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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing J2EE 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.30% 0.68% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.90% 4.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £412 £273 -
25th Percentile £412 £293 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £326 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.98% - -
75th Percentile £441 £359 -
90th Percentile £445 £378 -
England median daily rate £449 £775 £540
% change year-on-year -42.13% +43.52% -8.09%

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 158 99 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.72% 16.89% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 79 68
10th Percentile £360 £312 £256
25th Percentile £401 £350 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £418
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +6.16% -1.59%
75th Percentile £550 £524 £525
90th Percentile £625 £551 £625
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 - £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £22.28
75th Percentile £25.13 - £31.00
90th Percentile £25.14 - £56.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

J2EE job vacancy trend 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 25 February 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
Northamptonshire -22 3 £424 +29.98%
J2EE
England

J2EE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) Marketing
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) OSGi
1 3 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft