Jakarta EE Contract Job Trends in England

Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE, J2EE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Jakarta EE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 555 423 423
Rank change year-on-year -132 0 +35
Contract jobs citing Jakarta EE 52 79 127
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 1.29% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 56 93
10th Percentile £412 £276 £400
25th Percentile £447 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £421 £550
Median % change year-on-year +39.71% -23.55% +3.87%
75th Percentile £700 £705 £625
90th Percentile £900 £838 £688
UK median daily rate £563 £402 £550
% change year-on-year +39.93% -26.91% +6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £90.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

Jakarta EE 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 8,465 6,107 7,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.86% 22.27% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,558 4,200 5,303
10th Percentile £363 £355 £356
25th Percentile £431 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 135 248
10th Percentile £30.00 £31.25 £23.80
25th Percentile £51.25 £45.63 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £58.15
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +3.18% -6.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -12.00%

Jakarta EE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Jakarta EE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Jakarta EE job vacancy trend in England

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Jakarta EE in England over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Jakarta EE in England

Jakarta EE
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Jakarta EE

Jakarta EE
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 Jakarta EE within the England region over the 6 months to 20 July 2026. 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 -69 39 £581 +10.71% 7
North of England -81 7 £700 +74.13%
North West -56 5 £700 +74.13%
Midlands -47 4 £427 +35.73%
East Midlands -17 3 £424 +34.74%
South West -36 1 - - 2
West Midlands -61 1 £430 -
South East -84 1 - - 1
North East - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Jakarta EE
UK

Jakarta EE
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 7 (13.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 5 (9.62%) Ethereum
2 5 (9.62%) Hyperledger
2 5 (9.62%) JBoss
2 5 (9.62%) WebSphere
3 4 (7.69%) Tomcat
4 3 (5.77%) nginx
4 3 (5.77%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.85%) Mule
5 2 (3.85%) Mule ESB
6 1 (1.92%) Apache
6 1 (1.92%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) AWS
2 16 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.77%) MinIO
4 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.85%) GCP
6 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.92%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.92%) CloudFront
6 1 (1.92%) GitHub
6 1 (1.92%) Google Gemini
6 1 (1.92%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.92%) Serverless
6 1 (1.92%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) HTTP
2 1 (1.92%) DNS
2 1 (1.92%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) MongoDB
1 9 (17.31%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.54%) MySQL
2 6 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) GIS
5 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (1.92%) Db2
6 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.92%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (32.69%) Git
2 14 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 11 (21.15%) JUnit
4 7 (13.46%) JIRA
4 7 (13.46%) Maven
5 5 (9.62%) Eclipse
6 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.77%) REST Assured
7 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.85%) IntelliJ
7 2 (3.85%) JProfiler
8 1 (1.92%) Ant
8 1 (1.92%) SoapUI
General
1 22 (42.31%) Finance
2 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
3 13 (25.00%) Retail
4 12 (23.08%) Banking
5 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (9.62%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.77%) Legal
7 3 (5.77%) Marketing
8 1 (1.92%) Advertising
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Developer
2 14 (26.92%) Java Developer
3 13 (25.00%) Architect
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (7.69%) Lead
7 4 (7.69%) Security Architect
7 4 (7.69%) Service Delivery Manager
7 4 (7.69%) Service Manager
7 4 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Applications Architect
8 3 (5.77%) Backend Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) React Developer
9 2 (3.85%) J2EE Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Java Architect
9 2 (3.85%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 2 (3.85%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (57.69%) Spring
2 25 (48.08%) REST
3 16 (30.77%) Spring Boot
4 13 (25.00%) RESTful
5 11 (21.15%) Web Services
6 10 (19.23%) AngularJS
7 9 (17.31%) JDBC
8 7 (13.46%) CSS
8 7 (13.46%) JSON
8 7 (13.46%) Kafka
8 7 (13.46%) LDAP
8 7 (13.46%) OAuth
8 7 (13.46%) OpenID
8 7 (13.46%) SOAP
9 6 (11.54%) JMS
9 6 (11.54%) Sass
9 6 (11.54%) Spring MVC
10 5 (9.62%) gRPC
10 5 (9.62%) SAML
10 5 (9.62%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.69%) Security Posture
3 3 (5.77%) Credit Risk
3 3 (5.77%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.85%) Blockchain
4 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Spread Betting
5 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) Windows
2 9 (17.31%) Linux
3 5 (9.62%) Unix
4 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.77%) Solaris
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (59.62%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.00%) Agile
3 23 (44.23%) Microservices
4 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (28.85%) DevOps
5 15 (28.85%) Scrum
5 15 (28.85%) SDLC
6 9 (17.31%) E-Commerce
6 9 (17.31%) ITIL
6 9 (17.31%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
6 9 (17.31%) Unit Testing
7 8 (15.38%) AI
7 8 (15.38%) Architectural Design
7 8 (15.38%) Change Management
8 7 (13.46%) MVC
8 7 (13.46%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (13.46%) TDD
9 6 (11.54%) Migration
9 6 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 50 (96.15%) Java
2 16 (30.77%) SQL
3 11 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 8 (15.38%) PL/SQL
5 7 (13.46%) Python
5 7 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.92%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.92%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.92%) Bash
7 1 (1.92%) Groovy
7 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.92%) Perl
7 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) CISM
2 5 (9.62%) CISSP
3 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) GDPR
2 5 (9.62%) HIPAA
2 5 (9.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (9.62%) SLA
3 3 (5.77%) QA
4 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
2 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.62%) Ansible
3 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.92%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.92%) Istio
4 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (28.85%) Oracle
2 9 (17.31%) IBM
3 6 (11.54%) SAP
3 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
4 5 (9.62%) Dynatrace
4 5 (9.62%) Splunk
4 5 (9.62%) Workday
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.69%) New Relic
5 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.77%) Adobe
7 2 (3.85%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.92%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.92%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.92%) Okta
8 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.92%) Sybase