Java EE Job Trends in Berkshire

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 - 144
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 6 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.23% - 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.67% - 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £76,250 - -
25th Percentile £78,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - -
75th Percentile £84,375 - -
90th Percentile £84,750 - -
South East median annual salary £82,500 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +32.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

Java EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 225 251 605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.75% 15.70% 21.12%
Number of salaries quoted 171 173 492
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £39,380
25th Percentile £59,375 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Java EE job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Java EE
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Java EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Java EE

Java EE
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Reading - 6 £82,500 - 1
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Serverless
2 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) REST
1 6 (100.00%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (66.67%) JMS
2 4 (66.67%) JPA
2 4 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (66.67%) React
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) Middleware
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) BDD
2 5 (83.33%) Kanban
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) TDD
3 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (33.33%) MVC
6 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) PL/SQL
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Kibana
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 4 (66.67%) IBM