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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 709 743
Rank change year-on-year +168 +34 -117
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 382 246 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.80% 0.83% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 82 107 246
10th Percentile £46,425 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £69,000 £61,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,294 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.54% +7.06% +15.38%
75th Percentile £120,000 £101,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £153,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +33.33% -8.70%

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 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +124 302 £50,000 -28.57% 22
Scotland +87 259 £47,557 -33.35% 2
England +50 106 £105,000 +23.53% 38
London +121 74 £105,000 +10.53% 29
Work from Home -42 33 £47,557 -34.59% 15
South East +10 29 £90,000 +56.52% 13
Wales -20 4 - -
North of England +14 3 £50,000 -9.09% 3
East of England +3 3 £66,250 -22.06%
North West -11 3 £50,000 -37.50% 1
West Midlands +8 2 £35,000 -56.25%
Midlands -17 2 £35,000 -46.15%
Northern Ireland +22 1 - - 4
South West -21 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 (25.65%) FileNet
2 29 (7.59%) WebLogic
3 16 (4.19%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.83%) Apache Pig
5 6 (1.57%) JBoss
5 6 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 6 (1.57%) Red Hat Fuse
6 5 (1.31%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.52%) CMS
7 2 (0.52%) Confluence
7 2 (0.52%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.52%) IIS
7 2 (0.52%) JCAPS
7 2 (0.52%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.52%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.26%) Apache
8 1 (0.26%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.26%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (4.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.66%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.52%) Adaptiv
3 2 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 159 (41.62%) AWS
2 126 (32.98%) Amazon S3
3 49 (12.83%) GitHub
4 43 (11.26%) Serverless
5 34 (8.90%) Amazon ECS
6 32 (8.38%) OpenShift
7 30 (7.85%) Amazon SQS
8 28 (7.33%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 28 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
8 28 (7.33%) Azure
9 14 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.66%) Power Platform
9 14 (3.66%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.83%) PaaS
11 6 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.57%) GCP
12 5 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.79%) SSH
2 2 (0.52%) FTP
3 1 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.26%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.26%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (43.19%) NoSQL
2 149 (39.01%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (25.92%) Apache Cassandra
4 60 (15.71%) Relational Database
5 28 (7.33%) Amazon RDS
5 28 (7.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 26 (6.81%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.83%) Apache Hive
8 7 (1.83%) Big Data
8 7 (1.83%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.83%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.57%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.31%) Metadata
10 5 (1.31%) Power BI
10 5 (1.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.52%) MySQL
11 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle Database 11g
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 196 (51.31%) JUnit
2 105 (27.49%) Jasmine
3 86 (22.51%) Jenkins
4 60 (15.71%) Cypress.io
4 60 (15.71%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (15.71%) Protractor
4 60 (15.71%) Selenium
4 60 (15.71%) WebDriver
5 46 (12.04%) Mockito
6 31 (8.12%) Artifactory
7 14 (3.66%) Git
8 7 (1.83%) Checkstyle
8 7 (1.83%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.57%) JIRA
10 4 (1.05%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.79%) Maven
12 2 (0.52%) Ant
12 2 (0.52%) PowerBuilder
12 2 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 296 (77.49%) Finance
2 246 (64.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 246 (64.40%) Law
3 110 (28.80%) Legal
4 72 (18.85%) Banking
5 67 (17.54%) Marketing
6 61 (15.97%) Investment Banking
7 47 (12.30%) Social Skills
8 40 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
9 29 (7.59%) Front Office
10 22 (5.76%) Police
11 10 (2.62%) Public Sector
12 3 (0.79%) Publishing
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Back Office
13 2 (0.52%) Retail
13 2 (0.52%) Wholesale Banking
14 1 (0.26%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 257 (67.28%) Software Engineer
2 181 (47.38%) Java Engineer
3 179 (46.86%) Java Software Engineer
4 119 (31.15%) Full Stack Engineer
5 118 (30.89%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 80 (20.94%) Lead
7 69 (18.06%) Lead Software Engineer
8 58 (15.18%) Senior
9 37 (9.69%) Developer
9 37 (9.69%) Lead Java Engineer
10 28 (7.33%) Applications Support
10 28 (7.33%) AWS DevOps
10 28 (7.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 28 (7.33%) AWS Engineer
10 28 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
10 28 (7.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 28 (7.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 26 (6.81%) Senior Applications Support
11 26 (6.81%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
11 26 (6.81%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (82.98%) Spring
2 216 (56.54%) AngularJS
3 209 (54.71%) React
4 189 (49.48%) Hibernate
5 175 (45.81%) JMS
6 142 (37.17%) JSON
7 140 (36.65%) CSS
7 140 (36.65%) HTML
7 140 (36.65%) Kafka
8 139 (36.39%) Node.js
9 135 (35.34%) jQuery
10 132 (34.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 99 (25.92%) Spring Integration
12 98 (25.65%) GraphQL
13 60 (15.71%) Jest
13 60 (15.71%) Web Services
14 54 (14.14%) XML
15 39 (10.21%) JavaBeans
16 32 (8.38%) Spring Boot
17 30 (7.85%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 106 (27.75%) Algorithms
2 100 (26.18%) Cloud Native
3 79 (20.68%) Data Structures
4 43 (11.26%) Onboarding
5 28 (7.33%) Tandem
6 14 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 12 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.62%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.09%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.31%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.05%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.52%) Credit Risk
14 2 (0.52%) FMCG
14 2 (0.52%) Virtual Team
15 1 (0.26%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.64%) Unix
2 11 (2.88%) Linux
3 1 (0.26%) Solaris
3 1 (0.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (80.89%) Agile
2 289 (75.65%) CI/CD
2 289 (75.65%) Software Engineering
3 261 (68.32%) SDLC
4 226 (59.16%) Artificial Intelligence
5 221 (57.85%) Machine Learning
6 201 (52.62%) Operational Stability
7 156 (40.84%) Community of Practice
8 140 (36.65%) Full Stack Development
9 138 (36.13%) Microservices
10 121 (31.68%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (31.41%) Visualisation
12 118 (30.89%) Decision-Making
13 111 (29.06%) Risk Management
14 100 (26.18%) AOP
15 98 (25.65%) Document Management
16 82 (21.47%) Multithreading
17 79 (20.68%) TDD
18 76 (19.90%) BDD
19 62 (16.23%) OO
Programming Languages
1 380 (99.48%) Java
2 230 (60.21%) SQL
3 151 (39.53%) JavaScript
4 133 (34.82%) TypeScript
5 38 (9.95%) Python
6 28 (7.33%) Go
6 28 (7.33%) Shell Script
7 11 (2.88%) PL/SQL
8 9 (2.36%) C#
9 3 (0.79%) C
9 3 (0.79%) Perl
10 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.52%) Ruby
10 2 (0.52%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.52%) XPath
11 1 (0.26%) ABAP
11 1 (0.26%) C++
11 1 (0.26%) Groovy
11 1 (0.26%) ProC
Qualifications
1 39 (10.21%) Degree
2 38 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 37 (9.69%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (7.59%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.26%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.81%) SLA
2 10 (2.62%) QA
3 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 38 (9.95%) Docker
2 7 (1.83%) HDFS
3 1 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.26%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.26%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 143 (37.43%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.38%) Single Sign-On
3 29 (7.59%) Terraform
4 26 (6.81%) OpenSSO
5 7 (1.83%) Ansible
6 2 (0.52%) Control-M
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 190 (49.74%) Oracle
2 26 (6.81%) Remedy
3 19 (4.97%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.93%) SAP
5 6 (1.57%) WSO2
6 5 (1.31%) Dynatrace
6 5 (1.31%) Google
6 5 (1.31%) Okta
6 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.31%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.05%) Splunk
8 2 (0.52%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.26%) Adobe
9 1 (0.26%) BT
9 1 (0.26%) Cisco
9 1 (0.26%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.26%) IBM
9 1 (0.26%) Qualys
9 1 (0.26%) TSYS
9 1 (0.26%) webMethods