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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 502 425 504
Rank change year-on-year -77 +79 +19
Contract jobs citing J2EE 49 62 56
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.23% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.69% 1.04% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 47 35
10th Percentile £349 £480 £403
25th Percentile £386 £555 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £775 £535
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +44.86% -10.83%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £600
90th Percentile £701 - £750
UK median daily rate £475 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -34.48% +38.10% -8.70%
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 7,122 5,944 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 21.98% 22.29% 20.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 3,787 5,697
10th Percentile £356 £363 £363
25th Percentile £415 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £662
90th Percentile £738 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.93% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 78 182
10th Percentile £34.20 £26.25 £26.96
25th Percentile £46.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66.00 £67.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.56 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +13.64% -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 25 January 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 January 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 -40 30 £488 -37.10% 5
North of England -49 10 £575 - 1
North West -22 8 £575 - 1
West Midlands -39 8 £429 - 1
Midlands -40 8 £429 +31.80% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
South East -20 1 - - 4
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 16 (32.65%) WebLogic
2 12 (24.49%) JBoss
3 8 (16.33%) Apache
4 7 (14.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (14.29%) WebSphere
5 4 (8.16%) Ethereum
5 4 (8.16%) Hyperledger
6 3 (6.12%) Tomcat
7 2 (4.08%) Mule
7 2 (4.08%) Mule ESB
8 1 (2.04%) Anypoint
8 1 (2.04%) Appian
Business Applications
1 7 (14.29%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.04%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) Azure
3 8 (16.33%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (16.33%) GitHub
3 8 (16.33%) Serverless
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.24%) Amazon EventBridge
5 6 (12.24%) GCP
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (10.20%) Apigee
6 5 (10.20%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (10.20%) Datadog
6 5 (10.20%) Loggly
6 5 (10.20%) PaaS
6 5 (10.20%) Route 53
7 4 (8.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 12 (24.49%) MongoDB
2 12 (24.49%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (18.37%) NoSQL
4 8 (16.33%) SQL Server
5 7 (14.29%) DB2
5 7 (14.29%) DynamoDB
5 7 (14.29%) MySQL
5 7 (14.29%) Redis
6 6 (12.24%) RDBMS
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (10.20%) BigQuery
8 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.04%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (40.82%) Git
2 15 (30.61%) JUnit
3 9 (18.37%) Jenkins
3 9 (18.37%) SonarQube
4 8 (16.33%) Eclipse
4 8 (16.33%) IntelliJ
4 8 (16.33%) Selenium
5 7 (14.29%) Maven
6 6 (12.24%) JIRA
7 5 (10.20%) Gradle
7 5 (10.20%) SonarLint
8 2 (4.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (4.08%) Mockito
8 2 (4.08%) Postman
8 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
8 2 (4.08%) SoapUI
8 2 (4.08%) Subversion
8 2 (4.08%) Xcode
8 2 (4.08%) XCTest
9 1 (2.04%) PowerBuilder
General
1 24 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Banking
3 10 (20.41%) Finance
4 8 (16.33%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (55.10%) Developer
2 12 (24.49%) Architect
3 10 (20.41%) Java Developer
4 8 (16.33%) Technical Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Java Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Java Technical Architect
5 6 (12.24%) Senior
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Developer
5 6 (12.24%) TIBCO Developer
6 5 (10.20%) Java Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Software Developer
7 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) J2EE Developer
8 3 (6.12%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (6.12%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Backend Developer
9 2 (4.08%) ForgeRock Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 2 (4.08%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (38.78%) XML
2 18 (36.73%) Spring
3 17 (34.69%) SOAP
3 17 (34.69%) Spring Boot
4 15 (30.61%) REST
5 13 (26.53%) HTML
5 13 (26.53%) HTML5
6 11 (22.45%) Hibernate
6 11 (22.45%) RESTful
6 11 (22.45%) Web Services
7 10 (20.41%) JSON
7 10 (20.41%) Kafka
8 8 (16.33%) EJB
8 8 (16.33%) J2SE
8 8 (16.33%) Play Framework
9 7 (14.29%) JMS
9 7 (14.29%) TIBCO EMS
9 7 (14.29%) WSDL
9 7 (14.29%) XSD
9 7 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 8 (16.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (12.24%) N-Tier
4 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.04%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.45%) Unix
2 4 (8.16%) Linux
3 3 (6.12%) zOS
4 1 (2.04%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (63.27%) Microservices
2 25 (51.02%) Agile
3 24 (48.98%) CI/CD
4 20 (40.82%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (32.65%) Design Patterns
6 14 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 13 (26.53%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (26.53%) DevOps
7 13 (26.53%) Scrum
8 11 (22.45%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (20.41%) Open Source
9 10 (20.41%) SDLC
9 10 (20.41%) Software Engineering
9 10 (20.41%) TDD
9 10 (20.41%) UML
9 10 (20.41%) Unit Testing
10 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (18.37%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
11 8 (16.33%) Lean Software Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (81.63%) Java
2 14 (28.57%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) JavaScript
4 8 (16.33%) Scala
5 7 (14.29%) Python
5 7 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 7 (14.29%) XPath
6 4 (8.16%) Groovy
7 3 (6.12%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.12%) RPG
8 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.04%) C
9 1 (2.04%) C++
9 1 (2.04%) ProC
9 1 (2.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) CSSLP
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) OpenAM
2 2 (4.08%) OpenDJ
2 2 (4.08%) OpenIDM
3 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (22.45%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.33%) Puppet
3 7 (14.29%) Terraform
3 7 (14.29%) TIBCO Hawk
4 2 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.04%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Oracle
2 8 (16.33%) webMethods
3 7 (14.29%) BEA
3 7 (14.29%) IBM
3 7 (14.29%) TIBCO
4 5 (10.20%) Gigya
5 4 (8.16%) Dynatrace
5 4 (8.16%) Splunk
6 3 (6.12%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.08%) AppDynamics
7 2 (4.08%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (4.08%) ForgeRock
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.04%) Acunetix
8 1 (2.04%) Checkmarx
8 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.04%) Netsparker
8 1 (2.04%) OutSystems
8 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.04%) Veracode