Jakarta EE Job Trends in Reading

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 59 95
Rank change year-on-year -12 +36 +3
Permanent jobs citing Jakarta EE 7 9 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.52% 1.65% 0.75%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.67% 7.83% 5.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £76,250 - -
25th Percentile £78,125 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.84%
75th Percentile £84,375 - -
90th Percentile £84,750 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £82,500 - £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -18.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

Jakarta 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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 150 115 235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.05% 21.10% 14.75%
Number of salaries quoted 106 66 142
10th Percentile £46,250 £31,750 £39,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £49,063 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £65,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +10.17% -15.71%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +3.85% -5.45%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in Reading

Jakarta EE
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Jakarta EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) JBoss
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Serverless
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
1 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Backend Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) Spring
2 5 (71.43%) AngularJS
2 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) JMS
3 4 (57.14%) JPA
3 4 (57.14%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (57.14%) React
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
5 2 (28.57%) Middleware
5 2 (28.57%) RESTful
5 2 (28.57%) Spring MVC
6 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
6 1 (14.29%) Mustache
6 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Kanban
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) BDD
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (57.14%) Design Patterns
4 4 (57.14%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 3 (42.86%) Clean Code
6 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
6 2 (28.57%) MVC
7 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) PL/SQL
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Kibana
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) AppDynamics
2 4 (57.14%) IBM