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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 24 29
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Java 56 140 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.02% 8.19% 8.68%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.58% 25.32% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 18 66 54
10th Percentile £31,750 £47,500 £54,125
25th Percentile £33,188 £58,125 £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 149 553 707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 29.33% 32.36% 43.51%
Number of salaries quoted 92 359 426
10th Percentile £41,375 £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 £104,500 £82,750 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +12.50%

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 2 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 (21.43%) JBoss
1 12 (21.43%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (10.71%) OpenStack
3 4 (7.14%) Confluence
4 3 (5.36%) Apache
5 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.79%) IIS
6 1 (1.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (1.79%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.79%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 45 (80.36%) AWS
2 39 (69.64%) Serverless
3 37 (66.07%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (64.29%) Amazon ECS
5 23 (41.07%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (17.86%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.14%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (76.79%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (64.29%) Relational Database
3 18 (32.14%) RDBMS
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.36%) MySQL
5 3 (5.36%) Pinecone
5 3 (5.36%) Weaviate
6 2 (3.57%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.57%) Redis
7 1 (1.79%) DB2
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 42 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 37 (66.07%) JUnit
3 28 (50.00%) Git
4 22 (39.29%) Mockito
5 18 (32.14%) JMeter
6 7 (12.50%) JIRA
7 5 (8.93%) SonarQube
8 4 (7.14%) DbUnit
8 4 (7.14%) jMock
8 4 (7.14%) Maven
9 3 (5.36%) MLflow
9 3 (5.36%) Selenium
10 2 (3.57%) GitLab
10 2 (3.57%) Mocha
11 1 (1.79%) Artifactory
11 1 (1.79%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.79%) Gradle
11 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (60.71%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (76.79%) Developer
1 43 (76.79%) Java Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Developer
2 11 (19.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Junior
4 5 (8.93%) Graduate
4 5 (8.93%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Junior Software Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
5 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Senior
7 1 (1.79%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.79%) Junior Applications Support
7 1 (1.79%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (75.00%) Spring
2 41 (73.21%) REST
3 40 (71.43%) Web Services
4 36 (64.29%) Spring Boot
5 31 (55.36%) Apache Camel
6 22 (39.29%) ActiveMQ
6 22 (39.29%) Hibernate
7 20 (35.71%) HTML
8 18 (32.14%) jQuery
8 18 (32.14%) WireMock
9 16 (28.57%) RESTful
9 16 (28.57%) SOAP
10 13 (23.21%) Node.js
11 12 (21.43%) J2EE
12 9 (16.07%) Kafka
12 9 (16.07%) Mustache
13 7 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (10.71%) JSON
14 6 (10.71%) React
15 5 (8.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (73.21%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.57%) NHS
3 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
2 1 (1.79%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (76.79%) Agile
1 43 (76.79%) Microservices
2 40 (71.43%) TDD
3 35 (62.50%) Scrum
4 34 (60.71%) BDD
5 29 (51.79%) Kanban
6 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
7 21 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (32.14%) Process Management
8 18 (32.14%) Workflow
9 15 (26.79%) DevOps
10 13 (23.21%) Architectural Design
10 13 (23.21%) Collaborative Working
11 12 (21.43%) SDLC
12 9 (16.07%) Computer Science
13 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
14 5 (8.93%) Mathematics
14 5 (8.93%) Physics
15 4 (7.14%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 29 (51.79%) Python
2 27 (48.21%) JavaScript
3 19 (33.93%) Shell Script
4 13 (23.21%) SQL
5 8 (14.29%) C++
6 5 (8.93%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) R
8 1 (1.79%) Groovy
8 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (48.21%) SC Cleared
3 10 (17.86%) Degree
4 7 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) SLA
2 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 43 (76.79%) Docker
2 2 (3.57%) HDFS
2 2 (3.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 42 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 18 (32.14%) Kibana
3 13 (23.21%) Ansible
4 3 (5.36%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.79%) Packer
5 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) Dynatrace
1 18 (32.14%) Splunk
2 2 (3.57%) IBM
3 1 (1.79%) Adobe
3 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle