Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 560 429
Rank change year-on-year +34 -131 -110
Contract jobs citing J2EE 72 159 508
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.27% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.81% 1.14% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 128 349
10th Percentile £422 £421 £425
25th Percentile £455 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +18.28%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £678 £700 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -11.09% +4.76% +22.66%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £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 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in the UK

J2EE
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +46 39 £533 -3.09% 22
UK excluding London +45 32 £489 -11.09% 8
London +47 28 £553 +0.45% 15
Work from Home +81 22 £470 -14.64% 7
Scotland +32 19 £450 -21.74% 2
North of England +26 8 £489 -18.50%
North West +22 7 £489 +30.40%
South East +18 3 - - 4
South West +19 1 £700 +40.00%
East of England +17 1 £600 -
Yorkshire +7 1 - -

J2EE
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 13 (18.06%) Confluence
1 13 (18.06%) WebSphere
2 8 (11.11%) IBM HTTP Server
2 8 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
2 8 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
3 6 (8.33%) Apache
3 6 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 5 (6.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (6.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (6.94%) WebLogic
5 4 (5.56%) JBoss
6 3 (4.17%) IIS
6 3 (4.17%) OpenStack
7 2 (2.78%) Apache Spark
7 2 (2.78%) CMS
7 2 (2.78%) Tomcat
8 1 (1.39%) Apache Solr
8 1 (1.39%) CoreMedia CMS
Applications
1 8 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Dynamics AX
1 6 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (6.94%) Temenos T24
3 3 (4.17%) Shopify
4 2 (2.78%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (1.39%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (1.39%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.94%) Azure
2 17 (23.61%) AWS
3 6 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 5 (6.94%) Apigee
4 5 (6.94%) Kong
4 5 (6.94%) PaaS
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.56%) iPaaS
5 4 (5.56%) Serverless
6 3 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.17%) BigCommerce
6 3 (4.17%) IaaS
7 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 2 (2.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.11%) HTTP
2 5 (6.94%) SSH
3 3 (4.17%) 5G
3 3 (4.17%) LAN
3 3 (4.17%) WAN
4 1 (1.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.94%) MySQL
3 5 (6.94%) OLAP
3 5 (6.94%) OLTP
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle OLAP
3 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.17%) DB2
5 2 (2.78%) Big Data
5 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.39%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.39%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (34.72%) JIRA
2 21 (29.17%) JUnit
3 20 (27.78%) Jenkins
4 19 (26.39%) Git
5 15 (20.83%) Cucumber
6 9 (12.50%) Postman
7 6 (8.33%) IBM UrbanCode
8 5 (6.94%) IntelliJ
8 5 (6.94%) Maven
9 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 37 (51.39%) Social Skills
2 25 (34.72%) Finance
3 15 (20.83%) Banking
4 12 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Marketing
7 3 (4.17%) Front Office
7 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Retail
8 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Legal
9 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (45.83%) Developer
2 26 (36.11%) Java Developer
3 20 (27.78%) Architect
4 19 (26.39%) Senior
5 8 (11.11%) Middleware Engineer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Technical Architect
6 6 (8.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) AWS Architect
7 5 (6.94%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Consultant
9 3 (4.17%) CyberArk Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.17%) J2EE Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Service Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Service Manager
10 2 (2.78%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (55.56%) Spring
2 32 (44.44%) Web Services
3 29 (40.28%) REST
4 21 (29.17%) Spring Boot
5 20 (27.78%) Kafka
6 17 (23.61%) SOAP
7 14 (19.44%) Apache Camel
8 12 (16.67%) .NET
9 10 (13.89%) Middleware
9 10 (13.89%) XML
10 8 (11.11%) AngularJS
10 8 (11.11%) CSS
10 8 (11.11%) JSON
11 7 (9.72%) Hibernate
11 7 (9.72%) Node.js
12 6 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
12 6 (8.33%) RESTful
12 6 (8.33%) Spring MVC
13 5 (6.94%) IBM Integration Bus
13 5 (6.94%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.94%) DataPower
2 5 (6.94%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (1.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) Linux
1 11 (15.28%) Unix
2 4 (5.56%) Windows
3 2 (2.78%) Android
3 2 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) Agile
2 18 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (23.61%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (23.61%) DevOps
3 17 (23.61%) Microservices
4 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.83%) TDD
6 14 (19.44%) Scrum
7 11 (15.28%) End-to-End Testing
7 11 (15.28%) Enterprise Architecture
7 11 (15.28%) ITIL
8 10 (13.89%) Migration
8 10 (13.89%) Service Management
9 9 (12.50%) CRM
9 9 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 9 (12.50%) SOA
10 8 (11.11%) API Management
10 8 (11.11%) BDD
10 8 (11.11%) Risk Management
10 8 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 63 (87.50%) Java
2 27 (37.50%) SQL
3 12 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.50%) Python
5 6 (8.33%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.94%) Perl
7 1 (1.39%) Go
7 1 (1.39%) Groovy
7 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.56%) CISSP
5 3 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.17%) SANS
6 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) GRC
2 3 (4.17%) SLA
3 2 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (16.67%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) Hyper-V
2 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) OpenAM
3 1 (1.39%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 11 (15.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (9.72%) Ansible
3 5 (6.94%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.56%) Kibana
5 1 (1.39%) Grafana
5 1 (1.39%) Istio
5 1 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.39%) Rancher
5 1 (1.39%) Terraform
5 1 (1.39%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 25 (34.72%) Oracle
2 13 (18.06%) IBM
2 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
3 12 (16.67%) SAP
4 5 (6.94%) Adobe
4 5 (6.94%) TSYS
5 4 (5.56%) Google
6 3 (4.17%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.17%) Dell
6 3 (4.17%) Intel
6 3 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (4.17%) Sitecore
6 3 (4.17%) VMware
7 2 (2.78%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.39%) Databricks
8 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.39%) ForgeRock
8 1 (1.39%) Okta
8 1 (1.39%) OneLogin
8 1 (1.39%) Solace