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 5 July 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 81 121
Rank change year-on-year -2 +40 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 33 48 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.17% 2.82% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 3.13% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 23 6 25
10th Percentile £76,250 £39,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £81,250 £48,438 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £73,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £80,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +52.38% -25.00% +3.70%

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 2,663 1,533 2,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 90.07% 95.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,717 689 2,107
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £71,535 £73,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 -30 22 £85,000 +21.43% 2
Bracknell - 6 £90,000 - 2
Wokingham - 5 £85,000 -
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 33 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 17 (51.52%) SC Cleared
3 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
4 15 (45.45%) Agile
5 14 (42.42%) Spring
6 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
6 13 (39.39%) Serverless
7 12 (36.36%) Microservices
8 11 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
8 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 11 (33.33%) DevOps
8 11 (33.33%) Docker
8 11 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 11 (33.33%) REST
8 11 (33.33%) Spring Boot
9 10 (30.30%) TDD
10 9 (27.27%) Scrum
11 8 (24.24%) BDD
11 8 (24.24%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (24.24%) Git
11 8 (24.24%) Kanban
11 8 (24.24%) Relational Database
12 7 (21.21%) AngularJS
12 7 (21.21%) Ansible
12 7 (21.21%) Kibana
12 7 (21.21%) Web Services
13 6 (18.18%) AppDynamics
13 6 (18.18%) AWS Lambda

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 (6.06%) OpenStack
2 1 (3.03%) JBoss
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 13 (39.39%) Serverless
3 11 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 11 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
5 5 (15.15%) Azure
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (6.06%) Apigee
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (24.24%) Relational Database
2 5 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (24.24%) Git
3 4 (12.12%) GitLab
3 4 (12.12%) JUnit
3 4 (12.12%) SonarQube
4 3 (9.09%) JMeter
4 3 (9.09%) Mockito
5 2 (6.06%) Artifactory
5 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) JIRA
5 2 (6.06%) Maven
General
1 12 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 7 (21.21%) Health Technology
3 4 (12.12%) Digital Health
3 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) Spring
2 11 (33.33%) REST
2 11 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 8 (24.24%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (21.21%) AngularJS
4 7 (21.21%) Web Services
5 6 (18.18%) Java EE
5 6 (18.18%) JPA
5 6 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (15.15%) React
7 4 (12.12%) Apache Camel
7 4 (12.12%) Hibernate
7 4 (12.12%) JMS
7 4 (12.12%) Mustache
7 4 (12.12%) RESTful
8 3 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
8 3 (9.09%) HTML
8 3 (9.09%) jQuery
8 3 (9.09%) JSON
8 3 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.12%) NHS
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Agile
2 12 (36.36%) Microservices
3 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 11 (33.33%) DevOps
4 10 (30.30%) TDD
5 9 (27.27%) Scrum
6 8 (24.24%) BDD
6 8 (24.24%) Kanban
7 6 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
9 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
9 4 (12.12%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (12.12%) SDLC
10 3 (9.09%) Containerisation
10 3 (9.09%) Workflow
11 2 (6.06%) Code Quality
11 2 (6.06%) Integration Testing
11 2 (6.06%) ITIL
11 2 (6.06%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (15.15%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.15%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) Groovy
3 4 (12.12%) PL/SQL
4 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 2 (6.06%) Bash
5 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) SC Cleared
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (6.06%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (21.21%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Kibana
3 6 (18.18%) Terraform
4 2 (6.06%) HP Fortify
4 2 (6.06%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) AppDynamics
1 6 (18.18%) IBM
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk