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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 - 124
Rank change year-on-year - - +38
Contract jobs citing J2EE 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% - 0.092%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.13% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £491
25th Percentile £88 - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £321 - £510
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.02%
75th Percentile £572 - £519
90th Percentile £611 - £523
Central London median daily rate £321 £375 £510
% change year-on-year -14.37% -26.47% -18.40%

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 441 447 500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.94% 26.65% 23.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 284 350
10th Percentile £402 £413 £400
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -0.14% -11.88%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £759 £788
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £22.51 - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 - -
75th Percentile £59.72 - -
90th Percentile £68.89 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 - -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in the City of London

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Ethereum
1 2 (40.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (20.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (20.00%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (20.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) gRPC
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Batch
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (20.00%) JDBC
3 1 (20.00%) JMS
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) LDAP
3 1 (20.00%) OAuth
3 1 (20.00%) OpenID
3 1 (20.00%) SAML
3 1 (20.00%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) ProC
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) OutSystems
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Workday