Java Developer Jobs in Reading

Java Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Java Developer salary in Reading is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 77 104
Rank change year-on-year +50 +27 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 44 50 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.70% 2.92% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.43% 3.08% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7 23 10
10th Percentile £51,750 £42,500 £62,875
25th Percentile £59,375 £71,875 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £82,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +8.20% +22.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £85,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £71,750 £91,000 £83,125
Berkshire median annual salary £63,750 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.31% +14.29% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 422 1,621 1,525
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.40% 94.68% 93.67%
Number of salaries quoted 239 1,036 813
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,500 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.74% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in Reading

Java Developer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Java Developer in Reading

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in Reading over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Reading region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Java
2 43 (97.73%) AWS
3 42 (95.45%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (95.45%) Agile
3 42 (95.45%) Microservices
4 41 (93.18%) Spring
5 40 (90.91%) TDD
5 40 (90.91%) Web Services
5 40 (90.91%) REST
5 40 (90.91%) Jenkins
5 40 (90.91%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (86.36%) Docker
7 37 (84.09%) Kubernetes
7 37 (84.09%) Serverless
7 37 (84.09%) JUnit
8 35 (79.55%) Scrum
8 35 (79.55%) BDD
8 35 (79.55%) Amazon EKS
8 35 (79.55%) Amazon ECS
8 35 (79.55%) Public Sector
8 35 (79.55%) Spring Boot
8 35 (79.55%) Relational Database
9 31 (70.45%) Apache Camel
10 30 (68.18%) Kanban
11 28 (63.64%) SC Cleared
11 28 (63.64%) Security Cleared
12 26 (59.09%) Git
12 26 (59.09%) JavaScript
13 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
14 23 (52.27%) ActiveMQ

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 43 (97.73%) AWS
2 37 (84.09%) Serverless
3 35 (79.55%) Amazon ECS
3 35 (79.55%) Amazon EKS
4 23 (52.27%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
6 5 (11.36%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.27%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (95.45%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (79.55%) Relational Database
3 18 (40.91%) RDBMS
4 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) MySQL
5 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (90.91%) Jenkins
2 37 (84.09%) JUnit
3 26 (59.09%) Git
4 23 (52.27%) Mockito
5 18 (40.91%) JMeter
6 5 (11.36%) DbUnit
6 5 (11.36%) jMock
6 5 (11.36%) Maven
6 5 (11.36%) SonarQube
7 4 (9.09%) JIRA
8 3 (6.82%) Selenium
9 2 (4.55%) GitLab
9 2 (4.55%) Mocha
10 1 (2.27%) Gradle
General
1 35 (79.55%) Public Sector
2 4 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (93.18%) Spring
2 40 (90.91%) REST
2 40 (90.91%) Web Services
3 35 (79.55%) Spring Boot
4 31 (70.45%) Apache Camel
5 23 (52.27%) ActiveMQ
5 23 (52.27%) Hibernate
6 20 (45.45%) HTML
7 18 (40.91%) jQuery
7 18 (40.91%) WireMock
8 17 (38.64%) RESTful
8 17 (38.64%) 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%) PowerMock
13 5 (11.36%) React
13 5 (11.36%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 40 (90.91%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.27%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (95.45%) Agile
1 42 (95.45%) Microservices
2 40 (90.91%) TDD
3 35 (79.55%) BDD
3 35 (79.55%) Scrum
4 30 (68.18%) Kanban
5 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
6 22 (50.00%) 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 5 (11.36%) BPMN
11 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (11.36%) Migration
11 5 (11.36%) Open Source
12 4 (9.09%) 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 8 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 28 (63.64%) 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