Java EE Job Trends in Reading

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading 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 68 - 98
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 6 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.55% - 0.94%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.92% - 4.86%
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 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £82,500 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 122 123 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.11% 23.79% 19.37%
Number of salaries quoted 84 73 193
10th Percentile £46,250 £32,400 £39,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £111,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Java EE job vacancy trend in Reading

Java EE
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Java EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Java EE

Java 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:

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