Java Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Java Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Java Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 248 227
Rank change year-on-year +31 -21 -50
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 27 12 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.20% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.22% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 51
10th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £49,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £48,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £58,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% -16.07% +16.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £80,625 £95,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +28.00% +25.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 the Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,389 5,529 6,578
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 89.92% 96.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 3,220 4,174
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +3.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £81,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the Thames Valley

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the Thames Valley

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the Thames Valley

Java Engineer
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 Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +19 13 £60,000 -17.24%
Buckinghamshire -10 8 £87,500 - 1
Oxfordshire +18 6 £65,000 +33.33%
Java Engineer
South East

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Java 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 Thames Valley region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 18 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 18 (66.67%) Microservices
3 16 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (51.85%) Spring
5 12 (44.44%) SQL
5 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
6 11 (40.74%) Spring Boot
6 11 (40.74%) Agile
6 11 (40.74%) AWS
7 10 (37.04%) Kafka
7 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
7 10 (37.04%) Docker
8 9 (33.33%) TDD
8 9 (33.33%) Hibernate
9 8 (29.63%) Azure
9 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
10 6 (22.22%) PropTech
10 6 (22.22%) Gradle
10 6 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (22.22%) CouchDB
10 6 (22.22%) MySQL
10 6 (22.22%) E-Commerce
10 6 (22.22%) Client/Server
11 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
11 5 (18.52%) Python
11 5 (18.52%) Full Stack Development
12 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
12 4 (14.81%) React
12 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.41%) JBoss
1 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Fuse
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 2 (7.41%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.70%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) CouchDB
1 6 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (22.22%) MySQL
2 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.70%) Impala
3 1 (3.70%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Gradle
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) IntelliJ
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Health Technology
3 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Games
4 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (51.85%) Spring
2 11 (40.74%) Spring Boot
3 10 (37.04%) Kafka
4 9 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 4 (14.81%) React
6 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 2 (7.41%) J2EE
7 2 (7.41%) Java EE
7 2 (7.41%) JPA
7 2 (7.41%) JSON
7 2 (7.41%) REST
7 2 (7.41%) RESTful
7 2 (7.41%) Ruby on Rails
7 2 (7.41%) SOAP
7 2 (7.41%) Web Services
7 2 (7.41%) XML
7 2 (7.41%) XSD
8 1 (3.70%) Node.js
8 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Client/Server
1 6 (22.22%) PropTech
2 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Microservices
1 18 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 16 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (40.74%) Agile
4 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
5 9 (33.33%) TDD
6 6 (22.22%) E-Commerce
7 5 (18.52%) Full Stack Development
8 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (14.81%) Clean Code
9 3 (11.11%) API Development
9 3 (11.11%) Migration
10 2 (7.41%) Coaching
10 2 (7.41%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (7.41%) DevOps
10 2 (7.41%) Front End Development
10 2 (7.41%) Multithreading
10 2 (7.41%) SDLC
10 2 (7.41%) Unit Testing
10 2 (7.41%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 27 (100.00%) Java
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 2 (7.41%) C#
4 2 (7.41%) Ruby
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
1 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (3.70%) Cloudera
1 1 (3.70%) Informatica