J2EE Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring J2EE skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 64 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +41
Contract jobs citing J2EE 2 3 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.33% 0.41% 1.74%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.48% 1.56% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 15
10th Percentile - £568 £463
25th Percentile - £575 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -
75th Percentile - £625 £625
90th Percentile - £633 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £700 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 135 192 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 22.43% 26.16% 28.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 138 231
10th Percentile £364 £400 £413
25th Percentile £400 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% +7.84%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £684 £704 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £84.83 - -
Median hourly rate £91.69 £13.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +561.07% - -
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.52 -
90th Percentile - £16.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 £13.87 -
% change year-on-year +561.07% - -

J2EE
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing J2EE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for J2EE in Leeds

J2EE
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing J2EE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing J2EE

J2EE
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing J2EE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing J2EE

J2EE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JPA
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (50.00%) JWT
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle