Java EE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 428 469
Rank change year-on-year +56 +41 -90
Contract jobs citing Java EE 31 29 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.95% 0.66% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 42
10th Percentile £528 £430 £365
25th Percentile £575 £456 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.65% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £544 £538
90th Percentile £718 £578 £618
UK median daily rate £625 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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% -23.69%
75th Percentile - - £65.50
90th Percentile - - £65.52
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.52
% change year-on-year - +14.47% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding 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 3,274 4,364 6,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.25% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 3,271 4,418
10th Percentile £324 £360 £362
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.68%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £586
90th Percentile £694 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 145
10th Percentile £21.81 £22.50 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £69.50
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Java EE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java EE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Java EE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in the UK excluding London

Java EE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +28 25 £650 +38.30% 3
Scotland +33 5 £478 -0.31%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Java EE
UK

Java EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
1 2 (6.45%) JBoss
1 2 (6.45%) Tomcat
1 2 (6.45%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 14 (45.16%) AWS
1 14 (45.16%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 25 (80.65%) Cucumber
1 25 (80.65%) Jenkins
1 25 (80.65%) Selenium
2 24 (77.42%) REST Assured
2 24 (77.42%) SonarQube
3 15 (48.39%) JIRA
4 13 (41.94%) GitLab
5 2 (6.45%) JUnit
5 2 (6.45%) Maven
5 2 (6.45%) Subversion
General
1 27 (87.10%) Social Skills
2 25 (80.65%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (64.52%) Law
4 13 (41.94%) Police
5 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.23%) Automotive
6 1 (3.23%) Finance
6 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (54.84%) Java Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Java Developer
3 8 (25.81%) Senior
4 6 (19.35%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Java Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Architect
7 3 (9.68%) Java Architect
7 3 (9.68%) Java Technical Architect
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Technical Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Designer
8 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (6.45%) Full Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (80.65%) REST
2 12 (38.71%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.45%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.45%) JPA
3 2 (6.45%) JSON
3 2 (6.45%) JSP
3 2 (6.45%) JSTL
3 2 (6.45%) Servlets
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) STL
3 2 (6.45%) XML
3 2 (6.45%) XSLT
4 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) OpenJDK
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) SAML
4 1 (3.23%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) AIX
2 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (83.87%) DevOps
2 25 (80.65%) Continuous Integration
2 25 (80.65%) Decision-Making
2 25 (80.65%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (80.65%) Software Architecture
2 25 (80.65%) Technical Leadership
2 25 (80.65%) Test Automation
3 22 (70.97%) Software Engineering
4 13 (41.94%) Configuration Management
4 13 (41.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
6 9 (29.03%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (9.68%) Agile
8 2 (6.45%) Case Management
8 2 (6.45%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 2 (6.45%) CRM
8 2 (6.45%) OO
8 2 (6.45%) OOA/OOD
8 2 (6.45%) UML
8 2 (6.45%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (80.65%) SC Cleared
1 25 (80.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (38.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (77.42%) Ansible
2 13 (41.94%) Terraform
3 12 (38.71%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (38.71%) Kubernetes
3 12 (38.71%) Podman
4 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle
2 1 (3.23%) VMware