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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 57 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing J2EE 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% 0.27% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.39% 1.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £262 £481 -
25th Percentile £266 £491 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.21% - -
75th Percentile £286 £591 -
90th Percentile £297 £604 -
England median daily rate £368 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -33.18% +2.33% -6.52%

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 209 127 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 24.13% 17.28% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 97 126
10th Percentile £270 £309 £306
25th Percentile £360 £340 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £444 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% -8.92% +2.63%
75th Percentile £506 £510 £569
90th Percentile £625 £578 £650
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £21.21 - £27.86
25th Percentile £22.64 - £38.41
Median hourly rate £25.08 - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +184.77%
75th Percentile £25.13 - £60.50
90th Percentile £25.14 - £63.20
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%

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 8 November 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 - 5 £273 -
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 2 (40.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Spring
1 4 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (60.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
3 2 (40.00%) RAML
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Batch
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (40.00%) Swagger
4 1 (20.00%) JDBC
4 1 (20.00%) JSON
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (80.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Solace