Java Developer Jobs in Berkshire

Java Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Berkshire is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 124 111
Rank change year-on-year +40 -13 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 48 40 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.79% 1.21% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 1.26% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 6 25 35
10th Percentile £39,375 £42,500 £48,000
25th Percentile £48,438 £60,000 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £86,250 £81,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +3.70% +3.85%

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 1,543 3,164 2,546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.55% 95.50% 91.62%
Number of salaries quoted 689 2,107 1,522
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +0.88%
75th Percentile £73,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Berkshire

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in Berkshire.

Salary trend for Java Developer in Berkshire

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +71 48 £70,000 -3.45% 4
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 45 (93.75%) Agile
2 45 (93.75%) AWS
3 44 (91.67%) Spring
3 44 (91.67%) PostgreSQL
3 44 (91.67%) Docker
3 44 (91.67%) Microservices
4 42 (87.50%) Spring Boot
4 42 (87.50%) Jenkins
4 42 (87.50%) TDD
5 41 (85.42%) Web Services
6 39 (81.25%) JUnit
6 39 (81.25%) REST
7 37 (77.08%) Distributed Systems
8 36 (75.00%) Public Sector
8 36 (75.00%) Serverless
8 36 (75.00%) Kubernetes
9 35 (72.92%) BDD
10 34 (70.83%) Relational Database
10 34 (70.83%) Amazon EKS
10 34 (70.83%) Amazon ECS
11 32 (66.67%) Scrum
12 29 (60.42%) Apache Camel
13 27 (56.25%) Git
14 26 (54.17%) Security Cleared
15 25 (52.08%) Kanban
15 25 (52.08%) ActiveMQ
15 25 (52.08%) CI/CD
16 24 (50.00%) Hibernate
16 24 (50.00%) JavaScript

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 12 (25.00%) JBoss
1 12 (25.00%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (12.50%) Confluence
3 5 (10.42%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 45 (93.75%) AWS
2 36 (75.00%) Serverless
3 34 (70.83%) Amazon ECS
3 34 (70.83%) Amazon EKS
4 24 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
6 11 (22.92%) Amazon S3
7 6 (12.50%) AWS KMS
8 5 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (10.42%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (91.67%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (70.83%) Relational Database
3 17 (35.42%) RDBMS
4 7 (14.58%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (10.42%) DynamoDB
6 3 (6.25%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.17%) MySQL
7 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (87.50%) Jenkins
2 39 (81.25%) JUnit
3 27 (56.25%) Git
4 24 (50.00%) Mockito
5 17 (35.42%) JMeter
6 8 (16.67%) Maven
7 7 (14.58%) SonarQube
8 6 (12.50%) DbUnit
8 6 (12.50%) JIRA
8 6 (12.50%) jMock
9 5 (10.42%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (4.17%) GitLab
10 2 (4.17%) Mocha
10 2 (4.17%) Selenium
11 1 (2.08%) Gradle
General
1 36 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (91.67%) Spring
2 42 (87.50%) Spring Boot
3 41 (85.42%) Web Services
4 39 (81.25%) REST
5 29 (60.42%) Apache Camel
6 25 (52.08%) ActiveMQ
7 24 (50.00%) Hibernate
8 20 (41.67%) SOAP
9 19 (39.58%) HTML
10 18 (37.50%) RESTful
11 17 (35.42%) jQuery
11 17 (35.42%) WireMock
12 12 (25.00%) J2EE
13 10 (20.83%) JSON
13 10 (20.83%) XML
14 8 (16.67%) JPA
15 7 (14.58%) AngularJS
15 7 (14.58%) Bootstrap
15 7 (14.58%) Node.js
16 6 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 37 (77.08%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (93.75%) Agile
2 44 (91.67%) Microservices
3 42 (87.50%) TDD
4 35 (72.92%) BDD
5 32 (66.67%) Scrum
6 25 (52.08%) CI/CD
6 25 (52.08%) Kanban
7 18 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 17 (35.42%) Process Management
8 17 (35.42%) Workflow
9 16 (33.33%) DevOps
10 8 (16.67%) Containerisation
11 7 (14.58%) Architectural Design
11 7 (14.58%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (14.58%) SDLC
12 6 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (12.50%) Open Source
13 4 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
14 3 (6.25%) Test Automation
15 2 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) Java
2 24 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (39.58%) Python
4 17 (35.42%) Shell Script
5 6 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 23 (47.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 44 (91.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 36 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (35.42%) Kibana
3 12 (25.00%) Ansible
4 2 (4.17%) Grafana
4 2 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (35.42%) Dynatrace
1 17 (35.42%) Splunk
2 5 (10.42%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.25%) Jaspersoft