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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 548 404 488
Rank change year-on-year -144 +84 +51
Contract jobs citing J2EE 45 68 53
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.28% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 1.27% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 56 38
10th Percentile £412 £273 £433
25th Percentile £462 £380 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £725 £545
Median % change year-on-year -15.52% +33.03% +2.06%
75th Percentile £731 £838 £619
90th Percentile £913 - £650
UK median daily rate £569 £675 £538
% change year-on-year -15.74% +25.58% +0.23%
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 7,953 5,360 7,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.36% 20.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,252 3,711 5,354
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £627 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £792
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 96 235
10th Percentile £30.61 £28.29 £22.60
25th Percentile £51.25 £41.01 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.18 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -87 35 £638 -17.74% 2
Midlands -68 4 £427 +30.94%
North of England -86 4 £688 +71.02% 1
East Midlands -27 3 £424 +29.98%
North West -50 2 £688 +71.02% 1
South East -58 2 - -
West Midlands -66 1 £430 -
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 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 7 (15.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (11.11%) Ethereum
2 5 (11.11%) Hyperledger
2 5 (11.11%) WebLogic
2 5 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 4 (8.89%) JBoss
4 2 (4.44%) Appian
4 2 (4.44%) Mule
4 2 (4.44%) Mule ESB
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.22%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 11 (24.44%) AWS
3 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.22%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.22%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.22%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.22%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) MongoDB
1 7 (15.56%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.33%) MySQL
2 6 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.44%) DB2
4 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JUnit
2 10 (22.22%) Git
3 7 (15.56%) JIRA
4 5 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.11%) Maven
5 3 (6.67%) Eclipse
6 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.22%) Ant
7 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (2.22%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
General
1 19 (42.22%) Finance
2 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 12 (26.67%) Banking
4 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.33%) Retail
6 3 (6.67%) Marketing
7 2 (4.44%) Legal
7 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.22%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Architect
2 16 (35.56%) Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Applications Architect
5 4 (8.89%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Service Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Service Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Applications Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Blockchain Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Information Security Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Java Applications Architect
7 2 (4.44%) React Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (40.00%) REST
2 15 (33.33%) Spring
3 12 (26.67%) Web Services
4 11 (24.44%) RESTful
5 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
5 9 (20.00%) LDAP
5 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (17.78%) SOAP
7 7 (15.56%) JSON
7 7 (15.56%) JSP
7 7 (15.56%) Kafka
7 7 (15.56%) XML
8 6 (13.33%) CSS
9 5 (11.11%) gRPC
9 5 (11.11%) JDBC
9 5 (11.11%) JMS
9 5 (11.11%) OAuth
9 5 (11.11%) OpenID
9 5 (11.11%) SAML
9 5 (11.11%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.44%) Blockchain
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
3 4 (8.89%) Unix
4 3 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 19 (42.22%) Microservices
3 15 (33.33%) Agile
4 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.22%) Scrum
6 9 (20.00%) SDLC
7 8 (17.78%) AI
7 8 (17.78%) DevOps
7 8 (17.78%) Due Diligence
7 8 (17.78%) Unit Testing
8 7 (15.56%) Application Security
8 7 (15.56%) Architectural Design
8 7 (15.56%) Cloud Security
8 7 (15.56%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (15.56%) Impact Assessments
8 7 (15.56%) Information Security
8 7 (15.56%) Secure Coding
9 6 (13.33%) Line Management
9 6 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
9 6 (13.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 41 (91.11%) Java
2 9 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (20.00%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) Python
4 7 (15.56%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 4 (8.89%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.67%) RPG
8 2 (4.44%) XPath
9 1 (2.22%) Bash
9 1 (2.22%) C
9 1 (2.22%) Groovy
9 1 (2.22%) ProC
9 1 (2.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) CISM
1 5 (11.11%) CISSP
2 3 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) CSSLP
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) GDPR
2 5 (11.11%) HIPAA
2 5 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (8.89%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) Docker
2 5 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) HP Fortify
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.11%) IBM
3 5 (11.11%) SAP
3 5 (11.11%) Workday
4 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.67%) Adobe
6 2 (4.44%) BEA
6 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.44%) Google
6 2 (4.44%) New Relic
6 2 (4.44%) Splunk
6 2 (4.44%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.22%) Acunetix
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.22%) Netsparker
7 1 (2.22%) Okta
7 1 (2.22%) OutSystems
7 1 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.22%) Veracode