Java Jobs in Reading

Java
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Java skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Java over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing Java 58 142 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.46% 8.29% 8.66%
As % of the Programming Languages category 38.93% 25.59% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 18 68 54
10th Percentile £31,750 £48,500 £54,125
25th Percentile £33,188 £59,375 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £74,375 £83,750 £86,875
90th Percentile £109,500 £91,250 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +3.70%

All Programming Languages
Reading

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 149 555 708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 29.45% 32.42% 43.49%
Number of salaries quoted 90 362 428
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £38,725
25th Percentile £51,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.07% -17.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,750 £82,500 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Java in Reading

Java
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Java in Reading

Java
Salary Histogram in Reading

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

Salary histogram for Java in Reading

Java
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 (20.69%) JBoss
1 12 (20.69%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (10.34%) OpenStack
3 4 (6.90%) Confluence
4 3 (5.17%) Apache
5 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.72%) IIS
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (1.72%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.72%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 47 (81.03%) AWS
2 40 (68.97%) Serverless
3 38 (65.52%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (62.07%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (43.10%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (18.97%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.62%) AWS KMS
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.72%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (75.86%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (62.07%) Relational Database
3 18 (31.03%) RDBMS
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.17%) MySQL
5 3 (5.17%) Pinecone
5 3 (5.17%) Weaviate
6 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.45%) Redis
7 1 (1.72%) DB2
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 44 (75.86%) Jenkins
2 38 (65.52%) JUnit
3 30 (51.72%) Git
4 23 (39.66%) Mockito
5 18 (31.03%) JMeter
6 8 (13.79%) JIRA
7 7 (12.07%) SonarQube
8 5 (8.62%) DbUnit
8 5 (8.62%) jMock
8 5 (8.62%) Maven
9 3 (5.17%) GitLab
9 3 (5.17%) MLflow
9 3 (5.17%) Selenium
10 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
10 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
10 2 (3.45%) Mocha
11 1 (1.72%) Gradle
11 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (60.34%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Finance
5 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (75.86%) Developer
1 44 (75.86%) Java Developer
2 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (20.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Junior
4 5 (8.62%) Graduate
4 5 (8.62%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Junior Software Engineer
4 5 (8.62%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Lead
5 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior
7 1 (1.72%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Applications Support Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Junior Developer
7 1 (1.72%) Junior Support Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (74.14%) REST
1 43 (74.14%) Spring
2 41 (70.69%) Web Services
3 36 (62.07%) Spring Boot
4 31 (53.45%) Apache Camel
5 23 (39.66%) ActiveMQ
5 23 (39.66%) Hibernate
6 20 (34.48%) HTML
7 18 (31.03%) jQuery
7 18 (31.03%) WireMock
8 17 (29.31%) RESTful
8 17 (29.31%) SOAP
9 13 (22.41%) Node.js
10 12 (20.69%) J2EE
11 9 (15.52%) Kafka
11 9 (15.52%) Mustache
12 8 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (12.07%) JSON
14 6 (10.34%) React
15 5 (8.62%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 43 (74.14%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.45%) NHS
3 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (77.59%) Agile
1 45 (77.59%) Microservices
2 41 (70.69%) TDD
3 36 (62.07%) Scrum
4 35 (60.34%) BDD
5 30 (51.72%) Kanban
6 28 (48.28%) CI/CD
7 22 (37.93%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (31.03%) Process Management
8 18 (31.03%) Workflow
9 16 (27.59%) DevOps
10 14 (24.14%) Collaborative Working
11 13 (22.41%) Architectural Design
12 12 (20.69%) SDLC
13 9 (15.52%) Computer Science
14 6 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (10.34%) Software Engineering
15 5 (8.62%) Mathematics
15 5 (8.62%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) Python
2 27 (46.55%) JavaScript
3 20 (34.48%) Shell Script
4 14 (24.14%) SQL
5 8 (13.79%) C++
6 5 (8.62%) C#
7 3 (5.17%) R
8 2 (3.45%) Groovy
8 2 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (51.72%) Security Cleared
2 29 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.24%) Degree
4 7 (12.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) SLA
2 3 (5.17%) QA
3 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 43 (74.14%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) HDFS
2 2 (3.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (74.14%) Kubernetes
2 18 (31.03%) Kibana
3 14 (24.14%) Ansible
4 3 (5.17%) Kubeflow
5 2 (3.45%) Packer
5 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Dynatrace
1 18 (31.03%) Splunk
2 3 (5.17%) IBM
3 2 (3.45%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.72%) Adobe
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle