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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 438 479
Rank change year-on-year -120 +41 +31
Contract jobs citing J2EE 45 58 72
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 1.03% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 49 54
10th Percentile £412 £275 £425
25th Percentile £491 £359 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £447 £534
Median % change year-on-year +37.02% -16.29% -0.19%
75th Percentile £719 £838 £625
90th Percentile £913 - £650
UK median daily rate £594 £440 £525
% change year-on-year +35.10% -16.29% -4.55%
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 8,281 5,656 7,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.06% 22.58% 21.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,470 3,926 5,494
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £740 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 115 264
10th Percentile £30.61 £32.69 £23.07
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £55.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.87% -14.42%
75th Percentile £74.26 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.14 £81.01 £74.48
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -15.38%

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 June 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 24 June 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 -76 32 £625 -16.67% 4
North of England -82 7 £700 +74.13%
North West -53 5 £700 +74.13%
Midlands -57 4 £427 +35.73%
East Midlands -21 3 £424 +34.74%
South East -59 2 - -
West Midlands -56 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
3 4 (8.89%) JBoss
3 4 (8.89%) WebSphere
4 3 (6.67%) WebLogic
5 2 (4.44%) Appian
5 2 (4.44%) Mule
5 2 (4.44%) Mule ESB
6 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) AWS
2 13 (28.89%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.22%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.22%) CloudFront
5 1 (2.22%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.22%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) MongoDB
1 8 (17.78%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.33%) MySQL
3 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Git
1 11 (24.44%) JUnit
2 7 (15.56%) JIRA
3 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 5 (11.11%) Maven
5 4 (8.89%) Eclipse
6 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.22%) Ant
7 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
3 15 (33.33%) Banking
4 11 (24.44%) Retail
5 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
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
8 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Architect
2 14 (31.11%) 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 Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Information Security Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Java Applications Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Security Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (44.44%) Spring
2 19 (42.22%) REST
3 13 (28.89%) Spring Boot
4 12 (26.67%) RESTful
5 10 (22.22%) Web Services
6 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
6 9 (20.00%) LDAP
7 7 (15.56%) JSON
7 7 (15.56%) JSP
8 6 (13.33%) SOAP
9 5 (11.11%) CSS
9 5 (11.11%) gRPC
9 5 (11.11%) JDBC
9 5 (11.11%) Kafka
9 5 (11.11%) OAuth
9 5 (11.11%) OpenID
9 5 (11.11%) SAML
9 5 (11.11%) Spring Batch
9 5 (11.11%) XML
10 4 (8.89%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.67%) Credit Risk
4 2 (4.44%) Blockchain
4 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Linux
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 4 (8.89%) Unix
3 3 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 20 (44.44%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) Microservices
4 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (28.89%) SDLC
6 12 (26.67%) DevOps
7 11 (24.44%) Scrum
8 8 (17.78%) Due Diligence
8 8 (17.78%) Unit Testing
9 7 (15.56%) AI
9 7 (15.56%) Application Security
9 7 (15.56%) Architectural Design
9 7 (15.56%) Change Management
9 7 (15.56%) E-Commerce
9 7 (15.56%) Identity Access Management
9 7 (15.56%) Impact Assessments
9 7 (15.56%) Information Security
9 7 (15.56%) ITIL
9 7 (15.56%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (15.56%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 43 (95.56%) Java
2 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
2 8 (17.78%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) Python
4 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 3 (6.67%) RPG
7 1 (2.22%) Bash
7 1 (2.22%) Groovy
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 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) HP Fortify
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle
2 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (11.11%) SAP
3 5 (11.11%) Workday
4 4 (8.89%) IBM
5 3 (6.67%) Adobe
5 3 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.67%) New Relic
5 3 (6.67%) Splunk
6 2 (4.44%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) Acunetix
7 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.22%) Netsparker
7 1 (2.22%) Okta
7 1 (2.22%) OpenAI
7 1 (2.22%) Veracode