Java Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 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
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 179 195
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 -92
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 58 79 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.82% 1.39% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.55% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 36 54 85
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £68,125 £52,500 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £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 6,726 5,107 7,062
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 89.61% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 4,588 3,076 4,164
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,438 £39,000 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £87,500 £81,250
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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +16 52 £81,250 +16.07% 2
Buckinghamshire -31 4 £81,250 +10.17% 1
Oxfordshire -6 2 £92,500 +60.17% 1
Java Developer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 3 June 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 58 (100.00%) Java
2 46 (79.31%) AWS
3 45 (77.59%) Microservices
4 42 (72.41%) Agile
5 40 (68.97%) TDD
6 38 (65.52%) Docker
7 36 (62.07%) Kubernetes
8 35 (60.34%) Spring Boot
9 34 (58.62%) DevOps
9 34 (58.62%) Spring
9 34 (58.62%) PostgreSQL
10 32 (55.17%) Jenkins
11 31 (53.45%) REST
11 31 (53.45%) Serverless
11 31 (53.45%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (53.45%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (51.72%) Scrum
12 30 (51.72%) Kanban
12 30 (51.72%) BDD
13 29 (50.00%) JavaScript
14 28 (48.28%) Apache Camel
15 27 (46.55%) Ansible
15 27 (46.55%) Web Services
15 27 (46.55%) Git
16 26 (44.83%) Relational Database
16 26 (44.83%) Azure
16 26 (44.83%) Distributed Systems
17 25 (43.10%) Node.js
17 25 (43.10%) AngularJS
18 23 (39.66%) WSO2

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 23 (39.66%) OpenStack
2 9 (15.52%) JBoss
2 9 (15.52%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 46 (79.31%) AWS
2 31 (53.45%) Amazon ECS
2 31 (53.45%) Amazon EKS
2 31 (53.45%) Serverless
3 26 (44.83%) Azure
4 4 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.72%) AWS IoT
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (58.62%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (44.83%) Relational Database
3 14 (24.14%) NoSQL
4 8 (13.79%) MySQL
5 4 (6.90%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.45%) CouchDB
6 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (55.17%) Jenkins
2 27 (46.55%) Git
3 13 (22.41%) JUnit
4 6 (10.34%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.90%) JMeter
5 4 (6.90%) Mockito
6 2 (3.45%) Gradle
General
1 19 (32.76%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.62%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.17%) Banking
4 2 (3.45%) Finance
4 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (60.34%) Spring Boot
2 34 (58.62%) Spring
3 31 (53.45%) REST
4 28 (48.28%) Apache Camel
5 27 (46.55%) Web Services
6 25 (43.10%) AngularJS
6 25 (43.10%) Node.js
7 23 (39.66%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (22.41%) JSON
8 13 (22.41%) XML
9 11 (18.97%) Kafka
10 7 (12.07%) Hibernate
10 7 (12.07%) RESTful
11 6 (10.34%) J2EE
11 6 (10.34%) React Native
11 6 (10.34%) SOAP
12 4 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (6.90%) HTML
12 4 (6.90%) jQuery
12 4 (6.90%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (44.83%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.90%) NHS
3 2 (3.45%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.45%) PropTech
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (77.59%) Microservices
2 42 (72.41%) Agile
3 40 (68.97%) TDD
4 34 (58.62%) DevOps
5 30 (51.72%) BDD
5 30 (51.72%) Kanban
5 30 (51.72%) Scrum
6 23 (39.66%) Full Stack Development
7 17 (29.31%) SDLC
8 14 (24.14%) BPEL
9 13 (22.41%) Process Management
9 13 (22.41%) Workflow
10 11 (18.97%) CI/CD
11 6 (10.34%) Architectural Design
11 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
11 6 (10.34%) Machine Learning
11 6 (10.34%) Pair Programming
11 6 (10.34%) Product Roadmap
11 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
12 4 (6.90%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Java
2 29 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 21 (36.21%) Python
4 17 (29.31%) SQL
5 9 (15.52%) Shell Script
6 8 (13.79%) Kotlin
7 6 (10.34%) Go
8 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) AWS Certification
3 7 (12.07%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 38 (65.52%) Docker
2 14 (24.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (62.07%) Kubernetes
2 27 (46.55%) Ansible
3 16 (27.59%) Terraform
4 4 (6.90%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (39.66%) WSO2
2 4 (6.90%) Dynatrace
2 4 (6.90%) Splunk
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle