J2EE Contract Job Trends in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring J2EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 125 139
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +58
Contract jobs citing J2EE 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.10% 0.094% 0.077%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% 0.37% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile £359 £518 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £535 £508
Median % change year-on-year -31.31% +5.42% -17.14%
75th Percentile £376 £553 £577
90th Percentile - - £615
London median daily rate £450 £775 £600
% change year-on-year -41.94% +29.17% -

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 440 535 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.07% 25.09% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 329 423
10th Percentile £362 £407 £413
25th Percentile £436 £490 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £692
90th Percentile £750 £825 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -8.65% -2.54% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.67 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.07 £46.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £47.50 £41.00 £48.75
90th Percentile - £41.45 -
London median hourly rate £54.50 £52.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% +5.00% -19.68%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing J2EE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

J2EE job vacancy trend in Central London

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing J2EE

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing J2EE

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the Central London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
City of London - 1 - - 3
J2EE
London

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Mockito
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (50.00%) XCTest
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) Material-UI
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) ProC
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) VB
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) OutSystems
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk