Java Software Engineer Jobs in Reading

Java Software Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Java Software Engineer salary in Reading is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 129 -
Rank change year-on-year +7 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Software Engineer 6 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.35% 0.25% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.26% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £52,250 - -
25th Percentile £55,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - -
75th Percentile £75,625 - -
90th Percentile £76,750 - -
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +18.52% +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,624 1,510 1,691
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.75% 93.61% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,040 807 1,011
10th Percentile £29,979 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,863
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,250
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.44% +4.09%

Java Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Software Engineer in Reading

Java Software Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Java Software Engineer in Reading

Java Software Engineer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Software Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Software Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Reading region featuring Java Software Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Microservices
4 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
5 2 (33.33%) Ruby
5 2 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (33.33%) Java EE
5 2 (33.33%) JSON
5 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (33.33%) JPA
5 2 (33.33%) Git
5 2 (33.33%) UX Design
5 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 2 (33.33%) REST
5 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
5 2 (33.33%) J2EE
5 2 (33.33%) SOAP
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (33.33%) XML
5 2 (33.33%) XSD
5 2 (33.33%) JBoss

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) JBoss
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) Java EE
2 2 (33.33%) JPA
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) XSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (50.00%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Coaching
5 2 (33.33%) Code Quality
5 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Data Design
5 2 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (33.33%) User Experience
5 2 (33.33%) UX Design
6 1 (16.67%) API Development
6 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes