Java Software Engineer Jobs in Oxfordshire

Java Software Engineer
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Oxfordshire 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 62 108 125
Rank change year-on-year +46 +17 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 5 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 0.77% 0.12% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.12% 0.074%
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% -47.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,125 £52,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £69,250 -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +2.94% +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 557 1,614 1,343
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.69% 95.84% 84.95%
Number of salaries quoted 361 1,306 816
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,293 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -7.41% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £81,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Oxfordshire

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in Oxfordshire

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in Oxfordshire

Java Software Engineer
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Software Engineer within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
Oxford +28 5 £70,000 +7.69%
Java Software Engineer
South East

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

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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