Java Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 51 28
Rank change year-on-year -29 -23 -3
Permanent jobs citing Java 103 293 458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.39% 4.34% 7.47%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.14% 14.91% 18.66%
Number of salaries quoted 56 192 204
10th Percentile £35,625 £38,691 £32,626
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £97,500
South East median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 784 1,965 2,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.79% 29.13% 40.06%
Number of salaries quoted 530 1,605 1,432
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,350 £34,324
25th Percentile £47,125 £42,500 £44,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Java as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java in the Thames Valley

Java
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -13 68 £65,000 -7.14% 122
Buckinghamshire +15 26 £64,500 -11.03% 123
Oxfordshire -6 9 £70,000 +21.74% 60
Java
South East

Java
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 (11.65%) JBoss
1 12 (11.65%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (5.83%) OpenStack
3 5 (4.85%) Apache
3 5 (4.85%) Confluence
4 3 (2.91%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.97%) IIS
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.97%) SAS
5 1 (0.97%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.97%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 65 (63.11%) AWS
2 42 (40.78%) Serverless
3 40 (38.83%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (34.95%) Amazon ECS
5 25 (24.27%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (20.39%) Azure
7 12 (11.65%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (10.68%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.80%) SaaS
10 5 (4.85%) AWS KMS
11 4 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.88%) GCP
12 3 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.94%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.94%) Amazon Kinesis
13 2 (1.94%) GitHub
14 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.97%) Firebase
14 1 (0.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) HTTP
2 2 (1.94%) FTP
3 1 (0.97%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (47.57%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (36.89%) Relational Database
3 18 (17.48%) RDBMS
4 8 (7.77%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.83%) OLTP
5 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.85%) MySQL
6 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.88%) Redis
8 3 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.91%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.91%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.91%) Weaviate
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.94%) Big Data
9 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.94%) Power BI
10 1 (0.97%) DB2
Development Applications
1 48 (46.60%) Jenkins
2 43 (41.75%) JUnit
3 32 (31.07%) Git
4 28 (27.18%) Mockito
5 18 (17.48%) JMeter
6 12 (11.65%) JIRA
7 7 (6.80%) SonarQube
8 6 (5.83%) GitLab
9 5 (4.85%) DbUnit
9 5 (4.85%) jMock
9 5 (4.85%) Maven
10 3 (2.91%) Eclipse
10 3 (2.91%) IntelliJ
10 3 (2.91%) MLflow
10 3 (2.91%) Selenium
11 2 (1.94%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.94%) Gradle
11 2 (1.94%) Jasmine
11 2 (1.94%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (1.94%) Protractor
General
1 41 (39.81%) Public Sector
2 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
3 21 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Finance
5 6 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Retail
8 2 (1.94%) Games
8 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.97%) Advertising
9 1 (0.97%) Banking
9 1 (0.97%) Electronics
9 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 61 (59.22%) Developer
2 52 (50.49%) Java Developer
3 18 (17.48%) Software Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) Senior
5 13 (12.62%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (12.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (8.74%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.77%) Junior
7 8 (7.77%) Lead
8 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Java Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Oracle Developer
9 6 (5.83%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Graduate
10 5 (4.85%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Junior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.88%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (51.46%) Spring
2 44 (42.72%) REST
3 42 (40.78%) Spring Boot
4 41 (39.81%) Web Services
5 31 (30.10%) Apache Camel
6 28 (27.18%) Hibernate
6 28 (27.18%) HTML
7 25 (24.27%) RESTful
8 24 (23.30%) ActiveMQ
9 21 (20.39%) React
10 18 (17.48%) jQuery
10 18 (17.48%) SOAP
10 18 (17.48%) WireMock
11 15 (14.56%) Node.js
12 14 (13.59%) Kafka
13 13 (12.62%) JSON
14 12 (11.65%) J2EE
15 10 (9.71%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (8.74%) Mustache
17 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (42.72%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.91%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.94%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.94%) Cyberattack
4 2 (1.94%) NHS
4 2 (1.94%) Online Games
5 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.59%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Android
2 2 (1.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (64.08%) Agile
2 54 (52.43%) Microservices
3 44 (42.72%) TDD
4 42 (40.78%) Scrum
5 41 (39.81%) CI/CD
6 36 (34.95%) BDD
7 33 (32.04%) Kanban
8 32 (31.07%) DevOps
9 31 (30.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (24.27%) Software Engineering
11 18 (17.48%) Collaborative Working
11 18 (17.48%) Process Management
11 18 (17.48%) SDLC
11 18 (17.48%) Workflow
12 13 (12.62%) Architectural Design
12 13 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (11.65%) Computer Science
14 11 (10.68%) Containerisation
15 10 (9.71%) Unit Testing
16 9 (8.74%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 43 (41.75%) JavaScript
1 43 (41.75%) Python
2 27 (26.21%) SQL
3 20 (19.42%) Shell Script
4 12 (11.65%) C#
4 12 (11.65%) C++
5 7 (6.80%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.91%) R
7 2 (1.94%) Bash
7 2 (1.94%) Go
7 2 (1.94%) Groovy
7 2 (1.94%) Perl
7 2 (1.94%) Rust
7 2 (1.94%) Scala
8 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.97%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.97%) XAML
Qualifications
1 40 (38.83%) Security Cleared
2 37 (35.92%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.62%) Degree
4 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.91%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.97%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) SLA
2 8 (7.77%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 54 (52.43%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) HDFS
3 2 (1.94%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (49.51%) Kubernetes
2 19 (18.45%) Ansible
3 18 (17.48%) Kibana
4 8 (7.77%) Terraform
5 3 (2.91%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.94%) Kubespray
6 2 (1.94%) Packer
7 1 (0.97%) Argo
Vendors
1 18 (17.48%) Dynatrace
1 18 (17.48%) Splunk
2 11 (10.68%) Oracle
3 7 (6.80%) IBM
3 7 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.94%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.94%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.97%) Adobe
5 1 (0.97%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.97%) Databricks
5 1 (0.97%) Google
5 1 (0.97%) Informatica
5 1 (0.97%) SAP
5 1 (0.97%) WSO2