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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 445 410
Rank change year-on-year -153 -35 +50
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 42 69 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.091% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.43% 1.00% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 46 88
10th Percentile £513 £269 £382
25th Percentile £550 £357 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £401 £534
Median % change year-on-year +62.09% -24.91% -2.91%
75th Percentile £794 £538 £625
90th Percentile £913 £716 £679
UK median daily rate £588 £401 £532
% change year-on-year +46.51% -24.55% -0.47%

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 9,865 6,895 8,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.49% 24.86% 24.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,497 4,739 5,609
10th Percentile £375 £355 £363
25th Percentile £438 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -1.79%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 166 193
10th Percentile £30.10 £31.25 £25.72
25th Percentile £51.25 £42.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.94 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -10.82% -5.23%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £76.85 £74.49
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.00 £61.43
% change year-on-year +20.37% -12.10% -2.49%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -86 32 £606 +64.97% 7
North of England -70 8 £700 +64.90%
North West -55 5 £700 +64.90%
Yorkshire -38 2 - -
East Midlands -20 1 - -
Midlands -50 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 3
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 6 (14.29%) WebSphere
2 3 (7.14%) JBoss
2 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 3 (7.14%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (4.76%) nginx
4 1 (2.38%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) Mule
4 1 (2.38%) Mule ESB
Cloud Services
1 17 (40.48%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 5 (11.90%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (4.76%) MinIO
6 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.38%) GCP
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) HTTP
1 1 (2.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Oracle Database
1 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.14%) MySQL
3 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.76%) GIS
5 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.38%) Cloud Spanner
5 1 (2.38%) Db2
5 1 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.38%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 13 (30.95%) Git
3 5 (11.90%) Eclipse
4 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.52%) Maven
5 3 (7.14%) JUnit
6 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.76%) GitLab
6 2 (4.76%) IntelliJ
6 2 (4.76%) JIRA
6 2 (4.76%) JProfiler
7 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (42.86%) Finance
3 11 (26.19%) Retail
4 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (19.05%) Banking
6 2 (4.76%) Legal
7 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Developer
1 13 (30.95%) Java Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Security Architect
5 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Java Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) AWS Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Information Security Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Java Applications Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Java Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Java Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) React Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (59.52%) Spring
2 19 (45.24%) REST
3 15 (35.71%) Spring Boot
4 11 (26.19%) JDBC
5 8 (19.05%) Web Services
6 7 (16.67%) LDAP
6 7 (16.67%) OAuth
6 7 (16.67%) OpenID
6 7 (16.67%) SOAP
7 6 (14.29%) JMS
7 6 (14.29%) JSON
7 6 (14.29%) RESTful
8 5 (11.90%) AngularJS
8 5 (11.90%) CSS
8 5 (11.90%) JSP
8 5 (11.90%) SAML
9 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
9 4 (9.52%) JPA
9 4 (9.52%) Sass
9 4 (9.52%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
1 5 (11.90%) Spread Betting
2 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 3 (7.14%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
3 5 (11.90%) Unix
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.76%) Solaris
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 22 (52.38%) Agile
3 16 (38.10%) Microservices
3 16 (38.10%) SDLC
4 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (30.95%) DevOps
6 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
7 9 (21.43%) Scrum
8 8 (19.05%) AI
8 8 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (16.67%) E-Commerce
9 7 (16.67%) ITIL
10 6 (14.29%) Change Management
10 6 (14.29%) RBAC
10 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (14.29%) TDD
11 5 (11.90%) Architectural Design
11 5 (11.90%) MVC
11 5 (11.90%) Order Management
11 5 (11.90%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 41 (97.62%) Java
2 18 (42.86%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) PL/SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Python
4 6 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.76%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.38%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.38%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.38%) Groovy
6 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.38%) Perl
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) CISM
1 5 (11.90%) CISSP
2 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.38%) Degree
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) GDPR
2 5 (11.90%) HIPAA
2 5 (11.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (7.14%) QA
3 3 (7.14%) SLA
4 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 5 (11.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Ansible
1 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.38%) Istio
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Oracle
2 7 (16.67%) IBM
3 6 (14.29%) SAP
3 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (14.29%) Splunk
4 5 (11.90%) Dynatrace
4 5 (11.90%) Workday
5 4 (9.52%) New Relic
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.38%) AppDynamics
7 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.38%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.38%) Google
7 1 (2.38%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (2.38%) Okta
7 1 (2.38%) Sybase
7 1 (2.38%) VMware