J2EE Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 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 362 406 364
Rank change year-on-year +44 -42 -34
Contract jobs citing J2EE 34 76 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.30% 0.62%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 1.11% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 62 171
10th Percentile £415 £415 £406
25th Percentile £497 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £585
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -8.72% +11.16%
75th Percentile £550 £601 £670
90th Percentile £592 £700 -
England median daily rate £534 £534 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +10.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,542 6,820 12,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.00% 26.75% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,395 5,115 9,354
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £713
90th Percentile £838 £813 £800
England median daily rate £550 £557 £570
% change year-on-year -1.26% -2.28% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 38 61
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.53 £31.25
25th Percentile £23.90 £47.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £68.75 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.18% +49.46% -7.68%
75th Percentile £64.40 £75.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.10 £75.39
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +11.70%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in London

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for J2EE in London

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in London

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in London

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the London region 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +30 2 £510 -18.40% 7
South London +4 1 £500 +5.26% 2
East London -9 1 £436 -18.35%
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (11.76%) JBoss
2 3 (8.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
3 2 (5.88%) WildFly
4 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.94%) CMS
4 1 (2.94%) CoreMedia CMS
4 1 (2.94%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (2.94%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Portal
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Shopify
2 1 (2.94%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) BigCommerce
4 2 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (26.47%) SSH
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) MySQL
1 3 (8.82%) Oracle Database
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) JIRA
2 12 (35.29%) JUnit
3 9 (26.47%) Cucumber
4 5 (14.71%) Git
4 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
5 3 (8.82%) Maven
6 1 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 14 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (35.29%) Finance
4 7 (20.59%) Banking
5 6 (17.65%) Investment Banking
6 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
7 3 (8.82%) Front Office
7 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (8.82%) Marketing
7 3 (8.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Developer
2 16 (47.06%) Java Developer
3 10 (29.41%) Senior
4 5 (14.71%) Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (8.82%) Service Manager
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Service Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (52.94%) Spring
2 17 (50.00%) Web Services
3 13 (38.24%) REST
4 10 (29.41%) JSON
4 10 (29.41%) SOAP
5 9 (26.47%) Hibernate
5 9 (26.47%) JPA
5 9 (26.47%) Spring Boot
5 9 (26.47%) XML
6 4 (11.76%) CSS
6 4 (11.76%) JMS
6 4 (11.76%) Spring MVC
7 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (8.82%) jQuery
7 3 (8.82%) Sass
7 3 (8.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 3 (8.82%) VML
8 2 (5.88%) .NET
8 2 (5.88%) Kafka
8 2 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (26.47%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.82%) Algorithms
2 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Linux
1 14 (41.18%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Agile
2 14 (41.18%) Scrum
3 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (32.35%) DevOps
5 10 (29.41%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (29.41%) Migration
5 10 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
5 10 (29.41%) Sprint Retrospective
6 9 (26.47%) Acceptance Criteria
6 9 (26.47%) BDD
6 9 (26.47%) OOP
6 9 (26.47%) Pair Programming
6 9 (26.47%) Performance Optimisation
6 9 (26.47%) Release Management
6 9 (26.47%) Requirements Gathering
6 9 (26.47%) SDLC
6 9 (26.47%) Software Architecture
6 9 (26.47%) TDD
6 9 (26.47%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (17.65%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) Python
3 10 (29.41%) SQL
4 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 6 (17.65%) C
5 6 (17.65%) C++
5 6 (17.65%) Perl
6 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.88%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 8 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) SLA
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) OpenAM
2 1 (2.94%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (2.94%) Rancher
4 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.94%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) Adobe
3 3 (8.82%) Dell
3 3 (8.82%) Google
3 3 (8.82%) Intel
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) Okta
4 1 (2.94%) OneLogin
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk
4 1 (2.94%) TIBCO