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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 429 481
Rank change year-on-year -58 +52 -1
Contract jobs citing J2EE 48 84 98
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.16% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.71% 1.23% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 64 68
10th Percentile £271 £450 £346
25th Percentile £350 £500 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -33.18% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £450 £625 £613
90th Percentile £587 £708 £643
UK median daily rate £381 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -30.68% +3.00% -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 6,797 6,813 8,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.85% 21.79% 22.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,601 4,345 6,437
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £733 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -6.91% -1.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 102 176
10th Percentile £30.08 £27.00 £37.65
25th Percentile £42.50 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +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 7 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 7 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 -31 21 £364 -32.95% 23
Midlands -9 14 £368 -31.63% 3
North of England -29 12 £575 -8.00%
North West -19 10 £573 -21.14%
West Midlands - 8 £429 - 2
East Midlands -14 6 £276 -48.65%
East of England -11 2 £400 -11.11%
Yorkshire -30 2 £700 +21.74%
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 12 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 10 (20.83%) JBoss
3 8 (16.67%) Apache
4 5 (10.42%) Mule
5 3 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (6.25%) WebSphere
6 2 (4.17%) Mule ESB
7 1 (2.08%) Anypoint
7 1 (2.08%) CICS
7 1 (2.08%) Confluence
7 1 (2.08%) nginx
7 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.25%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.08%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) AWS
2 13 (27.08%) Azure
3 9 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (16.67%) GitHub
4 8 (16.67%) Serverless
5 7 (14.58%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (12.50%) GCP
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (10.42%) Apigee
7 5 (10.42%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (10.42%) Datadog
7 5 (10.42%) Loggly
7 5 (10.42%) PaaS
7 5 (10.42%) Route 53
7 5 (10.42%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (25.00%) MongoDB
3 11 (22.92%) Redis
4 9 (18.75%) Relational Database
5 8 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 7 (14.58%) DynamoDB
6 7 (14.58%) MySQL
6 7 (14.58%) Oracle Database
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (10.42%) BigQuery
7 5 (10.42%) RDBMS
7 5 (10.42%) SQL Server
8 4 (8.33%) DB2
9 3 (6.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (56.25%) Git
2 19 (39.58%) SonarQube
3 16 (33.33%) JUnit
4 15 (31.25%) Maven
5 14 (29.17%) IntelliJ
5 14 (29.17%) Jenkins
6 9 (18.75%) Eclipse
7 8 (16.67%) Selenium
8 6 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (12.50%) JIRA
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%) Subversion
8 6 (12.50%) Xcode
8 6 (12.50%) XCTest
9 5 (10.42%) Gradle
9 5 (10.42%) SonarLint
10 4 (8.33%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (20.83%) Banking
4 8 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) German Language
7 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (43.75%) Developer
2 15 (31.25%) Java Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Architect
4 8 (16.67%) Technical Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Java Architect
5 6 (12.50%) Java Engineer
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
8 3 (6.25%) Lead
8 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 3 (6.25%) TIBCO Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Consultant
9 2 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.17%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
10 1 (2.08%) Workday Integration Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (58.33%) Spring
2 25 (52.08%) Spring Boot
3 20 (41.67%) Hibernate
4 19 (39.58%) HTML
4 19 (39.58%) SOAP
5 18 (37.50%) REST
6 17 (35.42%) XML
7 16 (33.33%) HTML5
8 14 (29.17%) Web Services
9 13 (27.08%) Kafka
9 13 (27.08%) RESTful
10 11 (22.92%) JSON
11 10 (20.83%) CSS
12 9 (18.75%) EJB
12 9 (18.75%) Spring Cloud
12 9 (18.75%) Swagger
13 8 (16.67%) Bootstrap
13 8 (16.67%) J2SE
13 8 (16.67%) JPA
13 8 (16.67%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.58%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (12.50%) N-Tier
4 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) LIMS
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 19 (39.58%) Unix
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (62.50%) Microservices
2 28 (58.33%) Agile
3 26 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (47.92%) CI/CD
5 19 (39.58%) Mentoring
6 17 (35.42%) Design Patterns
7 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (31.25%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (31.25%) TDD
9 14 (29.17%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (29.17%) Integration Patterns
10 13 (27.08%) DevOps
10 13 (27.08%) SDLC
10 13 (27.08%) Unit Testing
11 12 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (25.00%) MVC
11 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
12 10 (20.83%) Architectural Design
12 10 (20.83%) Scrum
13 9 (18.75%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 41 (85.42%) Java
2 24 (50.00%) SQL
3 17 (35.42%) JavaScript
4 10 (20.83%) Shell Script
5 8 (16.67%) Scala
6 7 (14.58%) Groovy
6 7 (14.58%) Python
7 4 (8.33%) XPath
8 2 (4.17%) Bash
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.08%) C#
9 1 (2.08%) C++
9 1 (2.08%) COBOL
9 1 (2.08%) JCL
9 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) Degree
3 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (52.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.67%) Puppet
3 7 (14.58%) Terraform
4 3 (6.25%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (2.08%) Ansible
5 1 (2.08%) Control-M
5 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) Dynatrace
3 8 (16.67%) Splunk
3 8 (16.67%) webMethods
4 7 (14.58%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (10.42%) Gigya
6 3 (6.25%) BEA
6 3 (6.25%) Checkmarx
6 3 (6.25%) IBM
6 3 (6.25%) TIBCO
7 2 (4.17%) AppDynamics
7 2 (4.17%) LabWare
7 2 (4.17%) SAP
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.08%) MuleSoft
8 1 (2.08%) Solace
8 1 (2.08%) Workday