J2EE Contract Job Trends in England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring J2EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 399 489
Rank change year-on-year -129 +90 +43
Contract jobs citing J2EE 52 72 51
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.30% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% 1.31% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 56 33
10th Percentile £345 £397 £420
25th Percentile £412 £568 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £775 £520
Median % change year-on-year -34.77% +49.04% -5.45%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £625
90th Percentile £730 - £750
UK median daily rate £500 £775 £525
% change year-on-year -35.48% +47.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - -

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 7,821 5,501 7,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.89% 22.62% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,259 3,772 5,366
10th Percentile £358 £363 £343
25th Percentile £420 £425 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -0.46% -6.09%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £670
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 86 180
10th Percentile £35.00 £27.30 £20.82
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.56 £39.92
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +32.39% -25.05%
75th Percentile £70.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £82.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing J2EE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

J2EE job vacancy trend in England

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing J2EE

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in England over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in England

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing J2EE

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 24 March 2026. 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 -76 40 £540 -30.32% 1
Midlands -66 8 £429 +31.60%
West Midlands -59 5 £430 -
East Midlands -33 3 £424 +29.98%
South East -50 2 - - 1
North of England -69 2 £725 +80.35% 1
North West -36 1 £725 +80.35% 1
North East - 1 - -
J2EE
UK

J2EE
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 12 (23.08%) WebLogic
2 10 (19.23%) JBoss
3 7 (13.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (13.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (13.46%) WebSphere
4 5 (9.62%) Ethereum
4 5 (9.62%) Hyperledger
5 4 (7.69%) Apache
6 2 (3.85%) Appian
6 2 (3.85%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.92%) Mule
7 1 (1.92%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.92%) R3 Corda
2 1 (1.92%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) AWS
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) GCP
4 2 (3.85%) GitHub
4 2 (3.85%) Serverless
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (1.92%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.92%) CloudFront
5 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.92%) Google Gemini
5 1 (1.92%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) MongoDB
1 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
1 9 (17.31%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.46%) DB2
2 7 (13.46%) MySQL
3 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.92%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) JUnit
2 12 (23.08%) Git
3 7 (13.46%) JIRA
4 5 (9.62%) Maven
5 4 (7.69%) Eclipse
5 4 (7.69%) IntelliJ
5 4 (7.69%) Selenium
6 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.85%) REST Assured
7 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.92%) Ant
8 1 (1.92%) Burp Suite
8 1 (1.92%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.92%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (1.92%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (32.69%) Finance
1 17 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Banking
3 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Retail
4 3 (5.77%) Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Legal
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 28 (53.85%) Developer
2 12 (23.08%) Architect
3 10 (19.23%) Java Developer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.54%) TIBCO Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.69%) J2EE Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
5 4 (7.69%) Service Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Applications Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Backend Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Java Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) JavaScript Developer
6 3 (5.77%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.77%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
7 2 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (3.85%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (34.62%) Spring
2 16 (30.77%) REST
2 16 (30.77%) Web Services
3 14 (26.92%) SOAP
3 14 (26.92%) XML
4 10 (19.23%) JMS
5 9 (17.31%) AngularJS
5 9 (17.31%) RESTful
6 8 (15.38%) Kafka
6 8 (15.38%) Spring Boot
7 7 (13.46%) CSS
7 7 (13.46%) HTML
7 7 (13.46%) HTML5
7 7 (13.46%) JSON
7 7 (13.46%) LDAP
7 7 (13.46%) OC4J
7 7 (13.46%) TIBCO EMS
7 7 (13.46%) WSDL
7 7 (13.46%) XSD
7 7 (13.46%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.85%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.38%) Linux
1 8 (15.38%) Unix
2 6 (11.54%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (40.38%) Microservices
2 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.77%) Agile
4 12 (23.08%) DevOps
4 12 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (23.08%) Scrum
5 11 (21.15%) Design Patterns
6 10 (19.23%) UML
6 10 (19.23%) Unit Testing
7 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (15.38%) SOA
8 7 (13.46%) OOA/OOD
8 7 (13.46%) Resource Management
8 7 (13.46%) RUP
9 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.54%) Due Diligence
9 6 (11.54%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (11.54%) Open Source
9 6 (11.54%) SDLC
10 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 42 (80.77%) Java
2 9 (17.31%) JavaScript
2 9 (17.31%) SQL
3 8 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 7 (13.46%) XPath
5 5 (9.62%) Python
6 4 (7.69%) Scala
7 3 (5.77%) Groovy
7 3 (5.77%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.77%) RPG
8 2 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.92%) Bash
9 1 (1.92%) C
9 1 (1.92%) ProC
9 1 (1.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) CISM
3 2 (3.85%) CISSP
4 1 (1.92%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) GDPR
2 4 (7.69%) SLA
3 2 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.85%) OpenAM
3 2 (3.85%) OpenDJ
3 2 (3.85%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) TIBCO Hawk
2 5 (9.62%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Puppet
4 3 (5.77%) Ansible
5 2 (3.85%) HP Fortify
5 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Oracle
2 8 (15.38%) IBM
3 7 (13.46%) BEA
3 7 (13.46%) TIBCO
4 4 (7.69%) webMethods
5 3 (5.77%) Adobe
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.77%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.85%) ForgeRock
6 2 (3.85%) Google
6 2 (3.85%) SAP
6 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.85%) Workday
7 1 (1.92%) Acunetix
7 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.92%) Netsparker
7 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.92%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.92%) Veracode