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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 718 737
Rank change year-on-year +162 +19 -119
Permanent jobs citing J2EE 377 236 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.24% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.77% 0.81% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 80 98 248
10th Percentile £46,306 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £68,625 £61,250 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +3.23% +19.23%
75th Percentile £120,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 21,317 29,159 68,887
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.77% 29.95% 41.26%
Number of salaries quoted 15,893 18,093 29,995
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £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 £106,250 £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 28 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 28 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 +109 301 £50,000 -28.57% 13
Scotland +92 257 £47,557 -32.06% 1
England +29 102 £105,000 +23.53% 33
London +149 70 £105,000 +10.53% 23
Work from Home -32 33 £47,557 -32.06% 15
South East +3 29 £90,000 +67.44% 5
Wales -26 4 - -
North of England +23 3 £50,000 -9.09% 2
North West -6 3 £50,000 -37.50% 1
East of England -8 3 £66,250 -22.06%
Northern Ireland +16 2 £47,500 - 3
West Midlands +10 2 £35,000 -56.25%
Midlands -13 2 £35,000 -46.15%
South West -32 1 £70,000 +16.67% 2

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 (25.99%) FileNet
2 29 (7.69%) WebLogic
3 15 (3.98%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.59%) Apache Pig
4 6 (1.59%) JBoss
4 6 (1.59%) OpenStack
4 6 (1.59%) Red Hat Fuse
5 4 (1.06%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.80%) CMS
7 2 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.53%) Confluence
7 2 (0.53%) GlassFish
7 2 (0.53%) JCAPS
7 2 (0.53%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.27%) IIS
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (3.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (3.71%) 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 (41.38%) AWS
2 124 (32.89%) Amazon S3
3 49 (13.00%) GitHub
4 40 (10.61%) Serverless
5 32 (8.49%) Amazon ECS
6 30 (7.96%) OpenShift
7 28 (7.43%) Amazon SQS
7 28 (7.43%) Azure
8 26 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.71%) Power Platform
9 14 (3.71%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.86%) PaaS
11 6 (1.59%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (1.59%) GCP
12 5 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.33%) IaaS
12 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
1 165 (43.77%) NoSQL
2 147 (38.99%) Elasticsearch
3 99 (26.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 58 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 26 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (6.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 24 (6.37%) MongoDB
7 13 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.86%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.59%) Apache Hive
9 6 (1.59%) Big Data
9 6 (1.59%) Hadoop
9 6 (1.59%) 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%) OLAP
12 1 (0.27%) OLTP
12 1 (0.27%) Oracle9i Database
Development Applications
1 195 (51.72%) JUnit
2 105 (27.85%) Jasmine
3 84 (22.28%) Jenkins
4 60 (15.92%) Cypress.io
4 60 (15.92%) Karma Test Runner
4 60 (15.92%) Protractor
4 60 (15.92%) Selenium
4 60 (15.92%) WebDriver
5 46 (12.20%) Mockito
6 29 (7.69%) Artifactory
7 14 (3.71%) Git
8 6 (1.59%) Checkstyle
8 6 (1.59%) JIRA
8 6 (1.59%) 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
1 292 (77.45%) Finance
2 244 (64.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 244 (64.72%) Law
3 110 (29.18%) Legal
4 72 (19.10%) Banking
5 65 (17.24%) Marketing
6 61 (16.18%) Investment Banking
7 48 (12.73%) Social Skills
8 39 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
9 27 (7.16%) Front Office
10 22 (5.84%) Police
11 10 (2.65%) 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
1 255 (67.64%) Software Engineer
2 179 (47.48%) Java Engineer
3 177 (46.95%) Java Software Engineer
4 119 (31.56%) Full Stack Engineer
5 118 (31.30%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 78 (20.69%) Lead
7 68 (18.04%) Lead Software Engineer
8 59 (15.65%) Senior
9 36 (9.55%) Developer
9 36 (9.55%) Lead Java Engineer
10 27 (7.16%) Applications Support
11 26 (6.90%) Analyst
11 26 (6.90%) Applications Support Analyst
11 26 (6.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 26 (6.90%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 26 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
11 26 (6.90%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
11 26 (6.90%) Senior Support Analyst
11 26 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 26 (6.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (83.29%) Spring
2 215 (57.03%) AngularJS
3 207 (54.91%) React
4 189 (50.13%) Hibernate
5 175 (46.42%) JMS
6 142 (37.67%) JSON
7 141 (37.40%) CSS
7 141 (37.40%) HTML
8 140 (37.14%) Kafka
9 139 (36.87%) Node.js
10 136 (36.07%) jQuery
11 132 (35.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 99 (26.26%) Spring Integration
13 98 (25.99%) GraphQL
14 60 (15.92%) Jest
14 60 (15.92%) Web Services
15 54 (14.32%) XML
16 39 (10.34%) JavaBeans
17 31 (8.22%) Spring Boot
18 30 (7.96%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 106 (28.12%) Algorithms
2 100 (26.53%) Cloud Native
3 79 (20.95%) Data Structures
4 43 (11.41%) Onboarding
5 26 (6.90%) Tandem
6 14 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.92%) 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
13 2 (0.53%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.53%) FMCG
13 2 (0.53%) Media Streaming
13 2 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (8.75%) Unix
2 11 (2.92%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Solaris
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (80.64%) Agile
2 285 (75.60%) Software Engineering
3 284 (75.33%) CI/CD
4 259 (68.70%) SDLC
5 226 (59.95%) Artificial Intelligence
6 221 (58.62%) Machine Learning
7 199 (52.79%) Operational Stability
8 155 (41.11%) Community of Practice
9 139 (36.87%) Full Stack Development
10 137 (36.34%) Microservices
11 121 (32.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 120 (31.83%) Visualisation
13 115 (30.50%) Decision-Making
14 111 (29.44%) Risk Management
15 100 (26.53%) AOP
16 98 (25.99%) Document Management
17 82 (21.75%) Multithreading
18 79 (20.95%) TDD
19 76 (20.16%) BDD
20 61 (16.18%) OO
Programming Languages
1 375 (99.47%) Java
2 226 (59.95%) SQL
3 151 (40.05%) JavaScript
4 133 (35.28%) TypeScript
5 36 (9.55%) Python
6 28 (7.43%) Shell Script
7 26 (6.90%) Go
8 10 (2.65%) PL/SQL
9 9 (2.39%) C#
10 3 (0.80%) C
10 3 (0.80%) Perl
11 2 (0.53%) Ruby
11 2 (0.53%) XPath
12 1 (0.27%) ABAP
12 1 (0.27%) C++
12 1 (0.27%) Groovy
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) ProC
12 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (10.08%) Degree
1 38 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 37 (9.81%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (7.69%) 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 (6.90%) SLA
2 9 (2.39%) QA
3 5 (1.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 36 (9.55%) Docker
2 6 (1.59%) 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 (37.40%) Kubernetes
2 32 (8.49%) Single Sign-On
3 27 (7.16%) Terraform
4 26 (6.90%) OpenSSO
5 7 (1.86%) Ansible
6 2 (0.53%) Control-M
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 187 (49.60%) Oracle
2 26 (6.90%) Remedy
3 18 (4.77%) Microsoft
4 15 (3.98%) SAP
5 6 (1.59%) 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%) CA
8 1 (0.27%) Dell
8 1 (0.27%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.27%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.27%) HP
8 1 (0.27%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.27%) Qualys
8 1 (0.27%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.27%) TSYS