J2EE Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring J2EE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 66 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing J2EE 6 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.78% 0.26% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.06% 1.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £263 £481 -
25th Percentile £268 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £276 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.65% - -
75th Percentile £305 £591 -
90th Percentile £326 £604 -
England median daily rate £384 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -30.18% +2.33% -3.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 196 134 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 25.39% 17.16% 20.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 102 153
10th Percentile £265 £306 £313
25th Percentile £351 £329 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £481 £550 £538
90th Percentile £571 £620 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £20.39 - -
25th Percentile £20.60 - -
Median hourly rate £21.96 - £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +230.54%
75th Percentile £24.05 - -
90th Percentile £24.71 - -
England median hourly rate £54.35 £62.93 £61.25
% change year-on-year -13.63% +2.74% -2.00%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in the East Midlands

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing J2EE

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing J2EE

J2EE
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing J2EE within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 6 £276 -
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (50.00%) MariaDB
2 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) SonarQube
2 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
1 5 (83.33%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Kafka
3 3 (50.00%) RAML
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) Spring Batch
3 3 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (50.00%) Swagger
4 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) JDBC
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) SOAP
5 1 (16.67%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Unit Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 3 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) API Development
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
5 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Solace