Java EE Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Java EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Java EE over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 513 604 644
Rank change year-on-year +91 +40 -136
Contract jobs citing Java EE 35 64 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.094% 0.13% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 0.54% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 41 121
10th Percentile £450 £375 £388
25th Percentile £472 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £503 £585
Median % change year-on-year +29.30% -14.07% +8.84%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £650
90th Percentile £724 £730 £653
UK median daily rate £600 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - £67.75 £45.50
25th Percentile - £70.94 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile - - £65.50
90th Percentile - - £65.52
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.52
% change year-on-year - +14.47% +12.97%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 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 7,519 11,770 19,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.20% 23.21% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,357 8,702 14,416
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £428 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +0.09% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 141 216
10th Percentile £21.35 £25.75 £21.50
25th Percentile £40.00 £45.00 £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 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java EE in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in England

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in England

Java EE
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 Java EE within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
South East +24 25 £650 +38.30% 4
London +75 9 £450 -10.48% 6
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1
Java EE
UK

Java EE
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 2 (5.71%) JBoss
2 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.86%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 14 (40.00%) AWS
1 14 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) Miro
3 2 (5.71%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (71.43%) Cucumber
1 25 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 25 (71.43%) Selenium
2 24 (68.57%) REST Assured
2 24 (68.57%) SonarQube
3 13 (37.14%) GitLab
3 13 (37.14%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) JMeter
4 2 (5.71%) LoadRunner
General
1 26 (74.29%) Social Skills
2 25 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (57.14%) Law
4 13 (37.14%) Police
5 4 (11.43%) Retail
6 1 (2.86%) Automotive
6 1 (2.86%) Back Office
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 21 (60.00%) Java Engineer
2 13 (37.14%) Senior
3 11 (31.43%) Software Engineer
4 10 (28.57%) Java Software Engineer
5 9 (25.71%) Senior Java Engineer
5 9 (25.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 9 (25.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 7 (20.00%) Developer
6 7 (20.00%) Java Developer
7 6 (17.14%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
8 4 (11.43%) Architect
8 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (8.57%) Java Architect
9 3 (8.57%) Java Technical Architect
9 3 (8.57%) Senior Developer
9 3 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (8.57%) Technical Architect
10 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (5.71%) Performance Engineer
11 1 (2.86%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (82.86%) REST
2 12 (34.29%) ARM Templates
3 6 (17.14%) Spring
4 5 (14.29%) SOAP
5 4 (11.43%) GraphQL
5 4 (11.43%) Spring Boot
6 3 (8.57%) Web Services
7 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.71%) React
7 2 (5.71%) SAML
8 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.86%) Apache Wicket
8 1 (2.86%) GWT
8 1 (2.86%) JSF
8 1 (2.86%) LDAP
8 1 (2.86%) OAuth
8 1 (2.86%) SailPoint
8 1 (2.86%) Spring MVC
8 1 (2.86%) Struts
8 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
1 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Unix
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Software Engineering
2 26 (74.29%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 25 (71.43%) Decision-Making
3 25 (71.43%) DevOps
3 25 (71.43%) Software Architecture
3 25 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
3 25 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 13 (37.14%) Configuration Management
4 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (34.29%) Containerisation
6 9 (25.71%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (14.29%) TDD
8 4 (11.43%) API Development
8 4 (11.43%) BDD
8 4 (11.43%) Microservices
9 3 (8.57%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 3 (8.57%) Static Application Security Testing
10 2 (5.71%) Application Performance Management
10 2 (5.71%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 35 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) C
3 1 (2.86%) C++
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 25 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 25 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 12 (34.29%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (68.57%) Ansible
2 13 (37.14%) Terraform
3 12 (34.29%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (34.29%) Kubernetes
3 12 (34.29%) Podman
4 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (5.71%) Adobe
1 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
1 2 (5.71%) Google
1 2 (5.71%) Omniture
1 2 (5.71%) Splunk
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (2.86%) SAP
2 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow