Java Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 179 180
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 71 83 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% 1.39% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 1.55% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 44 58 87
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £61,875 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% +26.09%
75th Percentile £86,563 £82,188 £84,375
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,365 5,363 6,679
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 89.76% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,462 3,150 4,126
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,438
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,938 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,375 £81,813
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Java Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Developer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Developer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Developer in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Developer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +33 64 £80,000 +14.29%
Buckinghamshire -19 5 £75,000 -3.23% 1
Oxfordshire +1 2 £92,500 +48.00%
Java Developer
South East

Java Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, 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 Thames Valley region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 57 (80.28%) AWS
3 56 (78.87%) Microservices
4 51 (71.83%) Agile
5 49 (69.01%) TDD
6 45 (63.38%) Spring
6 45 (63.38%) Docker
7 44 (61.97%) Spring Boot
8 43 (60.56%) Kubernetes
9 42 (59.15%) DevOps
9 42 (59.15%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (57.75%) Jenkins
11 40 (56.34%) REST
11 40 (56.34%) Serverless
12 39 (54.93%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (54.93%) Amazon ECS
12 39 (54.93%) JavaScript
13 38 (53.52%) Scrum
13 38 (53.52%) Kanban
13 38 (53.52%) BDD
14 36 (50.70%) Git
15 35 (49.30%) AngularJS
15 35 (49.30%) Ansible
16 34 (47.89%) Azure
17 33 (46.48%) Node.js
17 33 (46.48%) Relational Database
17 33 (46.48%) Apache Camel
17 33 (46.48%) Web Services
18 31 (43.66%) Distributed Systems
19 30 (42.25%) Security Cleared

Java Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 28 (39.44%) OpenStack
2 11 (15.49%) JBoss
3 10 (14.08%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (1.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 57 (80.28%) AWS
2 40 (56.34%) Serverless
3 39 (54.93%) Amazon ECS
3 39 (54.93%) Amazon EKS
4 34 (47.89%) Azure
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.82%) AWS IoT
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (59.15%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (46.48%) Relational Database
3 21 (29.58%) NoSQL
4 8 (11.27%) MySQL
5 4 (5.63%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.82%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (57.75%) Jenkins
2 36 (50.70%) Git
3 14 (19.72%) JUnit
4 6 (8.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.63%) JMeter
5 4 (5.63%) Mockito
6 2 (2.82%) Gradle
7 1 (1.41%) JIRA
7 1 (1.41%) Maven
General
1 24 (33.80%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.45%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Banking
3 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Finance
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Police
5 1 (1.41%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (63.38%) Spring
2 44 (61.97%) Spring Boot
3 40 (56.34%) REST
4 35 (49.30%) AngularJS
5 33 (46.48%) Apache Camel
5 33 (46.48%) Node.js
5 33 (46.48%) Web Services
6 28 (39.44%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (29.58%) XML
8 20 (28.17%) JSON
9 12 (16.90%) Kafka
10 10 (14.08%) RESTful
11 9 (12.68%) J2EE
12 8 (11.27%) Hibernate
12 8 (11.27%) SOAP
13 6 (8.45%) React Native
14 5 (7.04%) HTML
15 4 (5.63%) ActiveMQ
15 4 (5.63%) jQuery
15 4 (5.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 31 (43.66%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.63%) NHS
3 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.82%) IoT
3 2 (2.82%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (78.87%) Microservices
2 51 (71.83%) Agile
3 49 (69.01%) TDD
4 42 (59.15%) DevOps
5 38 (53.52%) BDD
5 38 (53.52%) Kanban
5 38 (53.52%) Scrum
6 24 (33.80%) Full Stack Development
7 18 (25.35%) BPEL
8 17 (23.94%) SDLC
9 16 (22.54%) Process Management
9 16 (22.54%) Workflow
10 12 (16.90%) CI/CD
11 7 (9.86%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (9.86%) Roadmaps
12 6 (8.45%) Architectural Design
12 6 (8.45%) Computer Science
12 6 (8.45%) Machine Learning
12 6 (8.45%) Pair Programming
12 6 (8.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) Java
2 39 (54.93%) JavaScript
3 26 (36.62%) Python
4 23 (32.39%) SQL
5 11 (15.49%) Shell Script
6 9 (12.68%) Kotlin
7 6 (8.45%) Go
8 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (42.25%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.03%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.49%) AWS Certification
3 11 (15.49%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.41%) CTC Cleared
System Software
1 45 (63.38%) Docker
2 20 (28.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (60.56%) Kubernetes
2 35 (49.30%) Ansible
3 20 (28.17%) Terraform
4 4 (5.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (39.44%) WSO2
2 4 (5.63%) Dynatrace
2 4 (5.63%) Splunk
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle