Java Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 190 173
Rank change year-on-year +51 -17 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 51 49 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.45% 0.67% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 0.71% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11 32 48
10th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,625 £58,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £81,563
90th Percentile - £91,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £70,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -25.00% +5.66% +1.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 3,151 6,922 4,845
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.49% 94.56% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 4,609 3,008
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £38,780
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,688 £64,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 +36 46 £70,000 -12.50% 31
Buckinghamshire +35 5 £52,500 -35.38% 3
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 July 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 Thames Valley region featuring Java Developer in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 48 (94.12%) Agile
3 47 (92.16%) Spring
3 47 (92.16%) AWS
3 47 (92.16%) Microservices
4 46 (90.20%) Docker
4 46 (90.20%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (88.24%) Spring Boot
6 44 (86.27%) Jenkins
7 42 (82.35%) TDD
8 41 (80.39%) JUnit
9 39 (76.47%) Web Services
10 38 (74.51%) Kubernetes
10 38 (74.51%) Public Sector
11 37 (72.55%) REST
12 35 (68.63%) BDD
12 35 (68.63%) Distributed Systems
13 34 (66.67%) Serverless
14 32 (62.75%) Relational Database
14 32 (62.75%) Scrum
14 32 (62.75%) Amazon EKS
14 32 (62.75%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
15 28 (54.90%) Security Cleared
15 28 (54.90%) Apache Camel
16 26 (50.98%) Git
16 26 (50.98%) SC Cleared
16 26 (50.98%) Mockito
16 26 (50.98%) Kanban
16 26 (50.98%) Hibernate

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 12 (23.53%) JBoss
1 12 (23.53%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (11.76%) Confluence
3 4 (7.84%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 47 (92.16%) AWS
2 34 (66.67%) Serverless
3 32 (62.75%) Amazon ECS
3 32 (62.75%) Amazon EKS
4 23 (45.10%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (21.57%) Amazon SQS
6 10 (19.61%) Amazon S3
7 6 (11.76%) AWS KMS
8 5 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (9.80%) Route 53
9 3 (5.88%) Azure
9 3 (5.88%) GCP
10 1 (1.96%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (90.20%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (62.75%) Relational Database
3 16 (31.37%) RDBMS
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (13.73%) MongoDB
5 5 (9.80%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.92%) MySQL
7 2 (3.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (86.27%) Jenkins
2 41 (80.39%) JUnit
3 26 (50.98%) Git
3 26 (50.98%) Mockito
4 16 (31.37%) JMeter
5 8 (15.69%) Maven
6 7 (13.73%) JIRA
6 7 (13.73%) SonarQube
7 6 (11.76%) DbUnit
7 6 (11.76%) jMock
8 5 (9.80%) Bitbucket Server
8 5 (9.80%) GitLab
9 2 (3.92%) Mocha
9 2 (3.92%) Selenium
10 1 (1.96%) Gradle
General
1 38 (74.51%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (92.16%) Spring
2 45 (88.24%) Spring Boot
3 39 (76.47%) Web Services
4 37 (72.55%) REST
5 28 (54.90%) Apache Camel
6 26 (50.98%) Hibernate
7 24 (47.06%) ActiveMQ
8 23 (45.10%) RESTful
9 20 (39.22%) SOAP
10 18 (35.29%) HTML
11 16 (31.37%) jQuery
11 16 (31.37%) WireMock
12 12 (23.53%) J2EE
13 10 (19.61%) AngularJS
13 10 (19.61%) Kafka
14 9 (17.65%) JSON
14 9 (17.65%) XML
15 8 (15.69%) JPA
16 7 (13.73%) Bootstrap
16 7 (13.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (68.63%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (94.12%) Agile
2 47 (92.16%) Microservices
3 42 (82.35%) TDD
4 35 (68.63%) BDD
5 32 (62.75%) Scrum
6 28 (54.90%) CI/CD
7 26 (50.98%) Kanban
8 21 (41.18%) DevOps
9 18 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 16 (31.37%) Process Management
10 16 (31.37%) Workflow
11 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
12 9 (17.65%) SDLC
13 7 (13.73%) Architectural Design
13 7 (13.73%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (11.76%) Open Source
15 4 (7.84%) API Development
15 4 (7.84%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) Java
2 22 (43.14%) JavaScript
3 18 (35.29%) Python
4 16 (31.37%) Shell Script
5 10 (19.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (54.90%) Security Cleared
2 26 (50.98%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.53%) SLA
2 2 (3.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 46 (90.20%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (74.51%) Kubernetes
2 16 (31.37%) Kibana
3 12 (23.53%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (31.37%) Dynatrace
1 16 (31.37%) Splunk
2 5 (9.80%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle