Java Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Java
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 80 48
Rank change year-on-year -20 -32 -4
Permanent jobs citing Java 97 140 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.43% 3.71% 4.16%
As % of the Programming Languages category 9.23% 19.15% 15.91%
Number of salaries quoted 70 59 109
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,650 £41,850
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £66,788
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -2.68% -4.59%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -11.54%

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 1,051 731 1,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.45% 19.38% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 807 427 975
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,050 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,750 £43,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.98%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Java job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Java
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 2026. 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 -2 68 £85,000 +30.77% 19
Buckinghamshire -17 16 £60,000 +6.67% 6
Oxfordshire -18 13 £71,250 +1.79% 2
Java
South East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.06%) ArcGIS
1 2 (2.06%) Confluence
1 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.03%) JBoss
2 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 45 (46.39%) AWS
2 24 (24.74%) Azure
3 22 (22.68%) Serverless
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon EKS
5 15 (15.46%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (12.37%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (9.28%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (8.25%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.22%) GCP
10 4 (4.12%) GitHub
10 4 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.12%) SaaS
11 3 (3.09%) Google Workspace
11 3 (3.09%) Power Automate
11 3 (3.09%) PowerApps
12 2 (2.06%) Amazon ECR
12 2 (2.06%) Apigee
12 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
13 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.59%) Relational Database
2 16 (16.49%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.22%) MySQL
4 5 (5.15%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.09%) GIS
6 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.06%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.06%) QGIS
6 2 (2.06%) Redis
6 2 (2.06%) Spotfire
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (24.74%) Jenkins
2 16 (16.49%) Git
3 14 (14.43%) GitLab
4 9 (9.28%) JIRA
4 9 (9.28%) JUnit
5 7 (7.22%) JMeter
5 7 (7.22%) Mockito
5 7 (7.22%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.12%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.09%) Eclipse
8 3 (3.09%) Eclipse RCP
9 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.06%) IntelliJ
9 2 (2.06%) Maven
9 2 (2.06%) Mocha
9 2 (2.06%) Selenium
10 1 (1.03%) Storybook
General
1 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.53%) Health Technology
4 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.49%) Finance
5 8 (8.25%) Digital Health
6 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (40.21%) Developer
2 37 (38.14%) Java Developer
3 25 (25.77%) Java Engineer
4 21 (21.65%) Senior
5 16 (16.49%) Software Engineer
6 11 (11.34%) Backend Developer
7 10 (10.31%) Senior Java Engineer
8 8 (8.25%) Architect
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Integration Architect
10 6 (6.19%) Java Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Python Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared Java Developer
11 5 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (5.15%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (30.93%) REST
2 23 (23.71%) Spring
3 21 (21.65%) JSON
3 21 (21.65%) Spring Boot
4 16 (16.49%) XML
5 13 (13.40%) HTML
5 13 (13.40%) RabbitMQ
6 12 (12.37%) React
7 11 (11.34%) SOAP
7 11 (11.34%) Web Services
8 10 (10.31%) AngularJS
8 10 (10.31%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (10.31%) Middleware
8 10 (10.31%) RESTful
9 9 (9.28%) Hibernate
10 8 (8.25%) Apache Camel
10 8 (8.25%) Kafka
11 7 (7.22%) ActiveMQ
11 7 (7.22%) JPA
11 7 (7.22%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.68%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (14.43%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.22%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.15%) Life Science
4 5 (5.15%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (4.12%) NHS
5 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (3.09%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.06%) AS400
7 2 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.06%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.14%) Agile
2 32 (32.99%) CI/CD
2 32 (32.99%) Microservices
3 31 (31.96%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (27.84%) Software Engineering
5 26 (26.80%) DevOps
6 19 (19.59%) AI
7 18 (18.56%) SDLC
7 18 (18.56%) Test Automation
8 17 (17.53%) TDD
9 14 (14.43%) Computer Science
9 14 (14.43%) Scrum
10 13 (13.40%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.37%) BDD
12 11 (11.34%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.34%) Open Source
13 10 (10.31%) Data Engineering
13 10 (10.31%) Data Modelling
14 9 (9.28%) Kanban
14 9 (9.28%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.21%) Python
2 26 (26.80%) JavaScript
3 24 (24.74%) SQL
4 17 (17.53%) TypeScript
5 10 (10.31%) C++
6 9 (9.28%) Shell Script
7 8 (8.25%) C#
8 7 (7.22%) Groovy
9 4 (4.12%) PL/SQL
10 3 (3.09%) ABAP
10 3 (3.09%) Perl
10 3 (3.09%) VBA
11 2 (2.06%) Apex Code
11 2 (2.06%) Bash
11 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.06%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 23 (23.71%) SC Cleared
3 16 (16.49%) Degree
4 12 (12.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.03%) HNC
6 1 (1.03%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (28.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (30.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.34%) Kibana
3 10 (10.31%) Ansible
4 9 (9.28%) Terraform
5 4 (4.12%) Packer
6 2 (2.06%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 8 (8.25%) AppDynamics
1 8 (8.25%) IBM
2 7 (7.22%) Dynatrace
2 7 (7.22%) Oracle
2 7 (7.22%) Splunk
3 6 (6.19%) SAP
4 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.09%) Google
6 2 (2.06%) Sage
6 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.03%) Atlassian