%) JUnit
3 18 (64.29%) JMeter
3 18 (64.29%) Mockito
4 5 (17.86%) Git
General
1 20 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (92.86%) REST
1 26 (92.86%) Spring Boot
2 23 (82.14%) Spring
3 22 (78.57%) Web Services
4 19 (67.86%) Apache Camel
5 18 (64.29%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (64.29%) Hibernate
5 18 (64.29%) HTML
5 18 (64.29%) jQuery
5 18 (64.29%) JSON
5 18 (64.29%) WireMock
5 18 (64.29%) XML
6 8 (28.57%) React
7 4 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (14.29%) Kafka
7 4 (14.29%) Mustache
7 4 (14.29%) Node.js
8 1 (3.57%) J2EE
8 1 (3.57%) RESTful
8 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (82.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.71%) IoT
3 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Microservices
2 23 (82.14%) Agile
2 23 (82.14%) TDD
3 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
4 21 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (67.86%) BDD
6 18 (64.29%) Process Management
6 18 (64.29%) Workflow
7 17 (60.71%) SDLC
8 5 (17.86%) Scrum
9 2 (7.14%) DevOps
9 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (3.57%) Collaborative Working
10 1 (3.57%) Containerisation
10 1 (3.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 1 (3.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 1 (3.57%) Sprint Planning
10 1 (3.57%) Sprint Retrospective
10 1 (3.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (78.57%) JavaScript
3 18 (64.29%) Python
3 18 (64.29%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (82.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 18 (64.29%) Kibana
3 1 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (64.29%) Dynatrace
1 18 (64.29%) Splunk