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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 626 712
Rank change year-on-year +98 +86 -142
Contract jobs citing Java EE 42 64 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.47% 0.49% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 124
10th Percentile - £374 £388
25th Percentile £450 £454 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £494 £585
Median % change year-on-year +31.51% -15.51% +11.43%
75th Percentile £688 £572 £650
90th Percentile £725 £655 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 7
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.75
25th Percentile - £71.25 £48.13
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year - +14.43% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -25.62%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,927 13,057 23,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.99% 23.09% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,211 9,517 17,333
10th Percentile £344 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 145 235
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.02 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.45 £81.00 £76.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.97 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -26.21% +23.81% +16.67%

Java EE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Java EE over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Java EE in the UK

Java EE
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
England +79 34 £650 +30.00% 11
UK excluding London +63 31 £650 +33.33% 6
South East +29 25 £650 +38.30% 2
Work from Home +103 18 £650 +30.20% 7
London +71 8 £450 -10.00% 4
Scotland +39 5 £478 -0.31%
East Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - - 1

Java EE
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 3 (7.14%) JBoss
1 3 (7.14%) WildFly
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) AWS
2 14 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (9.52%) Miro
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) MySQL
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 26 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 25 (59.52%) Cucumber
2 25 (59.52%) Selenium
3 24 (57.14%) REST Assured
3 24 (57.14%) SonarQube
4 15 (35.71%) JIRA
5 14 (33.33%) GitLab
6 2 (4.76%) JUnit
6 2 (4.76%) Maven
6 2 (4.76%) Subversion
7 1 (2.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 31 (73.81%) Social Skills
2 25 (59.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (47.62%) Law
4 13 (30.95%) Police
5 5 (11.90%) Retail
6 3 (7.14%) Tech for Good
7 2 (4.76%) Finance
7 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.38%) Automotive
8 1 (2.38%) Back Office
8 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (52.38%) Java Engineer
2 13 (30.95%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) Senior
2 13 (30.95%) Software Engineer
3 11 (26.19%) Java Software Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Senior Java Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 10 (23.81%) Senior Software Engineer
5 9 (21.43%) Java Developer
6 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 5 (11.90%) Full Stack Developer
8 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Architect
9 3 (7.14%) Java Architect
9 3 (7.14%) Java Technical Architect
9 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (7.14%) Technical Architect
10 2 (4.76%) Designer
10 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (71.43%) REST
2 12 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 12 (28.57%) Spring
3 7 (16.67%) Hibernate
4 5 (11.90%) GraphQL
4 5 (11.90%) SOAP
4 5 (11.90%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.52%) React
6 3 (7.14%) .NET
6 3 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.14%) CSS
6 3 (7.14%) Grails
6 3 (7.14%) jQuery
6 3 (7.14%) Web Services
7 2 (4.76%) JPA
7 2 (4.76%) JSON
7 2 (4.76%) JSP
7 2 (4.76%) JSTL
7 2 (4.76%) Node.js
7 2 (4.76%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) AIX
3 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (69.05%) Problem-Solving
1 29 (69.05%) Software Engineering
2 27 (64.29%) DevOps
3 25 (59.52%) Continuous Integration
3 25 (59.52%) Decision-Making
3 25 (59.52%) Software Architecture
3 25 (59.52%) Technical Leadership
3 25 (59.52%) Test Automation
4 13 (30.95%) Configuration Management
4 13 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 9 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (16.67%) OO
7 7 (16.67%) TDD
8 5 (11.90%) API Development
8 5 (11.90%) BDD
8 5 (11.90%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (11.90%) Microservices
9 4 (9.52%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 4 (9.52%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.14%) SQL
4 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) C
5 1 (2.38%) C++
5 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 25 (59.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (57.14%) Ansible
2 13 (30.95%) Terraform
3 12 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 12 (28.57%) Podman
4 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (2.38%) VMware