J2SE Contracts in England

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring J2SE skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited J2SE over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 - 634
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Contract jobs citing J2SE 2 0 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% - 0.038%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.037% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £547
25th Percentile - - £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £586
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.75%
75th Percentile - - £763
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate - - £580
% change year-on-year - - -18.60%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

J2SE 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 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

J2SE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing J2SE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for J2SE in England

J2SE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing J2SE in England.

Daily rate trend for J2SE in England

J2SE
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing J2SE in England.

Hourly rate trend for J2SE in England

J2SE
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 J2SE within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 - 2 - - 5
J2SE
UK

J2SE
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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Straight-Through Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Enablement
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Economics
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#