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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 503 443 471
Rank change year-on-year -60 +28 +8
Contract jobs citing J2EE 47 72 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 1.06% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 55 65
10th Percentile £343 £450 £343
25th Percentile £356 £500 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £565 £535
Median % change year-on-year -23.98% +5.61% -9.32%
75th Percentile £558 £680 £613
90th Percentile £673 £838 £650
UK median daily rate £430 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -21.82% +4.76% -7.89%

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 6,844 6,774 8,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.62% 21.76% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,605 4,306 6,274
10th Percentile £350 £360 £373
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 107 181
10th Percentile £31.25 £26.25 £36.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £57.40 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -13.73%

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 November 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 24 November 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 -41 22 £368 -34.08% 12
Midlands -17 12 £412 -23.35%
North of England -29 11 £575 -8.00%
North West -14 9 £575 -
West Midlands - 8 £429 -
East Midlands -9 4 £276 -48.65%
East of England -11 2 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire -32 2 £700 +12.00%
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 (29.79%) WebLogic
2 13 (27.66%) JBoss
3 8 (17.02%) Apache
4 5 (10.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (10.64%) WebSphere
5 4 (8.51%) Mule
6 3 (6.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (4.26%) Mule ESB
8 1 (2.13%) Anypoint
8 1 (2.13%) CICS
8 1 (2.13%) Confluence
8 1 (2.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.13%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (2.13%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
2 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.17%) AWS
2 12 (25.53%) Azure
3 9 (19.15%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (17.02%) GitHub
4 8 (17.02%) Serverless
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.77%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (12.77%) GCP
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (10.64%) Apigee
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (10.64%) Datadog
7 5 (10.64%) Loggly
7 5 (10.64%) PaaS
7 5 (10.64%) Route 53
7 5 (10.64%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (23.40%) Relational Database
3 10 (21.28%) MongoDB
3 10 (21.28%) Redis
4 7 (14.89%) DynamoDB
4 7 (14.89%) MySQL
4 7 (14.89%) NoSQL
5 6 (12.77%) DB2
5 6 (12.77%) Oracle Database
5 6 (12.77%) SQL Server
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (10.64%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (10.64%) BigQuery
6 5 (10.64%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.26%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 22 (46.81%) Git
2 15 (31.91%) JUnit
3 14 (29.79%) SonarQube
4 13 (27.66%) Jenkins
5 11 (23.40%) IntelliJ
5 11 (23.40%) Maven
6 9 (19.15%) Eclipse
7 8 (17.02%) Selenium
8 5 (10.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (10.64%) Gradle
8 5 (10.64%) JIRA
8 5 (10.64%) Mockito
8 5 (10.64%) Postman
8 5 (10.64%) REST Assured
8 5 (10.64%) SoapUI
8 5 (10.64%) SonarLint
8 5 (10.64%) Subversion
8 5 (10.64%) Xcode
8 5 (10.64%) XCTest
9 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 29 (61.70%) Social Skills
2 12 (25.53%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Banking
3 8 (17.02%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) German Language
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (48.94%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Java Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Architect
4 8 (17.02%) Technical Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Java Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Java Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Java Technical Architect
6 5 (10.64%) Software Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) TIBCO Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Senior
7 4 (8.51%) Software Developer
8 3 (6.38%) J2EE Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.38%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Consultant
9 2 (4.26%) ForgeRock Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (48.94%) Spring
2 20 (42.55%) SOAP
2 20 (42.55%) Spring Boot
3 18 (38.30%) XML
4 16 (34.04%) Hibernate
4 16 (34.04%) HTML
4 16 (34.04%) REST
5 15 (31.91%) HTML5
5 15 (31.91%) Web Services
6 10 (21.28%) JSON
6 10 (21.28%) Kafka
6 10 (21.28%) RESTful
7 9 (19.15%) EJB
8 8 (17.02%) J2SE
8 8 (17.02%) Play Framework
9 7 (14.89%) CSS
9 7 (14.89%) JPA
9 7 (14.89%) Spring Cloud
9 7 (14.89%) Swagger
10 6 (12.77%) Dropwizard
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.77%) N-Tier
3 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) LIMS
5 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.13%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (31.91%) Unix
2 2 (4.26%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (57.45%) Microservices
1 27 (57.45%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (55.32%) Agile
3 20 (42.55%) CI/CD
4 18 (38.30%) Mentoring
5 15 (31.91%) Design Patterns
6 14 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (29.79%) DevOps
6 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure Automation
6 14 (29.79%) TDD
7 13 (27.66%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (25.53%) Integration Patterns
8 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
8 12 (25.53%) Unit Testing
9 11 (23.40%) Open Source
9 11 (23.40%) SDLC
10 9 (19.15%) Architectural Design
10 9 (19.15%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (19.15%) MVC
10 9 (19.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (78.72%) Java
2 22 (46.81%) SQL
3 11 (23.40%) JavaScript
4 8 (17.02%) Groovy
4 8 (17.02%) Scala
5 7 (14.89%) Python
6 6 (12.77%) Shell Script
6 6 (12.77%) XPath
7 2 (4.26%) Bash
7 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.13%) C#
8 1 (2.13%) C++
8 1 (2.13%) COBOL
8 1 (2.13%) JCL
8 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.51%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) GxP
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 21 (44.68%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.26%) OpenAM
2 2 (4.26%) OpenDJ
2 2 (4.26%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 8 (17.02%) Puppet
3 7 (14.89%) Terraform
4 5 (10.64%) TIBCO Hawk
5 3 (6.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.13%) Ansible
6 1 (2.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Oracle
2 8 (17.02%) Dynatrace
2 8 (17.02%) webMethods
3 7 (14.89%) Splunk
4 6 (12.77%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (10.64%) BEA
5 5 (10.64%) Gigya
5 5 (10.64%) IBM
5 5 (10.64%) TIBCO
6 3 (6.38%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.26%) AppDynamics
7 2 (4.26%) Checkmarx
7 2 (4.26%) ForgeRock
7 2 (4.26%) LabWare
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.26%) SAP
8 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.13%) Workday