J2EE Contracts in England

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 504 524 455
Rank change year-on-year +20 -69 -130
Contract jobs citing J2EE 39 124 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.25% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 1.06% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 95 247
10th Percentile £426 £413 £425
25th Percentile £489 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £650
90th Percentile £676 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,524 11,672 19,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.21% 23.13% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,350 8,631 14,427
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 138 213
10th Percentile £22.12 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £42.81 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in England.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in England

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in England.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +53 28 £553 +0.45% 17
North of England +19 8 £489 -18.50%
North West +30 7 £489 +30.40%
South East +10 3 - - 5
East of England +13 1 £600 -
South West +9 1 £700 +40.00%
Yorkshire +7 1 - -
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (12.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (10.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 4 (10.26%) JBoss
3 3 (7.69%) OpenStack
3 3 (7.69%) WebSphere
4 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.13%) CMS
4 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
4 2 (5.13%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.56%) Apache
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.56%) CoreMedia CMS
5 1 (2.56%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (2.56%) IIS
5 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.56%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (15.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Temenos T24
2 3 (7.69%) Shopify
3 2 (5.13%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (2.56%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (2.56%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 15 (38.46%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) Azure
3 5 (12.82%) Apigee
3 5 (12.82%) Kong
4 4 (10.26%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (10.26%) Serverless
5 3 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (7.69%) BigCommerce
6 2 (5.13%) PaaS
6 2 (5.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) SSH
2 1 (2.56%) HTTP
2 1 (2.56%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.51%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (12.82%) OLAP
3 5 (12.82%) OLTP
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle OLAP
4 4 (10.26%) MySQL
4 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.13%) Big Data
5 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.56%) Data Hub
6 1 (2.56%) DB2
6 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (38.46%) JIRA
2 11 (28.21%) JUnit
3 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (20.51%) Git
5 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
6 4 (10.26%) Maven
7 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.56%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (2.56%) Subversion
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 15 (38.46%) Finance
3 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (20.51%) Banking
5 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.69%) Front Office
6 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Marketing
6 3 (7.69%) Retail
7 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 15 (38.46%) Java Developer
3 10 (25.64%) Architect
4 5 (12.82%) AWS Architect
4 5 (12.82%) Full Stack Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Senior
5 4 (10.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.69%) J2EE Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.69%) Service Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Service Manager
7 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (71.79%) Spring
2 25 (64.10%) Web Services
3 16 (41.03%) REST
3 16 (41.03%) SOAP
4 12 (30.77%) Spring Boot
5 9 (23.08%) Kafka
6 8 (20.51%) XML
7 7 (17.95%) AngularJS
7 7 (17.95%) Hibernate
7 7 (17.95%) JSON
7 7 (17.95%) Node.js
8 6 (15.38%) CSS
8 6 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (15.38%) RESTful
8 6 (15.38%) Spring MVC
9 5 (12.82%) IBM Integration Bus
9 5 (12.82%) JPA
10 4 (10.26%) Apache Camel
10 4 (10.26%) JMS
10 4 (10.26%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.82%) DataPower
2 5 (12.82%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
1 11 (28.21%) Unix
2 4 (10.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
2 15 (38.46%) DevOps
3 14 (35.90%) Microservices
3 14 (35.90%) Scrum
4 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) BDD
5 8 (20.51%) Risk Management
5 8 (20.51%) TDD
6 7 (17.95%) API Management
6 7 (17.95%) CQRS
6 7 (17.95%) Design Patterns
6 7 (17.95%) Full Stack Development
6 7 (17.95%) Technical Debt
7 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
7 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 6 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (15.38%) SDLC
7 6 (15.38%) Sprint Planning
7 6 (15.38%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 38 (97.44%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
3 8 (20.51%) Python
3 8 (20.51%) SQL
4 5 (12.82%) Perl
5 1 (2.56%) Go
5 1 (2.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) CISSP
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) OpenAM
2 1 (2.56%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 8 (20.51%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Ansible
3 5 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.56%) Grafana
4 1 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.56%) Rancher
4 1 (2.56%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Oracle
2 6 (15.38%) IBM
2 6 (15.38%) SAP
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) TSYS
4 4 (10.26%) Adobe
5 3 (7.69%) Dell
5 3 (7.69%) Google
5 3 (7.69%) Intel
5 3 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 3 (7.69%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.56%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.56%) Okta
6 1 (2.56%) OneLogin
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.56%) TIBCO