Java Software Engineer Jobs in Oxford

Java Software Engineer
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Oxford is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 62 51
Rank change year-on-year +28 -11 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 5 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 2.07% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £58,750 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £60,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £52,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £69,250 -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +30.00% -47.37%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxford. 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 Oxford with a recognized job title 221 626 404
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 95.43% 85.59%
Number of salaries quoted 130 471 289
10th Percentile £39,750 £30,000 £26,700
25th Percentile £50,000 £38,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £85,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £46,293 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.81% -7.41% -4.76%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Oxford

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Software Engineer in Oxford.

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in Oxford

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in Oxford over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in Oxford

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Java Software 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 Oxford region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (80.00%) Garbage Collection
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (20.00%) Webhook
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) RESTful
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3

Java Software Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (20.00%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Garbage Collection
2 4 (80.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) API Design
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Argo
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform