Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends in England

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 433 426
Rank change year-on-year -157 -7 +44
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 47 66 106
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.24% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.48% 0.94% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 78
10th Percentile £453 £270 £381
25th Percentile £553 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -25.58% -1.38%
75th Percentile £778 £501 £622
90th Percentile £913 £588 £686
UK median daily rate £600 £402 £533
% change year-on-year +49.25% -24.58% +3.50%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Jakarta EE 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 9,845 6,989 8,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.27% 25.49% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,472 4,751 5,384
10th Percentile £380 £354 £363
25th Percentile £442 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 168 180
10th Percentile £29.54 £31.50 £27.68
25th Percentile £53.90 £42.88 £43.00
Median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £62.93
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -12.60% +0.68%
75th Percentile £76.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £74.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £61.60
% change year-on-year +19.60% -11.77% +2.67%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in England

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE in England over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jakarta EE in England

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
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 Jakarta EE within the England region over the 6 months to 22 September 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 -69 31 £700 +90.48% 20
North of England -77 11 £650 +45.41%
North West -61 7 £650 +45.41%
Yorkshire -42 4 - -
South East -73 3 £453 -9.49% 1
East Midlands -19 1 - - 1
Midlands -59 1 - - 7
South West - 1 - - 2
Jakarta EE
UK

Jakarta EE
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 9 (19.15%) WebSphere
2 5 (10.64%) JBoss
3 3 (6.38%) Tomcat
3 3 (6.38%) WebLogic
4 2 (4.26%) nginx
5 1 (2.13%) Apache
5 1 (2.13%) Mule
5 1 (2.13%) Mule ESB
5 1 (2.13%) OpenEdge
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) Azure
3 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Run
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
5 2 (4.26%) GitHub
5 2 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (4.26%) MinIO
6 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.13%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) HTTP
1 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
1 6 (12.77%) Oracle Database
2 5 (10.64%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.38%) BigQuery
4 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.26%) GIS
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (2.13%) Db2
6 1 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.13%) MySQL
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (31.91%) Git
1 15 (31.91%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.64%) Bitbucket
2 5 (10.64%) Eclipse
3 4 (8.51%) Maven
4 3 (6.38%) GitLab
5 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.26%) Gradle
5 2 (4.26%) IntelliJ
5 2 (4.26%) JProfiler
5 2 (4.26%) JUnit
5 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.13%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Banking
3 9 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Retail
4 3 (6.38%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) German Language
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (31.91%) Developer
1 15 (31.91%) Java Developer
2 10 (21.28%) Architect
2 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 9 (19.15%) Senior Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Senior Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Applications Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Java Applications Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Java Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Security Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Developer
6 3 (6.38%) J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Java Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (57.45%) Spring
2 19 (40.43%) Spring Boot
3 17 (36.17%) REST
4 10 (21.28%) JDBC
5 7 (14.89%) JMS
6 6 (12.77%) RESTful
7 5 (10.64%) JSP
7 5 (10.64%) OAuth
7 5 (10.64%) OpenID
7 5 (10.64%) SOAP
7 5 (10.64%) Web Services
8 4 (8.51%) Hibernate
8 4 (8.51%) JPA
8 4 (8.51%) JSON
8 4 (8.51%) LDAP
8 4 (8.51%) Middleware
9 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.38%) CSS
9 3 (6.38%) React
9 3 (6.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 6 (12.77%) Spread Betting
3 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.51%) Security Posture
4 3 (6.38%) Credit Risk
4 3 (6.38%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Linux
2 5 (10.64%) Unix
3 4 (8.51%) Windows
4 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.26%) Solaris
5 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) CI/CD
2 26 (55.32%) Agile
3 20 (42.55%) SDLC
4 19 (40.43%) Microservices
5 15 (31.91%) Software Engineering
6 14 (29.79%) DevOps
7 11 (23.40%) AI
7 11 (23.40%) Migration
7 11 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.02%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (17.02%) Scrum
8 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.77%) TDD
9 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
10 5 (10.64%) Application Security
10 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (10.64%) E-Commerce
10 5 (10.64%) ITIL
10 5 (10.64%) Order Management
11 4 (8.51%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 46 (97.87%) Java
2 21 (44.68%) SQL
3 9 (19.15%) PL/SQL
4 7 (14.89%) Python
5 6 (12.77%) PowerShell
6 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.38%) Bash
7 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.13%) ActionScript
8 1 (2.13%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (2.13%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) CISM
1 3 (6.38%) CISSP
1 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.13%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (2.13%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) HIPAA
2 3 (6.38%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (12.77%) Ansible
3 2 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.13%) Argo
4 1 (2.13%) Istio
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (2.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Oracle
2 8 (17.02%) IBM
2 8 (17.02%) Splunk
3 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
4 5 (10.64%) Dynatrace
5 4 (8.51%) New Relic
5 4 (8.51%) SAP
5 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.38%) AppDynamics
6 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
6 3 (6.38%) Workday
7 2 (4.26%) Google
8 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.13%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (2.13%) Okta
8 1 (2.13%) Sybase
8 1 (2.13%) VMware