Java Developer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java Developer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Developer salary in the Thames Valley is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 172 197
Rank change year-on-year -24 +25 -87
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Developer 55 76 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.74% 1.36% 1.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.53% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 33 51 83
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,875 £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

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 7,014 4,983 7,202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.46% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,713 3,046 4,156
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £41,132
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 £70,000
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 13 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 13 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 +1 49 £80,000 +14.29% 4
Buckinghamshire -17 4 £81,250 +10.17% 1
Oxfordshire -17 2 £92,500 +59.48% 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 13 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 55 (100.00%) Java
2 42 (76.36%) AWS
3 41 (74.55%) Microservices
4 38 (69.09%) Agile
5 37 (67.27%) TDD
6 36 (65.45%) Docker
7 34 (61.82%) Kubernetes
8 32 (58.18%) Spring Boot
9 31 (56.36%) DevOps
9 31 (56.36%) PostgreSQL
10 30 (54.55%) Spring
11 29 (52.73%) Jenkins
11 29 (52.73%) Amazon EKS
11 29 (52.73%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (50.91%) Serverless
12 28 (50.91%) REST
12 28 (50.91%) Kanban
12 28 (50.91%) BDD
12 28 (50.91%) Scrum
13 26 (47.27%) JavaScript
13 26 (47.27%) Apache Camel
14 25 (45.45%) Relational Database
14 25 (45.45%) Web Services
15 24 (43.64%) Git
15 24 (43.64%) Ansible
15 24 (43.64%) Distributed Systems
16 23 (41.82%) Azure
17 22 (40.00%) Node.js
17 22 (40.00%) AngularJS
18 21 (38.18%) 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 21 (38.18%) OpenStack
2 9 (16.36%) JBoss
2 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 42 (76.36%) AWS
2 29 (52.73%) Amazon ECS
2 29 (52.73%) Amazon EKS
3 28 (50.91%) Serverless
4 23 (41.82%) Azure
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (56.36%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (45.45%) Relational Database
3 11 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (14.55%) MySQL
5 4 (7.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.64%) CouchDB
6 2 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 29 (52.73%) Jenkins
2 24 (43.64%) Git
3 13 (23.64%) JUnit
4 6 (10.91%) Bitbucket
5 4 (7.27%) JMeter
5 4 (7.27%) Mockito
6 2 (3.64%) Gradle
General
1 18 (32.73%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Banking
4 2 (3.64%) Finance
4 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (58.18%) Spring Boot
2 30 (54.55%) Spring
3 28 (50.91%) REST
4 26 (47.27%) Apache Camel
5 25 (45.45%) Web Services
6 22 (40.00%) AngularJS
6 22 (40.00%) Node.js
7 21 (38.18%) Elastic Stack
8 11 (20.00%) JSON
8 11 (20.00%) Kafka
8 11 (20.00%) XML
9 7 (12.73%) Hibernate
9 7 (12.73%) RESTful
10 6 (10.91%) J2EE
10 6 (10.91%) React Native
10 6 (10.91%) SOAP
11 4 (7.27%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (7.27%) HTML
11 4 (7.27%) jQuery
11 4 (7.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (43.64%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.27%) NHS
3 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.64%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (74.55%) Microservices
2 38 (69.09%) Agile
3 37 (67.27%) TDD
4 31 (56.36%) DevOps
5 28 (50.91%) BDD
5 28 (50.91%) Kanban
5 28 (50.91%) Scrum
6 21 (38.18%) Full Stack Development
7 16 (29.09%) SDLC
8 12 (21.82%) BPEL
8 12 (21.82%) Process Management
8 12 (21.82%) Workflow
9 10 (18.18%) CI/CD
10 6 (10.91%) Architectural Design
10 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
10 6 (10.91%) Machine Learning
10 6 (10.91%) Pair Programming
10 6 (10.91%) Product Roadmap
10 6 (10.91%) Roadmaps
11 4 (7.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (47.27%) JavaScript
3 18 (32.73%) Python
4 15 (27.27%) SQL
5 8 (14.55%) Kotlin
5 8 (14.55%) Shell Script
6 6 (10.91%) Go
7 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (34.55%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.09%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 36 (65.45%) Docker
2 12 (21.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (61.82%) Kubernetes
2 24 (43.64%) Ansible
3 14 (25.45%) Terraform
4 4 (7.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 21 (38.18%) WSO2
2 4 (7.27%) Dynatrace
2 4 (7.27%) Splunk
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle