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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 427 473
Rank change year-on-year -56 +46 -6
Contract jobs citing J2EE 44 82 108
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.67% 1.18% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 61 78
10th Percentile £270 £450 £350
25th Percentile £345 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -33.18% +3.87% -7.91%
75th Percentile £449 £625 £600
90th Percentile £583 £685 £629
UK median daily rate £384 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -30.18% +4.76% -4.55%

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 6,522 6,956 9,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.87% 22.03% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,388 4,445 6,669
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £736 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 131 187
10th Percentile £31.05 £27.75 £37.67
25th Percentile £41.88 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% +16.99% -14.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.56 £73.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -16.92% +16.07% -13.85%

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 October 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 24 October 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 -24 17 £365 -31.78% 7
North of England -26 16 £550 -12.00%
North West -10 14 £499 -31.34%
Midlands -21 10 £303 -43.63%
East Midlands -4 6 £276 -48.65%
West Midlands - 4 £430 -
Yorkshire -26 2 £700 +21.74%
East of England - 2 £400 -
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 8 (18.18%) JBoss
2 7 (15.91%) WebLogic
3 5 (11.36%) Mule
4 4 (9.09%) Apache
4 4 (9.09%) WebSphere
5 3 (6.82%) CICS
5 3 (6.82%) Tomcat
6 2 (4.55%) Mule ESB
7 1 (2.27%) Anypoint
7 1 (2.27%) Confluence
7 1 (2.27%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (2.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (40.91%) AWS
2 13 (29.55%) Azure
3 8 (18.18%) GitHub
3 8 (18.18%) Serverless
4 7 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (13.64%) GCP
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon EventBridge
6 5 (11.36%) Apigee
6 5 (11.36%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (11.36%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (11.36%) Datadog
6 5 (11.36%) Loggly
6 5 (11.36%) PaaS
6 5 (11.36%) Route 53
6 5 (11.36%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (25.00%) Redis
3 8 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 8 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 7 (15.91%) DynamoDB
4 7 (15.91%) MySQL
4 7 (15.91%) Oracle Database
5 6 (13.64%) Relational Database
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (11.36%) BigQuery
6 5 (11.36%) DB2
6 5 (11.36%) RDBMS
7 3 (6.82%) MariaDB
8 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.55%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (56.82%) Git
2 19 (43.18%) SonarQube
3 16 (36.36%) Jenkins
4 15 (34.09%) Maven
5 12 (27.27%) JUnit
6 10 (22.73%) IntelliJ
7 6 (13.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (13.64%) JIRA
7 6 (13.64%) Mockito
7 6 (13.64%) Postman
7 6 (13.64%) REST Assured
7 6 (13.64%) Selenium
7 6 (13.64%) SoapUI
7 6 (13.64%) Subversion
7 6 (13.64%) Xcode
7 6 (13.64%) XCTest
8 5 (11.36%) Bitbucket
8 5 (11.36%) Eclipse
8 5 (11.36%) Gradle
8 5 (11.36%) SonarLint
General
1 24 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 17 (38.64%) Finance
3 14 (31.82%) Banking
4 9 (20.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 4 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.55%) General Ledger
7 2 (4.55%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.27%) German Language
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Developer
2 14 (31.82%) Java Developer
3 11 (25.00%) Architect
4 8 (18.18%) Technical Architect
5 6 (13.64%) Java Architect
5 6 (13.64%) Java Technical Architect
6 5 (11.36%) Software Engineer
7 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.82%) Lead
8 3 (6.82%) Senior
9 2 (4.55%) Consultant
9 2 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.55%) Scrum Master
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.55%) Technical Leader
9 2 (4.55%) Test Architect
10 1 (2.27%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (61.36%) Spring Boot
2 26 (59.09%) Spring
3 16 (36.36%) Hibernate
3 16 (36.36%) REST
4 15 (34.09%) Web Services
5 14 (31.82%) HTML
5 14 (31.82%) SOAP
6 13 (29.55%) Kafka
6 13 (29.55%) RESTful
7 12 (27.27%) XML
8 11 (25.00%) HTML5
9 9 (20.45%) CSS
9 9 (20.45%) JSON
9 9 (20.45%) Spring Cloud
9 9 (20.45%) Swagger
10 8 (18.18%) Bootstrap
10 8 (18.18%) JPA
11 7 (15.91%) EJB
12 6 (13.64%) AngularJS
12 6 (13.64%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 7 (15.91%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (13.64%) N-Tier
3 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.82%) Mainframe
4 3 (6.82%) VSAM
5 2 (4.55%) Mobile Payment
5 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.27%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Unix
2 2 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Mac OS X
3 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (63.64%) Agile
2 26 (59.09%) Microservices
3 22 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (43.18%) CI/CD
5 17 (38.64%) Mentoring
6 15 (34.09%) SDLC
6 15 (34.09%) TDD
7 14 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (31.82%) Integration Patterns
8 13 (29.55%) Design Patterns
8 13 (29.55%) Unit Testing
9 12 (27.27%) MVC
10 11 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (22.73%) Architectural Design
12 9 (20.45%) Code Quality
12 9 (20.45%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (20.45%) DevOps
12 9 (20.45%) Domain-Driven Design
12 9 (20.45%) Multithreading
13 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (90.91%) Java
2 22 (50.00%) SQL
3 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
4 10 (22.73%) Shell Script
5 7 (15.91%) Groovy
5 7 (15.91%) Python
6 4 (9.09%) Scala
7 3 (6.82%) COBOL
7 3 (6.82%) JCL
8 2 (4.55%) Bash
8 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.55%) REXX
9 1 (2.27%) C#
9 1 (2.27%) C++
9 1 (2.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) GxP
System Software
1 21 (47.73%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Terraform
3 4 (9.09%) Puppet
4 1 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Control-M
4 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Oracle
2 9 (20.45%) Dynatrace
3 8 (18.18%) Splunk
4 7 (15.91%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (11.36%) Gigya
6 4 (9.09%) webMethods
7 3 (6.82%) Checkmarx
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.55%) Ab Initio
8 2 (4.55%) AppDynamics
8 2 (4.55%) Informatica
8 2 (4.55%) LabWare
8 2 (4.55%) Parasoft
8 2 (4.55%) SAP
9 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
9 1 (2.27%) Solace
9 1 (2.27%) Workday