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 September 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 102 106
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 43 38 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.11% 1.58% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.27% 1.66% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 27
10th Percentile £38,250 - £49,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile - - £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +7.69% -7.14%

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 1,897 2,287 1,879
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 95.05% 92.52%
Number of salaries quoted 783 1,307 1,290
10th Percentile £27,840 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £51,852 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% -5.72% -

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

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 September 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 September 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 +49 43 £72,500 +3.57% 1
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 43 (100.00%) Java
2 41 (95.35%) Agile
2 41 (95.35%) Spring
2 41 (95.35%) AWS
3 40 (93.02%) TDD
3 40 (93.02%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (93.02%) Jenkins
3 40 (93.02%) Microservices
3 40 (93.02%) Spring Boot
4 39 (90.70%) Docker
4 39 (90.70%) Web Services
5 38 (88.37%) JUnit
6 37 (86.05%) REST
6 37 (86.05%) Public Sector
7 36 (83.72%) BDD
8 35 (81.40%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (74.42%) Amazon EKS
9 32 (74.42%) Amazon ECS
9 32 (74.42%) Relational Database
9 32 (74.42%) Kubernetes
9 32 (74.42%) Serverless
10 31 (72.09%) ActiveMQ
11 30 (69.77%) Hibernate
11 30 (69.77%) Amazon EC2
11 30 (69.77%) Apache Camel
11 30 (69.77%) Mockito
12 27 (62.79%) Security Cleared
13 26 (60.47%) CI/CD
14 25 (58.14%) JavaScript
15 24 (55.81%) Scrum

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 7 (16.28%) JBoss
1 7 (16.28%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 41 (95.35%) AWS
2 32 (74.42%) Amazon ECS
2 32 (74.42%) Amazon EKS
2 32 (74.42%) Serverless
3 30 (69.77%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (20.93%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (18.60%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.95%) AWS KMS
7 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (11.63%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (93.02%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (74.42%) Relational Database
3 23 (53.49%) RDBMS
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 40 (93.02%) Jenkins
2 38 (88.37%) JUnit
3 30 (69.77%) Mockito
4 23 (53.49%) JMeter
5 16 (37.21%) Git
6 8 (18.60%) Maven
7 7 (16.28%) SonarQube
8 6 (13.95%) DbUnit
8 6 (13.95%) jMock
9 5 (11.63%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (6.98%) JIRA
General
1 37 (86.05%) Public Sector
2 3 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (95.35%) Spring
2 40 (93.02%) Spring Boot
3 39 (90.70%) Web Services
4 37 (86.05%) REST
5 31 (72.09%) ActiveMQ
6 30 (69.77%) Apache Camel
6 30 (69.77%) Hibernate
7 23 (53.49%) HTML
7 23 (53.49%) jQuery
7 23 (53.49%) WireMock
8 16 (37.21%) JSON
8 16 (37.21%) XML
9 15 (34.88%) SOAP
10 13 (30.23%) RESTful
11 8 (18.60%) JPA
12 7 (16.28%) AngularJS
12 7 (16.28%) Bootstrap
12 7 (16.28%) J2EE
13 6 (13.95%) Spring Batch
13 6 (13.95%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 35 (81.40%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.98%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (95.35%) Agile
2 40 (93.02%) Microservices
2 40 (93.02%) TDD
3 36 (83.72%) BDD
4 26 (60.47%) CI/CD
5 24 (55.81%) Scrum
6 23 (53.49%) Process Management
6 23 (53.49%) Workflow
7 20 (46.51%) Kanban
8 16 (37.21%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (23.26%) SDLC
10 9 (20.93%) DevOps
11 7 (16.28%) Architectural Design
11 7 (16.28%) Collaborative Working
12 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
12 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (13.95%) Open Source
13 3 (6.98%) Test Automation
14 2 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence
14 2 (4.65%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 43 (100.00%) Java
2 25 (58.14%) JavaScript
3 23 (53.49%) Python
3 23 (53.49%) Shell Script
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Security Cleared
2 18 (41.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (90.70%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 32 (74.42%) Kubernetes
2 23 (53.49%) Kibana
3 7 (16.28%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (53.49%) Dynatrace
1 23 (53.49%) Splunk
2 5 (11.63%) Atlassian
3 3 (6.98%) Jaspersoft