J2EE Contracts in England

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring J2EE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2EE 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 414 503 529
Rank change year-on-year +89 +26 -77
Contract jobs citing J2EE 71 39 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.10% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.30% 0.52% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 25 95
10th Percentile £380 £426 £413
25th Percentile £447 £489 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +45.40% -3.09% -
75th Percentile £838 £600 £601
90th Percentile - £676 £700
UK median daily rate £750 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +42.86% -4.55% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 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%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in England.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in England

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in England.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
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 J2EE 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
London +61 51 £775 +40.27% 16
North of England +20 9 £402 -17.79% 4
North West +19 9 £402 -17.79% 3
Midlands - 8 £326 - 3
West Midlands - 4 - -
East Midlands - 4 £326 - 2
South East +45 2 - - 6
J2EE
UK

J2EE
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 28 (39.44%) Apache
1 28 (39.44%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (39.44%) Apache Spark
2 10 (14.08%) WebSphere
3 7 (9.86%) JBoss
4 6 (8.45%) Tomcat
5 5 (7.04%) WebLogic
6 3 (4.23%) Confluence
6 3 (4.23%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (2.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (2.82%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (61.97%) AWS
2 36 (50.70%) OpenShift
3 34 (47.89%) Serverless
4 33 (46.48%) Amazon ECS
4 33 (46.48%) AWS Lambda
5 28 (39.44%) dbt
6 11 (15.49%) Azure
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.63%) PaaS
9 3 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.23%) GCP
9 3 (4.23%) Kong
10 1 (1.41%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.41%) IaaS
10 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (39.44%) Amazon Athena
1 28 (39.44%) Apache Arrow
1 28 (39.44%) Apache Iceberg
1 28 (39.44%) Apache Ignite
1 28 (39.44%) Dremio
2 8 (11.27%) DB2
2 8 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (7.04%) Redis
4 4 (5.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.23%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (4.23%) Hazelcast
5 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.23%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.82%) IMS/DB
6 2 (2.82%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (46.48%) Artifactory
2 17 (23.94%) Jenkins
3 13 (18.31%) Maven
4 10 (14.08%) Git
5 7 (9.86%) JUnit
6 6 (8.45%) JIRA
6 6 (8.45%) Selenium
6 6 (8.45%) Subversion
7 5 (7.04%) Gradle
7 5 (7.04%) IntelliJ
8 4 (5.63%) Bitbucket
8 4 (5.63%) CA Release Automation
8 4 (5.63%) HP UFT
8 4 (5.63%) NetBeans
9 3 (4.23%) Mockito
9 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.82%) Introscope
10 2 (2.82%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.82%) Xcode
General
1 52 (73.24%) Finance
2 33 (46.48%) Front Office
3 16 (22.54%) Banking
4 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.90%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.82%) General Ledger
6 2 (2.82%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (49.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 33 (46.48%) AWS DevOps
2 33 (46.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 33 (46.48%) AWS Engineer
3 28 (39.44%) Data Engineer
3 28 (39.44%) Python Engineer
4 9 (12.68%) Developer
5 7 (9.86%) Architect
5 7 (9.86%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 5 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Scrum Master
8 3 (4.23%) DevOps Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (2.82%) SAP Developer
9 2 (2.82%) Service Delivery Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Service Manager
9 2 (2.82%) Support Specialist
9 2 (2.82%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (54.93%) Kafka
2 28 (39.44%) PySpark
3 20 (28.17%) Spring
4 19 (26.76%) Web Services
5 17 (23.94%) Spring Boot
6 12 (16.90%) SOAP
7 11 (15.49%) REST
8 10 (14.08%) AngularJS
9 8 (11.27%) CSS
9 8 (11.27%) HTML
9 8 (11.27%) Spring MVC
10 7 (9.86%) Bootstrap
11 6 (8.45%) EJB
11 6 (8.45%) Hibernate
11 6 (8.45%) RESTful
12 5 (7.04%) HTML5
12 5 (7.04%) JDBC
12 5 (7.04%) jQuery
12 5 (7.04%) XML
12 5 (7.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Mainframe
2 5 (7.04%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.04%) Tandem
3 4 (5.63%) Private Cloud
3 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (2.82%) VSAM
5 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.90%) Unix
2 5 (7.04%) Windows
3 4 (5.63%) Linux
4 2 (2.82%) AIX
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (67.61%) Agile
2 40 (56.34%) CI/CD
3 38 (53.52%) DevOps
4 36 (50.70%) Open Source
5 33 (46.48%) Asset Management
5 33 (46.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 33 (46.48%) Software Engineering
6 28 (39.44%) Data Engineering
7 20 (28.17%) Microservices
8 11 (15.49%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (14.08%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (14.08%) Scrum
10 9 (12.68%) API Development
11 8 (11.27%) MVC
12 6 (8.45%) SDLC
13 5 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (7.04%) Financial Modelling
13 5 (7.04%) ITIL
13 5 (7.04%) Problem Management
13 5 (7.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (97.18%) Java
2 40 (56.34%) Python
3 33 (46.48%) Go
4 15 (21.13%) JavaScript
5 10 (14.08%) SQL
6 5 (7.04%) Groovy
7 4 (5.63%) COBOL
7 4 (5.63%) REXX
7 4 (5.63%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.23%) ABAP
8 3 (4.23%) Bash
8 3 (4.23%) JCL
8 3 (4.23%) Perl
8 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.23%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.82%) C
9 2 (2.82%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (5.63%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) SAP Certification
2 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) QA
1 2 (2.82%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (57.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (56.34%) Kubernetes
2 36 (50.70%) Terraform
3 7 (9.86%) Progress Chef
3 7 (9.86%) Puppet
4 5 (7.04%) Istio
5 3 (4.23%) Ansible
5 3 (4.23%) Control-M
5 3 (4.23%) Grafana
5 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.23%) Rundeck
6 2 (2.82%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) SAP
3 4 (5.63%) Splunk
4 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.23%) IBM
4 3 (4.23%) MuleSoft
4 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.82%) Ab Initio
5 2 (2.82%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.82%) Google
5 2 (2.82%) Informatica
5 2 (2.82%) Parasoft
5 2 (2.82%) Sun
5 2 (2.82%) VMware
6 1 (1.41%) Adobe
6 1 (1.41%) HP
6 1 (1.41%) Pega
6 1 (1.41%) Sitecore