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 29 April 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 73 86
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 40 45 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.59% 2.97% 2.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 3.89% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 29 8 39
10th Percentile £54,000 £52,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £80,000 £58,438 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £63,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -20.31% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £69,688 £86,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,625 £89,000
South East median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% +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 2,346 1,157 2,737
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 76.32% 95.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,460 554 2,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £89,625 £85,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -14 31 £82,500 +32.00% 1
Wokingham - 6 £83,750 -
Bracknell - 3 £90,000 -
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 40 (100.00%) Java
2 21 (52.50%) REST
3 20 (50.00%) Microservices
4 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
5 18 (45.00%) AWS
5 18 (45.00%) React
6 17 (42.50%) Spring
6 17 (42.50%) Spring Boot
7 16 (40.00%) Agile
8 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
8 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
9 14 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (35.00%) Jenkins
9 14 (35.00%) Serverless
10 13 (32.50%) Elastic Stack
10 13 (32.50%) Git
10 13 (32.50%) TDD
11 12 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
11 12 (30.00%) Docker
11 12 (30.00%) Scrum
12 11 (27.50%) Relational Database
12 11 (27.50%) Web Services
13 8 (20.00%) Amazon S3
13 8 (20.00%) DevOps
13 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
13 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (17.50%) Ansible
14 7 (17.50%) Mustache

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 7 (17.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.50%) JBoss
2 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
2 14 (35.00%) Serverless
3 12 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (12.50%) Azure
7 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (10.00%) SaaS
8 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Relational Database
2 8 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.50%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (2.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (32.50%) Git
3 3 (7.50%) JUnit
4 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 2 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (5.00%) GitLab
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) JMeter
5 1 (2.50%) Mockito
General
1 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 6 (15.00%) Health Technology
3 3 (7.50%) Digital Health
4 2 (5.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (52.50%) REST
2 18 (45.00%) React
3 17 (42.50%) Spring
3 17 (42.50%) Spring Boot
4 13 (32.50%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (27.50%) Web Services
6 7 (17.50%) Mustache
6 7 (17.50%) Node.js
7 6 (15.00%) Java EE
7 6 (15.00%) Kafka
7 6 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (12.50%) AngularJS
9 4 (10.00%) JMS
9 4 (10.00%) JPA
10 3 (7.50%) JSON
10 3 (7.50%) SOAP
11 2 (5.00%) Middleware
11 2 (5.00%) RESTful
11 2 (5.00%) Spring MVC
11 2 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.50%) IoT
2 5 (12.50%) NHS
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) Microservices
2 16 (40.00%) Agile
3 13 (32.50%) TDD
4 12 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (30.00%) Scrum
5 8 (20.00%) DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (17.50%) SDLC
7 6 (15.00%) BDD
7 6 (15.00%) Kanban
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (10.00%) Design Patterns
9 4 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
10 3 (7.50%) Clean Code
11 2 (5.00%) Code Quality
11 2 (5.00%) Containerisation
11 2 (5.00%) Deployment Automation
11 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 2 (5.00%) Secrets Management
11 2 (5.00%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (12.50%) SQL
4 4 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.50%) Python
5 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.00%) Groovy
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) QA
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (47.50%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.50%) Ansible
3 6 (15.00%) Terraform
4 5 (12.50%) Kibana
5 2 (5.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) AppDynamics
1 6 (15.00%) IBM
1 6 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.50%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.50%) Splunk