Java EE Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Java EE skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - 227
Rank change year-on-year - - +25
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 4 0 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.078% - 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.92% - 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £81,625 - -
25th Percentile £82,188 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 - -
75th Percentile £84,688 - -
90th Percentile £84,875 - -
South East median annual salary £83,750 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 437 479 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.56% 17.44% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 335 338 979
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Java EE job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Java EE
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java EE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Java EE

Java EE
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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
Berkshire - 4 £83,750 - 3
Java EE
South East

Java EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (100.00%) JMS
1 4 (100.00%) JPA
1 4 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (100.00%) React
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) BDD
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 4 (100.00%) Kanban
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) Kibana
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle