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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs citing J2EE 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.19% - 0.086%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.88% - 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £503
25th Percentile £88 - £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £92 - £568
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.35%
75th Percentile £323 - £606
90th Percentile £459 - £626
Central London median daily rate £92 £535 £568
% change year-on-year -82.77% -5.73% +8.10%

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 453 476 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.42% 27.15% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 305 343
10th Percentile £363 £413 £387
25th Percentile £461 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £568 £551
% change year-on-year -3.08% +3.09% -11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £43.83 - -
25th Percentile £45.83 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £51.38 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £56.67 - £48.75
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -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
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 24 March 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 (50.00%) Ethereum
1 2 (50.00%) Hyperledger
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
1 3 (75.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (25.00%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Spring
2 2 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (50.00%) gRPC
2 2 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (25.00%) JMS
3 1 (25.00%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) ProC
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) OutSystems
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce