EJB Contract Job Trends in England

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring EJB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 506 538
Rank change year-on-year -36 +32 +175
Contract jobs citing EJB 11 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.035% 0.028% 0.030%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £406 £421 £463
25th Percentile £429 £433 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £476 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -17.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £495 £523 £594
90th Percentile £581 £532 £825
UK median daily rate £430 £476 £575
% change year-on-year -9.82% -17.17% +9.52%

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 7,042 6,283 7,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.21% 21.86% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,690 4,010 5,762
10th Percentile £350 £358 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £632 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 77 166
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £33.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £43.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £58.00 £62.50 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +20.45% -20.17%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.18 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £59.86 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -4.22% +19.05% -19.23%

EJB
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing EJB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

EJB job vacancy trend in England

EJB
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EJB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EJB

EJB
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing EJB in England over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for EJB in England

EJB
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EJB.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing EJB

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 25 December 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
Midlands - 8 £429 - 1
West Midlands - 8 £429 - 1
London -7 1 £618 +27.98%
North of England - 1 £550 -
North West - 1 £550 -
EJB
UK

EJB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 8 (72.73%) Apache
1 8 (72.73%) JBoss
1 8 (72.73%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
2 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) GIS
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Eclipse
1 9 (81.82%) IntelliJ
1 9 (81.82%) JUnit
2 8 (72.73%) Git
2 8 (72.73%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Ant
3 1 (9.09%) NUnit
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (72.73%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Java Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Open Source Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) Spring
2 9 (81.82%) Hibernate
2 9 (81.82%) HTML
2 9 (81.82%) J2EE
2 9 (81.82%) XML
3 8 (72.73%) HTML5
3 8 (72.73%) J2SE
3 8 (72.73%) JSON
3 8 (72.73%) Play Framework
3 8 (72.73%) REST
3 8 (72.73%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
4 1 (9.09%) JMS
4 1 (9.09%) JSON Web Signature
4 1 (9.09%) JSTL
4 1 (9.09%) JWT
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
4 1 (9.09%) OpenID
4 1 (9.09%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Unix
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Open Source
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) Continuous Delivery
2 8 (72.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (72.73%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (72.73%) Deployment Automation
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (72.73%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Lean Software Development
2 8 (72.73%) Mentoring
2 8 (72.73%) Microservices
2 8 (72.73%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
4 1 (9.09%) Cryptography
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 8 (72.73%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CISM
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) ISSAP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NIST
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) webMethods
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Intel
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Thales