Java Developer Job Trends in Berkshire

Java Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Berkshire is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2025.

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

 6 months to
15 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 97 113
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 37 41 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.95% 1.83% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.91% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5 13 16
10th Percentile £38,250 £62,000 £49,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £82,500 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile - - £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -5.45%

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 1,763 2,145 1,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.03% 95.72% 93.29%
Number of salaries quoted 773 1,158 1,193
10th Percentile £27,840 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,763
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.56% -7.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £47,520 £53,294 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% -3.10% -

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +47 37 £72,500 -12.12% 1
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 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 37 (100.00%) Java
2 35 (94.59%) Agile
2 35 (94.59%) Spring
2 35 (94.59%) AWS
2 35 (94.59%) Spring Boot
3 34 (91.89%) Jenkins
3 34 (91.89%) Docker
3 34 (91.89%) Microservices
3 34 (91.89%) TDD
3 34 (91.89%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (89.19%) Web Services
5 32 (86.49%) JUnit
6 31 (83.78%) REST
6 31 (83.78%) Public Sector
7 30 (81.08%) BDD
8 29 (78.38%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (72.97%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (72.97%) Amazon ECS
9 27 (72.97%) Relational Database
9 27 (72.97%) Kubernetes
9 27 (72.97%) Serverless
9 27 (72.97%) ActiveMQ
10 26 (70.27%) Hibernate
10 26 (70.27%) Security Cleared
10 26 (70.27%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (70.27%) Mockito
11 25 (67.57%) Apache Camel
12 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
13 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
14 20 (54.05%) HTML

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 5 (13.51%) JBoss
1 5 (13.51%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (8.11%) Confluence
3 2 (5.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 35 (94.59%) AWS
2 27 (72.97%) Amazon ECS
2 27 (72.97%) Amazon EKS
2 27 (72.97%) Serverless
3 26 (70.27%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon S3
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (13.51%) AWS KMS
5 5 (13.51%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (91.89%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (72.97%) Relational Database
3 20 (54.05%) RDBMS
4 7 (18.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (13.51%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (91.89%) Jenkins
2 32 (86.49%) JUnit
3 26 (70.27%) Mockito
4 20 (54.05%) JMeter
5 13 (35.14%) Git
6 7 (18.92%) Maven
7 6 (16.22%) SonarQube
8 5 (13.51%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (13.51%) DbUnit
8 5 (13.51%) jMock
9 3 (8.11%) JIRA
General
1 31 (83.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.41%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (94.59%) Spring
1 35 (94.59%) Spring Boot
2 33 (89.19%) Web Services
3 31 (83.78%) REST
4 27 (72.97%) ActiveMQ
5 26 (70.27%) Hibernate
6 25 (67.57%) Apache Camel
7 20 (54.05%) HTML
7 20 (54.05%) jQuery
7 20 (54.05%) WireMock
8 16 (43.24%) JSON
8 16 (43.24%) XML
9 12 (32.43%) SOAP
10 10 (27.03%) RESTful
11 7 (18.92%) AngularJS
11 7 (18.92%) Bootstrap
11 7 (18.92%) JPA
12 6 (16.22%) Spring Batch
12 6 (16.22%) Spring Integration
13 5 (13.51%) PowerMock
Miscellaneous
1 29 (78.38%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (94.59%) Agile
2 34 (91.89%) Microservices
2 34 (91.89%) TDD
3 30 (81.08%) BDD
4 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
5 20 (54.05%) Process Management
5 20 (54.05%) Workflow
6 18 (48.65%) Scrum
7 16 (43.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (37.84%) Kanban
8 14 (37.84%) SDLC
9 7 (18.92%) DevOps
10 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
11 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (13.51%) Open Source
12 4 (10.81%) Architectural Design
12 4 (10.81%) Collaborative Working
13 3 (8.11%) Test Automation
14 2 (5.41%) AI
14 2 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (59.46%) JavaScript
3 20 (54.05%) Python
3 20 (54.05%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (70.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (91.89%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 27 (72.97%) Kubernetes
2 20 (54.05%) Kibana
3 5 (13.51%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Grafana
4 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) Dynatrace
1 20 (54.05%) Splunk
2 5 (13.51%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.11%) Jaspersoft
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