J2EE Contracts in England

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for J2EE skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited J2EE over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 508 526 447
Rank change year-on-year +18 -79 -114
Contract jobs citing J2EE 34 119 364
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.093% 0.24% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% 1.05% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 90 248
10th Percentile £420 £412 £425
25th Percentile £488 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -2.91% +12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £650
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.05% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

J2EE is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,438 11,317 19,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.33% 23.04% 26.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,290 8,373 14,279
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.88% +13.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 138 205
10th Percentile £21.96 £28.73 £22.20
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +9.34%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.34
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2EE in England.

Daily rate trend for J2EE in England

J2EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing J2EE in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for J2EE in England

J2EE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2EE in England.

Hourly rate trend for J2EE in England

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 May 2024. 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 23 £533 -0.19% 22
North of England +14 8 £489 -16.77%
North West +28 7 £489 +30.40%
South West +13 1 £700 +40.00% 1
South East +11 1 - - 5
Yorkshire +10 1 - -
East of England +4 1 £600 -
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 5 (14.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (11.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (11.76%) Confluence
2 4 (11.76%) JBoss
3 3 (8.82%) WebSphere
4 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
4 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.94%) Apache
5 1 (2.94%) CMS
5 1 (2.94%) CoreMedia CMS
5 1 (2.94%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (2.94%) IIS
5 1 (2.94%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.94%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Temenos T24
2 3 (8.82%) Shopify
3 1 (2.94%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (2.94%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (2.94%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (2.94%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 13 (38.24%) Azure
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Apigee
3 5 (14.71%) Kong
4 3 (8.82%) BigCommerce
5 2 (5.88%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (14.71%) SSH
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) MongoDB
2 5 (14.71%) OLAP
2 5 (14.71%) OLTP
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle OLAP
3 4 (11.76%) MySQL
4 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.88%) Big Data
5 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.94%) DB2
6 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) JIRA
2 9 (26.47%) JUnit
3 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (17.65%) Git
5 5 (14.71%) Cucumber
6 4 (11.76%) Maven
7 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.94%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (41.18%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Banking
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 3 (8.82%) Retail
7 2 (5.88%) Front Office
7 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Developer
2 12 (35.29%) Java Developer
3 9 (26.47%) Architect
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Architect
4 5 (14.71%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (5.88%) J2EE Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Service Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.94%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (70.59%) Spring
2 21 (61.76%) Web Services
3 12 (35.29%) REST
3 12 (35.29%) SOAP
4 9 (26.47%) Spring Boot
5 8 (23.53%) Kafka
6 6 (17.65%) Hibernate
6 6 (17.65%) JSON
6 6 (17.65%) Spring MVC
6 6 (17.65%) XML
7 5 (14.71%) CSS
7 5 (14.71%) IBM Integration Bus
7 5 (14.71%) JPA
7 5 (14.71%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
8 4 (11.76%) Apache Camel
8 4 (11.76%) JMS
8 4 (11.76%) Node.js
8 4 (11.76%) RESTful
8 4 (11.76%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) DataPower
1 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (14.71%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Linux
1 11 (32.35%) Unix
2 4 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (32.35%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) Microservices
3 11 (32.35%) Scrum
4 8 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 7 (20.59%) API Management
5 7 (20.59%) CQRS
5 7 (20.59%) Design Patterns
5 7 (20.59%) Technical Debt
6 6 (17.65%) BDD
6 6 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (17.65%) Migration
6 6 (17.65%) MVC
6 6 (17.65%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (17.65%) SOA
6 6 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
6 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.65%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 33 (97.06%) Java
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) Python
4 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.71%) Perl
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) CISSP
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) SLA
3 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) OpenAM
2 1 (2.94%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Ansible
1 5 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.94%) Grafana
3 1 (2.94%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (2.94%) Rancher
3 1 (2.94%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) IBM
3 5 (14.71%) SAP
3 5 (14.71%) TSYS
4 4 (11.76%) Adobe
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.82%) Dell
5 3 (8.82%) Google
5 3 (8.82%) Intel
5 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
5 3 (8.82%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.94%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.94%) Okta
6 1 (2.94%) OneLogin
6 1 (2.94%) Splunk
6 1 (2.94%) TIBCO