Java Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Java Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Berkshire is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 104 95
Rank change year-on-year +6 -9 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 36 38 43
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.01% 1.98% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 2.13% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 22 5 14
10th Percentile £70,000 £38,250 £47,750
25th Percentile £71,250 £45,000 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -7.94% +1.61%
75th Percentile - £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £89,500 - -
South East median annual salary £74,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +40.95% -25.00% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 3,287 1,782 2,227
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 92.96% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,229 771 1,210
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,800 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +12.24% -6.67% -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 4 October 2026.

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 4 October 2026. 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 -47 18 £85,000 +17.24%
Bracknell - 11 £85,000 - 3
Thatcham - 1 - -
Wokingham - 1 £65,000 -
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 2026, 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 36 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (33.33%) Spring
3 11 (30.56%) Agile
4 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
4 10 (27.78%) Spring Boot
5 9 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (25.00%) Docker
5 9 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 9 (25.00%) Serverless
6 8 (22.22%) TDD
7 7 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
7 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
7 7 (19.44%) SDLC
8 6 (16.67%) BDD
8 6 (16.67%) DevOps
8 6 (16.67%) Hibernate
8 6 (16.67%) Microservices
8 6 (16.67%) REST
8 6 (16.67%) Scrum
9 5 (13.89%) Apache Camel
9 5 (13.89%) Dynatrace
9 5 (13.89%) JUnit
9 5 (13.89%) Kanban

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 2 (5.56%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.78%) JBoss
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 12 (33.33%) AWS
2 9 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 9 (25.00%) Serverless
3 7 (19.44%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (5.56%) Apigee
6 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (19.44%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) JUnit
3 4 (11.11%) JMeter
3 4 (11.11%) Mockito
4 3 (8.33%) Git
5 2 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 2 (5.56%) GitLab
5 2 (5.56%) Maven
5 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (22.22%) Health Technology
2 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
4 3 (8.33%) Digital Health
4 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) Spring
2 10 (27.78%) Spring Boot
3 6 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 6 (16.67%) REST
4 5 (13.89%) Apache Camel
4 5 (13.89%) Web Services
5 4 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (11.11%) HTML
5 4 (11.11%) jQuery
5 4 (11.11%) Mustache
5 4 (11.11%) WireMock
6 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
6 3 (8.33%) Jakarta EE
6 3 (8.33%) JSON
6 3 (8.33%) RESTful
6 3 (8.33%) SOAP
6 3 (8.33%) XML
7 2 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (5.56%) Jest
7 2 (5.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Agile
2 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (22.22%) TDD
4 7 (19.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (19.44%) SDLC
5 6 (16.67%) BDD
5 6 (16.67%) DevOps
5 6 (16.67%) Microservices
5 6 (16.67%) Scrum
6 5 (13.89%) Kanban
6 5 (13.89%) Workflow
7 3 (8.33%) Clean Code
7 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (8.33%) ITIL
7 3 (8.33%) Process Management
8 2 (5.56%) Containerisation
8 2 (5.56%) Integration Testing
8 2 (5.56%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.56%) MVC
8 2 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.89%) Kotlin
3 5 (13.89%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) Groovy
5 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 9 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.11%) Kibana
3 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 2 (5.56%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Dynatrace
2 4 (11.11%) Splunk
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow