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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 451 499
Rank change year-on-year -20 +48 -57
Contract jobs citing J2EE 48 75 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 1.02% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 55 79
10th Percentile £269 £444 £348
25th Percentile £348 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -30.18% +1.85% -3.57%
75th Percentile £447 £625 £613
90th Percentile £651 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £395 £543 £534
% change year-on-year -27.19% +1.59% -2.91%

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 6,298 7,374 9,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.64% 22.38% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,266 4,854 6,779
10th Percentile £350 £355 £377
25th Percentile £413 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £810 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 178 168
10th Percentile £31.50 £27.53 £37.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.93 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +4.88% -5.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.46 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE 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 19 September 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 19 September 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
North of England -16 19 £447 -28.48% 2
North West +4 17 £447 -38.43% 1
London -24 17 £368 -31.05% 8
Midlands -6 10 £303 -43.63% 1
East Midlands -1 6 £276 -48.65%
West Midlands - 4 £430 - 1
Yorkshire -18 2 £700 +21.74% 1
East of England - 2 £400 -
J2EE
UK

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (22.92%) JBoss
2 10 (20.83%) WebLogic
3 7 (14.58%) WebSphere
4 5 (10.42%) Mule
4 5 (10.42%) Tomcat
5 4 (8.33%) Apache
6 3 (6.25%) CICS
7 2 (4.17%) Mule ESB
8 1 (2.08%) Anypoint
8 1 (2.08%) Confluence
8 1 (2.08%) nginx
8 1 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) AWS
2 14 (29.17%) Azure
3 8 (16.67%) GitHub
3 8 (16.67%) Serverless
4 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (12.50%) GCP
5 6 (12.50%) PaaS
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (10.42%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (10.42%) Apigee
6 5 (10.42%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (10.42%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (10.42%) Datadog
6 5 (10.42%) Loggly
6 5 (10.42%) Route 53
6 5 (10.42%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (22.92%) Redis
3 9 (18.75%) NoSQL
4 8 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 7 (14.58%) DB2
5 7 (14.58%) DynamoDB
5 7 (14.58%) Oracle Database
6 6 (12.50%) MySQL
6 6 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (10.42%) BigQuery
7 5 (10.42%) RDBMS
8 3 (6.25%) MariaDB
9 2 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (4.17%) Hadoop
9 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 27 (56.25%) Git
2 19 (39.58%) SonarQube
3 17 (35.42%) Jenkins
4 16 (33.33%) Maven
5 13 (27.08%) JUnit
6 11 (22.92%) IntelliJ
7 7 (14.58%) Bitbucket
7 7 (14.58%) JIRA
7 7 (14.58%) Selenium
7 7 (14.58%) Subversion
8 6 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (12.50%) Gradle
8 6 (12.50%) Mockito
8 6 (12.50%) Postman
8 6 (12.50%) REST Assured
8 6 (12.50%) SoapUI
8 6 (12.50%) Xcode
8 6 (12.50%) XCTest
9 5 (10.42%) Eclipse
9 5 (10.42%) SonarLint
General
1 25 (52.08%) Social Skills
2 20 (41.67%) Finance
3 14 (29.17%) Banking
4 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.17%) General Ledger
7 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.08%) German Language
8 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Developer
2 14 (29.17%) Java Developer
3 12 (25.00%) Architect
4 9 (18.75%) Technical Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Java Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
6 5 (10.42%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.33%) Scrum Master
7 4 (8.33%) Senior
8 3 (6.25%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Lead
9 2 (4.17%) COBOL Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Consultant
9 2 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Mainframe Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.17%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (60.42%) Spring Boot
2 28 (58.33%) Spring
3 18 (37.50%) REST
3 18 (37.50%) Web Services
4 17 (35.42%) Hibernate
5 16 (33.33%) SOAP
6 14 (29.17%) HTML
7 13 (27.08%) Kafka
7 13 (27.08%) RESTful
8 12 (25.00%) XML
9 11 (22.92%) HTML5
10 9 (18.75%) CSS
10 9 (18.75%) EJB
10 9 (18.75%) JSON
10 9 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
10 9 (18.75%) Swagger
11 8 (16.67%) Bootstrap
11 8 (16.67%) JPA
12 7 (14.58%) RAML
12 7 (14.58%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 8 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (12.50%) N-Tier
4 4 (8.33%) Mainframe
4 4 (8.33%) Private Cloud
5 3 (6.25%) VSAM
6 2 (4.17%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.08%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 17 (35.42%) Unix
2 3 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) Agile
2 26 (54.17%) Microservices
3 23 (47.92%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (39.58%) CI/CD
5 18 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 17 (35.42%) SDLC
7 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (31.25%) TDD
9 14 (29.17%) Integration Patterns
10 13 (27.08%) Design Patterns
10 13 (27.08%) MVC
11 12 (25.00%) Unit Testing
12 11 (22.92%) Architectural Design
12 11 (22.92%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (22.92%) Scrum
13 10 (20.83%) Code Quality
14 9 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (18.75%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (18.75%) DevOps
14 9 (18.75%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 43 (89.58%) Java
2 24 (50.00%) SQL
3 20 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 10 (20.83%) Shell Script
5 7 (14.58%) Groovy
5 7 (14.58%) Python
6 4 (8.33%) COBOL
6 4 (8.33%) JCL
6 4 (8.33%) Scala
7 2 (4.17%) Bash
7 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.17%) REXX
8 1 (2.08%) C#
8 1 (2.08%) C++
8 1 (2.08%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) GxP
System Software
1 21 (43.75%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (14.58%) Terraform
3 5 (10.42%) Puppet
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Control-M
4 1 (2.08%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (39.58%) Oracle
2 10 (20.83%) Dynatrace
3 8 (16.67%) CA Agile Central
3 8 (16.67%) Splunk
4 5 (10.42%) Gigya
5 4 (8.33%) webMethods
6 3 (6.25%) Checkmarx
6 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.17%) Ab Initio
7 2 (4.17%) AppDynamics
7 2 (4.17%) Informatica
7 2 (4.17%) LabWare
7 2 (4.17%) Parasoft
7 2 (4.17%) SAP
8 1 (2.08%) IBM
8 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.08%) Solace
8 1 (2.08%) Workday