Lead Java Developer Jobs in Reading

Lead Java Developer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Lead Java Developer salary in Reading is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 121 135
Rank change year-on-year +61 +14 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Java Developer 4 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.80% 0.11% 0.065%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.12% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71,250 £105,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £110,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +57.14% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £115,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median annual salary £72,500 £110,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -34.09% +57.14% -

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 415 1,652 1,445
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.67% 94.83% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 223 1,032 762
10th Percentile £30,650 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £39,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.18% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £56,673 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.95% -12.50% +4.35%

Lead Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Java Developer in Reading

Lead Java Developer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Lead Java Developer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead Java Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Mockito
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (75.00%) DbUnit

Lead 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (75.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (75.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (100.00%) JUnit
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
1 4 (100.00%) Mockito
1 4 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 3 (75.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 3 (75.00%) DbUnit
2 3 (75.00%) jMock
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
1 4 (100.00%) SOAP
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (75.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (75.00%) PowerMock
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Batch
2 3 (75.00%) Spring Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) REST
3 2 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Biometrics
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft