J2EE Contracts in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2EE over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 131 162
Rank change year-on-year +4 +31 +13
Contract jobs citing J2EE 2 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.082% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.37% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £365 £503 £485
25th Percentile £368 £526 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £568 £613
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% -7.38% +16.71%
75th Percentile £393 £606 £725
90th Percentile £394 £626 £740
London median daily rate £775 £553 £550
% change year-on-year +40.27% +0.45% -5.98%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

J2EE falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 519 535 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.99% 21.87% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 386 707
10th Percentile £409 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in Central London

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for J2EE in Central London

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in Central London

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (100.00%) Subversion
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
1 2 (100.00%) XCTest
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Material-UI
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Spring MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Swagger
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Groovy
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) JCL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk