Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Java EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Java EE 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 856 736 920
Rank change year-on-year -120 +184 -229
Permanent jobs citing Java EE 58 217 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.74% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 19 74 114
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £66,250 £88,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,852 £88,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.63% +35.00% -13.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Java EE 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%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Java EE.

Salary trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java EE over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java EE 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 -134 47 £47,500 -29.63% 6
England -22 45 £52,000 -25.71% 9
South East -5 31 £47,500 +5.56% 1
Work from Home -40 15 £47,500 -32.01% 4
London +108 11 £52,000 -35.24% 3
Scotland -78 9 £53,750 -36.76% 1
Wales -23 4 - -
East of England -5 2 £63,750 -22.73%
East Midlands -18 1 - - 1
Midlands -21 1 - - 2

Java EE
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 28 (48.28%) WebLogic
2 5 (8.62%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.45%) GlassFish
3 2 (3.45%) JCAPS
3 2 (3.45%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Adaptiv
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) AWS
2 7 (12.07%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (8.62%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (8.62%) Azure
4 4 (6.90%) Serverless
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (3.45%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (44.83%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.34%) MySQL
5 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.45%) DB2
6 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (24.14%) Maven
2 9 (15.52%) Git
3 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.62%) Eclipse
4 5 (8.62%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) Ant
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Subversion
6 1 (1.72%) IntelliJ
General
1 32 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 31 (53.45%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (37.93%) Police
4 11 (18.97%) Finance
5 9 (15.52%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.62%) Electronics
6 5 (8.62%) Manufacturing
6 5 (8.62%) Marketing
6 5 (8.62%) Telecoms
7 4 (6.90%) Banking
8 2 (3.45%) Back Office
8 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.45%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.72%) Automotive
9 1 (1.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (56.90%) Senior
2 26 (44.83%) Analyst
2 26 (44.83%) Applications Support
2 26 (44.83%) Applications Support Analyst
2 26 (44.83%) Senior Analyst
2 26 (44.83%) Senior Applications Support
2 26 (44.83%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
2 26 (44.83%) Senior Support Analyst
2 26 (44.83%) Support Analyst
3 22 (37.93%) Developer
4 15 (25.86%) Java Developer
5 7 (12.07%) Full Stack Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.45%) GUI Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (72.41%) Spring
2 30 (51.72%) J2EE
3 17 (29.31%) AngularJS
4 16 (27.59%) React
5 14 (24.14%) XML
6 13 (22.41%) CSS
7 12 (20.69%) HTML
8 11 (18.97%) REST
8 11 (18.97%) Web Services
9 9 (15.52%) JPA
9 9 (15.52%) RESTful
9 9 (15.52%) Spring Boot
10 8 (13.79%) Hibernate
10 8 (13.79%) jQuery
11 7 (12.07%) JDBC
11 7 (12.07%) JSON
11 7 (12.07%) JSP
11 7 (12.07%) SOAP
12 6 (10.34%) Kafka
13 5 (8.62%) Vaadin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.45%) Blockchain
2 2 (3.45%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.45%) e-Learning
2 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (44.83%) Unix
2 3 (5.17%) Linux
3 2 (3.45%) Android
3 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (48.28%) Actionable Insight
2 28 (48.28%) Containerisation
3 26 (44.83%) Enterprise Architecture
3 26 (44.83%) Enterprise Search
3 26 (44.83%) Impact Assessments
3 26 (44.83%) Incident Management
3 26 (44.83%) Information Management
3 26 (44.83%) ITIL
3 26 (44.83%) Service Management
4 13 (22.41%) Design Patterns
5 11 (18.97%) Microservices
6 10 (17.24%) MVC
7 9 (15.52%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (15.52%) Full Stack Development
8 7 (12.07%) User Experience
9 6 (10.34%) Agile
9 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.62%) Digital Marketing
10 5 (8.62%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (93.10%) Java
2 28 (48.28%) Shell Script
3 18 (31.03%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.14%) Python
5 9 (15.52%) SQL
6 6 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.90%) C#
7 4 (6.90%) Ruby
8 2 (3.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 28 (48.28%) SC Cleared
1 28 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (44.83%) SLA
2 5 (8.62%) GDPR
2 5 (8.62%) QA
System Software
1 10 (17.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (46.55%) Single Sign-On
2 26 (44.83%) OpenSSO
3 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.45%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Control-M
4 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (51.72%) Oracle
2 26 (44.83%) Remedy
3 5 (8.62%) Google
3 5 (8.62%) SAP
4 2 (3.45%) IBM
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat