Java Engineer Jobs in the South East

Java Engineer
England > South East

The median Java Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 349 330
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 58 43 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.31% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.35% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 40 24 97
10th Percentile £42,000 £46,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £50,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £78,125 £92,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,250 - £95,000
England median annual salary £76,250 £90,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.28% +20.00% +14.07%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 16,769 12,374 19,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.99% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,915 7,936 12,370
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Java Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Java Engineer in the South East

Java Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Java Engineer in the South East

Java Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Java Engineer in the South East

Java Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Hampshire -13 22 £62,500 +4.17% 4
Thames Valley +4 21 £75,000 +27.66%
Surrey -15 13 £42,000 -53.33% 1
Buckinghamshire -12 8 £87,500 -
Oxfordshire +7 7 £65,000 +30.00%
Berkshire +13 6 £70,000 -3.45%
West Sussex +24 1 £70,000 +33.33% 2
Kent - 1 £112,500 -
Java Engineer
England

Java Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 South East region featuring Java Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Java
2 30 (51.72%) Software Engineering
3 27 (46.55%) Spring
4 21 (36.21%) TDD
4 21 (36.21%) Git
4 21 (36.21%) Mentoring
5 20 (34.48%) Spring Boot
6 17 (29.31%) Microservices
7 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
7 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
8 14 (24.14%) Kafka
8 14 (24.14%) Agile
9 13 (22.41%) SQL
9 13 (22.41%) AWS
9 13 (22.41%) DevOps
9 13 (22.41%) Docker
10 12 (20.69%) Azure
11 9 (15.52%) SDLC
11 9 (15.52%) OO
11 9 (15.52%) Python
11 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (15.52%) Customer Service
12 8 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (13.79%) Full Stack Development
12 8 (13.79%) Linux
12 8 (13.79%) Red Hat
12 8 (13.79%) OOD
12 8 (13.79%) Coaching
13 7 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud

Java Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) AWS
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) GitHub
3 7 (12.07%) IBM Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.45%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) CouchDB
1 6 (10.34%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (10.34%) MySQL
2 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.72%) GIS
4 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.72%) Impala
4 1 (1.72%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 21 (36.21%) Git
2 7 (12.07%) Maven
2 7 (12.07%) Subversion
3 6 (10.34%) Gradle
4 5 (8.62%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
6 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.72%) Hudson
6 1 (1.72%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.72%) JIRA
6 1 (1.72%) JMeter
6 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Wearables
5 3 (5.17%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (46.55%) Spring
2 20 (34.48%) Spring Boot
3 14 (24.14%) Kafka
4 7 (12.07%) Hibernate
5 5 (8.62%) RESTful
5 5 (8.62%) SOAP
5 5 (8.62%) Web Services
6 4 (6.90%) JSON
6 4 (6.90%) REST
7 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.17%) React
8 2 (3.45%) Akka
9 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.72%) Node.js
9 1 (1.72%) PostGIS
9 1 (1.72%) Vert.x
9 1 (1.72%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Blockchain
1 7 (12.07%) e-Learning
1 7 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (10.34%) Client/Server
2 6 (10.34%) PropTech
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) Software Engineering
2 21 (36.21%) Mentoring
2 21 (36.21%) TDD
3 17 (29.31%) Microservices
4 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (24.14%) Agile
6 13 (22.41%) DevOps
7 9 (15.52%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (15.52%) Customer Service
7 9 (15.52%) OO
7 9 (15.52%) SDLC
8 8 (13.79%) Coaching
8 8 (13.79%) Full Stack Development
8 8 (13.79%) OOD
9 7 (12.07%) Dependency Injection
9 7 (12.07%) Design Patterns
9 7 (12.07%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (12.07%) SOLID
9 7 (12.07%) Technical Debt
10 6 (10.34%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (22.41%) SQL
3 9 (15.52%) Python
4 5 (8.62%) C#
4 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.90%) Scala
6 1 (1.72%) Go
6 1 (1.72%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Grafana
2 1 (1.72%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.07%) IBM
3 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.72%) Informatica
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Splunk