EJB Contracts in England

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring EJB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited EJB over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 539 631
Rank change year-on-year +61 +92 +97
Contract jobs citing EJB 7 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.008% 0.044%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.040% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 16
10th Percentile £380 £635 £450
25th Percentile £382 £688 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £800 £519
Median % change year-on-year -49.75% +54.22% -11.32%
75th Percentile £447 £825 £572
90th Percentile £500 - £638
UK median daily rate £402 £763 £525
% change year-on-year -47.28% +45.24% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.00
UK median hourly rate - - £83.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

EJB 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

EJB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing EJB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for EJB in England

EJB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing EJB in England.

Daily rate trend for EJB in England

EJB
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EJB in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EJB in England

EJB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing EJB in England.

Hourly rate trend for EJB in England

EJB
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EJB within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West - 4 £393 - 1
North of England - 4 £393 - 2
London +38 3 £475 -40.63%
EJB
UK

EJB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (85.71%) JBoss
1 6 (85.71%) WebSphere
2 4 (57.14%) Tomcat
2 4 (57.14%) WebLogic
3 2 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) IMS/DB
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum Master
2 2 (28.57%) Support Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) J2EE
1 6 (85.71%) SOAP
1 6 (85.71%) Web Services
2 5 (71.43%) JSP
3 4 (57.14%) RAML
3 4 (57.14%) REST
3 4 (57.14%) Servlets
3 4 (57.14%) Spring
3 4 (57.14%) Spring Boot
3 4 (57.14%) WSDL
4 2 (28.57%) JDBC
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) XSLT
5 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 1 (14.29%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Private Cloud
1 4 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) API Development
1 4 (57.14%) Backlog Management
1 4 (57.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 4 (57.14%) Budget Control
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
1 4 (57.14%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Conflict Resolution
2 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Servant Leadership
2 3 (42.86%) Situational Awareness
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) AOP
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (28.57%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) MuleSoft