J2EE Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring J2EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 121 133
Rank change year-on-year -3 +12 +55
Contract jobs citing J2EE 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% 0.048% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.19% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £393
25th Percentile - - £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.43%
75th Percentile - - £578
90th Percentile - - £615
Central London median daily rate £368 £535 £515
% change year-on-year -31.31% +3.88% -26.43%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 422 529 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.03% 25.58% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 321 402
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

J2EE job vacancy trend in the City of London

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing J2EE

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing J2EE

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ProC
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) OutSystems
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce