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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 444 494
Rank change year-on-year -55 +50 -11
Contract jobs citing J2EE 45 63 77
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.65% 0.95% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 48 52
10th Percentile £343 £450 £338
25th Percentile £356 £518 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £590 £538
Median % change year-on-year -26.27% +9.77% -10.42%
75th Percentile £581 £838 £616
90th Percentile £673 - £650
UK median daily rate £435 £580 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +10.48% -8.70%

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 6,902 6,610 8,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.29% 21.80% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,629 4,224 6,131
10th Percentile £350 £358 £369
25th Percentile £413 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% - -4.68%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 95 174
10th Percentile £31.10 £26.35 £35.00
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £56.90 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.46% +21.50% -17.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.33 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 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
London -31 22 £409 -33.43% 9
Midlands -22 12 £412 -23.35% 1
North of England -32 11 £575 -
North West -9 9 £575 -
West Midlands - 8 £429 - 1
East Midlands -15 4 £276 -48.65%
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
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 14 (31.11%) WebLogic
2 12 (26.67%) JBoss
3 8 (17.78%) Apache
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (11.11%) WebSphere
5 4 (8.89%) Mule
6 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
7 2 (4.44%) Mule ESB
8 1 (2.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (2.22%) CICS
8 1 (2.22%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.22%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (2.22%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 1 (2.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 9 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (17.78%) GitHub
4 8 (17.78%) Serverless
5 7 (15.56%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (13.33%) Amazon EventBridge
6 6 (13.33%) GCP
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (11.11%) Apigee
7 5 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (11.11%) Datadog
7 5 (11.11%) Loggly
7 5 (11.11%) PaaS
7 5 (11.11%) Route 53
8 4 (8.89%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (24.44%) Relational Database
3 10 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 10 (22.22%) Redis
4 7 (15.56%) DynamoDB
4 7 (15.56%) MySQL
4 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
5 6 (13.33%) DB2
5 6 (13.33%) Oracle Database
5 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (11.11%) BigQuery
6 5 (11.11%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.44%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (48.89%) Git
2 15 (33.33%) JUnit
3 14 (31.11%) SonarQube
4 13 (28.89%) Jenkins
5 11 (24.44%) IntelliJ
5 11 (24.44%) Maven
6 9 (20.00%) Eclipse
7 8 (17.78%) Selenium
8 5 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (11.11%) Gradle
8 5 (11.11%) JIRA
8 5 (11.11%) Mockito
8 5 (11.11%) Postman
8 5 (11.11%) REST Assured
8 5 (11.11%) SoapUI
8 5 (11.11%) SonarLint
8 5 (11.11%) Subversion
8 5 (11.11%) Xcode
8 5 (11.11%) XCTest
9 2 (4.44%) Bitbucket
General
1 27 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Finance
3 8 (17.78%) Banking
3 8 (17.78%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) German Language
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Architect
4 8 (17.78%) Technical Architect
5 6 (13.33%) Java Architect
5 6 (13.33%) Java Technical Architect
6 5 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) TIBCO Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) J2EE Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (6.67%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Consultant
9 2 (4.44%) ForgeRock Developer
10 1 (2.22%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 1 (2.22%) Lead
10 1 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (48.89%) Spring
2 21 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 19 (42.22%) SOAP
4 17 (37.78%) XML
5 16 (35.56%) Hibernate
5 16 (35.56%) HTML
5 16 (35.56%) REST
6 15 (33.33%) HTML5
7 14 (31.11%) Web Services
8 10 (22.22%) JSON
8 10 (22.22%) Kafka
9 9 (20.00%) EJB
9 9 (20.00%) RESTful
10 8 (17.78%) J2SE
10 8 (17.78%) Play Framework
11 7 (15.56%) JPA
11 7 (15.56%) Spring Cloud
11 7 (15.56%) Swagger
12 6 (13.33%) CSS
12 6 (13.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (13.33%) N-Tier
3 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) Microservices
2 25 (55.56%) Agile
3 24 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 18 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 15 (33.33%) Design Patterns
7 14 (31.11%) DevOps
7 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 14 (31.11%) TDD
8 13 (28.89%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
9 12 (26.67%) Unit Testing
10 11 (24.44%) Open Source
10 11 (24.44%) SDLC
10 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
11 9 (20.00%) Architectural Design
11 9 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (20.00%) MVC
11 9 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (82.22%) Java
2 20 (44.44%) SQL
3 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.78%) Groovy
4 8 (17.78%) Python
4 8 (17.78%) Scala
5 6 (13.33%) Shell Script
5 6 (13.33%) XPath
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.22%) C#
7 1 (2.22%) C++
7 1 (2.22%) COBOL
7 1 (2.22%) JCL
7 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) Docker
2 2 (4.44%) OpenAM
2 2 (4.44%) OpenDJ
2 2 (4.44%) OpenIDM
3 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.78%) Puppet
3 7 (15.56%) Terraform
4 5 (11.11%) TIBCO Hawk
5 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.22%) Ansible
6 1 (2.22%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) Oracle
2 8 (17.78%) Dynatrace
2 8 (17.78%) webMethods
3 7 (15.56%) Splunk
4 5 (11.11%) BEA
4 5 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
4 5 (11.11%) Gigya
4 5 (11.11%) IBM
4 5 (11.11%) TIBCO
5 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.44%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.44%) Checkmarx
6 2 (4.44%) ForgeRock
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (2.22%) Workday