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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 336 332
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -62
Permanent jobs requiring a Java Engineer 54 41 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.31% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.34% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 38 21 91
10th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £79,375 £92,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £91,250 - £95,000
England median annual salary £83,577 £91,085 £78,142
% change year-on-year -8.24% +16.56% +15.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 17,582 11,899 20,479
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 89.64% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,383 7,812 12,372
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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 12 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 12 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 -17 22 £62,500 +4.17% 2
Thames Valley 0 20 £75,000 +3.45%
Surrey -23 10 £24,000 -73.33%
Buckinghamshire -6 8 £87,500 -
Oxfordshire -3 7 £65,000 -
Berkshire +2 5 £70,000 -3.45%
West Sussex +17 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 12 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 54 (100.00%) Java
2 26 (48.15%) Software Engineering
3 24 (44.44%) Spring
4 21 (38.89%) Mentoring
5 20 (37.04%) Spring Boot
5 20 (37.04%) TDD
6 19 (35.19%) Git
7 17 (31.48%) Microservices
8 16 (29.63%) Kubernetes
8 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
9 14 (25.93%) Agile
9 14 (25.93%) Kafka
10 13 (24.07%) Docker
10 13 (24.07%) SQL
11 12 (22.22%) DevOps
11 12 (22.22%) AWS
12 11 (20.37%) Azure
13 9 (16.67%) SDLC
13 9 (16.67%) OO
13 9 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (16.67%) Customer Service
14 8 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
14 8 (14.81%) Red Hat
14 8 (14.81%) OOD
14 8 (14.81%) Coaching
15 7 (12.96%) Performance Optimisation
15 7 (12.96%) SOLID
15 7 (12.96%) 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 (1.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.85%) Confluence
1 1 (1.85%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) GitHub
3 7 (12.96%) IBM Cloud
4 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (3.70%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.11%) CouchDB
1 6 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (11.11%) MySQL
2 4 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.85%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.85%) GIS
4 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.85%) Impala
4 1 (1.85%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 19 (35.19%) Git
2 7 (12.96%) Maven
2 7 (12.96%) Subversion
3 6 (11.11%) Gradle
4 3 (5.56%) Robot Framework
5 2 (3.70%) JUnit
6 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.85%) Hudson
6 1 (1.85%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.85%) JIRA
6 1 (1.85%) JMeter
6 1 (1.85%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.85%) Selenium
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.11%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Wearables
5 3 (5.56%) Health Technology
6 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (44.44%) Spring
2 20 (37.04%) Spring Boot
3 14 (25.93%) Kafka
4 7 (12.96%) Hibernate
5 5 (9.26%) RESTful
5 5 (9.26%) SOAP
5 5 (9.26%) Web Services
6 4 (7.41%) JSON
6 4 (7.41%) REST
7 3 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (5.56%) React
8 2 (3.70%) Akka
9 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
9 1 (1.85%) Node.js
9 1 (1.85%) PostGIS
9 1 (1.85%) Vert.x
9 1 (1.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Blockchain
1 7 (12.96%) e-Learning
1 7 (12.96%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 6 (11.11%) PropTech
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (48.15%) Software Engineering
2 21 (38.89%) Mentoring
3 20 (37.04%) TDD
4 17 (31.48%) Microservices
5 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (25.93%) Agile
7 12 (22.22%) DevOps
8 9 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (16.67%) Customer Service
8 9 (16.67%) OO
8 9 (16.67%) SDLC
9 8 (14.81%) Coaching
9 8 (14.81%) Full Stack Development
9 8 (14.81%) OOD
10 7 (12.96%) Dependency Injection
10 7 (12.96%) Design Patterns
10 7 (12.96%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (12.96%) SOLID
10 7 (12.96%) Technical Debt
11 6 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (24.07%) SQL
3 7 (12.96%) Python
4 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.41%) Scala
6 3 (5.56%) C#
7 1 (1.85%) Go
7 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 13 (24.07%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Grafana
2 1 (1.85%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) Red Hat
2 7 (12.96%) IBM
3 3 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.85%) Informatica
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Splunk