Java Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 December 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 140 208
Rank change year-on-year +15 +68 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 68 55 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.67% 1.57% 0.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.66% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 22 29 38
10th Percentile £53,000 £52,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -6.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £84,688 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 - £83,250
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 3,738 3,314 5,984
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.07% 94.39% 94.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,943 2,221 3,672
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,263 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,760 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -2.25% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £71,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +25 58 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Buckinghamshire -19 6 £60,000 - 1
Oxfordshire -22 4 £55,000 -
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 4 December 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 68 (100.00%) Java
2 52 (76.47%) Spring
3 48 (70.59%) AWS
4 47 (69.12%) Agile
5 36 (52.94%) Microservices
6 35 (51.47%) PostgreSQL
7 33 (48.53%) TDD
7 33 (48.53%) Spring Boot
8 32 (47.06%) Relational Database
8 32 (47.06%) Docker
8 32 (47.06%) Jenkins
8 32 (47.06%) REST
9 31 (45.59%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (44.12%) Kubernetes
11 29 (42.65%) Hibernate
11 29 (42.65%) JavaScript
12 27 (39.71%) Web Services
13 26 (38.24%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (38.24%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (36.76%) JUnit
15 23 (33.82%) Scrum
15 23 (33.82%) BDD
15 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
16 22 (32.35%) Public Sector
16 22 (32.35%) Serverless
16 22 (32.35%) Git
16 22 (32.35%) SQL
17 21 (30.88%) SC Cleared
17 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
18 19 (27.94%) Full-Stack Development

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 8 (11.76%) OpenStack
2 7 (10.29%) JBoss
3 6 (8.82%) Red Hat Fuse
4 3 (4.41%) Apache Solr
5 1 (1.47%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.47%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 48 (70.59%) AWS
2 26 (38.24%) Amazon ECS
2 26 (38.24%) Amazon EKS
3 22 (32.35%) Serverless
4 16 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (20.59%) Azure
6 13 (19.12%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (11.76%) Amazon S3
8 5 (7.35%) AWS KMS
8 5 (7.35%) SaaS
9 3 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.94%) GCP
11 1 (1.47%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (51.47%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (47.06%) Relational Database
3 13 (19.12%) MySQL
4 11 (16.18%) RDBMS
5 5 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (47.06%) Jenkins
2 25 (36.76%) JUnit
3 22 (32.35%) Git
4 19 (27.94%) Mockito
5 11 (16.18%) JMeter
6 7 (10.29%) Maven
7 5 (7.35%) DbUnit
7 5 (7.35%) jMock
7 5 (7.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.94%) Eclipse
8 2 (2.94%) IntelliJ
8 2 (2.94%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.94%) JIRA
8 2 (2.94%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (2.94%) Protractor
9 1 (1.47%) Ant
9 1 (1.47%) Apache Ivy
9 1 (1.47%) Selenium
9 1 (1.47%) TestNG
General
1 22 (32.35%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Law
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Retail
5 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (76.47%) Spring
2 33 (48.53%) Spring Boot
3 32 (47.06%) REST
4 29 (42.65%) Hibernate
5 27 (39.71%) Web Services
6 19 (27.94%) Apache Camel
7 17 (25.00%) RESTful
8 16 (23.53%) ActiveMQ
9 13 (19.12%) React
10 12 (17.65%) HTML
10 12 (17.65%) jQuery
11 11 (16.18%) SOAP
11 11 (16.18%) WireMock
12 8 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (11.76%) JPA
12 8 (11.76%) Mustache
13 7 (10.29%) Node.js
14 6 (8.82%) AngularJS
14 6 (8.82%) Kafka
14 6 (8.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (45.59%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (5.88%) IoT
2 4 (5.88%) Legacy Code
2 4 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Linux
2 6 (8.82%) Android
2 6 (8.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (69.12%) Agile
2 36 (52.94%) Microservices
3 33 (48.53%) TDD
4 23 (33.82%) BDD
4 23 (33.82%) CI/CD
4 23 (33.82%) Scrum
5 19 (27.94%) Full-Stack Development
5 19 (27.94%) Kanban
6 14 (20.59%) SDLC
7 13 (19.12%) DevOps
8 12 (17.65%) Process Management
8 12 (17.65%) Workflow
9 11 (16.18%) Artificial Intelligence
9 11 (16.18%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (13.24%) Code Quality
11 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.29%) Architectural Design
12 7 (10.29%) Front End Development
12 7 (10.29%) Generative AI
13 6 (8.82%) Due Diligence
Programming Languages
1 68 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (42.65%) JavaScript
3 22 (32.35%) SQL
4 12 (17.65%) Python
4 12 (17.65%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (30.88%) SC Cleared
1 21 (30.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.41%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (47.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 30 (44.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.18%) Ansible
2 11 (16.18%) Kibana
3 5 (7.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Splunk
2 10 (14.71%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.88%) WSO2
4 2 (2.94%) IBM
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat