Java Developer Jobs in Berkshire

Java Developer
South East > Berkshire

The median Java Developer salary in Berkshire is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 103 130
Rank change year-on-year +24 +27 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 44 66 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.89% 2.14% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.77% 2.24% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 8 39 38
10th Percentile £52,625 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.31% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £86,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £73,625 £89,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -

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 1,166 2,948 2,945
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 76.66% 95.40% 92.44%
Number of salaries quoted 565 2,120 1,672
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £40,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £92,500
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 2 May 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 May 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 +43 43 £62,500 -24.24% 4
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 44 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (95.45%) AWS
3 41 (93.18%) Agile
3 41 (93.18%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (93.18%) Microservices
4 40 (90.91%) Spring
5 39 (88.64%) TDD
5 39 (88.64%) Web Services
5 39 (88.64%) Distributed Systems
5 39 (88.64%) REST
5 39 (88.64%) Jenkins
6 38 (86.36%) Docker
7 37 (84.09%) Kubernetes
7 37 (84.09%) Serverless
8 36 (81.82%) JUnit
9 35 (79.55%) Amazon EKS
9 35 (79.55%) Amazon ECS
9 35 (79.55%) Spring Boot
9 35 (79.55%) Public Sector
9 35 (79.55%) Relational Database
10 34 (77.27%) BDD
10 34 (77.27%) Scrum
11 31 (70.45%) Apache Camel
12 29 (65.91%) Kanban
13 27 (61.36%) SC Cleared
13 27 (61.36%) Security Cleared
14 26 (59.09%) JavaScript
15 25 (56.82%) Git
15 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
16 22 (50.00%) Mockito

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 (27.27%) JBoss
1 12 (27.27%) Red Hat Fuse
2 5 (11.36%) OpenStack
3 3 (6.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (95.45%) AWS
2 37 (84.09%) Serverless
3 35 (79.55%) Amazon ECS
3 35 (79.55%) Amazon EKS
4 22 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (20.45%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 4 (9.09%) AWS KMS
8 1 (2.27%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (93.18%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (79.55%) Relational Database
3 18 (40.91%) RDBMS
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.55%) MySQL
6 2 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (88.64%) Jenkins
2 36 (81.82%) JUnit
3 25 (56.82%) Git
4 22 (50.00%) Mockito
5 18 (40.91%) JMeter
6 4 (9.09%) DbUnit
6 4 (9.09%) JIRA
6 4 (9.09%) jMock
6 4 (9.09%) Maven
6 4 (9.09%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.82%) Selenium
8 2 (4.55%) GitLab
8 2 (4.55%) Mocha
9 1 (2.27%) Gradle
General
1 35 (79.55%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Electronics
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (90.91%) Spring
2 39 (88.64%) REST
2 39 (88.64%) Web Services
3 35 (79.55%) Spring Boot
4 31 (70.45%) Apache Camel
5 22 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
5 22 (50.00%) Hibernate
6 20 (45.45%) HTML
7 18 (40.91%) jQuery
7 18 (40.91%) WireMock
8 16 (36.36%) RESTful
8 16 (36.36%) SOAP
9 12 (27.27%) J2EE
10 8 (18.18%) Mustache
11 7 (15.91%) Node.js
12 6 (13.64%) Kafka
13 5 (11.36%) Elastic Stack
13 5 (11.36%) JSON
13 5 (11.36%) React
13 5 (11.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (88.64%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.27%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (93.18%) Agile
1 41 (93.18%) Microservices
2 39 (88.64%) TDD
3 34 (77.27%) BDD
3 34 (77.27%) Scrum
4 29 (65.91%) Kanban
5 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
6 21 (47.73%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (40.91%) Process Management
7 18 (40.91%) Workflow
8 14 (31.82%) DevOps
9 13 (29.55%) Architectural Design
9 13 (29.55%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (27.27%) SDLC
11 4 (9.09%) BPMN
11 4 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (9.09%) Migration
11 4 (9.09%) Open Source
12 3 (6.82%) Biometrics
13 2 (4.55%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (59.09%) JavaScript
3 20 (45.45%) Python
4 18 (40.91%) Shell Script
5 7 (15.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (61.36%) SC Cleared
1 27 (61.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.27%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 38 (86.36%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 37 (84.09%) Kubernetes
2 18 (40.91%) Kibana
3 12 (27.27%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (40.91%) Dynatrace
1 18 (40.91%) Splunk
2 1 (2.27%) IBM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP