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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 480 524
Rank change year-on-year +33 +44 -76
Contract jobs citing J2EE 57 77 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.97% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 58 94
10th Percentile £274 £425 £375
25th Percentile £359 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.35% -0.65% -4.87%
75th Percentile £838 £622 £613
90th Percentile - £650 £650
UK median daily rate £432 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -17.71% -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 5,963 7,945 10,861
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.43% 21.37% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,102 5,535 8,079
10th Percentile £355 £350 £384
25th Percentile £413 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £780 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 266 143
10th Percentile £30.65 £23.80 £31.60
25th Percentile £46.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.75 £58.30 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -10.31% +19.82%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.20 £74.47 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 +20 35 £725 +38.10% 15
North West +9 11 £402 -17.79% 2
North of England +3 11 £402 -18.25% 4
Midlands +16 8 £315 -41.49% 3
East Midlands +6 7 £315 -41.49% 3
East of England +21 2 £400 -33.33% 1
South East +30 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
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 14 (24.56%) Apache
1 14 (24.56%) Apache Airflow
1 14 (24.56%) Apache Spark
2 9 (15.79%) WebSphere
3 8 (14.04%) JBoss
4 5 (8.77%) Tomcat
4 5 (8.77%) WebLogic
5 4 (7.02%) Confluence
6 3 (5.26%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (3.51%) CICS
8 1 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (1.75%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) AWS
2 18 (31.58%) OpenShift
3 16 (28.07%) Serverless
4 15 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (24.56%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (24.56%) dbt
6 11 (19.30%) Azure
7 4 (7.02%) PaaS
8 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.26%) Kong
9 2 (3.51%) GCP
10 1 (1.75%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 1 (1.75%) GitHub
10 1 (1.75%) IaaS
10 1 (1.75%) SaaS
10 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Amazon Athena
1 14 (24.56%) Apache Arrow
1 14 (24.56%) Apache Iceberg
1 14 (24.56%) Apache Ignite
1 14 (24.56%) Dremio
2 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (14.04%) DB2
4 6 (10.53%) Redis
5 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
6 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
6 4 (7.02%) Oracle Database
7 3 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (5.26%) Hazelcast
8 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.51%) IMS/DB
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.75%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.75%) MySQL
9 1 (1.75%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 17 (29.82%) Maven
2 16 (28.07%) Git
3 14 (24.56%) Artifactory
4 13 (22.81%) Jenkins
5 10 (17.54%) IntelliJ
6 9 (15.79%) JUnit
6 9 (15.79%) SonarQube
7 7 (12.28%) JIRA
7 7 (12.28%) Subversion
8 6 (10.53%) Selenium
9 5 (8.77%) Bitbucket
9 5 (8.77%) Gradle
9 5 (8.77%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (8.77%) TeamCity
10 4 (7.02%) CA Release Automation
10 4 (7.02%) HP UFT
10 4 (7.02%) Mockito
10 4 (7.02%) NetBeans
11 3 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (5.26%) Xcode
General
1 37 (64.91%) Finance
2 17 (29.82%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (28.07%) Banking
4 14 (24.56%) Front Office
4 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.51%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.51%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) AWS DevOps
2 14 (24.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) AWS Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Data Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (24.56%) Java Developer
2 14 (24.56%) Python Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 4 (7.02%) Scrum Master
5 4 (7.02%) Senior
6 3 (5.26%) DevOps Specialist
6 3 (5.26%) Lead
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.51%) Support Specialist
7 2 (3.51%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (47.37%) Kafka
2 25 (43.86%) Spring
3 21 (36.84%) Spring Boot
4 20 (35.09%) Web Services
5 14 (24.56%) PySpark
6 12 (21.05%) Hibernate
7 11 (19.30%) CSS
7 11 (19.30%) HTML
7 11 (19.30%) RESTful
7 11 (19.30%) SOAP
8 10 (17.54%) AngularJS
9 9 (15.79%) Bootstrap
9 9 (15.79%) REST
10 8 (14.04%) Spring MVC
11 7 (12.28%) EJB
11 7 (12.28%) XML
12 6 (10.53%) Ajax
12 6 (10.53%) HTML5
13 5 (8.77%) JSP
13 5 (8.77%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 5 (8.77%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.02%) Private Cloud
3 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.51%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (3.51%) VSAM
6 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.75%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.56%) Unix
2 5 (8.77%) Windows
3 3 (5.26%) Linux
4 1 (1.75%) AIX
4 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) Agile
2 25 (43.86%) CI/CD
3 19 (33.33%) DevOps
3 19 (33.33%) Microservices
4 18 (31.58%) Open Source
5 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 14 (24.56%) Asset Management
6 14 (24.56%) Data Engineering
6 14 (24.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 11 (19.30%) API Development
8 10 (17.54%) MVC
8 10 (17.54%) Scrum
9 9 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (15.79%) Deployment Automation
9 9 (15.79%) SDLC
10 7 (12.28%) Design Patterns
10 7 (12.28%) OO
11 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
11 6 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 54 (94.74%) Java
2 20 (35.09%) Python
3 19 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 14 (24.56%) Go
4 14 (24.56%) SQL
5 9 (15.79%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.02%) REXX
7 3 (5.26%) Bash
7 3 (5.26%) COBOL
7 3 (5.26%) Groovy
7 3 (5.26%) JCL
7 3 (5.26%) Perl
7 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.75%) C
9 1 (1.75%) C#
9 1 (1.75%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (8.77%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) GxP
2 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (43.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (35.09%) Kubernetes
2 17 (29.82%) Terraform
3 7 (12.28%) Progress Chef
3 7 (12.28%) Puppet
4 3 (5.26%) Ansible
4 3 (5.26%) Control-M
4 3 (5.26%) Grafana
4 3 (5.26%) Istio
4 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.26%) Rundeck
5 1 (1.75%) CA Wily
5 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (29.82%) Oracle
2 8 (14.04%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (7.02%) Dynatrace
3 4 (7.02%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.02%) Splunk
4 3 (5.26%) IBM
4 3 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.51%) Ab Initio
5 2 (3.51%) Informatica
5 2 (3.51%) LabWare
5 2 (3.51%) Parasoft
6 1 (1.75%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) HP
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Solace
6 1 (1.75%) Sun
6 1 (1.75%) Sybase
6 1 (1.75%) VMware