Java Engineer Jobs in the South East

Java Engineer
England > South East

The median Java Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 373 322
Rank change year-on-year +24 -51 -67
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 56 36 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.24% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.26% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 35 22 98
10th Percentile £31,400 £47,500 £45,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £92,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 - £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -22.22% +24.14% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,515 13,804 18,906
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 90.69% 96.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,273 8,655 12,709
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,875 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Java Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the South East

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the South East

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the South East

Java Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Thames Valley +29 29 £70,000 +19.15% 2
Berkshire +28 14 £60,000 -17.24%
Surrey +6 13 £42,000 -53.33% 1
Hampshire +1 13 £70,000 +40.00% 3
Buckinghamshire -5 8 £87,500 - 2
Oxfordshire +5 7 £62,500 +28.21%
Kent - 1 £112,500 -
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Java Engineer 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 South East region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 38 (67.86%) Software Engineering
3 25 (44.64%) Spring
4 24 (42.86%) Mentoring
5 21 (37.50%) Microservices
6 20 (35.71%) TDD
7 18 (32.14%) AWS
8 17 (30.36%) Git
9 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (26.79%) Kafka
10 15 (26.79%) DevOps
10 15 (26.79%) Agile
11 14 (25.00%) Python
11 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
12 13 (23.21%) Spring Boot
12 13 (23.21%) Linux
13 12 (21.43%) SQL
13 12 (21.43%) Azure
13 12 (21.43%) Docker
14 10 (17.86%) C#
15 9 (16.07%) Hibernate
15 9 (16.07%) Gradle
15 9 (16.07%) Coaching
15 9 (16.07%) SDLC
15 9 (16.07%) Actionable Insight
15 9 (16.07%) Design Patterns
15 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
16 8 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
16 8 (14.29%) Customer Service

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (3.57%) JBoss
1 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (32.14%) AWS
2 12 (21.43%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) IBM Cloud
4 3 (5.36%) GCP
4 3 (5.36%) Serverless
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.79%) AWS IoT
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) CouchDB
1 6 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (10.71%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.79%) Impala
3 1 (1.79%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Git
2 9 (16.07%) Gradle
3 7 (12.50%) Maven
4 5 (8.93%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.57%) IntelliJ
General
1 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Finance
4 3 (5.36%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.36%) Health Technology
5 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Games
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (44.64%) Spring
2 15 (26.79%) Kafka
3 13 (23.21%) Spring Boot
4 9 (16.07%) Hibernate
5 6 (10.71%) REST
6 4 (7.14%) React
7 3 (5.36%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.36%) HTML
7 3 (5.36%) HTML5
7 3 (5.36%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.57%) J2EE
8 2 (3.57%) Java EE
8 2 (3.57%) JPA
8 2 (3.57%) JSON
8 2 (3.57%) RESTful
8 2 (3.57%) Ruby on Rails
8 2 (3.57%) SOAP
8 2 (3.57%) Web Services
8 2 (3.57%) XML
8 2 (3.57%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Blockchain
1 7 (12.50%) e-Learning
1 7 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (10.71%) Client/Server
2 6 (10.71%) PropTech
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.79%) IoT
3 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.21%) Linux
2 3 (5.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (67.86%) Software Engineering
2 24 (42.86%) Mentoring
3 21 (37.50%) Microservices
4 20 (35.71%) TDD
5 16 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (26.79%) Agile
6 15 (26.79%) DevOps
7 9 (16.07%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (16.07%) Coaching
7 9 (16.07%) Design Patterns
7 9 (16.07%) SDLC
8 8 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
8 8 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 8 (14.29%) OO
8 8 (14.29%) OOD
9 7 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
9 7 (12.50%) Full Stack Development
9 7 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (12.50%) SOLID
10 6 (10.71%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) Java
2 14 (25.00%) Python
3 12 (21.43%) SQL
4 10 (17.86%) C#
5 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.36%) C++
7 2 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 2 (3.57%) Ruby
8 1 (1.79%) Scala
8 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 12 (21.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) IBM
1 7 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 3 (5.36%) Google
3 1 (1.79%) Cloudera
3 1 (1.79%) Informatica