Java EE Contracts with Work from Home Options

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE, JEE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 327 428 531
Rank change year-on-year +101 +103 -113
Contract jobs citing Java EE 19 43 89
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.66% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 73
10th Percentile - £374 £392
25th Percentile £450 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £609 £653
90th Percentile - £650 -
UK median daily rate £625 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 8
10th Percentile - £68.50 £45.88
25th Percentile - £71.25 £49.06
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.52
Median % change year-on-year - +14.47% -0.03%
75th Percentile - - £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £75.00 £65.52
% change year-on-year - +14.47% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,644 6,472 13,233
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.92% 25.28% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,550 4,822 9,767
10th Percentile £331 £395 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.37% +14.06%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 119
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -27.94% +32.65% +8.89%

Java EE
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Java EE trend for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java EE.

Java EE daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Java EE over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Java EE daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Java EE.

Java EE hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Java EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) JBoss
1 1 (5.26%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.26%) WildFly
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Google Analytics
3 2 (10.53%) Miro
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 8 (42.11%) Cucumber
2 8 (42.11%) GitLab
2 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 8 (42.11%) REST Assured
2 8 (42.11%) Selenium
2 8 (42.11%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.53%) JMeter
3 2 (10.53%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.26%) JUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) Subversion
General
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Law
3 7 (36.84%) Police
4 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 3 (15.79%) Tech for Good
5 1 (5.26%) Automotive
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Senior
2 9 (47.37%) Developer
3 8 (42.11%) Java Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Java Software Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Senior Java Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) Software Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Java Developer
4 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 1 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (57.89%) REST
2 8 (42.11%) ARM Templates
3 7 (36.84%) Spring
4 5 (26.32%) Web Services
5 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.79%) .NET
6 3 (15.79%) CSS
6 3 (15.79%) Grails
6 3 (15.79%) GraphQL
6 3 (15.79%) jQuery
6 3 (15.79%) SOAP
6 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
7 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
7 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
7 1 (5.26%) JPA
7 1 (5.26%) JSP
7 1 (5.26%) JSTL
7 1 (5.26%) Node.js
7 1 (5.26%) React
7 1 (5.26%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (57.89%) Software Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Configuration Management
2 8 (42.11%) Containerisation
2 8 (42.11%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (42.11%) Decision-Making
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (42.11%) Software Architecture
2 8 (42.11%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (42.11%) Test Automation
3 4 (21.05%) Full Stack Development
3 4 (21.05%) TDD
4 3 (15.79%) API Development
4 3 (15.79%) BDD
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) MVC
4 3 (15.79%) OO
4 3 (15.79%) OOP
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
1 8 (42.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Ansible
1 8 (42.11%) Docker Swarm
1 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
1 8 (42.11%) Podman
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Adobe
1 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
1 2 (10.53%) Google
1 2 (10.53%) Omniture
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle