Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 702 765
Rank change year-on-year +145 +63 -136
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 376 245 554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 0.89% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 80 92 241
10th Percentile £46,306 £48,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £68,625 £61,232 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - +23.08%
75th Percentile £120,000 £102,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £180,000 £117,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £54,650
% change year-on-year -28.57% +28.09% -0.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

J2EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing J2EE.

Salary trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing J2EE over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London +74 300 £50,000 -28.57% 9
Scotland +71 255 £47,557 -32.06% 3
England +18 102 £105,000 +23.53% 23
London +113 70 £105,000 +10.53% 17
Work from Home -57 34 £47,557 -32.06% 9
South East -10 29 £90,000 +80.00% 4
Wales -27 4 - -
Northern Ireland +16 3 £47,500 - 1
North of England +4 3 £50,000 -1.96% 1
East of England -9 3 £66,250 -22.06%
North West -26 3 £50,000 -37.50%
West Midlands -9 2 £35,000 -
Midlands -19 2 £35,000 -46.15%
South West -35 1 £70,000 +16.67%

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 98 (26.06%) FileNet
2 29 (7.71%) WebLogic
3 15 (3.99%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.60%) Apache Pig
4 6 (1.60%) JBoss
4 6 (1.60%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (1.06%) CMS
5 4 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.53%) Confluence
6 2 (0.53%) GlassFish
6 2 (0.53%) JCAPS
6 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.27%) IIS
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.72%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.53%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.27%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.27%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.27%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 156 (41.49%) AWS
2 124 (32.98%) Amazon S3
3 49 (13.03%) GitHub
4 40 (10.64%) Serverless
5 32 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (7.98%) OpenShift
7 29 (7.71%) Azure
8 28 (7.45%) Amazon SQS
9 26 (6.91%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (6.91%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (3.72%) Power Platform
10 14 (3.72%) PowerApps
11 7 (1.86%) PaaS
12 6 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (1.60%) GCP
13 5 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (1.33%) IaaS
13 5 (1.33%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.80%) SSH
2 2 (0.53%) FTP
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.27%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (43.62%) NoSQL
2 146 (38.83%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (26.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 57 (15.16%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.91%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (6.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (6.12%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.60%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.60%) Big Data
9 6 (1.60%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.60%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.33%) Metadata
10 5 (1.33%) Power BI
10 5 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.53%) MySQL
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database 11g
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle OLAP
12 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 195 (51.86%) JUnit
2 105 (27.93%) Jasmine
3 84 (22.34%) Jenkins
4 60 (15.96%) Cypress.io
4 60 (15.96%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (15.96%) Protractor
4 60 (15.96%) Selenium
4 60 (15.96%) WebDriver
5 46 (12.23%) Mockito
6 29 (7.71%) Artifactory
7 14 (3.72%) Git
8 6 (1.60%) Checkstyle
8 6 (1.60%) JIRA
8 6 (1.60%) SonarQube
9 4 (1.06%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
10 3 (0.80%) Maven
11 2 (0.53%) Ant
11 2 (0.53%) PowerBuilder
11 2 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 290 (77.13%) Finance
2 242 (64.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 242 (64.36%) Law
3 109 (28.99%) Legal
4 72 (19.15%) Banking
5 64 (17.02%) Marketing
6 61 (16.22%) Investment Banking
7 48 (12.77%) Social Skills
8 39 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (7.18%) Front Office
10 22 (5.85%) Police
11 10 (2.66%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.80%) Publishing
13 2 (0.53%) Automotive
13 2 (0.53%) Back Office
13 2 (0.53%) Retail
13 2 (0.53%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.27%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 253 (67.29%) Software Engineer
2 177 (47.07%) Java Engineer
3 175 (46.54%) Java Software Engineer
4 118 (31.38%) Full Stack Engineer
5 117 (31.12%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 77 (20.48%) Lead
7 67 (17.82%) Lead Software Engineer
8 60 (15.96%) Senior
9 37 (9.84%) Developer
10 35 (9.31%) Lead Java Engineer
11 27 (7.18%) Applications Support
12 26 (6.91%) Analyst
12 26 (6.91%) Applications Support Analyst
12 26 (6.91%) AWS DevOps
12 26 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 26 (6.91%) Senior Analyst
12 26 (6.91%) Senior Applications Support
12 26 (6.91%) Senior Support Analyst
12 26 (6.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 26 (6.91%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (82.98%) Spring
2 215 (57.18%) AngularJS
3 206 (54.79%) React
4 189 (50.27%) Hibernate
5 174 (46.28%) JMS
6 142 (37.77%) CSS
6 142 (37.77%) HTML
6 142 (37.77%) JSON
7 139 (36.97%) Kafka
7 139 (36.97%) Node.js
8 137 (36.44%) jQuery
9 132 (35.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 99 (26.33%) Spring Integration
11 98 (26.06%) GraphQL
12 60 (15.96%) Jest
12 60 (15.96%) Web Services
13 53 (14.10%) XML
14 38 (10.11%) JavaBeans
15 31 (8.24%) Spring Boot
16 30 (7.98%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 105 (27.93%) Algorithms
2 100 (26.60%) Cloud Native
3 79 (21.01%) Data Structures
4 42 (11.17%) Onboarding
5 26 (6.91%) Tandem
6 14 (3.72%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.39%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.86%) Client/Server
9 7 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (1.06%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.80%) Media Streaming
13 2 (0.53%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.53%) FMCG
13 2 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.78%) Unix
2 11 (2.93%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Solaris
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (80.32%) Agile
2 283 (75.27%) Software Engineering
3 282 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 258 (68.62%) SDLC
5 225 (59.84%) Artificial Intelligence
6 220 (58.51%) Machine Learning
7 197 (52.39%) Operational Stability
8 153 (40.69%) Community of Practice
9 139 (36.97%) Full Stack Development
10 137 (36.44%) Microservices
11 120 (31.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 119 (31.65%) Visualisation
13 115 (30.59%) Decision-Making
14 110 (29.26%) Risk Management
15 100 (26.60%) AOP
16 98 (26.06%) Document Management
17 82 (21.81%) Multithreading
18 79 (21.01%) TDD
19 76 (20.21%) BDD
20 61 (16.22%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 374 (99.47%) Java
2 224 (59.57%) SQL
3 152 (40.43%) JavaScript
4 133 (35.37%) TypeScript
5 36 (9.57%) Python
6 28 (7.45%) Shell Script
7 26 (6.91%) Go
8 10 (2.66%) C#
8 10 (2.66%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.80%) C
9 3 (0.80%) Perl
10 2 (0.53%) Ruby
10 2 (0.53%) XPath
11 1 (0.27%) ABAP
11 1 (0.27%) C++
11 1 (0.27%) Groovy
11 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.27%) ProC
11 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (10.11%) Degree
1 38 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (7.71%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.27%) CISSP
5 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.91%) SLA
2 9 (2.39%) QA
3 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (9.57%) Docker
2 6 (1.60%) HDFS
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.27%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.27%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 141 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (7.18%) Terraform
4 26 (6.91%) OpenSSO
5 7 (1.86%) Ansible
6 2 (0.53%) Control-M
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 186 (49.47%) Oracle
2 26 (6.91%) Remedy
3 18 (4.79%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.99%) SAP
5 6 (1.60%) WSO2
6 5 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.33%) Google
6 5 (1.33%) Okta
6 5 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.06%) Splunk
8 1 (0.27%) BT
8 1 (0.27%) Cisco
8 1 (0.27%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.27%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.27%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.27%) Qualys
8 1 (0.27%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.27%) TSYS
8 1 (0.27%) webMethods